ABSTRACT
Of the details of Banbury’s marriage I could learn little in addition to what I previously knew, except that his wooing had been something of the oddest; and, though Miss Crickles had at first treated his proposals more as matter of jest than earnest, he had, by dint of unwearied perseverance and importunity, at last succeeded. After this event, (which had happened several months before it was my duty to take part in these whimsical scenes,) Banbury had no doubt been pursuing other eccentricities: – the only fact, however, necessary to my history is, that during a visit to London, he had been induced to go with an acquaintance, for the first time, to one of the theatres, when ‘The Taming of the Shrew’ had been performed; which had so caught his fancy, that he immediately set himself to try the experiment suggested thereby, and, in order to acquire perfection, actually commenced a requisite course of theatrical study.
