A Bachelors Banquet Or An Indigestible Romance A Farce In One Act By Lewis D Humphrey

Author : Lewis D. Humphrey
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330241288
Total Pages : 39 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (412 download)

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Download or read book A Bachelors Banquet, or an Indigestible Romance written by Lewis D. Humphrey and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-27 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Bachelors Banquet, or an Indigestible Romance: A Farce in One Act Scene. - The sitting-room in the bachelor apartments of Foster and Stillman. Mantel, c., back. Entrances, r., r. c., and l. General disorder. Newspapers flung about. Table covered with magazines; also dish containing mixture. Boots and slippers in left corner. Dressing-gown flung over armchair, r. Pipes and tobacco littered about. Walls covered with hunting and sporting Paraphernalia. General effect of confusion and over-crowded room. White necktie and dress coat draped over looking-glass over mantel; also collar. (Enter Dick, r., covered from head to foot with apron, a soup-ladle in one hand and a salt-cellar in the other.) Dick (glancing anxiously at clock on mantel). By all the gods! half-past five, and not even an entrée ready yet. {Drops ladle and salt into chair, r.) Here's a sweet state of things! (Drops into chair, l.) Confound the kitchen clock! Knocks off work without saying a word, and gets a fellow into a devil of a scrape! There, I thought there was plenty of time to get dinner ready, and they ought to be getting here now. By the way, where's the Sport? Good heavens! I hope nothing's happened to him. (Rises, and paces the room as well as he can.) Well, if he does not show up, we get no fruit. Great Scott! what's this? (Looks at bowl on table.) The salad dressing, as sure as I'm a biped! Well, that's only the sixth thing forgotten. Who's that? (Stops and listens.) Steps too light for Sport; must be they, as sure as fate. (Rushes to mantel, flings off apron, and puts on collar and necktie.) Talk of catching trains! My! but that was a good idea of mine, getting ready dressed to begin with. I foresaw some hitches, and it is better to be ready for an emergency. Now, when they come. I'll be all ready. Confound that necktie! (Pulls at tie in vain.) Oh, well, if you don't want to, you needn't. (Stops and listens.) They're not coming, anyway. That's a mean trick to play a fellow. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.