Category: Humour
I HAVE been asked to write a few words of Preface to this little book of Plays. I may state that two are original; for the remainder (being too old an offender in this respect to do otherwise), I thankfully admit my indebtedness to French material, claiming, however, for mysel...
I HAVE been asked to write a few words of Preface to this little book of Plays. I may state that two are original; for the remainder (being too old an offender in this respect t...
2. Part 2COX. Well, wonders will never cease! Conscious of being eleven minutes and a half behind time, I was sneaking into the shop, in a state of considerable excitement, when my vener...
3. Part 3BOX. Cox! (_About to embrace--BOX stops, seizes COX'S hand, and looks eagerly in his face._) You'll excuse the apparent insanity of the remark, but the more I gaze on your featu...
4. Part 4ROYS. (_aside_). Her sister again! If we go on at this rate, we sha'n't get on very fast! (_Aloud._) Allow me to be frank with you; my brother Jonathan--but perhaps you've never...
5. Part 5JACK. Which you gave me the night before I left England. You've never left me! You've shared all my hardships, all my dangers, all my triumphs! Didn't we enter Pekin together, s...
6. Part 6JESSIE. Oh, aunty (_running to her_), and you, sir (_to JOGTROT_), protect me from the violence of my cousin! Because Mr. Chirper sent me a nosegay, he has snatched it from me a...
7. Part 7MRS. P. He's not old by any means, and is only _slightly_ canary-colored after all! However, he has seen you, he admires you, and offers you his hand, his heart, his title, and...
8. Part 8LADY. Yes; all things considered, I decidedly prefer this carriage to the ladies' compartment, where there's only room for one, and then what should I do with my packages? Besid...
9. Part 9GENTLEMAN. There's no saying how long the Home Secretary might have kept me there; but I couldn't stand it any longer, so I managed to make my escape, and now I'm free once more!
10. Part 10SIR F. Keep on going over it, like the multiplication-table; but hang it, man, don't look as lively as if you were waiting in a dentist's back parlor! (_Suddenly._) Here comes m...
11. Part 11SKRUFF. Well, the fact is, Mr. Gritty, my father has often talked of paying you a visit-- Thank you, I don't mind taking just one more glass (_holding out his glass to GRITTY, w...
12. Part 12SKRUFF. Yes! it was a gigantic mistake on your old fool of an uncle's part to admit him here at all! If he'd had a grain of common-sense he'd have seen that he only came here af...