Part 43 (2/2)

_Nelly_ (_with emotion._) May heaven bless your union, my dear Miss Lucy!

_Old Bar._ G.o.d bless you both! Now, with your permission, Sir Gilbert, I will resign my office of steward. For many years I have filled it through grat.i.tude, and not from any wish of emolument. I have enough to portion my daughter, and even to make that foolish boy a gentleman, according to his notions of gentility.

_Peter._ Have you, my dear father? Then I am glad that I was not changed. But I say, Etheridge, I'm your brother-in-law. Indeed you've a strong hand, brother Edward.

_Capt. Eth._ There, Peter, take it in friends.h.i.+p. (_Shake hands._)

_Adm._ And mine.

_Capt. Mer._ Peter, mine.

_Old Bar._ Well, I suppose, Peter, I must do the same, and forget and forgive.

_Mrs Bar._ And me, Peter. (_Peter jumps up, clasps her round the neck, and gives her a hearty kiss._) The boy's heart is right after all.

_Adm._ Thus, then, do all our vexations end in happiness, and may we be allowed to indulge the hope that the same may prove the case with all the parties (_bowing to the audience_) who have honoured us with their presence.

[_Curtain falls._

ILL-WILL:

AN ACTING CHARADE

DRAMATIS PERSONae.

MR CADAVEROUS, _An old miser, very rich and very ill._

EDWARD, _A young lawyer without a brief._

MR HAUSTUS GUMARABIC, _Apothecary._

SEEDY, _Solicitor._

THOMAS MONTAGU, } } _Nephews to Mr Cadaverous._ JOHN MONTAGU, }

JAMES STERLING, } } _Nephews twice removed to Mr Cadaverous._ WILLIAM STERLING,}

CLEMENTINA MONTAGU, _Niece to Mr Cadaverous._

MRS JELLYBAGS, _Housekeeper and nurse._

Ill-Will

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