Other people may ride atilt against all the problems one bruises head and heart over. Good luck go with them, and more power to their elbows!

On his head he wore one of the common eighteenpenny French skull-caps, with a gawdy tassel dangling therefrom, very happily in keeping with a common fustian coat.

Significantly, the setting is a gaff, a low, illegal theatre, and not one of the legitimate East-End stages.

to sleep a dreamless sleep