The book Cut Off With a Schilling. a Comedietta in One Act was written by author S Spenser Theyre Smith Here you can read free online of Cut Off With a Schilling. a Comedietta in One Act book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Cut Off With a Schilling. a Comedietta in One Act a good or bad book?
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Pray attend, ma'am — "man of my word. I told you that if you married without my consent you should receive from me the sum of one shilling sterling, and no more. Your letter informs me that you have done so" — He had written to me, you understand Kitty. Yes ; a beautiful letter. Bern. What, ma'am? Beautiful? Kitty. Don't I speak distinctly? Undutiful, I say. I suppose it was an undutiful letter. Bern. Oh! I misunderstood you, ma'am. Undutiful! I should think so, most undutiful. Kitty. What a dr...eadful story ! Bern. So it is ; so it is. A dreadful story of ingratitude. But I was even with him. Pray attend to what follows — " informs me that you have done so. I enclose" — mark this, ma'am — "I enclose the shilling, and am " Kitty. {losing patience) A cruel, hard-hearted monster ! Bern, {staring in astonishment) Monster! Who? Kitty. Why you — you — {a sob) wick — wick — wicked old man. Bern. Bless my soul, I — where' s my hat? I perceive, madam, that I have trespassed too long upon your kindness ; that I have taxed your — hem !
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