BULLER.
Speak louder—yet that might not be easy. I feel the want of an ear-trumpet, for you do drop your voice so at the end of sentences.
TALBOYS.
"A few exceptions"—
BULLER.
Stentor's alive again—oh! that I were head over ears in a bale of cotton.
TALBOYS.
"A few exceptions to these observations may undoubtedly be found, but they are so very few, as, by their singularity, to confirm rather than weaken the general fact. In proof of this, we need only appeal to the sad details recorded by Dr Johnson in his Lives of the Poets."
BULLER.
Skip—skip—skip—