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GRIMSHAW, BAGSHAW AND BRADSHAW.
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I repeat, where is she?
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| Tow.
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I've only one—Emily.
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| Tow.
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She's here! you brought her here—you've got her here—but you shan't keep her here!
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| Grim.
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Wait a minute—let's understand each other; perhaps when you say Emily, you mean Fanny.
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| Tow.
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No, if I meant Fanny, I shouldn't say Emily.
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| Grim.
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Well, she said her name was Fanny.
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| Tow.
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Likely enough—where is she?—produce her!
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| Grim.
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I can't—she's gone—she's this moment stepped out.
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| Tow.
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Gone! (pointing to table, and showing Fanny's bonnet) Stepped out without her bonnet, eh? Now what d'ye say?
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| Grim.
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Really, you put me in such a dreadful state of confusion! (pulling his handkerchief out, drops Susan's letter.)
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| Tow.
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Ah! what's this? (picking up letter) A letter from Mrs. Towzer! (reads) "Sir, my husband knows everything—he has found out where you live"—so, she's in the conspiracy against me too, is she? but she always took your part, Bradshaw.
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| Grim.
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(shouting) Grimshaw! (suddenly) I tell you what, Towzer, you're a remarkably pleasant creature; but strange to say, I've had quite enough of you. (takes Bagshaw's hat off drawers, l. c., and about to go.)
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| Tow.
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No, no. (snatches hat out of Grimshaw's hand.)
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| Grim.
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Holloa, give me my hat!
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| Tow.
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(looking into hat) Certainly—there it is, Bradshaw.
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| Grim.
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(shouting again) Grimshaw!
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| Tow.
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Of course, you know best, and yet people generally write their own names in their own hats.
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| Grim.
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I never do write my name in my hat, Sir—I merely put the initial, Sir—G. for Grimshaw! {looking into hat) Holloa, this is a B!
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| Tow.
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Yes, B. for Bradshaw!
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| Grim.
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Pooh, pooh! it's a mistake—this is not my hat—in the first place, it doesn't fit me; (putting it on, it is much too large for him) besides, if it was my hat, I shouldn't go
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