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Excerpt from The Silver Box: A Comedy in Three Acts Mrs. Jones. [slim dark-eyed, and dark-haired oval-faced, and with a smooth soft, even voice; her man ner patient, her way of talking quite impersonal; she wears a blue linen dress, and boots with holes.] It was nearly two last night before he come home, and he was n't himself. He made me get up, and he knocked me about; he did n't seem to know what he was saying or doing. Of course I would leave him, but I'm really afraid of what he 'd do to me. He's such a violent man when he 's not himself. Wheeler. Why don't you get him locked up? You '11 never have any peace until you get him locked up. If I were you I'd go to the police court to morrow. That 's what I would do. 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.