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Crump married Miss Budge , so well known to the admirers of the festive dance on the other side of the water as Miss Delancy ; and they had one daughter , named Morgiana , after that celebrated part in the `` Forty Thieves '' which Miss Budge performed with unbounded applause both at the `` Surrey '' and `` The Wells . '' Mrs. Crump sat in a little bar , profusely ornamented with pictures of the dancers of all ages , from Hillisberg , Rose , Parisot , who plied the light fantastic toe in 1805 , down to the Sylphides of our day . There was in the collection a charming portrait of herself , done by De Wilde ; she was in the dress of Morgiana , and in the act of pouring , to very slow music , a quantity of boiling oil into one of the forty jars . In this sanctuary she sat , with black eyes , black hair , a purple face and a turban , and morning , noon , or night , as you went into the parlour of the hotel , there was Mrs. Crump taking tea -LRB- with a little something in it -RRB- , looking at the fashions , or reading Cumberland 's `` British Theatre . '' The Sunday Times was her paper , for she voted the Dispatch , that journal which is taken in by most ladies of her profession , to be vulgar and Radical , and loved the theatrical gossip in which the other mentioned journal abounds . The fact is , that the `` Royal Bootjack , '' though a humble , was a very genteel house ; and a very little persuasion would induce Mr. Crump , as he looked at his own door in the sun , to tell you that he had himself once drawn off with that very bootjack the top-boots of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales and the first gentleman in Europe . While , then , the houses of entertainment in the neighbourhood were loud in their pretended Liberal politics , the `` Bootjack '' stuck to the good old Conservative line , and was only frequented by such persons as were of that way of thinking .