Alexander of Macedon was a hero, no doubt; but why smash the chairs ?( [21]) There will be a deficit in the accounts, just as the result of that.
SUPERINTENDENT .-- Yes, he is hasty! I have spoken to him about it several times.

He says: "What would you have?
I would sacrifice my life for science." CHIEF .-- Yes, such is the incomprehensible decree of Fate; a learned man is always a drunkard, or else he makes faces that would scare the very saints.
As the play proceeds in this lively vein, two men about town--in a humble way--the public busybodies, happen to discover at the Inn a traveler who has been living on credit for two weeks, and going nowhere.
The landlord is on the point of putting the man in prison for debt, when the busybodies jump to the conclusion that he is the Inspector.

The Prefect and the other officials accept their suggestion in spite of the traveler's plain statement as to his own identity as an uninfluential citizen.

They set about making the town presentable, entertain him, bribe him against his will, and bow down before him.

He enters into the spirit of the thing after a brief delay, accepts the hospitality, asks for loans, makes love to the Prefect's silly wife and daughter, betroths himself to the latter, receives the petitions and the bribes of the downtrodden townspeople, and goes off with the best post-horses the town can furnish, ostensibly to ask the blessing of a rich old uncle on his marriage.