Luck. Be as noisy as you please—[Shuts the door.] Jack, call a coach; and, d' ye hear? get up behind it and attend me.
ACT II.
SCENE I.—The Playhouse.—LUCKLESS, MARPLAY, senior, MARPLAY, junior.
Luck. [Reads.]
"Then hence my sorrow, hence my ev'ry fear;
No matter where, so we are bless'd together.
With thee, the barren rocks, where not one step
Of human race lies printed in the snow,
Look lovely as the smiling infant spring."
Mar. sen. Augh! will you please to read that again, sir?
Luck. "Then hence my sorrow, hence my ev'ry fear."
Mar. sen. "Then hence my sorrow."—Horror is a much better word.—And then in the second line—"No matter where, so we are bless'd together."—Undoubtedly, it should be, "No matter where, so somewhere we're together." Where is the question, somewhere is the answer.—Read on, sir.
Luck. "With thee,——"
Mar. sen. No, no, I could alter those lines to a much better idea.