Mrs. DANGLE.
And to employ yourself so idly at such an alarming crisis as this toowhen, if you had the least spirit, you would have been at the head of one of the Westminster associationsor trailing a volunteer pike in the Artillery Ground?But youo'my conscience, I believe if the French were landed to-morrow your first enquiry would be, whether they had brought a theatrical troop with them.
DANGLE.
Mrs. Dangle, it does not signifyI say the stage is "the Mirror of Nature," and the actors are "the Abstract, and brief Chronicles of the Time:"and pray what can a man of sense study better?Besides, you will not easily persuade me that there is no credit or importance in being at the head of a band of critics, who take upon them to decide for the whole town, whose opinion and patronage all writers solicit, and whose recommendation no manager dares refuse!
So while she worries about the state of the state he is worried about the state of the theatre!
It is like the people and their politicians!
DANGLING
MR AND MRS. DANGLE
DANGLING WRANGLING
BITS AND CARROTS IN FRONT OF EACH OTHER.
