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BOX AND COX.
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[Tosses the letter in the air, and begins dancing. Cox does the same. |
| Mrs. B. | [Putting her head in at door.] The little second floor back room is quite ready! |
| Cox. | I don't want it! |
| Box. | No more do I! |
| Cox. | What shall part us? |
| Box. | What shall tear us asunder? |
| Cox. | Box! |
| Box. | Cox! [About to embrace—Box stops, seizes Cox's hand, and looks eagerly in his face.] You'll excuse the apparent insanity of the remark, but the more I gaze on your features, the more I'm convinced that you're my long lost brother. |
| Cox. | The very observation I was going to make to you! |
| Box. | Ah—tell me—in mercy tell me—have you such a thing as a strawberry mark on your left arm? |
| Cox. | No! |
| Box. | Then it is he! [They rush into each other's arms. |
| Cox. | Of course we stop where we are? |
| Box. | Of course! |
| Cox. | For, between you and me, I'm rather partial to this house. |
| Box. | So am I—I begin to feel quite at home in it. |
| Cox. | Everything so clean and comfortable— |
| Box. | And I'm sure the mistress of it, from what I have seen of her, is very anxious to please. |
| Cox. | So she is—and I vote, Box, that we stick by her. |
| Box. | Agreed! There's my hand upon it—join but your's—agree that the house is big enough to hold us both, then Box— |
| Cox. | And Cox— |
| Both. | Are satisfied