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I shall want it by and by, on account of some family affairs.

Jen. I shall have the greatest pleasure in obeying your commands. Good day!(Exit.

Free. Where is the state of the poll, and the list of the outstanding voters?

Mrs. F. Come to my dressing-room, and I'll shew you exactly how every thing stands. You won't surely give up your point for a little—

Free. What do you mean to say?

Mrs. F. Nothing—nothing at all.(Exeunt.

SCENE III. Baltimore's ''house. Enter Baltimore, followed by David, and speaking as he enters.''

Balt. And so the crowd gave three cheers when good old Humphries tottered up to the hustings to give his vote, as he declared, for the grandson of his old benefactor, Mr. Legender Baltimore? I should have liked to have seen it.

Dav. O, your honour, they gave three such hearty cheers! and old goody Robson clapped her poor withered hands till the tears run over her eyes.

Balt. Did she so? She shall be remembered for this! I saw her little grandson running about the other day barefooted—he shall run about barefooted no longer.—And so my friends begin to wear a bolder face upon it?

Dav. Yes, Sir, they begin to look main pert upon it now.