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THE ALIENATED MANOR: A COMEDY.

care, and the elegant drawing on the envelope. You have surely received it.

FREEMANTLE.

I most surely have not.

MRS. CHARVILLE.

I gave it to the servant early in the morning. Can he have been so negligent?

FREEMANTLE.

The fault lies with my own man probably: he is a careless knave: I shall find it on my table when I go home.

MRS. CHARVILLE.

You will have a great loss, else, I assure you.

FREEMANTLE.

A drawing too!

MRS. CHARVILLE.

Yes; a most beautiful sketch of the curious bat, which you thought might be of the same kind with that which you caught last summer in Cornwall.

MARY.

But the greatest loss of all would be Miss Freemantle's.

MRS. CHARVILLE.

Hush, child! keep my secret.

MARY.

It wont keep.