LA FLEUR. (_bowing_). To merit it, good sir, I've done my best. LISETTE. (_sharply_). And I. CONSTANCE. I fear that I too have a claim Upon your anger. LISETTE. Anger, madam? Shame! He's justly treated, as he might have known. And if the wand were a divining one It would have turn'd, within his very hands, Point-blank to where your handsome husband stands. CONSTANCE (_glancing at_ DOCTOR). I would it were the wand of Harlequin, To change his temper and his favour win. JEFFREY (_peeping in_). In that case, mistress, you might be so kind As wave me back the eye of which I'm blind. MARQUIS (_laughing and examining it_). 'Tis nothing but a piece of senseless wood, And has no influence for harm or good. Yet stay! It surely draws me towards those Indulgent, pleasant, smiling, beaming rows! It surely charms me. ALL. And us too. MARQUIS. To bend Before their gen'rous efforts to commend; To cheer us on, through these few happy hours, And strew our mimic way with real flowers. [_All make obeisance._ Stay yet again. Among us all, I feel One subtle, all-pervading influence steal, Stirring one wish within one heart and head, Bright be the path our host and hostess tread! Blest be their children, happy be their race, Long may they live, this ancient hall to grace Long bear of English virtues noble fruit-- Green-hearted ROCKINGHAM! strike deep thy root FOOTNOTES: [8] The last illness of Mrs. White's mother. [9] Dr. Gottfried Kinkel, a distinguished scholar and Professor in the University of Bonn, who was at that time undergoing very rigorous State imprisonment in Prussia, for political reasons. Dr. Kinkel was afterwards well known as a teacher and lecturer on Art in London, where he resided for many years. [10] The part of the lawyer in "Used Up." It was _not_ played after all by Mr. Watson, but by Mr. (now Sir William) Boxall, R.A., a very old and intimate friend of Mr. and Mrs. Watson, and of Charles Dickens. [11] This part, finally, was played by Charles Dickens, junior. [12] Mr. Stafford and Mr. Stopford, who both acted in the plays at Rockingham. 1851. NARRATIVE.