THE STRIPLING: A TRAGEDY.
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HUMPHRY.
YOUNG ARDEN.
MRS. ARDEN.
Oh! thou art not well. Run, Madaline, and fetch him some cordial. [Exeunt Madaline and Humphry different ways.] O what is the matter with thee? Where hast thou been? Thou wentest out to seek deliverance for us, and the rebuff of some cruel-hearted man sends thee back broken-hearted and hopeless to me and to thy miserable father.
YOUNG ARDEN (his eyes lighting up keenly).
MRS. ARDEN.
YOUNG ARDEN.