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After she had left the stage, Mrs. Siddons, from thelouboutins want of excitement, was never happy. When I was sitting with her of an afternoon, she would say, " Oh, dear ! this is the time I used to be thinking of going to the theatre: first came the pleasure of dressing for my part; and then the pleasure of acting it: but that is all over now." When a grand public dinner was given to John Kemble on his quitting the stage, Mrs. Siddons said to me, " Well, perhaps in the next world women will be more valued than they are in this." chaussures christian louboutin She alluded to the comparatively little sensation which had been produced by her own retirement from the boards: and doubtless she was a far, far greater performer than John Kemble. Combe recollected having seen'Mrs. Siddons, when a very young woman, standing by the side of her father's stage, and knocking a pair of snuffers against a candlestick, to imitate the sound of a wind¬mill, during the representation of some Harlequin piece. John Kemble was often very amusing when he had had a good deal of wine. He and two friends werechaussures louboutin returning to town in an open carriage from the Priory See p. 114.¡ªCombe had conceived a violent dislike to Mrs. Siddons,¡ªwhy I know not. In a passage of his best work he stu¬diously avoids the mention of her name ;¡ª" The Drama's children strut and play, In borrow'd parts, their lives away,¡ª And then they share the oblivious lot; Smith will, like Cibber, be forgot! Cibber with fascinating art Could wake the pulses of the heart; But hers is an expiring namelouboutin soldes, And darling Smith's will be the same." The Tour of Doctor Syntax in Search of the Picturesque, p. 229, third ed. 1813. The " darling Smith" was the late Mrs. Bartley.¡ªMrs. Siddons used to say that the public had a sort of pleasure in mortifying their old favourites by setting up new idols; that she herself had been three times threatened with an eclipse,¡ªfirst by meanslouboutin pas cher of Miss Brunton (afterwards Lady Craven), next by means of Miss Smith, and lastly by means of Miss O'Neil: " nevertheless," she added, "lam not yet extinguished."¡ªED.