Lend Me Ive Shillings a Farce in One Act (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Lend Me Ive Shillings a Farce in One Act Scene - A Room adjoining the Ball-Room, at an Hotel. At the rising of the Curtain, a Quadrille band is heard from Ball-Room, in which two Quadrille sets are formed. Another set is formed on the Stage, composed and arranged as follows: - Mr. Golightly and Mrs. Major Phobbs, with their backs to the audience. - Opposite to them, another couple, - at L. of them, Captain Spruce and Mrs. Captain Phobbs, and opposite to them, Morland and a Lady. - As the Curtain rises, Golightly and Mrs. M. Phobbs and their vis-a-vis, are dancing the last figure of a Quadrille. Mrs. M. P. (to Golightly, as they are breaking up) So you are really partial to dancing, Mr. Golightly? Goli. I positively doat upon it - and with such a partner I flatter myself I could dance till I dropped, in short, most fascinating of women, 'tis in your power to make me the happiest of men. (cuts a violent caper) Mrs. M. P. You're quite eloquent, I declare! (smiling) Goli. Nothing to what I should be, if I wasn't so dreadfully out of breath - Phew! (fans himself) Mor. (to Mrs. Capt. Phobbs) You surely cannot refuse the last request that I perhaps shall ever make? Mrs. C. P. Indeed, I must, for I cannot grant it without compromising myself! Mrs. M. P. (aside and observing them) Can it be as I suspected? - but I'll not lose sight of them! Goli. I assure you, my dear madam, I haven't words in my vocabulary sufficiently energetic to express my delight in meeting you again. (Morland and his partner enter the Bail-Room, through L. C. Sruce and Mrs. C. Phobbs retire a little) Might I be allowed? (offers his arm to Mrs. M. Phobbs) Mrs. M. P. No, thank you! Goli. May I press an ice upon you, or a bottle of ginger beer? (tenderly) Mrs. M. P. I'd rather not! (coldly) About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.