Collected Works (Vol. III)

WHY JESUS WEPT 47 the Baptist minister at Brixton (Zr. Chester- ton executes the cake-walk), who they say is a good man, and very much blessed of the dear Lord, my dear, in his ministrations, though of course he has not been brought out of sect as yet.! 2ND AGED SISTER (sotto voce). Dear! Dear! Very sad! Perhaps the dear Lord will open his eyes. [The praying brother sits doum sud- denly, satisfied with himself. A HoRNY-HANDED BROTHER (who rises grunting, as if the action were painful or unfamiliar). Matthew Twenty-fourth and Forty-third and he said unto them: Whither of the twins will ye that I deliver unto you, Barab- bas, or Djeesas that is cawled Croist? Deer Lrotheren . - [But let him expound tt to himself while we listen to the aged sisters ! ISt AGED SISTER (sotto woce). So now they’re come out of sect, a most marvellous example, my dear, of the wonder- iul workings of the Holy Ghost, don’t you think ‘so, my dear? and [ hear they’re to be received into fellowship next Lord’s Day. 2N1I) AGED SISTER (do.). The young people are interested in one another,” are they not? Ist AGED SISTER (d@o.). Yes! it’s all very dear and blessed. But hush! how beautifully Mr. Worcester is expounding about Barabbas ! | Godly for ‘* become a Plymouth Brother.” —ALC, * Godly for ‘fare in love with one another.’ —A, C, Mr. G. K. CHESTERTON (altogether znaudtbly). This scene is all description and no drama, and ought to satisfy Mr. Bernard Shaw’s idea of a dramatic scene. [Zhe beautiful woman gets up and goes. The poet hastily fol:ows her out. SCENE XIV. TEN MONTHS LATER, SiR Percy DE PERCIVALE’S Ancestral Hall. Sir HERPES ZOSTER, M.D. SIR GRABSON JOBS, Q.C. Sir Herpes Z,. Yes, indeed, a most fortunate event. The children weigh 46 Ibs, between the three of them. All boys! SIR GRABSON J. Good! Good! failing—ha ! But a word in your ear. No chance of heirs This morphia? Sirk HERPES Z. Not a sign of relapse, old friend, and never will be now. Sir Percy is as sound a man as lives in England—I took four other opinions. SIR GRABSON J. None as weighty as your own. Six HlErRpss Z. You are polite, very polite. Where Carruthers ?