Excerpt from Shocking Events: A Farce in One Act Kit. I beg your pardon, my head was full Of something else - you mean the dumb young gentleman that master is to see safely on board the packet going to Dunkirk it No, miss, he is not yet arrived you appear as impatient to see him as master. Dor. To me they are very interesting people and the efforts that some of them make to be understood are extremely striking; for, though they cannot Speak, there is an eloquence in their gestures that I consider very pleasing. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.