"Put your bonnet to his right use—'tis for the head."—Act V., Sc. 2.
Reading edition
"Coming Events cast their Shadows before them."
Domesticated Wife. "Oh, George, I wish you'd just——" Talented Husband (author of various successful comic songs for music halls, writer of pantomimes and variety-show libretti). "Oh, for goodness sake, Lucy, don't bother me now! You might see I'm trying to work out some quite new lines for the fairy in the transformation scene of the pantomime!"
A SENSITIVE EAR.
Intelligent Briton. "But we have no theatre, no actors worthy of the name, mademoiselle! Why, the English delivery of blank verse is simply torture to an ear accustomed to hear it given its full beauty and significance by a Bernhardt or a Coquelin!"
Mademoiselle. "Indeed? I have never heard Bernhardt or Coquelin recite English blank verse!"
Intelligent Briton. "Of course not. I mean French blank verse—the blank verse of Corneille, Racine, Molière!"
Mademoiselle. "Oh, monsieur, there is no such thing!"
[Briton still tries to look intelligent.