Quality street : a comedy in four acts . to put this cloak about your shoulders. Nay,my dear, allow me. {She puts a cloak around charlotte,who departs vindictively for theshrubbery. She will not find livvythere, however, for next moment missPHOEBE darts in from the back.) PHOEBE (/// a gay whisper) Susan, another offer—Major Linkwater—rotund man, black whiskers, 109 Quality Street [actih. fierce expression; he has rushed away todestroy himself. {IVe have been unable to find any recordof the Major s tragic end) AN OLD SOLDIER {Looking up from a card table, whence hehas heard the raging (?/ blad
Quality street : a comedy in four acts . to put this cloak about your shoulders. Nay,my dear, allow me. {She puts a cloak around charlotte,who departs vindictively for theshrubbery. She will not find livvythere, however, for next moment missPHOEBE darts in from the back.) PHOEBE (/// a gay whisper) Susan, another offer—Major Linkwater—rotund man, black whiskers, 109 Quality Street [actih. fierce expression; he has rushed away todestroy himself. {IVe have been unable to find any recordof the Major s tragic end) AN OLD SOLDIER {Looking up from a card table, whence hehas heard the raging (?/ blades) Miss Livvy,maam, what is this about the moon ?(pHOEBE smiles roguishly.) PHOEBE {Looking about her) I want my cloak, AuntSusan. MISS SUSAN I have just lent it to poor Charlotte Parratt. PHOEBE Oh, auntie I old soldier And now Miss Livvy cannot go into theshrubbery to see the moon ; and she is so fondof the moon I (miss PHOEBE screws her nose at himmerrily, and darts back to the dance,but she has left a defender behind her.) I 10. He has rushed away to destroy himself A GALLANT {IVliose name we have not succeeded in dis-covering) Am I to understand, sir, that youare intimating disparagement of the moon ?If a certain female has been graciously pleasedto signify approval of that orb, any slight cast 1 11 Qttality Street [act m. upon the moon, sir, I shall regard as a personalaffront. OLD SOLDIER Hoity-toity. {Btit he rises, and they face each other,as MISS susA^ feels, for battle. Sheis about to rush between their nndrawnswords when there is a commotionoutside; a crowd gathers and opensto allow some officers to assist afainting woman into the tent. It isMISS PHOEBE, and MISS SUSAN witha cry goes on her knees beside tent has filled with the sym-pathetic and inquisitive, but captainBROWN, as a physician, takes com-mand, and by his order they finds difficulty in bringing thestifferer to, and gets little help fromMISS SUSAN, who can only call uponMISS PHOEBE
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