Catharine.

You have bespoken fair weather with bright words, and you shall bespeak a fair maid with bright eyes, as I promised you to-day on the seashore.

Bluegrass.

Oh, where is she?

Catharine.

Yonder she stands while the fates work her destiny,—the fair Ninon. Come, give me your arm.

[They join Ninon.

Whetstone.

Going, going, gone; knocked down to the first bidder! What a weakness he has developed for women!

Northlake.