text:  "I have worn these cursed stays for an hour every evening for the last week and drawn them an inch tighter every time; but I don't think I'm a very good figure after all--just try if they'll come any closer will you?" "Oh! Hawthorne I'm glad you are come " said Savile whom I hardly knew in a red wig; "now isn't there to be a bowl of real punch in the scene at the Three Pigeons--one can't _pretend_ to drink you know with any degree of spirit?" "Oh! of course " said I; "that's one of the landlord's properties: Miller you must provide that you know--send down for some cold tankards now; they will do very well for rehearsal