And duns, like their bills, have relapsed into rest!
From Pickwick Abroad, by George W. M. Reynolds.
Stephen Kemble.
The following parody on the “Meeting of the Waters” emanated from the “Durham Wags,” and originally appeared in the Durham Chronicle. It was aimed at the late Stephen Kemble, whose frequent visits to Wynyard (the seat of Lord Stewart, afterwards Marquis of Londonderry) used to be celebrated by the great actor in poetry that was anything but “first rate.” “Noble Stewart the Patriot” was a favorite expression with him:—
“There is not in the wide world a mansion so sweet
As the Hall where ‘my Lord’ and ‘my Lady’ I meet:
Their kind invitations such pleasure impart,
That house can be never erased from my heart.
“It is not that well-polished tables so fine