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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. Mrs. Garrick ? Her letter ? A fracas ? " Invisiblina ''? Macklin's son?Mrs. Charke?New Drury Lane Theatre? Cost of the building?Opening addresses?Ugly dogs?Lord Byron?Lord Holland?His Letter?The theatre is opened? Curious anecdote?Mrs. Bland?" Pentroniculus ''?Observations thereon?Elliston's characters. Mrs. Garrick (the widow of our British Roscius) had frequently honoured Mrs. Elliston by marks of attention, and expressed herself warmly interested in the welfare of her family. The friendship of Mrs. Garrick was not confined to these professions alone: for now, in her eighty-eighth year, she would occasionally drive to Stratford-place, personally to delight the young Ellistons by some agreeable sur- 4prise or well-timed present. It was at this period, a request was made to her, on the part of Elliston, that she would become sponsor to one of his children, Lucy; to which the following letter was written in reply: ? " My Dear Sir, ?I cannot withhold expressing to you my feelings on the receipt of your letter; chapter{Section 4MRS. GARRICK. 57 and you must believe me when I say, the contents have equally distressed and gratified me. My regard for Mrs. Elliston, yourself, and family, would at once have caused me sensations of pleasure in a proposal to bring us more nearly connected than we have been; but, my dear friend, the refusal which I am compelled to send you, for becoming godmother to your child, arises from a sense of duty, which I am sure you will respect, and freely release me from all charge of insincerity in my professions towards you. " In the course of the happy days I passed with my revered, departed husband, comprehending, as you know, thirty years, the question of baptismal surety occasionally became a subject of his notice (for he h...