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...
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!
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...