Suppose Mr. EMMET has been a minstrel, is that any proof that he can't be an actor?

Dan Emmet, though a wondering minstrel, was a very superior man and was his own worst enemy.

Robert Emmet was only one famous example of a whole family of men at once sensitive and savage.

" It was a serious misfortune, no doubt, and I had to soothe him in the best manner I could; so to lessen the calamity I made the best joke I could think of in the circumstances, and said the Emmets were small people, almost beneath notice.