Chapter 3

is false, and I don't care a straw for him. Consequently, I will drown myself."

_Enter Original Coram_. "I am WALTER CORAM; but I can't prove it, the villains having stolen my Calcutta latch-key. Better not drown yourself, my dear. You'll find it beastly wet. Don't do it." (_She doesn't do it_.) (_Curtain_.)

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_Young Lady before-named_. "Isn't EFFIE GERMON perfectly beautiful?"

_Bostonian Youth_. "Yes. But at her age RISTORI----"

_Heavy old Party murmurs in his sleep of ELLEN TREE. More young men go out to get drinks_.