Chapter III: Act II: Scene 1. Virtuous Banker's Villa, Comic Villain,

Unprincipled Clerk, and Wealthy Heroine dining with the Banker_.

_Enter Original Coram_. "I am WALTER CORAM; but I can't prove it, the villains having stolen my bootjack."

_Enter Comic Villain, who smashes in his hat, and swears_.

_Original Coram. (Approaching him_.) "This is WALTER CORAM, I believe? I knew you in India. We boarded together. Don't you remember old FUTTYGHUR ALLAHABAD, and the rest of our set?"

_Comic Villain, in great mental torture_. "Certainly; of course: I said so at the time." (_Swears and smashes in his hat_.) (_Exeunt omnes, in search of Virtuous Banker_.)

_Scene_ 2. _Enter Miss Effie Germon, by climbing over the wall_. "I hate to climb over the wall and show my ankles in these nasty trowsers, but I must." (_Shows them. Applause_.)

_Enter Daughter of Comic Villain_. "Great Heavings! What do I see? My beloved clerk offering himself to the wealthy heroine? I must faint!" (_Faints_.)

_Enter aristocratic lover of wealthy heroine, and catches the faintress in his arms. Wealthy heroine catches him in the act. Tableau of virtuous indignation_. (_Curtain_)

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_Young Lady before-named_. "Isn't EFFIE GERMON perfectly sweet?"

_Bostonian Youth_. "Yes; but RISTORI----"

_Mighty Young Men_. "Let's go out for drinks."