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The Dime dialogues no. 31 : twenty minor dramas, extravaganzas, burlesques, farces, dress and humorous pieces, for the amateur stage, parlors, schools and exhibitions / all original and by favorite authors, professors, teachers and amateurs.
Date Added
9 January 2014
Format
Book
Language
English
Publish Date
1884
Publisher
New York : M.J. Ivers & Co., publishers, 379 Pearl Street
Series
Beadle's dime dialogues > no. 31
Source
Dime Novel and Popular Literature
Alternate Title
Beadle's dime dialogues, no. thirty one Beadle's dime dialogues, no. 31 Sloman's angel.
Topic
Popular literature > Specimens. Dime novels > Specimens. Dialogues.
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‘14> THE DIME DIALOGUES,
K.. Because I wasn’t.
Mrs. B. I believe 1’ll get three or four real Florida oranges
to mix with the others. We can contrive it so that Maude
an’ her pa will get ’em—an’ Smirker may have the other—tor
it’s well enough to have two’ strings to your bow—but_ the
widow ‘ll have to put up with a sour one, whether she likes
it or not; an’ now my headache’s gone. I feel first rate.
Ciem. What’s his name?
“Mrs. B. Algernon Smythe. It’s curious how much: better
a person feels some days than others! Last week I was as
blue as indigo with Mrs. Redding making those big eyes of
hers at Mr. Mump. You must bring down your high chair,
Kitty, that you was brought up in, for little Alice Maude has
raised my spirits to the highest pitch. Of the long, long list
of boarders that unrolls itself before me like a Banvard’s Pano-
rama I feel it borne in upon me that the name which closes the
list to-day will be the name we shall remember the longest,
with the most varied emotions—Algernon Smythe! J only
wish that artful widow was out of my house. Is there no
way we can make her mad? Better have her room lying idle
a few days, than have her interference in our prospects. She’s — .
frightfully insinuating, an’ children are just fools enough to -
believe her—to say nothin’ of her bein’ mean enough to give.
the impression that her once having had a little girl of her
own makes her fitter to advise an’ sympathize than some
others. I see trouble there; but I won't brood over it. 1
hav’n’t had experience for nothing; an’ now [ll go to market
to get my beef an’ those three sweet oranges.
(Curtain falls.)
Svenn UT.—Parlor, Mrs. Barr and daughters discovered,
_ Mrs. B. Ain’t she the loveliest little darling you ever saw
in all your life, girls? Just too sweet for anything! An’
how anxious her poor paseemed! Could hardly eat his dinner
for watchin’ her—the poor, poor little motherless darling! My
heart bleeds for both on’em. But I noticed he didn’t eat his}
braised beef, so I sha’n't dare to have it again for some time."
I must be a little extravagant with dinner to-day, I expect,
for he’s used to hotel fare an’ we mus’n’t scrimp too much ip
we pesinning. Poor man! How I long to be his mother-in
aw i— ° :
GirLs. Oh! indeed! -
Mrs. B. —to minister to his melancholy moods, to soothe,
to allay, an’ to advise him about the bringin’ up of that lovely
child, as well as to feel at liberty to treat him with more free-
dom (as to rations). But, we must wait. Rome was not built
inaday. The child is, as he says, rather spoiled—