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Which is the Man-Hannah Cowley · A School for Greybeards; or, The Mourning Bride

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  Speaker 1: Act, one of which is The Man by Hannah Cowley.
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  Speaker 1: comedy was written by military character a gentleman of acknowledged
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  Speaker 1: genius favored the author with the following prolog, spoken by
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  Speaker 1: mister lee Lews, dressed as an officer.
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  Speaker 2: Called forth thallys standard to display and here maintain her
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  Speaker 2: sovereign comic's way as chief. Our reconnoiter well the ground
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  Speaker 2: to learn what hastile lines are drawn around.
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  Speaker 1: Surveys the house with the glass.
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  Speaker 2: That's not a darken de file in yonder glade, or
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  Speaker 2: should it prove a treacherous ambuscade, Nor puffing miners have
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  Speaker 2: I here in pay to sap their works or turn
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  Speaker 2: their covert way. No mercenary band to have been wont
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  Speaker 2: to hack and hue like pioneers in front with flying shells.
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  Speaker 2: Our engineers shall try that well manned battlement which towers
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  Speaker 2: so high pointing to the upper gallery beneath our point
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  Speaker 2: blank shot will surely reach and in yon half mooned
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  Speaker 2: battery make a breach.
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  Speaker 1: To the second gallery.
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  Speaker 2: These lovely breastworks that adorn the field, to nature's gentle summons,
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  Speaker 2: soon must.
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  Speaker 1: Yield side boxes, et cetera.
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  Speaker 2: This advanced post the picket guard to keep, and that
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  Speaker 2: reserve who are entrenched chin deep, we hope to carry
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  Speaker 2: by a bold exertion at least a muse with some
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  Speaker 2: well planned diversion to the pit. My troops are veterans.
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  Speaker 2: It has been their lot to form in front of service,
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  Speaker 2: hissing hot, who when their ranks are galled or put
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  Speaker 2: to flight, are sure to rally and renew the fight,
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  Speaker 2: unless and then no light dragoons scour of leader their
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  Speaker 2: powder fails for want of true saltpeter our plans avowed.
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  Speaker 2: It is from this firm.
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  Speaker 1: Station to gain the heights of public approbation. Dramatis Persone,
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  Speaker 1: Lord Sparkle read by Tod.
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  Speaker 3: Fitz Herbert, read by Joe Bergen.
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  Speaker 4: Beauchamp read by Gregg Girdano.
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  Speaker 5: Belleville read by Hadley.
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  Speaker 6: Knighton Pendragon read by Anam Mapstone.
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  Speaker 7: Lady Bell Bloomer read by Sonya.
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  Speaker 8: Julia, read by Matta Brachich.
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  Speaker 9: Sophie Pendragon read by Anna Maria.
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  Speaker 10: Clorinda read by Jen Broda.
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  Speaker 11: Kitty read by Christa Zeleski.
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  Speaker 12: Tiffany read by Irene Ellen.
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  Speaker 13: Missus Johnson read by Lindsay Clarke.
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  Speaker 14: First Gentleman read by Red.
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  Speaker 15: Run Second Gentleman read by David Purdy.
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  Speaker 16: A Lady read by Sandra Schmidt.
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  Speaker 17: Second Lady read by Marie Christian. Made read by Marie Christian.
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  Speaker 5: Servant read by Beeswax Candle.
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  Speaker 1: Stage directions read by Adrian Stephens. Which is the Man?
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  Speaker 1: Act one seene one A drawing room. Missus Johnson crosses
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  Speaker 1: the stage. A boy following.
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  Speaker 13: Here, Betty Dick, where are ye? Don't you see my
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  Speaker 13: Lord Sparkle's carriage. I shall have my lodger's the stove
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  Speaker 13: with their thunderin What in the name of wonder can
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  Speaker 13: bring him here at this time in the morning. Here
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  Speaker 13: he comes, looking like a rake as.
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  Speaker 1: He is, and to Lord Sparkle yawning.
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  Speaker 2: Oh bidham turn, I shan't stay a moment, so Missus Johnson,
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  Speaker 2: I pulled the string just to see how your sylvans
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  Speaker 2: go on as usual?
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  Speaker 6: My lord?
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  Speaker 13: But bless me, how early your lordship is?
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  Speaker 2: How late you mean? I have not been in bed
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  Speaker 2: since yesterday at one. I am going home now to
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  Speaker 2: rest for an hour or two, and then to the
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  Speaker 2: drawing room. But what are the two rustics about? I
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  Speaker 2: have not been plagued with them these three or four days.
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  Speaker 13: They are now out.
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  Speaker 2: I suppose that, or I should not have called. But prithee,
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  Speaker 2: do they talk of returning to their native woods again?
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  Speaker 6: Oh?
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  Speaker 10: No, sir.
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  Speaker 13: The young gentleman seems to have very different ideas. Miss
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  Speaker 13: too has great spirits. Oh she seems now and then
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  Speaker 13: at a loss what to do with herself?
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  Speaker 2: Do with herself? Why don't you persuade her to go
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  Speaker 2: back to Cornwall? You should tell em what a vile
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  Speaker 2: place London is, full of snares and bargeries and witchcrafts.
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  Speaker 2: You don't preach to 'em, Johnson.
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  Speaker 13: Indeed I do, my lord, And their constant answer is, oh,
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  Speaker 13: Lord Sparkle is our friend. Lord Sparkle would take it amiss.
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  Speaker 13: If we should go, twould look like distrusting his lordship.
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  Speaker 2: Ah was ever man so hampered two fools to mistake
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  Speaker 2: common forms and civilities for attachments.
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  Speaker 13: I fear, my lord, towards the young lady something more
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  Speaker 13: than forms.
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  Speaker 2: Never, upon my honor, I kissed her so I did
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  Speaker 2: all the women in the parish the septennial ceremony. The
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  Speaker 2: brother I used to drink vileport with. Listen to his
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  Speaker 2: village stories, call his vulgarity wit and his impudent spirit.
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  Speaker 2: Was not that fatigue and mortification enough? But must I
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  Speaker 2: be bored with them here in town?
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  Speaker 13: But Miss Sir talks of pressing invitations and letters and things.
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  Speaker 2: Of course they had influence and got me the borough.
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  Speaker 2: I in return said she was the most charming girl
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  Speaker 2: in the world, that I adored her, and some few
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  Speaker 2: things that everybody says on such occasions and nobody thinks of.
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  Speaker 13: But it appears that miss did think.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, faith, and on my writing a civil note that
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  Speaker 2: I should be happy to see them in town, et cetera,
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  Speaker 2: which I meant to have suspended our acquaintance till the
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  Speaker 2: general election, they took me at my word, and before
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  Speaker 2: I thought the letter had reached him, they were in
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  Speaker 2: my house, all joy and congratulations. I didn't choose to
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  Speaker 2: be encumbered with them, So place them with you. The
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  Speaker 2: boy was at first amusing, But our circles have had him,
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  Speaker 2: and I must be rid of him.
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  Speaker 13: I must say, I wish I was quit of them
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  Speaker 13: at present for my constant lodger. Mister Bellville came to
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  Speaker 13: town last night, and he wants this drawing room to himself.
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  Speaker 13: He's obliged to share it now with mister Pendragon and
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  Speaker 13: his sister.
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  Speaker 2: Hey Bellville. Gad, that's lucky. There is not a fellow
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  Speaker 2: in town better received by the women. Throw the girl
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  Speaker 2: on his way and get rid of her at once.
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  Speaker 13: If you mean dishonestly, my lord, you have mistaken your person.
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  Speaker 13: I did not live so many years with your mother
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  Speaker 13: to be capable of such a thing. Ah, my lord,
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  Speaker 13: if my lady were living.
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  Speaker 2: She would scold a little purpose, and you you may
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  Speaker 2: spare yourself the trouble. I tell you I care nothing
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  Speaker 2: about the girl. I merely want to get rid of her,
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  Speaker 2: and you must assist me.
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  Speaker 1: Missus Johnson turns from him with disgust.
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  Speaker 2: May day, the nicety of your ladyship's order is piqued.
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  Speaker 9: Ha ha ha ha ha.
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  Speaker 2: The mistress of a lodging house.
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  Speaker 1: The end roll exit, Missus Johnson.
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  Speaker 2: But who was this hobbling upstairs? Ah, old Kate of
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  Speaker 2: the censer, my honorable cousin, What the devil shall I do?
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  Speaker 2: No avoiding him however.
