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SELLERS
Why Miss Laura, I'm delighted to see you. I congratulate you, I congratulate you with all my heart. Three million's plenty, plenty to start with and make a fortune, but it never pours but it rains, [as the proverb says].
(Displays bottle.)
I've found the lacking ingredient.
LAURA
I see you have, old friend.
SELLERS
(Holds up bottle.)The eye-water's ahic!success.
(Points to label on bottle.)
Mulberry Sellers' infallible Oriental optical liniment. Seventy-five cents that size bottle, "Sellers Option".
LAURA
Lafayette, what are you dreaming about?
LAFAYETTE
Well, I was just thinking
LAURA
But this is no time to be thinking. Be off to the News- paper Row and see if you can't give the correspondents an item or two about the land bill.
SELLERS
Excuse mehic! I want to go with you. I want to know the newspaper boys, [they're a power in the land, brimful of talent, and simplicity and piousness.] They're chuck full of piousnessness all the time.
LAFAYETTE
(Aside to LAURA.)Well, I never saw the old man so before, his eye-water is a trifle too powerful.
SELLERS
Miss Laura, I'll see you later.
(Kisses her hand.)

