Mr. Clarke played the King all evening as though under constant fear that someone else was about to play the Ace. Field was referring to Creston Clarke's performance of King Lear in Denver in 1880.
More Quotes from Eugene Field:
At any rate, since then(With a precedent in Ben),
The women-folk have been in love with us bald-headed men!
Eugene Field
I love him madly--
That I might save
Him from the grave
I'd give my life, and give it gladly!
Eugene Field
Oh, for an hour in that dear place!
Eugene Field
All human joys are swift of wing, For heaven doth so allot it That when you get an easy thing, You find you haven't got it.
Eugene Field
Listen to my tale of woe.
Eugene Field
A roseate hue seems to imbue
The world on which I'm blinking;
My fellow-men--I love them when
I'm drinking, drinking, drinking.
Eugene Field
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