Lis. Pshaw! what signifies seeing them, a'ut you to feel them?

Doc. [Speaking without.] What! force into a man's house, whether he will or no?

Con. I hear a noise! [Looks out.] It is the Marquis returned; and all his schemes, perhaps, will be fulfilled. [La Fleur lays down again.

Enter MARQUIS, PICCARD, and FRANCOIS, L. disguised as Doctors, the MARQUIS having changed his dress, hat mask over his face. Enter DOCTOR, L. (PICCARD and

FRANCOIS go behind Couch, c.)

Mar. I have powerful reasons for entering this house-I came hither accompanied by these physicians, sent with me by the college, to demand a patient, who was this morning brought hither by a notorious professor of quackery; the young gentleman is of family, and nearly allied to me.

Doc. [Aside.] I am undone!

Mar. Where is he, sir? I must see him, and speak with him.

Lis. At present you can't speak with him; he is in a better world. [Pointing to La Fleur. Mar. Alas! behold him there, or am I deceived! No, it is he himself whom I see !-and he is dead. Gentlemen, I call you as witnesses that he is dead, and that yonder stands the assassin. [Piccard and François examine the body; Piccard puts on his spectacles.]

Fran. [Feeling his pulse.] Yes, he is dead; but he is not dead according to our rules.

[They place themselves at the table. Mar. [At Couch, L.] O! my dear friend, and are you gone?-But your death shall be revenged. Villain! [To the Doctor.] tremble! for thy life shall answer for this. Gentlemen, gentlemen, please to take notes of what you see and hear in this house. [The Doctors write.

Lis. [Comes down, L.] Dear sir, have pity on my poor master he has killed the poor gentleman, to be sure; but it was without malice.

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Doc. But you know, gentlemen, this is uot the first patient that has been killed during an operation.

Pic. Aye, by the authority of the college.

! Doc. [To the Marquis.] Dear sir, my only hope is in your mercy.

Mar. Then despair! for know, I am the Marquis de

Lancy, and call to your remembrance with what insolence you rejected all my overtures to espouse your ward :—here is the advantageous contract I repeatedly sent to you, which you had the arrogance to return to me without even deigning to look at.

Doc. (c.) Only deliver me from this trouble, and I will sign it without reading it at all.

Mar. (L.) But will the lady also sign it?

Con. (R.) No! for how can I wed another when he (the Doctor) is the object of my love?

Doc. But consider, my dear Coustauce, that I am old and ugly, jealous and infirm; indeed I am, indeed I am, I protest, Coustance.

Con. But my love for you is so implanted in my heart. Mar. If that's the case,-come, sir, follow us. [Going, L. Doc. Stay; give me the contract and let me sign it. [Aside.] I will once more have recourse to the wand.

Mar. What imports your signing, if your ward will not? Doc. She will sign.

Con. Never!

Doc. Give me the contract, and hold that. [Gives the wand to the Marquis; takes the contract, and signs it.]

Mar. What's this?

Doc. Keep it; never let it go from you.

Con. Yes, I feel a desire to sign, give me the contract. Doc. Aye, I was sure of it. [Constance signs.] And there, Marquis, is the contract. [Giving it him.

La Fleur. [Rising.] Ah! I breathe again! I am a little better!

Doc. [Starting.] Why, is he not dead?
La Fleur. No! I am mending apace.

Doc. Gentlemen, tear in pieces the process. [To La Fleur.] Oh, sir, what misery have you brought upon me! La Fleur. And what misery would your damned instruments, and your boiling oil, have brought upon me?

Doc. How did you hear, in that fit, what I said?

La Fleur. Very easily, sir; return him the wand, and the ladies, I dare say, will fall in love with him again. Doc. [Looking at him: then at the Marquis.] My eyes are open! I recollect thein both! but this was the sick [To the Marquis.

man!

La Fleur. But I was the dead one!
Doc. I am cheated, defrauded!-What, ho! neighbours!
here are thieves! murderers!

[Calling.

Mar. Nay, Doctor, reflect upon the arts you made use

of, to keep my Constance yours, even in spite of her inclinations; then do not condemn the artifice I employed to obtain her, with her own consent. A reward like this, urged me to encounter every hazard and every danger. For believe me, Doctor, there is no magnetism like the powerful magnetism of love.

THE END.

DISPOSITION OF THE CHARACTERS AT THE FALL OF THE CURTAIN.

LISETTE, LA FLEUR, DOCTOR, MARQUIS, CONSTANCE.

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