[_Exeunt._
ACT II, SCENE III
CHARACTERS: Brummell; Isidore; Fotherby; Nurse; another Old Woman;
Landlord; Waiter.
SCENE: Brummell's lodgings in a miserable apartment house at Caen,
France. Eight years have elapsed. With no means of livelihood and
pursued by creditors, Brummell is now reduced to abject poverty,
broken health, and a deranged mind. He is thrown among people of
low rank and is subjected to many indignities; but to the last he
clings to his fastidious tastes and is a gentleman among imaginary
aristocrats.
OLD NURSE. _in high Norman cap, discovered seated in arm chair, mending
stockings; another_ WOMAN _near her._
NURSE. Yes, my dear, clean out of his mind--that's what he's gone.
OLD WOMAN. Deary me!
NURSE. Aye, and there be folks as says he was once as neat and tidy as a
new sixpence. Now he's as dirty as a George the First halfpenny!
OLD W. Deary me!
NURSE. Aye, child, and he knew lords and dooks--and such like--now it's
anybody as'll give him a dinner.
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