The tri-weekly news. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1865-1876, 1866-02-27
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An Act in Four Scenes.

DIR. B.-Good morning Madame
your countenahce is in keeping with
the delightful weather. calm, bright
and cheerful.
MAD, S.-May you always have =
cheerful mind, Doctor, when the skies
are bright II You do, this country will
be Paradise for your sojourn.
DIR! B. : 1t needs some extraneous
influence 10 make it so
MAD. S.-Why, Doctor, I am sur.
prised at your insinua,ion.
DIR. B.--You needn't be, Mann
MAD. S.-You certainly do nat al.
lude to any social defect.
DREB.-Not aeall, Madame.
MAD S.-To any civil e?
DIR. B.-No. :
MAD. S.-Doctor, l hope you have
not been disappointed in an affair of the
heart.
DIR. B.-Ha | ha | ha! Excuse
me, Madame, hut l could not help
laughing. You seem to be entirely ig
norant of what appears to concern all
others. Perhaps, though, you have so
much else to engage your attention,
That You have not time TO notice or feel
the discordant state OF politics in your
country.
MAD. 81 assure YOU, Sir, politics is
a subject in which take great interest.
DIR. Bit needs it in your country,
Madame.
MAD. S.-"The greatest country" in
the world will give it due attention.
But, Doctor Bowie. you are mysterious,
-explaln, Sir,'if you please. ! do not
understand you.
DIR. B.-I mean no reflection upon
yourself Madame, but
"When ignorance is bliss,
'Tis folly to be wise,".
But pleaseexcuse my abrupt part.
ing, ifor / have patient in this building.
Mad. S.-Certainly, Sir.
Exit Dir. Bo,uie.
MAD. S.-(SoliiOqutsing). Well,
do not understand these men from
abroad. Here is DR.. Bowie, an estima.
bic gentleman. who like all sho ,Enslisl,
gentlemen, and even ladies', with whom
I've lately conversed is, upon every
provocation, criticising our government.
1t does seem strange to me that "thc
best government the world ever saw"
should prove so obnoxious to intelligent
Englishmen. But / suppose it's be.
cause they live in country where
monarchism is popular, and they arc
envlous OF land where liberty and free.
dom are enjoyed in tho fullest sense.
E;rit Madame Stiietto | .
SCENE II.
Madame StiUetto's Parlor, ,uhere she sits
reading the last illustrated Weekly."
Il scrUant enters and announces.)
SERyANT.--Some soldiers at tho d;or,
Nam, and wish to see Madame Stiletto.
MAD. S.--Ask them in.
Eeit Seruant.
MAD. S.-(Alone. The dear he.
roes How much should we honor the
defenders of our country.
Enter Soldiers and O6ieers.1
OrFIcER.--I presume this is Madame
Stiletlo.
MAD. Sit is, Sir. Be seated gen.
tlemen. l delight to honor our soldiers.
OfFIoER.-Excuse me, Madame, /
am acting under orders. 1t is my un'
pleasant dutylto Inform you that you
are arrested.
MAD. S.-Arrested | Pray, Sir,
what do you mean.
OFFIcER.-I am not authorized,
Madame, to explain. even i'll knew the
cause Of your arrest. have only to
conduct you to Marshal Oppresso, Com.
mandlng.
MAD. S.-Yon must explain, Sir, be.
fore move one foot from this sofa.
OFFlcER.--I hope, Madame, that
you will not give me cause to use force.
1t would be altogether repugnant to my
eo-oeption Of the respect due n lady.
MAD. S.-But Sir, insist. How
dare you intrude thus to molest lady
in her own house.
OrFIcER.-Madame, al I have al.