GARNET. At the bar of the Talbot till called for. Expedition—will be
blown up—All of a flame—Quick, dispatch—Cupid, the little God of Love—I
conclude it, madam, with Cupid; I love to see a love-letter end like
poetry.
OLIVIA. Well, well, what you please, anything. But how shall we send
it? I can trust none of the servants of this family.
GARNET. Odso, Madam, Mr. Honeywood's butler is in the next room; he's a
dear, sweet man; he'll do anything for me.
JARVIS. He! the dog, he'll certainly commit some blunder. He's drunk
and sober ten times a day.
OLIVIA. No matter. Fly, Garnet; any body we can trust will do. _Exit_
GARNET. Well, Jarvis, now we can have nothing more to interrupt us. You
may take up the things, and carry them on to the inn. Have you no
hands, Jarvis?
JARVIS. Soft and fair, young lady. You, that are going to be married,
think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know
what we are about must elope methodically, madam.
OLIVIA. Well, sure, if my indiscretions were to be done over again—
JARVIS. My life for it you would do them ten times over.
OLIVIA. Why will you talk so? If you knew how unhappy they make me—
JARVIS. Very unhappy, no doubt: I was once just as unhappy when I was
going to be married myself. I'll tell you a story about that—
OLIVIA. A story! when I'm all impatient to be away. Was there ever such
a dilatory creature?—
JARVIS. Well, madam, if we must march, why we will march; that's all.
Though, odds-bobs we have still forgot one thing we should never travel
without—a case of good razors, and a box of shaving-powder. But no
matter, I believe we shall be pretty well shaved by the way.
[_Going_
_Enter_ GARNET.
GARNET. Undone, undone, madam. Ah, Mr. Jarvis, you said right enough.
As sure as death, Mr. Honeywood's rogue of a drunken butler dropped the
letter before he went ten yards from the door. There's old Croaker has
just picked it up, and is this moment reading it to himself in the
hall.
OLIVIA. Unfortunate! we shall be discovered.
GARNET. No, madam, don't be uneasy, he can make neither head nor tail
of it. To be sure, he looks as if he was broke loose from Bedlam about
it, but he can't find what it means for all that. O Lud, he is coming
this way all in the horrors!
OLIVIA. Then let us leave the house this instant, for fear he should
ask farther questions. In the mean time, Garnet, do you write and send
off just such another.
[_Exeunt._
_Enter_ CROAKER.
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