ISABELLE, reputed daughter of Prof. Olney.
RUTH, waiting-maid at Judge Bolton's.
SCENE—partly in the city; partly at Rose Hill, near the city.
TIME OF ACTION, twenty-four hours, commencing at 10 o'clock, A.M., and ending at the same hour on the following day.
ACT I.
SCENE I.—A Doctor's study. Books and instruments scattered around. Table in the centre, strewn with books and pamphlets. DR. MARGRAVE seated by the table, cutting the leaves of a pamphlet.
DR. MARGRAVE.
Thus, ever on and on must be our course:
Even as the ocean drinks a thousand streams,
And never cries "enough!"—the human mind