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CAPTAIN FITZCHROME.
Flirtation, Clarinda! Is that all that the most ardent—
LADY CLARINDA.
Now, don't be rhapsodical here. Next to Mr. Mac Quedy is Mr. Skionar, a sort of poetical philosopher, a curious compound of the intense and the mystical. He abominates all the ideas of Mr. Mac Quedy, and settles every thing by sentiment and intuition.
CAPTAIN FITZCHROME.
Then, I say, he is the wiser man.
LADY CLARINDA.
They are two oddities, but a little of them is amusing, and I like to hear them dispute. So you see I am in training for a philosopher myself.
CAPTAIN FITZCHROME.
Any philosophy, for heaven's sake, but the
