BRODIE (_to_ MARY). I know you forgive me now; I ask no more. That is a good man. (_To_ LESLIE.) Will you take her from my hands? (LESLIE _takes_ MARY.) Jean, are ye here to see the end? JEAN. Eh man, can ye no fly? Could ye no say that it was me? BRODIE. No, Jean, this is where it ends. Uncle, this is where it ends. And to think that not an hour ago I still had hopes! Hopes! Ay, not an hour ago I thought of a new life. You were not forgotten, Jean. Leslie, you must try to forgive me . . . you, too! LESLIE. You are her brother. BRODIE (_to_ LAWSON). And you? LAWSON. My name-child and my sister’s bairn! BRODIE. You won’t forget Jean, will you? nor the child? LAWSON. That I will not. MARY. O Willie, nor I. SCENE VII _To these_, HUNT HUNT. The game’s up, Deacon. I’ll trouble you to come along with me. BRODIE (_behind the table_). One moment, officer: I have a word to say before witnesses ere I go. In all this there is but one man guilty; and that man is I. None else has sinned; none else must suffer. This poor woman (_pointing to_ JEAN) I have used; she never understood. Mr. Procurator-Fiscal, that is my dying confession. (_He snatches his hanger from the table_, _and rushes upon_ HUNT, _who parries_, _and runs him through_. _He reels across the stage and falls_.) The new life . . . the new life! (_He dies_.) * * * * * CURTAIN. BEAU AUSTIN DEDICATED WITH ADMIRATION AND RESPECT TO GEORGE MEREDITH * * * * * BOURNEMOUTH: 1_st_ _October_ 1884. PERSONS REPRESENTED GEORGE FREDERICK AUSTIN, called ‘Beau Austin’ Ætat. 50 JOHN FENWICK, of Allonby Shaw ,, 26 ANTHONY MUSGRAVE, Cornet in the Prince’s Own ,, 21 MENTEITH, the Beau’s Valet ,, 55 A ROYAL DUKE (Dumb show.) DOROTHY MUSGRAVE, Anthony’s Sister ,, 25 MISS EVELINA FOSTER, her Aunt ,, 45 BARBARA RIDLEY, her Maid ,, 20 VISITORS TO THE WELLS The Time is 1820. The Scene is laid at Tunbridge Wells. The Action occupies a space of ten hours. HAYMARKET THEATRE _Monday_, _November_ 3_d_, 1890 _CAST_ GEORGE FREDERICK AUSTIN Mr. TREE JOHN FENWICK Mr. FRED TERRY ANTHONY MUSGRAVE Mr. EDMUND MAURICE MENTEITH Mr. BROOKFIELD A ROYAL DUKE Mr. ROBB HARWOOD DOROTHY MUSGRAVE Mrs. TREE MISS EVELINA FOSTER Miss ROSE LECLERCQ BARBARA RIDLEY Miss AYLWARD VISITORS TO THE WELLS PROLOGUE _Spoken by_ MR. TREE _in the character of Beau Austin_