For this, ’twas feared, would prove the most grotesque of sells.
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IV.
Ah! then and there was hurrying to and fro,
To leave the place, and murmurs of distress,
And some, who should have gone two hours ago,
Had only stayed because the dreadful mess
Must be reported in the daily press;
And these regretfully, with choking sighs,
Sat the performance through, for who could guess