"Because we will finish up this business." "O you won't let the featherbed come down on us ?" cried Jane Linwood.
"If you don't be quiet and keep still, I will," said Preston.

"Let only your eye wink or your mouth move to smile--and you are an unlucky prince! I am a man without mercy." "And I am another," said George.

"I say, old fellow, I suppose I'm all right for that French pikeman now, hey?
After this smothering business is attended to." "You think the trade is the thing, and the costume a matter of indifference ?" said Preston.

"In the matter of morals I dare say you are right;--in tableaux before spectators it's not exactly so.

Here June--hand on your big pillow there--" Mrs.Sandford was laughing at him, and in fact there was a good deal of hilarity and some romping before the actors in the tableau could be settled in their places.
"Don't keep us long," said Preston.