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... hurried step ? Enter Mrs. Ruffle in great agitation . MRS . RUFFLE . Oh , Mr. Pepper ! Oh , Mr. Placid ! PEP . My dear Mrs. Ruffle , what is the matter ? MRS . RUF . Oh , shocking ! dreadful ! It will be the death of me , I am sure I ...
... hurried step ? Enter Mrs. Ruffle in great agitation . MRS . RUFFLE . Oh , Mr. Pepper ! Oh , Mr. Placid ! PEP . My dear Mrs. Ruffle , what is the matter ? MRS . RUF . Oh , shocking ! dreadful ! It will be the death of me , I am sure I ...
Page 88
... hurry here— hurry there - hurry everywhere . MISS JOHN . I never knew you hurry any where 88 NOW OR NEVER .
... hurry here— hurry there - hurry everywhere . MISS JOHN . I never knew you hurry any where 88 NOW OR NEVER .
Page 89
Ellen Pickering. MISS JOHN . I never knew you hurry any where . JOHN . Well , why should I ? Hurry did not win the race - the tortoise beat the hare . MISS JOHN . Because the hare waited . JOHN . Well , well ; and people wait for me ...
Ellen Pickering. MISS JOHN . I never knew you hurry any where . JOHN . Well , why should I ? Hurry did not win the race - the tortoise beat the hare . MISS JOHN . Because the hare waited . JOHN . Well , well ; and people wait for me ...
Page 91
... hurry ; just wait whilst I think a little . RAT . I cannot wait a minute , my dear sir : there are two sets of marriage settlements to be finished to night . Lovers won't wait - no one waits , except waiters at an inn , and they don't ...
... hurry ; just wait whilst I think a little . RAT . I cannot wait a minute , my dear sir : there are two sets of marriage settlements to be finished to night . Lovers won't wait - no one waits , except waiters at an inn , and they don't ...
Page 92
... hurrying off . ) Can't wait , sir : Time and Timson never wait . ( Aside ) Old fogrum ! who is to wait for him , I wonder . The stand - still party is in the minority now . Go - a- head ! is the word ; and spades are trumps . Exit ...
... hurrying off . ) Can't wait , sir : Time and Timson never wait . ( Aside ) Old fogrum ! who is to wait for him , I wonder . The stand - still party is in the minority now . Go - a- head ! is the word ; and spades are trumps . Exit ...
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alias Jones Aloud bailiffs Barton's farm beggar better BOND bride brother Captain Cleverly CLEV commissioners cousin dare say Dobson Doleful DOUBT DOWLAN Enter Exeunt Exit eyes FRANK Franklyn Garbett give going gone Gossip hand handsome HART hate hear heard heart heiress hurry impostor Jack Smith Jeremiah Brown Lady Lady Juliana look lovers marry MARY mind MISS CLEAVE MISS GREY MISS JOHN never NIECE Norfolk Island Pepper pettishly PLAC Placid POLICE Policeman Pooh Poor Bessy Poor dear Jemima post octavo Prattle proverb rich Ruffle Sandford Selby Seymour de Hauteville shame SILENT SIR FRED Sir Frederick Jones Sir Michael Mowbray Smith STRAN suppose sure swell mob talk tell thing thought Tilson told Tom Smiths tongue TRENCH trust UNCLE vile vulgar wealth wedding won't wait word worse Worthy WYVILL young
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Page 64 - one half of the world does not know how the other half lives.
Page 35 - Little Bo-peep has lost her sheep, And can't tell where to find them, Leave them alone, and they'll come home, And bring their tails behind them.
Page 90 - There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at its flood, leads on to fortune...
Page 18 - I put him into an out-house; and finding the symptoms he showed too clear to leave me any reason to doubt his madness, shot him, before he did any harm, through a little hole in the door, which I cut with my garden axe. The old rhyme says — A wife, a spaniel, and a walnut-tree, The more you beat them, the better they be.
Page 22 - He's tall and he's straight as the poplar tree, His cheeks are as fresh as the rose ; He looks like a squire of high degree When drest in his Sunday clothes.
Page 87 - What, John, not gone yet ? I thought you were to meet the Commissioners at twelve ? " To which, by some instinct of memory, I replied without thinking, " Yes. But it has not struck yet." JOAN : " But you know it's half an hour's walk to the Guildhall. " DAUPHIN :