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PARADISE FOUND 99 into his infernal slumber, and this time I hope you'll have the sense to let him sleep it out.

MARCHIONESS. Then he is mine for ever !

LADY WELLS. But I don't understand. How did he come to go off again.

BLATCHFORD. Don't you see ? Before you kissed him you uttered the wish that he should wake for twenty-four hours. ( Points to the clock. ) The twenty-four hours have just expired, and so he has gone to sleep again.

VICEROY. ( Ringing his bell triumphantly) ( Hysterical laughter, in which the  audience is allowed to join.  slowly turns his head and winks at the house, to signify that they have not yet heard the last of him. )

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CURTAIN.

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[ Followed by numerous recalls, shouts of " Author," and favourable notices in the next day's papers. ]