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remember ; chairs were placed for the old folks , where they used to sit , and then would Peregrine sit down and talk with them , respectfully and dutifully , and be happy . After dinner on this day , productive of great events , his chair was drawn round to the fire , and he was eating the dessert , when
he happened to lay his hand on a piece of paper which had enveloped some biscuits ; the title of a fairy tale , once the delight of his youth , caught his eye , and looking more closely at the mystic red and black characters , he found that his Majesty ' s servants intended the next evening to represent it . For a time
he pondered deeply , and at last said , in a quiet decisive tone of voice , ' Gwenllian , I shall go to-morrow to the play , to see " Puss in Boots ; ' * ' to which answered Gwenllian most energetically , I once lost in that wicked place , the top gallery , a silver thimble and crooked sixpence ; don ' t go , I pray thee , Master Peregrine / But he answered and said , ' I will go . ' * * * * *
Dark was the next evening , the wind blew high , the snow lay thick ; but out issued Master Twist stoutly . What hand , but the hand of a mighty master , can paint the feelings which assail us at the door of the pit . First , we glance around to see how stands the crowd ; then we take up a position . If we are young and alone , we put on an I-don ' t-care-a-damn-for-it sort of look , and stick
our elbows into the ribs of any approximating stout gentleman . If our sweetheart is with us , we whisper , c Had you not better stand before me , dearest V and then our arm glides unseen round the slender waist , and perhaps the hand finds another which returns a sweet pressure . If we are married , and have the hopes of our family with us , we advise the little darlings to keep
down their arms ; and should they mention , in that case , the impracticability of using their pocket handkerchiefs , we recommend them to expurgate their noses with their coat cuffs , for that night only . And then the rush—the soul-inspiring , and sometimes almost soul-squeezing-out-of-the-body rush . In my
youthful days , when I was in the counting-house of Messrs . Sugartub , Rice and Co ., of Crane-alley , London , often did I frequent the play : and even now , when I sometimes occupy a front place in the dress circle , with my dear wife and sweet girls , I look down on the pit , and back to those blissful days .
The rush was over , and Peregrine sat quite at the end of one of the benches ; he was little accustomed to fight his way through public life , and had got jammed into a corner , until almost every one else passed by . The play began and ended amidst thun derings from Olympus . Then for the fairy freaks : but , alas ! Peregrine ' s attention seems quite distracted from the stage . Follow his eyes to where sits a lovely girl ; her dark hair falls plentifull y on her neck , and shades her white forehead ; her eyes are the colour of a polished bit of mahogany ; she i »
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1834, page 847, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2640/page/29/
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