The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 4: Poems and PlaysLamb, Charles
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The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 4: Poems and Plays
Lamb, Charles
English drama; English poetry
FIRST WAITER
So does Hammond for that matter.
SECOND WAITER
Faith, so it does if you go to spell it. I did not think of that. I
begin to be of your opinion; he is certainly a Hammond.
FIRST WAITER
Here comes Susan Chambermaid, may be she can tell.
_Enter Susan_.
BOTH
Well, Susan, have you heard any thing who the strange gentleman is?
SUSAN
Haven't you heard? it's all come out; Mrs. Guesswell, the parson's
widow, has been here about it. I overheard her talking in confidence to
Mrs. Setter and Mrs. Pointer, and she says, they were holding a sort of
_cummitty_ about it.
BOTH
What? What?
SUSAN
There can't be a doubt of it, she says, what from hisfigger and the
appearance he cuts, and his _sumpshous_ way of living, and above all
from the remarkable circumstance that his surname should begin with an
H., that he must be--
BOTH
Well, well--
SUSAN
Neither more nor less than the Prince.
BOTH
Prince!
SUSAN
The Prince of Hessy-Cassel in disguise.
BOTH
Very likely, very likely.
SUSAN
Oh, there can't be a doubt on it. Mrs. Guesswell says she knows it.
FIRST WAITER
Now if we could be sure that the Prince of Hessy what-do-you-call-him
was in England on his travels.
SECOND WAITER
Get a newspaper. Look in the newspapers.
SUSAN
Fiddle of the newspapers, who else can it be?
BOTH
That is very true (_gravely_).
_Enter Landlord_.
LANDLORD
Here, Susan, James, Philip, where are you all? The London coach is come
in, and there is Mr. Fillaside, the fat passenger, has been bawling for
somebody to help him off with his boots. (_The Chambermaid and Waiters
slip out_.)
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