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THE ALIENATED MANOR: A COMEDY.
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SMITCHENSTAULT.

Pardon, pardon! you do turn upon me de very vulgar reply. Observe well de turn of my argument. Actions be noting: it is de high soaring of de soul.—(To Charville.) But you don't attend; you don't look at me.

CRAFTON.

Pardon him, Sir; his eyes follow a still more agreeable object.—Shall we join the party in the garden, Charville?

CHARVILLE.

O no! 'pon my soul, I was looking at that window frame; the ideot of a carpenter has bungled it abominably.

CRAFTON.

I see no fault in it. But you are difficult; Mr. Smitchenstault's piggling virtues are not in favour this morning. Good day.

CHARVILLE.

Ha, ha, ha! 'Pon my life, I am in the best humour imaginable. You will not go without taking leave of Mrs. Charville.

CRAFTON.

I am a person of no ceremony.

CHARVILLE.

But your nephew.

CRAFTON.

He will walk home when he likes it: I take