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GOOD-BY.

Shepherd. I'm sorry she's come.

For I was just beginnin

to summon up courage to hint the possibility, if no the propriety, o' anither bowl-or at least a jug.

C. Cyril Thornton (rising). God bless you, sir, good morning-Mr Ambrose may call it but one o'clock, if it gives him any pleasure to think that the stream of time may run counter to the Moon and Stars; but it is nearer three, and I trust the lamps are not lighted needlessly to affront the dawn. Once more-God bless you, sir. Good morning.

North. Thursday at six, Cyril-farewell.

[Enter MR AMBROSE to announce the coach. Shepherd. Gude-by, sir-dinna get up aff your chair. (Aside) Corrnall, he canna rise. The coach 'll drap the Corrnall at Awmrose's in Picardy, and me at the Peebles Arms, Sign o' the Sawmon, Candlemaker Row, and Mr Tickler at his ain house, Southside-and by then it'll be about time for't to return to the stance in George Street.

C. Cyril Thornton (opening the window-shutters at a nod from NORTH). The blaze of day.

[Coach drives from the Lodge, ribbons and rod in the hand of MR AMBROSE.

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