the organs of the day. Morgiana's airs, "The Rose upon my Balcony"
and the "Lightning on the Cataract" (recitative and scena) were on
everybody's lips, and brought so many guineas to Sir George Thrum that
he was encouraged to have his portrait engraved, which still may be
seen in the music-shops. Not many persons, I believe, bought proof
impressions of the plate, price two guineas; whereas, on the contrary,
all the young clerks in banks, and all the FAST young men of the
universities, had pictures of the Ravenswing in their apartments--as
Biondetta (the brigand's bride), as Zelyma (in the "Nuptials of
Benares"), as Barbareska (in the "Mine of Tobolsk"), and in all her
famous characters. In the latter she disguises herself as a Uhlan, in
order to save her father, who is in prison; and the Ravenswing looked so
fascinating in this costume in pantaloons and yellow boots, that Slang
was for having her instantly in Captain Macheath, whence arose their
quarrel.

She was replaced at Slang's theatre by Snooks, the rhinoceros-tamer,
with his breed of wild buffaloes. Their success was immense. Slang gave
a supper, at which all the company burst into tears; and assembling
in the green-room next day, they, as usual, voted a piece of plate to
Adolphus Slang, Esquire, for his eminent services to the drama.

In the Captain Macheath dispute Mr. Walker would have had his wife
yield; but on this point, and for once, she disobeyed her husband and
left the theatre. And when Walker cursed her (according to his wont) for
her abominable selfishness and disregard of his property, she burst
into tears and said she had spent but twenty guineas on herself and baby
during the year, that her theatrical dressmaker's bills were yet unpaid,
and that she had never asked him how much he spent on that odious French
figurante.

All this was true, except about the French figurante. Walker, as the
lord and master, received all Morgiana's earnings, and spent them as
a gentleman should. He gave very neat dinners at a cottage in Regent's
Park (Mr. and Mrs. Walker lived at Green Street, Grosvenor Square), he
played a good deal at the "Regent;" but as to the French figurante, it
must be confessed, that Mrs. Walker was in a sad error: THAT lady and
the Captain had parted long ago; it was Madame Dolores de Tras-os-Montes
who inhabited the cottage in St. John's Wood now.

But if some little errors of this kind might be attributable to the
Captain, on the other