MAR. Oh, that I shall! yet I _will_ try my hardest to be as you would wish me, if you but let me try in my own way; and I am sure, in time, you will not be ashamed of me. Don't give me masters, don't give me books, but when you want me to learn, teach me _yourself_--a loving word and gentle patience, and all from _you_, will make us both happy, and me I hope sincere. (_to Audience_) And, what will be better still, let but the Rough Diamond be firmly set in _your_ golden opinion, and she will be sufficiently polished to shine as long as you will permit her. CURTAIN. Transcriber's Note This transcription is based on images posted by the HathiTrust Digital Library as scanned by Google from a copy made available by the University of California: http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/012436183 The following changes were made to the text: - p. 3: Mr. H. VANDENHOFF--Inserted a period after "VANDENHOFF" for consistency. - p. 3: Mrs L. MURRAY.--Inserted a period after "Mrs" for consistency. - p. 3: Black coat, white waistcoat, black trousers, polished boots grey wig.--Inserted a comma after "boots". - p. 3: yellow silk neck handkerchief, large shirt collar, large black nat.--Changed "nat" to "hat". - p. 13: my uncle and his wife his first visit since his marriage!--Inserted a comma after "wife". - p. 16: I am pretty punctual you see, Lady Evergreen, Is it possible?--Changed comma after "Evergreen" to a period. - p. 23: Eh? (_looking off R.H.U.E_) my friend Augustus with a lady?--Inserted a period between "E" and the closing parenthesis. Variant spellings such as "pourtrayed" and "ar'n't" and spellings to suggest pronunciation in Joe's and Margery's lines have been retained. End of Project Gutenberg's A Rough Diamond, by John Baldwin Buckstone