Exempt from starting tears, and woman's weakness,

I pledge you, sir—the Memory of the Dead!

[She drinks kneeling.

Selby. 'Tis gently and discreetly said, and like

My former loving Kate.

Mrs. F. Does he relent?

[Aside.

Selby. That ceremony past, we give the day

To unabated sport. And, in requital

Of certain stories and quaint allegories,