Chapter 53 A COMEDY OF ERRORS

"Content you, gentlemen,

I'll compound this strife.... He of both

That can assure my nieces greatest dower,

Shall have her love."

"I must confess your offer is the best,

And let your father make her the assurance,

She is your own."

-Taming of the Shrew.

POOR pretty little Lucy Markham! what business had tears to come and pro