The Deacon: An Original Comedy Drama in Five Acts

ACT III.--Drawing-room at Falconer's.--Reading the news.--"Apply to

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Judy!"--Louise's romance.--Important news.--Bertha's fears.-- Leamington's arrival.--Drawing the web.--Threatened.--Plotting.-- Harry and Bertha.--A fiendish lie.--Face to face.--"Do you know him?"--Denounced.--"Your life shall be the penalty!"--Startling tableau.