The Minister and the Mercer; A Comedy in Five Acts (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1834 Excerpt: ...indisposition, slight at first, has taken a very serious turn since the recent insurrection. It seems as if it were a fatality, for, whenever any tumult or rioting occurs, he is regularly confined to his bed. GceL. (intentionally.) And are you Quite Well? Bee. (smiling.) Quite--and I hope you have no objection, though I know some whom my soundness of health puts into a bad temper, and others whom my death would put into a good one. GceL. And who, pray? -ber. (still sealed and jocosely.) Those who expect to inherit something from me. Gcbl. You may have inheritors, though you are alive?--Ber. (looking very coolly at him.) Baron Gcelher, you who, in your capacity of Privy Councillor, have undoubtedly done your duty, have probably read the 302nd article of the Danish code of laws. GceL. No, sir.., ._.- Ber. I was apprehensive so. It states, that it is not G merely sufficient that an appointment should be vacant, but that it should be filled by a fit person. Gobl. To whom do you apply this axiom? Ber. To those who are not fit. Goel. You carry it very high, sir. Ber. (Rising, but not changing his tone.) I beg your pardon. Do you go to the Queen's Ball to-morrow? Gcel. (Angrily.) Sir --Ber. Do you dance with her Majesty?--and are the quadrilles of your composition? Gcel. I should like to know the meaning of these taunts? Ber. You accused me of carrying it too high--so I have descended to your level. Chris. (near the window.) Hark it begins again. (Going up Stage.) Gcel. (alarmed, and going up the stage.) Again --it is really insupportable. Chris. Ah I fear all is lost--my father Enter Falkensteid, C. D. Falk. Be not uneasy--those distant shouts have nothing alarming in them. Chris. Is it again over, then? Falk. Not yet; but it is gradually subsiding......