THE ALIENATED MANOR: A COMEDY.
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DICKENSON.
CHARVILLE.
DICKENSON.
CHARVILLE.
DICKENSON.
CHARVILLE.
[Exit Dickenson.
Preparations making for some damned plot or other. O, if I could but devise some means of coming at the bottom of it!—Wonderfully anxious that I should go from home now and then; to amuse myself; to bring her the news, forsooth.—Could I but devise any means. (Stands a while considering, then takes a turn across the room with slow thoughtful steps, then rouses himself suddenly, and rings the bell.)