ROUTLEDGE'S READINGS. SELECTED AND ARRANGED BY EDMUND ROUTLEDGE. DRAMATIC. LONDON: GEORGE ROUTLEDGE AND SONS, THE BROADWAY, LUDGATE. NEW YORK: 416, BROOME STREET. 270.9.361 Also, Uniform with this Volume, ROUTLEDGE'S READINGS-COMIC. With a Portrait of Mr. J. L. TOOLE as Serjeant Buzfuz. SCENE FROM "THE MAN OF THE WORLD.” BY CHARLES MACKLIN. SIR PERTINAX. EGERTON. Sir P. Zounds! sir, I will not hear a word aboot it: I insist upon it you are wrong: you should have paid your court till my lord, and not have scrupled swallowing a bumper or twa, or twenty, till oblige him. Eger. Sir, I did drink his toast in a bumper. Sir P. Yes, you did; but how, how?-just as a bairn takes physic-with aversions and wry faces, which my lord observed: then, to mend the matter, the moment that he and the Colonel got intill a drunken dispute aboot religion, you slily slunged away. Eger. I thought, sir, it was time to go when my lord insisted upon half-pint bumpers. Sir P. Sir, that was not levelled at you, but at the Colonel, in order to try his bottom; but they aw agreed that you and I should drink out of sma' glasses. Eger. But, sir, I beg pardon: I did not choose to drink any more. B |