Payable On Demand An Original Domestic Drama in Two Acts
Payable On Demand An Original Domestic Drama in Two Acts
Taylor, Tom, 1817-1880
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Yes, our family arms my poor mother's portrait ! LINA. Your mother ! Was this your mother ? How beautiful she must have been ! VICTOR. And how unhappy ! LINA. But this looks like a lady of rank ; the arms are surmounted by a coronet ? VICTOR. And I a poor and nameless music-master ! You wonder what should be in common with me and these. You have surprised half my secret, Miss Goldsched you have a right to know it all. My father, the Marquis de St. Cast, was compromised with the rest of his orde...r in the Revolution, and forced to fly from Paris with my mother and myself, then an infant. On his way to join the army of the princes, he was separated from us in Alsace, and we never saw him again. LINA. Alas ! VICTOR. My mother received one letter announcing his arrival in Frankfort. It was the last. He must have been murdered there by the revolutionary bands, who then occupied the Rhine. I was too young to share my mother's agony. She died her suffering unpitied her rank unknown it would have been death to both of us to reveal it died, leaving me to the care of the poor people who closed her eyes, but who she dared not trust with her name died, leaving her infant child nothing but 40 PAYABLE ON DEMAND.
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