it--

PENDULOUS
Brought up at a public bar--

CUTLET
Brought up to an odious trade--

PENDULOUS
With nerves like mine--

CUTLET
With nerves like mine--

PENDULOUS
Arraigned, condemned--

CUTLET
By a foolish world--

PENDULOUS
By a judge and jury--

CUTLET
By an invidious exclusion disqualified for sitting upon a jury at all--

PENDULOUS
Tried, cast, and--

CUTLET
What?

PENDULOUS
HANGED, Sir, HANGED by the neck, till I was--

CUTLET
Bless me!

PENDULOUS
Why should not I publish it to the whole world, since she, whose
prejudice alone I wished to overcome, deserts me?

CUTLET
Lord have mercy upon us! not so bad as that comes to, I hope?

PENDULOUS
When she joins in the judgment of an illiberal world against me--

CUTLET
You said HANGED, Sir--that is, I mean, perhaps I mistook you. How
ghastly he looks!

PENDULOUS
Fear me not, my friend. I am no ghost--though I heartily wish I were
one.

CUTLET
Why, then, ten to one you were--

PENDULOUS
_Cut down._ The odious word shall out, though it choak me.

CUTLET
Your case must have some things in it very curious. I daresay you kept a
journal of your sensations.

PENDULOUS
Sensations!

CUTLET
Aye, while you were being--you know what I mean. They say persons in
your situation have lights dancing before their eyes--blueish. But then
the worst of all is coming to one's self again.

PENDULOUS
Plagues, furies, tormentors! I shall go mad! [_Exit._]

CUTLET
There, he says he shall go mad. Well, my head has not been very right of
late. It goes with a whirl and a buzz somehow. I believe I must not
think so deeply. Common people that don't reason know nothing of these
aberrations.

Great wits go mad, and small ones only dull;
Distracting cares vex not the empty skull:
They seize on heads that think, and hearts that feel,
As flies attack the--better sort of veal.

[_Exit._]

ACT II

SCENE.--At Flint's.

FLINT. WILLIAM.

FLINT
I have overwalked myself, and am quite exhausted. Tell Marian to come
and play to me.

WILLIAM
I shall, Sir. [_Exit._]

FLINT
I have been troubled with an evil spirit of late; I think an evil
spirit. It goes and comes, as my daughter is with or from me. It cannot
stand before her gentle look, when, to please her father, she takes down
her music-book. _Enter William._

WILLIAM
Miss Marian went out soon after you, and is not returned.

FLINT
That is a pity--That