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Valentine . — I will be witness , as Fanny is a principal . Mr . Herbert . —Let me be witness to one thing . Grasp hands in token of your beginning friendship , which 1 nope will be as true , as happy , and , alas ! more lasting than was that of your fathers' before you . Herbert , this is my son ; Valentine , this is Herbert Maxwell .
Maxwell . M I —y hope is , that may as well deserve the title of friend as your father has done . Valentine . —And mine , that I may deserve to be prized by you as dearly as was your father by mine . Mr . Herbert . —My wife and her little duplicate must not be left out .
Mrs . Herbert . —A miniature edition , Mr . Maxwell , yet does it have , aye , and deserves to have , ( kisses Fanny ) a chief place in the family library . But even this is too much of a jest for the earnest pleasure you have brought with you . Fanny . —How good of you to come to-day ! Did you know it was my brother ' s birthday ?
Maxwell . —No , it was the merest chance that brought me hither ; for owing to your change of abode and the loss of the
letters of which my father—your father that is—and I had been speaking before we joined you , I did not know you lived here , nor that it was Valentine ' s day . Valentine . —Then you are most likely in the same predicament as Fanny . You must come this evening , —and yet you have not the letter of introduction that " the Bishop " requires . Fanny . —Oh ! you must be with us ! Maxwell . —That I must be with you whenever I can , and
you will let me , seems quite as certain to me as to you . But now , when , and where can I propitiate his holiness ? Mrs . Herbert . —Here he is ! ask him ; I will answer for his not being a very severe Diocesan . Mr . Herbert . —Mil desperandum is one of the saint ' s favourite mottoes . You shall take it , for your comfort—and now we will leave the devotees to complete their arrangements . MaxtvelL—And the sentence for me is , " return to the place from whence you came . "
Mrs . Herbert . —To come again in the evening I hope . Fanny [ suddenly assuming a half-arch , half-heroic attitude ^ —And / prophesy ! Maxwell . —Yes , and ready to dare the severest frowns of holy Saint Valentine , so that my valentine but smile . [ End of Scene // . ]
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1836, page 100, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2654/page/36/
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