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THE ALIENATED MANOR: A COMEDY.


CHARVILLE.

I’ll trust you for that.

CRAFTON.

Do so, by all means: trust me or any body for any thing, if you can, and you will cultivate a disposition of mind that is good for man in every condition, particularly in the married state. Under another name, you know, it is one of the cardinal virtues.

Enter Smitchenstault.

SMITCHENSTAULT.

O you talk of de vertues cardinalls, de great, de grand, de sublime vertues; dat be de ting, de one only ting.

CRAFTON.

Mr. Smitchenstault, I presume. (Bowing.)

SMITCHENSTAULT.

Yes, yes; hear you me: my name is Smitchenstault. Hear you me. De sublime vertue is de grand, de only vertue. I prove you dis.—Now we shall say, here is de good-tempered man; he not quarel, he not fret, he disturb no body. Very well; let him live de next door to me: but what all dat mean?—O, dat he is de good-tempered man. Den dere is de industrious man, hear you me, de industrious man; he don't love idle, he work, he toil, he do every ting dat be to do;—very well, all dat very well: