The Professor has got a tragedy coming out, with the young Roscius in it, in January next, as we say,January last it will be with you; and though it is a profound secret now, as all his affairs are, it cannot be much of one by the time you read this.

"The prince was cruising somewhere and his yacht was wrecked," said the young Roscius from Odessa.

This play was in much esteem in those days; the Jew's part being performed by Mr. Edward Alleyn, the greatest player of his time, and a man of real piety and goodness; he founded and endowed Dulwich hospital in Surry; he was so great an actor, that Betterton, the Roscius of the British nation, used to acknowledge that he owed to him those great attainments of which he was master.

Two years afterwards he undertook his first defence of a prisoner on a capital charge, and secured by his eloquence the acquittal of Sextus Roscius on an accusation of having murdered his father.

To have defended Roscius against all the influence of Sulla, then the most powerful man in Rome, was considered bold and audacious.

Young Roscius with the Tartar eyes stared at her.