A.—“Nay, it is too churlish to censure a harmless courtesy that has been adopted even by the greatest dramatists and novelists from the time of Shakspeare to the present day.”
R.—“It may be so; permit me, however, to request, in the words of one of those dramatists to whom you refer, that you will be so obliging as to
‘Forbear the prologue,
And let me know the substance of thy tale!’”
The Orphan.
CONTENTS
FIRST VOLUME