PEW (_rising on his elbow_). Rum? You've done me. For God's sake, rum. (_ARETHUSA pours out a glass, which KIT gives to him._) Rum? This ain't rum; it's fire! (_With great excitement._) What's this? I don't like rum? (_Feebly._) Ay, then, I'm a dead man, and give me water. GAUNT. Now even his sins desert him. PEW (_drinking water_). Jack Gaunt, you've always been my rock ahead. It's thanks to you I've got my papers, and this time I'm shipped for Fiddler's Green. Admiral, we ain't like to meet again, and I'll give you a toast; Here's Fiddler's Green, and damn all lubbers! (_Seizing GAUNT'S arm._) I say--fair dealings, Jack!--none of that heaven business: Fiddler's Green's my port, now, ain't it? GAUNT. David, you've hove short up, and God forbid that I deceive you. Pray, man, pray; for in the place to which you are bound there is no mercy and no hope. PEW. Ay, my lass, you're black, but your blood's red, and I'm all a-muck with it. Pass the rum, and be damned to you (_Trying to sing_)-- "Time for us to go, Time for us----" (_He dies._) GAUNT. But for the grace of God, there lies John Gaunt! Christopher, you have saved my child; and _I_, I, that was blinded with self-righteousness, have fallen. Take her, Christopher; but O, walk humbly! MACAIRE A MELODRAMATIC FARCE IN THREE ACTS PERSONS REPRESENTED ROBERT MACAIRE BERTRAND DUMONT, Landlord of the "Auberge des Adrets" CHARLES, a Gendarme, Dumont's supposed Son GORIOT THE MARQUIS, Charles's Father THE BRIGADIER of Gendarmerie THE CURATE THE NOTARY A WAITER ERNESTINE, Goriot's Daughter ALINE MAIDS, PEASANTS (_Male and Female_), GENDARMES The Scene is laid in the Courtyard of the "Auberge des Adrets," on the frontier of France and Savoy. The time 1820. The Action occupies an interval of from twelve to fourteen hours; from four in the afternoon till about five in the morning NOTE.--_The time between the acts should be as brief as possible, and the piece played, where it is merely comic, in a vein of patter_ MACAIRE ACT I _The Stage represents the courtyard of the "Auberge des Adrets." It is surrounded by the buildings of the inn, with a gallery on the first story, approached, C., by a straight flight of stairs. L.C., the entrance doorway. A little in front of this, a small grated office, containing business table, brass-bound cabinet, and portable cash-box. In front, R. and L., tables and benches; one, L., partially laid for a considerable party_ SCENE I _ALINE and MAIDS; to whom, FIDDLERS; afterwards DUMONT and CHARLES. As the curtain rises, the sound of the violins is heard approaching. ALINE and the inn servants, who are discovered laying the table, dance up to door L.C., to meet the FIDDLERS, who enter likewise dancing to their own music. Air: "Haste to the Wedding." The FIDDLERS exeunt playing into house, R.U.E. ALINE and MAIDS dance back to table, which they proceed to arrange_