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  Speaker 1: Entered mister fitz Herbert.
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  Speaker 2: I wish I had been out of the house fitz Herbert,
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  Speaker 2: before you appeared. I know I shall not escape without
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  Speaker 2: some of youse.
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  Speaker 3: I never throw away reproof when there are no hopes
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  Speaker 3: of amendment. Your lordship is safe.
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  Speaker 2: Am I to take that for wit?
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  Speaker 5: No?
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  Speaker 3: For then I fear you would not understand it positively.
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  Speaker 2: You must give me more of the felicity of your conversation.
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  Speaker 2: I want you to teach me some of that happy
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  Speaker 2: ease which you possess in your rudeness. Twould be to
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  Speaker 2: me an acquisition. I am eternally getting into the most
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  Speaker 2: horrid grapes merely by politeness and good breeding. Here are
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  Speaker 2: two persons now in this house, for instance, who do.
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  Speaker 3: Not know that the language of what you call politeness
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  Speaker 3: differs from that of truth and honor. You see, I
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  Speaker 3: know those to whom you allude. But we only lose time,
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  Speaker 3: Good day, my lord.
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  Speaker 1: Lose time?
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  Speaker 2: Why of what value can time be to you, the
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  Speaker 2: greatest enemy you have, adding every day to your wrinkles
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  Speaker 2: and your humor. I'll prove to you now that I
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  Speaker 2: have employed the last twelve hours to better purpose than
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  Speaker 2: you have nine of them you slept away. The last three.
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  Speaker 2: You have been running about town, snarling and making people
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  Speaker 2: uneasy with themselves, while I have been fitting peacefully at
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  Speaker 2: welchrees where I have won.
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  Speaker 1: And guess what.
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  Speaker 3: Half as much as you lost yesterday? A thousand or
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  Speaker 3: two guineas?
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  Speaker 2: Perhaps guineas pooh, you are jesting. Guineas are as scarce
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  Speaker 2: with us, as in the coffers of the Congress. Like them,
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  Speaker 2: we stake with counters and play for solid earth. Well,
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  Speaker 2: bullion is a mercantile kind of wealth, passing through the
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  Speaker 2: hands of drysalters, vinegar merchants and lord mayors. Our goddess
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  Speaker 2: holds a cornucopia instead of a purse, from which she
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  Speaker 2: pours corn fields, fruitful valleys and rich herds. This morning
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  Speaker 2: she popped into my dice box, a snug villa five
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  Speaker 2: hundred acres horrible pastures, with the next presentation to the
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  Speaker 2: living of Gossleton, a.
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  Speaker 3: Church living in a dice box. Well, well, I suppose
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  Speaker 3: it will be bestowed as worthily as it was gained.
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  Speaker 3: Good day, my lord, good day.
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  Speaker 2: Turning from him, good night, grabbedree, good.
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  Speaker 1: Night, going off enter a servant.
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  Speaker 2: Tell Bellville, I called to congratuate his escape from the
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  Speaker 2: stupid country.
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  Speaker 1: Going my Lord Sparkle, returning, Sir, I.
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  Speaker 3: Am going this morning to visit Lady Bell Bloomer. I
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  Speaker 3: give you this intimation that we may not risk another reconta.
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  Speaker 2: Civility designed and for the same polite reason, I inform
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  Speaker 2: you that I shall be there in the evening.
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  Speaker 1: Exit, Lord Sparkle, your master in bed?
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  Speaker 3: Yet what time was he in town?
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  Speaker 1: Yesterday?
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  Speaker 18: Lights? We should have been earlier, but we met with
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  Speaker 18: mister Airy, aarbrain on the road with his new foxhounds,
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  Speaker 18: fell in with the ant bag shot broke cover run
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  Speaker 18: the first burst across the east towards Datchet. She then
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  Speaker 18: took right and end for Ingham, sunk the wind upon
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  Speaker 18: us as far as Stains where Raynard took the road
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  Speaker 18: to Oxford, and we the route to town.
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  Speaker 3: Sir, bowing very geographical. Indeed, sir, now pray inform your master.
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  Speaker 3: Oh here we come.
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  Speaker 1: Enter Belleville in a robe de champre.
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  Speaker 3: Just risen from your pillows? Are you not ashamed of this?
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  Speaker 3: A fox hunter and in bed at eleven?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, my dear morose, charming quarrelsome old friend, I am
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  Speaker 5: ever in character in the country. I defy fatiguing hardship
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  Speaker 5: up before the lazy slut Aurora has put on a
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  Speaker 5: pink colored gown to captivate the plowboys. A scamper over
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  Speaker 5: hedge and ditch dead with hunger alight at a cottage,
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  Speaker 5: Drink milk from the hands of a brown wench. Eat
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  Speaker 5: from a wooden platter. In town. I am a fine gentleman,
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  Speaker 5: have my hair exactly dressed, My clothes are dernier goo,
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  Speaker 5: dine on made dishes, drink burgundy, And in a word,
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  Speaker 5: am everywhere the ton.
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  Speaker 3: So much the worse, so much the worse, young men,
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  Speaker 3: to be the ton where vice and folly are the
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  Speaker 3: ruling deities proved that you must be sometimes a fool,
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  Speaker 3: and others are sure.
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  Speaker 5: You satirists like moles, shut your eyes to the light
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  Speaker 5: and grope about for the dark side of the human character.
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  Speaker 5: There is a great deal of good sense and good
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  Speaker 5: meaning in the world. As for its follies, I think
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  Speaker 5: folly a mighty pleasant thing. At least to play the
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  Speaker 5: fool gracefully requires more talents, and which set up a
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  Speaker 5: dozen cynics.
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  Speaker 3: Then half the people I know must have wonderful talents,
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  Speaker 3: for they have been playing the fool from sixteen to sixty.
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  Speaker 3: A propos, I've found my precious kinsman, Lord Sparkle.
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  Speaker 5: Here, Ay, there's an instance of the happy effects of
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  Speaker 5: total indifference to the sage maxims you recommend happy effects?
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  Speaker 3: Do you call them?
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  Speaker 5: Most triumphant? Who's so much the fashion, who so much admired?
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  Speaker 5: The general favorite of the ladies, and the common object
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  Speaker 5: of imitation with the men, is not Lord Sparkle, the
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  Speaker 5: happy man who's to carry the rich and charming widow
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  Speaker 5: Lady Bell Bloomer from so many rivals? And will not you,
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  Speaker 5: after quarreling with him half your life, not leave him
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  Speaker 5: a fine estate at the end of it?
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  Speaker 3: No, No, I tell you, no, Nay.
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  Speaker 5: His success with the widow is certain. He boasts his
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  Speaker 5: triumph everywhere, and as she is such a favorite of yours,
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  Speaker 5: everything else will follow.
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  Speaker 3: No, for if she marries Sparkle, she will be no
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  Speaker 3: longer a favorite. Yet she receives him with a degree
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  Speaker 3: of distinction that some makes me fear it. For we
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  Speaker 3: frequently see women of accomplishments and beauty to which every
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  Speaker 3: heart yields homage, throw themselves into the arms of the debauched.
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  Speaker 3: The silly and the vein.
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  Speaker 1: Enter a servant, mister Beechen.
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  Speaker 3: Exit, Oh, I expected him to call on you this morning.
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  Speaker 3: You must obtain his confidence. It will assist me in
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  Speaker 3: my designs. And when I found myself disappointed in my
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  Speaker 3: hopes of his lordship, I selected Beauchamp from the younger
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  Speaker 3: branches of my family. But of this he knows nothing,
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  Speaker 3: and thinks himself on the high obligations to the patronage
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  Speaker 3: of the peer, an error in which I wish him
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  Speaker 3: to continue, as it will give me an opportunity of
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  Speaker 3: proving them both. But here it comes this way I
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  Speaker 3: can avoid him.
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  Speaker 1: Exit, Enter Beauchamp.
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  Speaker 5: Beauchamp. And in regimentals, Why prith George, what spirit has
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  Speaker 5: seized thee? Now? When I saw the last that were
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  Speaker 5: devoted to the growth profession of the law or the church,
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  Speaker 5: and I expected to have seen the enveloped in wig
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  Speaker 5: wrangling at the bar, or seated in a fat benefice,
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  Speaker 5: receiving tithe pigs and poultry.
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  Speaker 4: Those Belleville were my school designs. But the fire of
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  Speaker 4: youth gave me arders of a different fort. The heroes
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  Speaker 4: of the Aeropagus and the Forum have yielded to those
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  Speaker 4: of Marathon. And I feel that, whilst my country is
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  Speaker 4: struggling amidst surrounding foes, I ought not to devote a
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  Speaker 4: life to learned indolence that might be gloriously hazarded in
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  Speaker 4: her defense.
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  Speaker 5: Belleville smiling, I shan't give you credit now for that
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  Speaker 5: fine flourish, this sudden ardor for the pride, pomp circumstance
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  Speaker 5: of glorious war. I dareswear this horroric spirit springs from
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  Speaker 5: the women of some fine lady, who fancied you would
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  Speaker 5: be a smarter fellow in a cockade, and gorget than
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  Speaker 5: in a stiff banded periwig.
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  Speaker 4: If your insinuation means that my heart has not been
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  Speaker 4: insensible of the charms of some fair lady, you are right.
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  Speaker 4: But my transformation is owing to no whim of hers. For,
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  Speaker 4: Oh Charles, she never yet condescended to make me the
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  Speaker 4: object of her thoughts.
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  Speaker 5: What is too ay? You are right to give up
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  Speaker 5: the law. But who pray may this exalted fair one
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  Speaker 5: be who never condescended.
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  Speaker 4: I never suffer my lips to wanton with the charming
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  Speaker 4: sounds that form her name. I have a kind of
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  Speaker 4: miserly felicity in gluting on her dear idea that would
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  Speaker 4: be impaired should it be known to exist in my heart?
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  Speaker 5: Who can be the ninth who has inspired so obsolete
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  Speaker 5: a passion In the days of ship it would have
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  Speaker 5: been the.
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  Speaker 4: Ton I will gratify you thus far. The lady has beauty,
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  Speaker 4: wit and spirit, but above all a mind. Is it possible, Charles,
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  Speaker 4: to love a woman without a mind?
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  Speaker 5: Has she a mind? For you? That's the most important question.
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  Speaker 4: I dare not feed my passion with so presumptuous a hope.
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  Speaker 4: Yet I would not extinguish it if I could, For
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  Speaker 4: it is not a love that tempts me into corners
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  Speaker 4: to wear out my days and complaints. It prompts me
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  Speaker 4: to use them for the most important purposes. The ardors
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  Speaker 4: it gives me shall be felt in the land of
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  Speaker 4: our enemies. They shall know how well I love Oho.
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  Speaker 5: This is the gallantry of oney one hundred and one,
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  Speaker 5: the kind of passion that would have animated our fathers
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  Speaker 5: in the field of Cressy and Poitier. Why no beauty
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  Speaker 5: of our age man will be one in this style.
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  Speaker 5: Now suppose yourself at the opera looking through his hand,
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  Speaker 5: Oh God, that's a fine girl twenty thousand. You say,
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  Speaker 5: I think I'll have her, Yes, I think she would do.
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  Speaker 5: I must have her. I'll call on her tomorrow and
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  Speaker 5: tell her so. Have you spirit encouraged enough for that?
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  Speaker 5: My chillies, No, truly, then give up all thoughts of
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  Speaker 5: being received.
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  Speaker 4: I have no thoughts of hazarding a reception. The pride
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  Speaker 4: of birth and a few hundreds for my education, with
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  Speaker 4: the sole patrimony the imprudence of a father left me
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  Speaker 4: my relation. Lord Sparkle has procured for me a commission generously.
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  Speaker 4: To offer that in a n apsack to a lady
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  Speaker 4: of five thousand a year would be properly answered by
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  Speaker 4: a contemptuous dismission.
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  Speaker 5: But suppose she should take a fancy to your appsse.
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  Speaker 4: That would reduce me to the necessity of depriving myself
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  Speaker 4: of a happiness I would die to obtain. For never
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  Speaker 4: can I submit to be quartered on a wife's fortune,
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  Speaker 4: whilst I have a sword to carve subsistence for myself.
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  Speaker 5: That may be in the great style, but tis scarcely
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  Speaker 5: in the polite. Will you take chocolate in my dressing room?
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  Speaker 4: No, I am going to take orders at my colonel's.
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  Speaker 4: Where shall we meet in the evening?
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  Speaker 5: With faith? Tis impossible to tell. I commit myself to
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  Speaker 5: chance for the remainder of the day, and she'll finish
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  Speaker 5: it as she.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: Directs excellent at opposite sides. Scene changes to an apartment
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: at Clorinda's and to Clorinda reading a catalog, followed by Tiffany.
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  Speaker 10: Poor Lady Squander, So Christy has her jewels and furniture
• 20:59
  Speaker 10: at last asked, I must go to the sale mark
• 21:03
  Speaker 10: that dressed in service.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: And the pearls gives the catalog to the maid.
• 21:08
  Speaker 10: It must be a great comfort to her to see
• 21:10
  Speaker 10: her jewels worn by her friends. Who was here last night?
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: Sitting down and taking some cards from the table.
• 21:19
  Speaker 10: I came home so late I forgot to inquire missus Vesimie,
• 21:24
  Speaker 10: Lady Rackett, Miss Belvoir, Lord Sparkle starting up, Lord Sparkle here,
• 21:32
  Speaker 10: Oh Heavens and Earth, what possessed me to go to
• 21:35
  Speaker 10: Lady Price's. I wish she and her concert of three
• 21:39
  Speaker 10: fiddles and a flute had been plain to her kids
• 21:41
  Speaker 10: on the Welsh mountains. Why did you persuade me to
• 21:44
  Speaker 10: go out last night?
• 21:46
  Speaker 12: Dear ma'am? You seem so low spirited that I thought.
• 21:51
  Speaker 10: I missed him everywhere at four places he was just
• 21:54
  Speaker 10: gone as I came in. But what does it signify
• 21:58
  Speaker 10: Twas Lady Bell Bloomer he was seeking. I dare swear
• 22:03
  Speaker 10: his attachment to the relict is everywhere the subject hang
• 22:07
  Speaker 10: those widows. I really believe there's something cabalistical in their names.
• 22:12
  Speaker 10: No less than fourteen young fellows of fortune have been
• 22:15
  Speaker 10: drawn into the matrimonial noose by them since last February.
• 22:20
  Speaker 10: Tis well, they were threatened with imprisonment or we should
• 22:23
  Speaker 10: not have had an unmarried infant above seventeen between Charing
• 22:27
  Speaker 10: Cross and Portman Square.
• 22:29
  Speaker 12: Well, I'm sure I wish Lady Belle was married. She's
• 22:33
  Speaker 12: always putting you out of temper.
• 22:36
  Speaker 6: Have I not?
• 22:36
  Speaker 10: Cause till she broke upon the town, I was at
• 22:40
  Speaker 10: the top of fashion, you know. I was my dress,
• 22:44
  Speaker 10: my equipage, my furniture, and myself were the criterions of taste.
• 22:50
  Speaker 10: But a new French chambermaid enabled her ladyship at one
• 22:53
  Speaker 10: stroke to turn the tide against me.
• 22:56
  Speaker 12: I don't know what good this is, mademoiselle.
• 22:59
  Speaker 10: But Tiffany, she is to be at court to day,
• 23:01
  Speaker 10: out of mourning for the first time I am resolved
• 23:06
  Speaker 10: to be there. No, I won't go neither now I
• 23:10
  Speaker 10: think on it. If she should really outshine me, her
• 23:13
  Speaker 10: triumph will be increased by my being witness to it.
• 23:17
  Speaker 10: I won't go to Saint James, but I'll go to
• 23:20
  Speaker 10: her route this evening. And if tis possible prevent Lord
• 23:24
  Speaker 10: Sparkle's being particular to her, perhaps that will put her
• 23:28
  Speaker 10: in an ill humor, and then the advantage will be
• 23:31
  Speaker 10: on my side.
• 23:32
  Speaker 12: Exit Clorinda Mercy on ess to be a chamber maid
• 23:37
  Speaker 12: to a miss on the brink of thirty requests as
• 23:40
  Speaker 12: good politics as being prime minister. Now, if she should
• 23:44
  Speaker 12: not rise from her toilette quite in looks to day,
• 23:48
  Speaker 12: or if the desertion of a lover or the victory
• 23:51
  Speaker 12: of arrival should happen ten to one, but I shall
• 23:55
  Speaker 12: be forced to resign without even a pension to retire.
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: On Exit Tiffany and of Act one, Act two, of
• 24:11
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• 24:24
  Speaker 1: Act two, Scene one, an elegant apartment at Lady Bell Bloomers,
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: and to Julia with papers in her hand.
• 24:33
  Speaker 8: What an invaluable treasure? Those dear papers that have lain
• 24:38
  Speaker 8: within the frigid walls of a convent, insensible and uninteresting
• 24:43
  Speaker 8: to every one around them, contain for me a world
• 24:48
  Speaker 8: of happiness. He is in England, how little he suspects
• 24:54
  Speaker 8: that I too am here, Enter Kitty, Mister fitz.
• 24:59
  Speaker 11: Herbert will be here in me, ma'am, mister fitz Herbert
• 25:03
  Speaker 11: very well.
• 25:04
  Speaker 8: Has Lady Bell finished dressing yet?
• 25:06
  Speaker 11: No, ma'am, mister Crape, the hairdresser has been with her
• 25:10
  Speaker 11: these three hours, and her maid is running here and there,
• 25:13
  Speaker 11: and mister John flying about to Milner's and Perfumers, and
• 25:16
  Speaker 11: the new visitvies at the door to carry her ladyship
• 25:18
  Speaker 11: to court. Everything black banished, and the liveries come home
• 25:22
  Speaker 11: shining with silver. And the moment she's gone out, everybody
• 25:24
  Speaker 11: will be in such a delightful hurry about the route
• 25:26
  Speaker 11: that her ladyship is to give this evening, that they
• 25:29
  Speaker 11: say all the world.
• 25:32
  Speaker 9: Pretty stop.
• 25:33
  Speaker 8: I can't wonder if Lady Bell should be transported at
• 25:37
  Speaker 8: dropping her weeds, for it seems to have turned the
• 25:40
  Speaker 8: heads of the whole family.
• 25:42
  Speaker 11: Oh deary ma'am, to be sure, for now we shall
• 25:45
  Speaker 11: be so gay. Lady Bell has such fine spirits and
• 25:49
  Speaker 11: tis wealth she has for the servants tell me their
• 25:52
  Speaker 11: old master would have broke her heart outs they all
• 25:55
  Speaker 11: adore her. I wish you were a little gayer, ma'am.
• 25:59
  Speaker 11: Some how we are so dull. Tis a wonder, so
• 26:03
  Speaker 11: young and so pretty a lady.
• 26:04
  Speaker 8: Don't run into impertinence. I have neither the taste nor
• 26:09
  Speaker 8: talents for public life that Lady Bell Bloomer has.
• 26:13
  Speaker 11: Las, ma'am, tis all use you are always at home.
• 26:17
  Speaker 11: But Lady Bell knows that wit and fine person are
• 26:21
  Speaker 11: not given for a fireside at home. She shines every
• 26:24
  Speaker 11: evening in half the houses of half a dozen parishes.
• 26:28
  Speaker 11: And the next morning we have stanzas and the bevy
• 26:30
  Speaker 11: of beauties, and sonnets and billets doux, and all the
• 26:34
  Speaker 11: fine things that find ladies are so fond of.
• 26:37
  Speaker 8: I can bear your freedoms no longer. Carry these flowers
• 26:40
  Speaker 8: with my compliments, and tell her ladyship I sent to
• 26:43
  Speaker 8: Richmond for them, as I know her fondness for natural bouquets,
• 26:47
  Speaker 8: And bid Harry deny me to everybody this morning except
• 26:52
  Speaker 8: mister fitz.
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: Herbert, except Kitty Enter. Mister fitz Herbert.
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: Happily accepted my dear ward. But I suppose you heard
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: my step and threw in my name for a doucer.
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: I can hardly believe that when you shut your doors
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: on youth and flattery, you would open them to a
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: cross old man who seldom entertains you with anything but
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: your faults.
• 27:16
  Speaker 8: How you mistake, sir, You are the greatest flatterer I have,
• 27:22
  Speaker 8: and your whole conduct flatters me with esteem and love.
• 27:26
  Speaker 8: And as you do not squander these things.
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: Smiling, there I must correct you. I do squander them
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: on few objects, indeed, and they are proportionably warmer. I
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: feel attachments fifty times as strong as your good humored,
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: smiling people, who are everyone's humble servant and everybody's friend.
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: Where is Lady Bell.
• 27:49
  Speaker 8: Yet at her toilette? I believe, my dear sir, I
• 27:52
  Speaker 8: am every hour more grateful to you for having given
• 27:56
  Speaker 8: me so charming a friend.
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: So I would have you when you came from France.
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: I prevailed on her ladyship to allow you her society,
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: that you might add to the polish of elegant manners,
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: the graces of an elegant mind. Here she comes, her
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: tongue and her heels, keeping time.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: Enter, lady bell aye aye.
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: If all the women in the world were prating young widows,
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: love and gallantry would die away, and our men grow
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: reasonable and discreet.
• 28:28
  Speaker 7: Oh, you monster, But I am in such divine spirits
• 28:32
  Speaker 7: that nothing you say can destroy them. My sweet Julia,
• 28:36
  Speaker 7: what a bouquet, lady myrtle will expire? She was so
• 28:40
  Speaker 7: enveloped in flowers and evergreens last night that she looked
• 28:44
  Speaker 7: like the picture of fair Rosamond in her bower. My
• 28:47
  Speaker 7: dear Fitz, do you know it? Dined yesterday in Hill
• 28:49
  Speaker 7: Street and had the fortitude to stay till eleven.
• 28:53
  Speaker 8: I was tired to death with the fatiguing visit.
• 28:57
  Speaker 7: Now I, on the contrary, came away with fresh relish
• 29:00
  Speaker 7: for society. The persevering civility of Sir Andrew and the
• 29:04
  Speaker 7: mawkish insipidity of his tall daughter act like olives. You
• 29:08
  Speaker 7: can't ensure them on your palide, but they heighten the
• 29:11
  Speaker 7: gusto of your toquay.
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: Then I advise your ladyship to serve up Sir Andrew
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: and his daughter at your next entertainment, so I.
• 29:20
  Speaker 7: Would only one can't remove them with the dessert. But
• 29:24
  Speaker 7: how do you like me? Did you ever see so
• 29:27
  Speaker 7: delightful a head? Don't you think I shall make a
• 29:30
  Speaker 7: thousand conquests to day?
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: Doubtless if you meet with so many fools? But pray
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: which of those you have already made will be the
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: most flattered by all these gay insignia of your liberty?
• 29:43
  Speaker 7: Probably he whom at least.
• 29:45
  Speaker 8: Concerns pray tell us which is that?
• 29:49
  Speaker 7: Oh heavens? To answer that requires more reflection than I
• 29:53
  Speaker 7: have ever given this subject.
• 29:55
  Speaker 8: Should you build a temple to your lovers? I fancy
• 29:59
  Speaker 8: we should find law Sparkle's name on the altar.
• 30:02
  Speaker 7: Oh, Lord Sparkle, who can resist the gay? The elegant,
• 30:08
  Speaker 7: the all conquering, Lord Sparkle, the most distinguished feather in
• 30:12
  Speaker 7: the plume of fashion, without that barbarous strength of mind
• 30:16
  Speaker 7: which gives importance to virtues or to vices. Fashionable because
• 30:21
  Speaker 7: he is well dressed, brilliant, because he is of the
• 30:24
  Speaker 7: first clubs, and hughses his borrowed with like his borrowed gold,
• 30:29
  Speaker 7: as though it was his own.
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: Why now, this man, whom you understand so well you
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: receive as though his tinsel was pure gold.
• 30:39
  Speaker 7: Aye, to be sure tinsel is just as well for show.
• 30:43
  Speaker 7: The world is charitable and accepts tinsel for gold in
• 30:47
  Speaker 7: most cases.
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: But in the midst of all the sunshine for Lord Sparkle,
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: will you not throw a ray on the spirited, modest Beauchamp,
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: a ray of.
• 30:56
  Speaker 7: Favor for Beecham, Where I is so inclined to make
• 30:59
  Speaker 7: it welcome, I must change my fan for a spear,
• 31:02
  Speaker 7: my feathers for a helmet, and stand forth as the lestrius.
• 31:07
  Speaker 7: You know his mistress is war, But why do I trifle?
• 31:12
  Speaker 7: Thus the hour of triumph is at hand? Of what
• 31:17
  Speaker 7: the moment of triumph? Anglit. Say the moment when having
• 31:22
  Speaker 7: shown myself at half the houses in Saint George's, I
• 31:25
  Speaker 7: am set down at Saint James's, my fellows standing on
• 31:28
  Speaker 7: each hand. As I descend, the whisper flying through the crowd.
• 31:32
  Speaker 7: Who is she? Who is that sweet creature one of
• 31:36
  Speaker 7: the four heiresses? No, she is a foreign ambassadorss. I
• 31:41
  Speaker 7: ascend the stairs, move slowly through the rooms, drop my
• 31:45
  Speaker 7: fan incommode my bouquet, state to adjust it that the
• 31:50
  Speaker 7: little gentry may have time to fix their admiration again.
• 31:54
  Speaker 7: Move on, enter the drawing room, Throw a flying glance
• 31:58
  Speaker 7: round the circle, and see nothing but spite in the
• 32:01
  Speaker 7: eyes of the women, and a thousand nameless things in
• 32:05
  Speaker 7: those of the.
• 32:06
  Speaker 8: Men, The very soul of giddiness.
• 32:09
  Speaker 7: The very soul of happiness. Can I be less? Think
• 32:13
  Speaker 7: of a widow just emerged from her weeds for a
• 32:16
  Speaker 7: husband to whom her father, not her heart, united her
• 32:20
  Speaker 7: my joint, her elegant, my figure, charming. Deny it if
• 32:24
  Speaker 7: you dare pleasure, fortune, youth, health, all opening their stores
• 32:29
  Speaker 7: before me, whilst innocence and conscious honor shall be my
• 32:33
  Speaker 7: handmaids and guide me in safety through the dangerous ordeal to.
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: Your innocence and conscious honor. Add if you have time
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: a little prudence, or your sentinels may be surprised asleep
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: and you reduced to a disgraceful capitulation.
• 32:50
  Speaker 7: Oh I am mistress of my whole situation and cannot
• 32:54
  Speaker 7: be surprised. But heavens, I am losing a conquest. Every
• 32:58
  Speaker 7: moment I stay, the loves and pleasures have prepared their
• 33:02
  Speaker 7: rosy garlands. My triumphal car is waiting at my proud steed,
• 33:06
  Speaker 7: s neighing to be gone.
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: A way to victory exit with great spirit.
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: A charming woman, Julia. She conceals a fine understanding under
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: apparent giddiness, and a most sensible heart beneath an air
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: of indifference.
• 33:25
  Speaker 8: Yes, I believe her Ladyship's heart is more sensible than
• 33:28
  Speaker 8: she allows to herself. I rally her on, Lord Sparkle.
• 33:32
  Speaker 8: But it is mister Beauchamp, whose name is never mentioned,
• 33:37
  Speaker 8: but her cheeks tell such blushing truths as she'd never
• 33:42
  Speaker 8: forgive me for observing.
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: Upon my word. You seem well acquainted with your friend's heart.
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: Will you be equally frank as to your own?
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: Julia, in great confusion.
• 33:54
  Speaker 8: Sir, my heart?
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: Yes, will you assist me in reading it?
• 34:00
  Speaker 8: To be sure?
• 34:00
  Speaker 4: Sir?
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: Then tell me if amongst the painted, powdered, gilded moths
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: whom your beauty or fortune have allured, is there one
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: whom you would honor with your hand. I take time.
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: I would not have you precipitate, no, sir, not one.
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: I depend on your truth, and on that assurance. Inform
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: you that a friend of mine is arrived in town,
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: whom I mean this morning to present to you as
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: a as a lover who has my warmest wishes that
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: he may become your husband.
• 34:36
  Speaker 8: Do I know the person for whom you are thus interested, sir?
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: You do not, But I have had long intimacy with him,
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: and tis the dearest wish of my heart to see
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: him and Julia manners united.
• 34:50
  Speaker 8: I trust, sir, you will allow be.
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: Under no apprehensions. Much as I am interested in this union,
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: your inclinations shall be attended to. I am now going
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: to your lover and shall introduce him to you this morning. Come.
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: Don't look so distressed, child, at the approach of that
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: period which will give you dignity and character in society.
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: The marriage state is that in which your sex evinces
• 35:17
  Speaker 3: its importance, and where in the interesting circle of domestic
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: duties a woman has room to exercise every virtue that
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: constitutes the great and the amiable.
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: Exit fitz Herbert.
• 35:30
  Speaker 8: The moment I so much dreaded is arrived. How should
• 35:33
  Speaker 8: I reveal to my guardian and to Lady Belle that
• 35:37
  Speaker 8: I am married, that I have already dared to take
• 35:42
  Speaker 8: on me those important duties. I must not reveal it
• 35:46
  Speaker 8: my solemn promise to my husband.
• 35:49
  Speaker 10: But where is he?
• 35:51
  Speaker 8: Oh? I must write to him this moment that I
• 35:54
  Speaker 8: may not be left defenseless to brave the storm of
• 35:56
  Speaker 8: offended authority and love.
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: Sit Julia, Scene two, Belleville's lodgings, Enter Belleville, new dressed.
• 36:08
  Speaker 5: Let my trunks be ready, and the chase at the door.
• 36:11
  Speaker 5: Tomorrow morning by six Rush would dine in Dover.
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: Ha, just in time. I see you are ready plumed
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: for flight.
• 36:19
  Speaker 5: True, but my flight would have been to you. Impatient
• 36:22
  Speaker 5: to know the cause of your summoning me from the
• 36:25
  Speaker 5: dryads and hammer dryads of Berkshire. Your letter reached me
• 36:28
  Speaker 5: the very instant I was setting out for Dover on
• 36:31
  Speaker 5: my way to Paris.
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: Paris. Yes, Popah, stay where you are, Stay where you are.
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: The Great Turnpike between Dover and Calais is a road
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: destructive to this kingdom, and I wish there were toll
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: gates erected on its confines to restrain with the heavy
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: tax the number of its travelers.
• 36:51
  Speaker 5: Right, the tax would be more generally felt than the benefit,
• 36:55
  Speaker 5: for it would restrain not only the folly mungers and
• 36:58
  Speaker 5: fashion mongers, but the rational inquirer and the traveling connoisseur.
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: So much the better, so much the better our traveling
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: philosophers have done more towards destroying the nerves of their
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: country than all the politics of France. The chief aim
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: seems to be to establish infidelity and to captivate us
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: with delusive views of manners still more immoral and licentious
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: than her own. Heyday, who's this, oh, the cornish lad
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: I suppose whom Lord Sparkle placed here?
• 37:34
  Speaker 5: Yes, an odd being. He was designed by nature for
• 37:37
  Speaker 5: a clod pole. But the notice appear overset the little
• 37:41
  Speaker 5: understanding he had, and so he commenced. Fine gentlemen. He
• 37:45
  Speaker 5: has a sister with him, who ran wild upon the
• 37:47
  Speaker 5: commons to her father's death, but she fancies herself a
• 37:50
  Speaker 5: wit and satirizes bruins.
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: Here he comes, and to Pendragon, my dear fellow lodger,
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: I'm come to Oh are your servants?
• 38:02
  Speaker 6: Sir?
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: To fitz Herbert, is this gentleman.
• 38:06
  Speaker 6: Friend of yours? He is your hands?
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: Sir passes Bellville and stands between them.
• 38:15
  Speaker 6: If you are mister Bellville's friend, you are my friend,
• 38:20
  Speaker 6: and we are all friends. I soon make acquaintance.
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: A great happiness.
• 38:27
  Speaker 6: Yeah, so it is, and very polite too. I have
• 38:32
  Speaker 6: been in the great world almost six weeks and I
• 38:36
  Speaker 6: can see no difference between the great world and the
• 38:39
  Speaker 6: little world, only that they've no ceremony, and so as
• 38:45
  Speaker 6: that's the mark of good breeding, I tries to eat it.
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: Off with success.
• 38:51
  Speaker 6: To convince you of that, I'll tell you a devilish
• 38:55
  Speaker 6: good thing you must know.
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: Excuse me now, but I am convinced you will amuse
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: me and desire your company at dinner. They'll give you
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: my address below. Mister Bellville, I have business of importance.
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: Exit fitz Herbert and Belleville Goad.
• 39:14
  Speaker 6: I'm glad he asked me to visit him. He must
• 39:18
  Speaker 6: be allured by his want of ceremony. Imitating mister beuwill
• 39:24
  Speaker 6: I have business of importance, And off they go now
• 39:30
  Speaker 6: in Cornwall. We should have thought that. Damn rude. But
• 39:35
  Speaker 6: tis easy, mister Bellville, I have business of importance, Going easy, easy, easy.
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: Enter Sophie Pendragon.
• 39:49
  Speaker 9: Brother Bobby, Brother, Bobby.
• 39:52
  Speaker 6: Pendragon, returning I desire Miss Pendragon. You won't brother me
• 39:58
  Speaker 6: at this rate, making one look as if one didn't
• 40:01
  Speaker 6: know life. How often shall I tell you? That is
• 40:06
  Speaker 6: the most ungenteel thing in the world for relations to
• 40:10
  Speaker 6: brother and father and cousin one another, and all that
• 40:15
  Speaker 6: sort of thing. I did not get the better of
• 40:18
  Speaker 6: my shame for three days when you bowed out to
• 40:22
  Speaker 6: missus Dobson at Launston concert. Aunt Aunt, here's room between
• 40:29
  Speaker 6: brother and I. If cousin Dick will sit closer to father?
• 40:33
  Speaker 9: Lack of day, and where's the harm? What do you
• 40:36
  Speaker 9: think one has relations given one for to be ashamed
• 40:40
  Speaker 9: of them?
• 40:41
  Speaker 6: I don't know what they were given us for, but
• 40:44
  Speaker 6: I know no young man of fashion cares for his relations.
• 40:48
  Speaker 9: More shame for your young men of fashion. But I
• 40:51
  Speaker 9: assure you, brother Bobby, I shall never give in to
• 40:53
  Speaker 9: any such unnatural new fangled ways. As for you, since
• 40:57
  Speaker 9: Lord Sparkle took notice of you, are quite another thing.
• 41:01
  Speaker 9: You used to creep into the parlor when father had company,
• 41:04
  Speaker 9: hanging your head like a dead partridge, steal all around
• 41:07
  Speaker 9: the room behind their backs to get it a chair,
• 41:10
  Speaker 9: then sit down on one corner of it, tying knots
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  Speaker 9: in your handkerchief, and if anybody drank your health, rise up,
• 41:16
  Speaker 9: scrape your foot. So thank you kindly, sir.
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: Boy goals if you shaking his fist.
• 41:25
  Speaker 9: But now when you enter a room, your hat is
• 41:28
  Speaker 9: tossed carelessly on a table. You pass the company with
• 41:32
  Speaker 9: the half bend of your body, sling yourself into one
• 41:35
  Speaker 9: chair and throw your legs on another. Pray, my dear sir,
• 41:39
  Speaker 9: do me the favor to ring John bring lemonade. Missus
• 41:44
  Speaker 9: Plume has been driving me all morning, and hide park
• 41:47
  Speaker 9: against the wind, and the dust has made my throat
• 41:49
  Speaker 9: mere plaster of Paris.
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  Speaker 6: Hang me if I don't like myself at second, and
• 41:55
  Speaker 6: better than I thought I should, why if I do
• 41:59
  Speaker 6: it as well as you, Sophie, I shall soon be
• 42:02
  Speaker 6: quite the thing. And now I'll give you a bit
• 42:06
  Speaker 6: of advice. As tis very certain, Lord Sparkle means to
• 42:12
  Speaker 6: introduce you to the high life, tis fitting that you
• 42:16
  Speaker 6: should know how to behave, And as I have been
• 42:21
  Speaker 6: amongst them, I can tell you well only. First of all,
• 42:27
  Speaker 6: if you should come into a drawing room and find
• 42:30
  Speaker 6: twenty or thirty people in the circle, you are not
• 42:34
  Speaker 6: to take the least notice of anyone. No, no, The
• 42:40
  Speaker 6: servant will perhaps get you a chair, if not slide
• 42:46
  Speaker 6: into the nearest. The conversation will not be interrupted by
• 42:51
  Speaker 6: your entrance, for they'll take as little notice of you
• 42:55
  Speaker 6: as you of them.
• 42:57
  Speaker 9: Pshah.
• 42:58
  Speaker 6: Then be to be equally indifferent to the coming in
• 43:03
  Speaker 6: of others. I saw Lady Carmine one night, dying with
• 43:08
  Speaker 6: confusion for the vulgarity and ill breeding of her friend,
• 43:12
  Speaker 6: who actually rose from her chair at the entrance to
• 43:16
  Speaker 6: the Duchess of Dulcet, and Lady Betty blowse.
• 43:21
  Speaker 9: Be quiet, Bobby, true, as.
• 43:24
  Speaker 6: I ain't a young man of fashion, then you must
• 43:27
  Speaker 6: never let your discourse go beyond one word. If anybody
• 43:32
  Speaker 6: should happen to take the trouble to entertain the company,
• 43:35
  Speaker 6: you may throw in charming odious capital. Never mount to
• 43:44
  Speaker 6: a phrase unless to that dear delightful one of all
• 43:49
  Speaker 6: that sort of thing, the use made of that is wonderful.
• 43:54
  Speaker 6: All that sort of thing is an apology for want
• 43:58
  Speaker 6: of wit. He is a substitute for argument. It will
• 44:03
  Speaker 6: serve to the point of a story, or the fate
• 44:06
  Speaker 6: of a battle.
• 44:07
  Speaker 9: Well, then upon going away, oh, you.
• 44:11
  Speaker 6: Go away as you come in. If one has a
• 44:14
  Speaker 6: mind to give the lady of THO house a not
• 44:18
  Speaker 6: nodding won me, but tis still hire breeding to leave
• 44:22
  Speaker 6: her with as little ceremony as I do.
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: You exit Pendragon without looking at her.
• 44:30
  Speaker 9: I wish I could be sure it was the fashion
• 44:32
  Speaker 9: not to my informs i'd go directly and visit Lord Sparkle.
• 44:36
  Speaker 9: I could tear my eyes out to think I was
• 44:38
  Speaker 9: abroad to day when he called on Missus Johnson. And
• 44:41
  Speaker 9: all the books I have read, I have never met
• 44:43
  Speaker 9: with a lover so.
• 44:44
  Speaker 10: Careless as he.
• 44:45
  Speaker 9: Sometimes I have a mind to treat him with disdain.
• 44:48
  Speaker 9: Then I recollect all I have read about ladies behavior
• 44:52
  Speaker 9: that break their lover's hearts. But he won't come near me.
• 44:55
  Speaker 9: Now I have been three days in complying humor, but
• 44:59
  Speaker 9: tis all one. Still he keeps away. I'll be hanged
• 45:02
  Speaker 9: if I don't know what he's about. Soon he shan't
• 45:05
  Speaker 9: think to bring me from the Land's end to make
• 45:08
  Speaker 9: a fool of me. Sophie Pendragon has more spirit than
• 45:12
  Speaker 9: he thinks.
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: For exit. Sophie re enter fitz Herbert and Belleville.
• 45:18
  Speaker 5: The wife of Heaven's last best gift. But no, I
• 45:23
  Speaker 5: shan't marry yet. I have a hundred little follies to
• 45:27
  Speaker 5: act before I do so.
• 45:28
  Speaker 3: Rash a thing, But I say you shall marry. I
• 45:31
  Speaker 3: have studied you from eighteen. I know your carriage, your fault,
• 45:35
  Speaker 3: and your virtues, and such as you are, I have
• 45:38
  Speaker 3: picked you out from all the blockheads and fools about you.
• 45:41
  Speaker 3: To take a fine girl off my hands with twenty
• 45:45
  Speaker 3: thousand pounds.
• 45:47
  Speaker 5: Tis a bride, doubtless. But what is the lady Cockat
• 45:51
  Speaker 5: Pruse vixen?
• 45:54
  Speaker 3: You may make her what you will. Treat her with confidence, tenderness,
• 45:58
  Speaker 3: and respect, and she'll be an angel, be morose, suspicious
• 46:03
  Speaker 3: and neglectful, and she'll be a woman. The wife's carriacter
• 46:08
  Speaker 3: and conduct is a comment on that of the husband.
• 46:11
  Speaker 5: Anything more.
• 46:13
  Speaker 3: Yes, she is my ward and the daughter of the
• 46:16
  Speaker 3: friend of my youth. I entertained parental affection for her,
• 46:20
  Speaker 3: and give you the highest proof of my esteem in
• 46:23
  Speaker 3: transferring to you the care of a happiness. Refuse it if.
• 46:27
  Speaker 4: You dare.
• 46:30
  Speaker 5: Dare, dear friend, I must refuse the honor you offer me.
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: How to be serious, it.
• 46:38
  Speaker 5: Is not in my power to wed the lady.
• 46:41
  Speaker 3: I understand you. I am disappointed. I should have mentioned
• 46:46
  Speaker 3: this subject to you before I had suffered it to
• 46:49
  Speaker 3: make so strong a feature in my picture of future happiness.
• 46:53
  Speaker 5: Would you had that I might have informed you at
• 46:55
  Speaker 5: once that I am married?
• 46:59
  Speaker 3: Married?
• 47:00
  Speaker 5: Where?
• 47:01
  Speaker 10: When?
• 47:02
  Speaker 3: How with whom?
• 47:04
  Speaker 5: Where? In France? When? About eight months since? How by
• 47:10
  Speaker 5: an English clergyman with whom, oh, with such a one.
• 47:15
  Speaker 5: Her beauty is of the Greek kind, which pleases the
• 47:19
  Speaker 5: mind more than the eye. And yet to the eye
• 47:22
  Speaker 5: nothing can be more lovely to this charming creature. Add
• 47:26
  Speaker 5: the name of Julia Manners, and you know my.
• 47:29
  Speaker 3: Wife, Julia Manners. Julia Manners, did you say.
• 47:34
  Speaker 5: Yes, Julia Manners. I first knew her at the house
• 47:38
  Speaker 5: of a friend in Paris, whose daughters were in the
• 47:40
  Speaker 5: same convent with herself. I often visited her at the
• 47:43
  Speaker 5: Great at length, by the assistance of Mademoiselle Saint Val,
• 47:47
  Speaker 5: prevailed upon her to give me her hand, but was
• 47:50
  Speaker 5: immediately torn from her by summons from my uncle at Florence,
• 47:54
  Speaker 5: whence I was despatched to England on a ministerial affair.
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: Fitz Herbert aside, so.
• 48:00
  Speaker 3: So so very fine. I suppose you had the prudence
• 48:05
  Speaker 3: to make yourself acquainted with the lady's family before you
• 48:08
  Speaker 3: married her.
• 48:09
  Speaker 5: Yes, her family and fortune are elegant. She has a guardian,
• 48:13
  Speaker 5: whose address the sweet obstinate refused to give me that
• 48:16
  Speaker 5: she might herself reveal the marriage, which I had reasons, however,
• 48:20
  Speaker 5: to request her not to do, till we both arrived
• 48:22
  Speaker 5: in England.
• 48:23
  Speaker 3: Then you have not seen your bride in England.
• 48:27
  Speaker 5: Oh no, my Julia as yet in her convent. I
• 48:31
  Speaker 5: have been preparing for her reception in Berkshire, and have
• 48:33
  Speaker 5: written to inform that I meet her at Calais. But
• 48:36
  Speaker 5: I fear my letters have missed her, and shall therefore
• 48:39
  Speaker 5: set out for Paris to conduct to England. The woman
• 48:41
  Speaker 5: who must give point to all my felicities.
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: Fitz Herbert a side.
• 48:46
  Speaker 3: And has Julia be capable of this? Ungrateful girl?
• 48:51
  Speaker 18: Is it?
• 48:51
  Speaker 3: Thus she rewards my cares.
• 48:54
  Speaker 5: Your silence and resentment, my dear friend, whilst they flatter
• 48:58
  Speaker 5: distress me.
• 49:00
  Speaker 3: I am indeed offended at your marriage, but not with you.
• 49:03
  Speaker 3: On you I had no claims.
• 49:05
  Speaker 5: I do not apprehend you.
• 49:07
  Speaker 3: Perhaps not, and at present I shall not explain myself going.
• 49:13
  Speaker 5: If you will leave me adieu, I am going to
• 49:16
  Speaker 5: run over the town. My mind, impatient for the moment
• 49:20
  Speaker 5: which carries me to my sweet bride, feels all intermediate time,
• 49:25
  Speaker 5: avoid which any adventure may fill up exit.
• 49:31
  Speaker 3: Spite of my displeasure, I can hardly conceal from him
• 49:35
  Speaker 3: his happiness. Yet I will. Julia must be punished to
• 49:41
  Speaker 3: vice and folly. I am content to appear severe, but
• 49:44
  Speaker 3: she ought not to have fought me. So I have
• 49:47
  Speaker 3: not deserved this want of confidence and must correct it.
• 49:51
  Speaker 3: If I don't mistake Pendragon is a fit instrument, I'll
• 49:55
  Speaker 3: take him home with me. Yes, yes, my young lady,
• 50:00
  Speaker 3: you shall have a lover. Oh these headstrong girls.
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: Exit end of Act two, Act three of which is
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: The Man by Hannah Cowley. This is a LibriVox recording.
• 50:20
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• 50:23
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• 50:29
  Speaker 1: three seen one Lord Sparkles, Lord Sparkle, and Beauchamp discovered
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: at a table on which are Pen's paper, et cetera.
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: Sparkle superbly dressed.
• 50:41
  Speaker 2: Poor George, and so thou wilt really be in a
• 50:45
  Speaker 2: few days in the bosom of the Atlantic. Farewell to
• 50:50
  Speaker 2: green fields and sweet groves, where Chloe engaged. My fond
• 50:55
  Speaker 2: heart rises and comes forward. Hey Vricard escapes wounds and victory.
• 51:03
  Speaker 4: I accept your last words for my omen, and now,
• 51:07
  Speaker 4: in the true spirit of Homer's heroes, should take my
• 51:11
  Speaker 4: caget and depart with its influence upon me.
• 51:16
  Speaker 2: First, take an office which I know must charm you.
• 51:20
  Speaker 2: You admire Lady Bell.
• 51:21
  Speaker 4: Bloomer, admire her?
• 51:24
  Speaker 2: Yes, by heaven, no heroics, Dear George, no heroics. They
• 51:30
  Speaker 2: are totally out, now, totally out, both in love and war. How,
• 51:36
  Speaker 2: my lord, indifference, that's the rule. We love, hate, quarrel,
• 51:43
  Speaker 2: and even fight without suffering our tranquility to be incommoded.
• 51:48
  Speaker 2: Nothing disturbs the keenest discernment will discover nothing particular in
• 51:53
  Speaker 2: the behavior of lovers on the point of marriage, nor
• 51:57
  Speaker 2: in the married. Whilst the articles the suparation are preparing
• 52:02
  Speaker 2: disgustful apathy.
• 52:04
  Speaker 4: What becomes of the energies of the heart in this
• 52:08
  Speaker 4: wretched system? Does it annihilate your feelings?
• 52:13
  Speaker 2: Oh?
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: No?
• 52:15
  Speaker 2: I feel, for instance, that I must have Lady Bell Bloomer,
• 52:20
  Speaker 2: and I feel curiosity to know her sentiments of me,
• 52:24
  Speaker 2: of which, however, I have very little doubt. But all
• 52:28
  Speaker 2: my art can't make her serious. She fences admirably and
• 52:33
  Speaker 2: keeps me at the length of her foil. To you,
• 52:37
  Speaker 2: she will be less on her guard me.
• 52:40
  Speaker 4: You surprise me, my lord. How can I be of
• 52:44
  Speaker 4: use in developing her ladyship's sentiments?
• 52:48
  Speaker 2: Why? By sifting them? When you talk of me. See
• 52:53
  Speaker 2: if she blushes, mention some woman as one whom I
• 52:57
  Speaker 2: admire and observe. If she does not make some spiteful
• 53:01
  Speaker 2: remark on her shape, complexion, or conduct, provoke her to
• 53:05
  Speaker 2: abuse me with violence or to speak of me with confusion.
• 53:10
  Speaker 2: In either case I have her.
• 53:13
  Speaker 4: Your instructions are ample, my Lord, but I do not
• 53:16
  Speaker 4: feel myself equal to the embassy.
• 53:20
  Speaker 2: Your good sir. You refuse, then, to oblige me.
• 53:25
  Speaker 4: I cannot refuse you. My obligations to your lordship make
• 53:30
  Speaker 4: it impossible. But of all mankind, I perhaps am the
• 53:36
  Speaker 4: last you should have chosen for the purpose.
• 53:40
  Speaker 2: Nay, praythee. Don't be ridiculous. It is the last service
• 53:44
  Speaker 2: you can do me, and you are the only man
• 53:47
  Speaker 2: whom I would entrust with so delicate a business.
• 53:51
  Speaker 4: I accept it as a proof of your Lordship's confidence
• 53:55
  Speaker 4: and will discharge the commission faithfully. Aside, it will at
• 54:01
  Speaker 4: least give me an occasion to converse with Lady Bell
• 54:06
  Speaker 4: and to converse with her on love. Oh my heart,
• 54:11
  Speaker 4: how wilt thou contain thy ardors? In the trying moment.
