His more peaceful profession of holding up mail-coaches on
lonely roads had surely not been without incident. It was inconceivable
that all this had left no impressions. He must have had at least a faint
recollection of the tempestuous Junius Brutus Booth. That Yorick
had formed his estimate of me, and probably not a flattering one, is
something of which I am strongly convinced.
At the death of Edwin Booth, poor Yorick passed out of my personal
cognizance, and now lingers an incongruous shadow amid the memories of
the precious things I lost then.
The suite of apartments formerly occupied by Edwin Booth at The Players
has been, as I have said, kept unchanged--a shrine to which from time to
time some loving heart makes silent pilgrimage. On a table in the
centre of his bedroom lies the book just where he laid it down, an ivory
paper-cutter marking the page his eyes last rested upon; and in this
chamber, with its familiar pictures, pipes, and ornaments, the skull
finds its proper sanctuary.
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