"--[_Beckoning._]--Come, come--[_Exeunt_ SIR ABEL,
HANDY, _jun. and_ SUSAN. SUSAN _kisses her hand to_ ASHFIELD _and_
DAME.]
_Ash._ Bless her! how nicely she do trip it away with the gentry!
_Dame._ And then, Tummas, think of the wedding.
_Ash._ [_Reflecting._] I declare I shall be just the zame as ever--may
be I may buy a smartish bridle, or a zilver backy stopper, or the like
o' that.
_Dame._ [_Apart._] And, then, when we come out of church, Mrs. Grundy
will be standing about there--
_Ash._ I shall shake hands agreeably wi' all my friends. [_Apart._]
_Dame._ [_Apart._] Then I just look at her in this manner.
_Ash._ [_Apart._] How dost do, Peter--Ah, Dick,--glad to zee thee wi'
all my zoul. [_Bows towards the centre of the stage._]
_Dame._ [_Apart._] Then, with a kind of half curt'sy, I shall--[_She
advances to the centre also, and their heads meet._]
_Ash._ What an wold fool thee be'st, Dame--Come along, and behave
pratty, do'e. [_Exeunt._
SCENE II.
_The same as act fourth, scene third.
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