SERJEANT.
How!
CHARLOT.
I hope, Sir, at least you will allow it a misfortune.
SERJEANT.
Indeed!
CHARLOT.
A pretty thing truly, for a girl, at my time of life, to be ty'd to a man with one foot in the grave.
SERJEANT.
One foot in the grave! the rest of his body is not a whit the nearer for that.—There has been only an execution issued against part of his personals, his real estate is unencumbered and free—besides, you see he does not mind it a whit, but is as alert, and as merry, as a defendant after non-suiting a plaintiff for omitting an S.