Comediettas and Farces (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886 edition. Excerpt: ...(smiling). Something very serious, no doubt. Fanny. Awfully serious Listen At the very first ball I went to at the Assembly-rooms--Mrs. Major. A very brilliant affair, of course Fanny. Really, Georgina, if you keep on interrupting me in this sort of way--Mrs. Major. I beg your pardon Well? Fanny. Well, at my very first ball I danced with a gentleman once or twice--perhaps three or four times. Mrs. Major. Young, of course (smiling). Fanny. Rather Mrs. Major. Handsome? Fanny (very quickly). Very Well, judge of my surprise when, the very next morning, as I was sitting in the drawingroom, the door opened and the servant announced " Captain Boodle " Mrs. Major. The "young gentleman?" (smUing). Fanny. Yes. Mrs. Major. Perhaps you had given him your address? Fanny (indignantly). Not I, indeed He didn't ask for it, or perhaps I might Well, the next morning he called again, and the following morning, and the morning after that--in short, every morning--and as I was always in the drawing-room, of course quite by accident--Mrs. Major. You naturally became quite intimate--familiar and chatty. Fanny. He didn't. I did all the chatting part Never did I see any one so timid, so bashful, as Boodle. When he did try to say something, there he'd stand stammering and stuttering and blushing like a school-girl But although his tongue didn't say much, his eyes did Mrs. Major (smiling). And they said, "I love you?" Fanny. Distinctly Well, I thought to myself it's not a bit of use going on like this. It's quite evident the poor man worships the very ground I tread upon. So when he called next day, and I told him, in tremulous accents, of course, that I was going away, the effect was magical. First he turned pale, then...