COMIC PERSON. "Now here's another one. This will tickle you, for it's first rate. You ought to read the "Drawer," and remember the anecdotes, so that you can repeat them when you're in company. That's the way I get up all the good things I say. O! this is the question I was going to ask you. Said a man, 'Father and mother have I none, but this—'"
ACCOMPANYING FRIEND. (With great precipitation.) "Excuse me, but I see a friend in a box whom I must speak to." (Flies.)
COMIC PERSON. "Never mind, I'll tell it to the usher the first time he comes this way."
ACT IV.—RENE is discovered, disguised as a monk.
RENE. "The hounds of justice dog me. Therefore I will keep in their way until I have seen the lovely niece of the Duchess. She must love me when she learns that I have killed her cousin." Curtain.
ONE-HALF OF THE AUDIENCE. "Is that really the whole of the act?"
THE OTHER HALF. "Thank goodness! it really is."
ACT V.—Scene, the palace of the Duchess. Enter RENE and the LOVELY NIECE.
RENE. "The hounds of justice are laying for me just outside the door. Fly with me, my beloved!" (Enter the DUCHESS.)
DUCHESS. "She will not fly if I am at all acquainted with myself. Gyurll, this fellow murdered my son, and I will give him up to justice." (Enter COURT PHYSICIAN.)