To give the world assurance of a man.'"
"Never mind my height," said Stubbs, elevating his head, and raising his chin an inch or two out of his neckcloth.—"Garrick, you know, was none so tall; and yet I fancy he was considered a tolerably good actor in his day. But you remember the lines of Charles Churchill,
'There are, who think the stature all in all,
Nor like a hero if he is not tall.
The feeling sense all other wants supplies—
I rate no actor's merit from his size.
Superior height requires superior grace,
And what's a giant with a vacant face?'"
"Very true," answered McCrab, "and, to follow up your theory, were I asked, what is an actor? I should answer,
''Tis he who gives my breast a thousand pains: