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EBOOK PUNCH ***


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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
VOL. 100.

April 25th, 1891.


MR. PUNCH'S POCKET IBSEN.
(_Condensed and Revised Version by Mr P.'s Own Harmless Ibsenite._)
No. III.--HEDDA GABLER.
ACT I.
SCENE--_A Sitting-room cheerfully decorated in dark colours. Broad
doorway, hung with black crape, in the wall at back, leading to a back
Drawing-room, in which, above a sofa in black horsehair, hangs a
posthumous portrait of the late_ General GABLER. _On the piano is a
handsome pall. Through the glass panes of the back Drawing-room window
are seen a dead wall and a cemetery. Settees, sofas, chairs, &c.,
handsomely upholstered in black bombazine, and studded with small round
nails. Bouquets of immortelles and dead grasses are lying everywhere
about._
_Enter_ Aunt JULIE (_a good-natured looking lady in a smart hat_).
_Aunt J._ Well, I declare, if I believe GEORGE or HEDDA are up yet!
(_Enter_ GEORGE TESMAN, _humming, stout, careless, spectacled.
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