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...visit, and at Wiese's request each pretends to be the other. In this way Wiese hopes to see his fiancee and discover whether she suits him, as he is free to withdraw from his engagement if she does not. The two meet Luise with her father, and many complications follow. Salt and Luise have met before, and now fall in love again. Wiese gives way to them and the play ends with their marriage...
...play is as follows: Colonel Einnoth, military attache to General Smiles, T. Stensland 2L. X. X. Hennessy, valet to the colonel, J. O. Carson '02. R. H. Dailies, A. S. Hills '00. Willie Waite, aid to Dailies, C. C. Brayton '01. Major Mauser Bullet (commandant at West Point), father of Bessie Bullet, B. Taylor '01. Lieutenant Steel Armor, a cadet in love with Bessie Bullet, M. J. Tobey '01. Mr. Hennerie Pipp, brother to Miss Prudence Pipp, G. C. Griffith '01. Miss Bessie Bullet, partially bent on Steel Armor, W. H. Taylor '01. Miss Dot Remington, a repeater from Winchester...
Shakspere's genius is well shown in the way the developed the character of Henry V out of that of his father, Henry IV. Bolingbroke's duplicity and shrewdness resolve themselves into Henry's upright wisdom, and the father's touch of goodness, which only occasionally showed itself, sees its fullest development in his son's high religious sense, which made him advanced of his age in this respect. Henry's action in making war against France may be defended on the ground of sincerity of motive...