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Book, page 312 / 462 started from his reverie, and striking his hand upon the table, swore that he "would not be outwitted by any Greybeard in Europe--no, nor by all of them put together. The Archers were surely a match for them. He would stand by them, if they would stand by him," he declared, with a loud voice, "against the whole world, and Dr. Middleton himself, with 'LITTLE PREMIUMS' at his right hand." Everybody admired Archer's spirit, but were a little appalled at the sound of standing against Dr. Middleton. "Why not?" resumed the indignant manager. "Neither Dr. Middleton nor any doctor upon earth shall treat me with injustice. This, you see, is a stroke at me and my party, and I won't bear it." "Oh, you are mistaken!" said De Grey, who was the only one who dared to oppose reason to the angry orator. "It cannot be a stroke aimed at 'you and your party,' for he does not know that you HAVE a party." "I'll make him know it, and I'll make YOU know it, too," said Archer. "Before I came here you reigned alone, now your reign is over, Mr. De Grey. Remember my majority this morning, and your theatre last night." "He has remembered it," said Fisher. "You see, the moment he was not to be our manager, we were to have no theatre, no playhouse, no plays. We must all sit down with our hands before us--all for 'GOOD REASONS' of Dr. Middleton's, which he does not vouchsafe to tell us." "I won't be governed by any man's reasons that he won't tell me," cried Archer. "He cannot have good reasons, or why not tell them?" "Nonsense!" said De Grey. "WE SHALL NOT SUSPECT HIM OF CAPRICE!" "Why not?" "Because we who know him, have never known him capricious." "Perhaps not. _I_ know nothing about him," said Archer. "No," said De Grey; "for that very reason _I_ speak who do know him. Don't be in a passion, Archer."
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