Dramatizations of School Classics; A Dramatic Reader for Grammar and Secondary Schools

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1911 Excerpt: ... THE MICAWBERS DECIDE TO EMIGRATE SCENE I Characters Mr. AND MRS. MlCAWBER AND SlX CHILDREN Miss Betsey Trotwood David Copperfield Mr. Dick (Enter Miss Trotwood, David Copperfield, and Mr. Dick. General greetings.) Miss Trotwood Is this all your family? Mr. Micawber Madam, it is a true bill. Miss Trotwood And that eldest young gentleman, now, what has he been brought up to? Mr. Micawber It was my hope when I came here to have got Wilkins into the church; or perhaps I shall express my meaning more clearly if I say into the choir. But there was no vacancy for a tenor in the venerable pile for which this city is so justly eminent; and he has, in short, contracted a habit of singing in public houses rather than in sacred edifices. Mrs. Micawber But he means well. Mr. Micawber I dare say, my love, that he means particularly well; but I have not yet found that he carries out his meaning in any particular line whatsoever. Master Micawber What am I to do? Was I born a carpenter or a coach painter any more than I was born a bird? Can I go into the next street and open a chemist's shop? Can I rush into the next assizes and proclaim myself a lawyer? Can I come out by force at the opera and succeed by violence? Can I do anything without being brought up to something? Miss Trotwood Mr. Micawber, I wonder you have never turned your thoughts to emigration? Mr. Micawber Madam, it was the dream of my youth, and the fallacious aspiration of my riper years. Miss Trotwood Ay? Why, what a thing it would be for yourselves and your family, Mr. and Mrs. Micawber, if you were to emigrate now. Mr. Micawber Capital, Madam, capital! Mrs. Micawber That is the principal, I may say, the only, difficulty, my dear Mr. Copperfield. Miss Trotwood Capital! But you are doing me a great service-...