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: Exit Bauchamp, I am confirmed in my suspicions that the
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: fellow has had the vanity to indulge a passion for
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: Lady Bell himself.
• 54:29
  Speaker 2: Well, so much the better. The commission I have given
• 54:34
  Speaker 2: him will sufficiently punish him for his presumption.
• 54:37
  Speaker 18: And to a servant, missus Kitty is belime, my lord,
• 54:41
  Speaker 18: Miss Manners is woman ah, send her up, Send her up,
• 54:46
  Speaker 18: exit servant.
• 54:48
  Speaker 2: I had begun to give up that affair, but I
• 54:51
  Speaker 2: think I won't neither. It will be rather a brilliant
• 54:55
  Speaker 2: thing to have Lady Bell for a wife and her
• 54:59
  Speaker 2: friend for a minut mistress. Yes, that will be a point.
• 55:04
  Speaker 2: I think I'll have the a claw of the thing.
• 55:07
  Speaker 2: And to Kitty, well, Kitty, what intelligence from the land
• 55:12
  Speaker 2: of intrigue? What says the little frost piece at Julia?
• 55:17
  Speaker 11: Oh, nothing new, my lord. She's as insensible as ever.
• 55:21
  Speaker 11: I make so orations all day long of your Lordship's
• 55:24
  Speaker 11: merits and goodness and fondness and.
• 55:27
  Speaker 2: Merit and goodness and fondness. And don't you give me
• 55:32
  Speaker 2: a parenthesis to my sobriety and my neatness too? Ha ha
• 55:36
  Speaker 2: ha ha ha ha, You foolish little devil. I thought
• 55:39
  Speaker 2: you knew better tell her of my fashion, my extravagance,
• 55:45
  Speaker 2: that I played deepest at Waltche's and the best dressed
• 55:49
  Speaker 2: at the opera, and have half ruined myself by granting
• 55:52
  Speaker 2: annuities to pretty girls. Goodness and fondness are baits to
• 55:57
  Speaker 2: catch old prudes, not blooming missus.
• 56:00
  Speaker 11: What my lord is spreading at your faults the way
• 56:03
  Speaker 11: to win a fair.
• 56:04
  Speaker 2: Lady faults thine his chambermaid's morality with a vengeance. What
• 56:12
  Speaker 2: have all my past lessons been thrown away upon thee innocence?
• 56:17
  Speaker 2: Have I not told thee that the governing passion of
• 56:20
  Speaker 2: the female mind is the rage of being envied? The
• 56:25
  Speaker 2: most generous of them would like to break the hearts
• 56:28
  Speaker 2: of half a dozen of their friends by the preference
• 56:31
  Speaker 2: given to themselves. Go home again, good kitty, and con
• 56:36
  Speaker 2: your lesson afresh. If you can pick up any stories
• 56:40
  Speaker 2: of extravagance and gallantry, appix my name to him, and
• 56:44
  Speaker 2: repeat him to your mistress.
• 56:46
  Speaker 11: Then she'll tell him to lady Bell, perhaps for a warning.
• 56:50
  Speaker 2: For a warning, quotha, My devoirs to Lady Bell are
• 56:55
  Speaker 2: of a different kind, and we understand each other. I
• 57:01
  Speaker 2: address her for a wife because she's the fashion, and
• 57:06
  Speaker 2: I address Julia for a mistress because tis the fashion
• 57:11
  Speaker 2: to have mistresses from higher orders, and seamstresses and man
• 57:14
  Speaker 2: too makers.
• 57:16
  Speaker 11: And is that your only reason, my lord, for bribing
• 57:18
  Speaker 11: me so high?
• 57:20
  Speaker 2: Not absolutely. I have a pique against her guardian, who,
• 57:26
  Speaker 2: though he has the honor to be related to me,
• 57:29
  Speaker 2: will not suffer me to draw on his banker for
• 57:31
  Speaker 2: a single guinea. His estates, indeed, he can't deprive me
• 57:36
  Speaker 2: of so as it can do no harm. I'll have
• 57:39
  Speaker 2: the e clare of affronting him with spirit.
• 57:42
  Speaker 11: Oh Gemini, I am glad to hear that I'd do
• 57:46
  Speaker 11: anything to plague mister fitz Herbert, and can go on
• 57:49
  Speaker 11: now with a safe conscience. He had liked to have
• 57:52
  Speaker 11: lost me my place once because he thought I was flighty.
• 57:55
  Speaker 11: But I'll be up with him now.
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: And a servant, mister Belleville. Exit, Enter Belleville, My dear Belleville, apart,
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: Go Kitty into that room.
• 58:11
  Speaker 2: I'll speak to you presently.
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: Exit, Kitty.
• 58:15
  Speaker 2: Welcome once more to the region of business and pleasure.
• 58:20
  Speaker 5: I thank you, but pray, my lord, don't dismiss the lady.
• 58:24
  Speaker 2: The lady. That lady, sir, is a lady's gentlewoman aunt. Please, ye,
• 58:32
  Speaker 2: I suppose you have heard that I'm going to marry
• 58:35
  Speaker 2: Lady Bell Bloomer. We are the two most fashionable people
• 58:39
  Speaker 2: in town, and in course must come.
• 58:42
  Speaker 5: Together a clear deduction.
• 58:46
  Speaker 2: Now she has a friend whom I mean at the
• 58:49
  Speaker 2: same time to take for a mistress. Won't that be
• 58:53
  Speaker 2: a stroke?
• 58:54
  Speaker 5: Eh, decidedly, your life is made up of strokes. Every
• 59:00
  Speaker 5: thing with you, my Lord, is a hit.
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: True.
• 59:02
  Speaker 2: True, I detest a regular mechanical mode of doing things.
• 59:08
  Speaker 2: Men of sense have one way of getting through life.
• 59:11
  Speaker 2: Men of genius another.
• 59:15
  Speaker 5: Well, doubtless, and the advantage lies with the men of genius,
• 59:21
  Speaker 5: for to that genius or faults are imputed. Native faults
• 59:24
  Speaker 5: are considered to be the graceful meanderings of mine, too
• 59:29
  Speaker 5: ethereal to be confined to the rules of common sense
• 59:32
  Speaker 5: and decorum. A mighty easy way of building reputation. If
• 59:38
  Speaker 5: you are dressed with infinite malice today, my lord.
• 59:42
  Speaker 2: Malice not at all the women nowadays. I neither caught
• 59:47
  Speaker 2: by finery or person. I am dressed for court. I
• 59:53
  Speaker 2: was going to Westminster, but I hear there is to
• 59:56
  Speaker 2: be a presentation of missus today, and I would not
• 59:59
  Speaker 2: for world lose the dear creatures blushes on their first appearance.
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 2: For faith, most of them will never blush again.
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 12: Will you go?
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 5: Tis too late to dress. Besides, I've devoted this day
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 5: to adventure. I'm rambling through the town, discovering what new
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 5: stars have appeared in the galaxy of beauty during my
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 5: absence and a dangerous progress. It is the rays of
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 5: a pair of black eyes from a chariot in Palalmouth
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 5: would have annihilated me, had not at the same instant
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 5: two beautiful blue ones from a window given a fillip
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 5: to my sinking spirits. A fine turned ankle, who's polish
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 5: gone through its neat silk stockings encountered me in Saint
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 5: James's Street, but I was luckily relieved by a little
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 5: rosy mouth that betrayed with a deceitful smile, teeth most
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 5: murderously white. A galateer darted by me on the right,
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 5: whilst Helen swam by me on the left. In short
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 5: from such sw besieges, nothing could have preserved me but
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 5: the sweeter charms of a beloved, though absent fair one.
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 2: Sighing now, I never trouble my head about absentees. I
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 2: love beauty as much as any man, but it must
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 2: be all in the present tense. Shall I let you
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 2: down anywhere I must go?
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 18: No?
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 5: But I see your writing things here. If you'll permit me,
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 5: I'll pen a short note to beauchamp On's business i'd
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 5: forgot this morning, and dispatch it to a chairman.
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 2: To be sure. I pend a note ten minutes sense
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 2: to my steward to raise the poor devil's rents upon
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 2: my soul. I pity him, but how can it be otherwise?
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 2: Whilst one is obliged to wear fifty acres in a
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 2: suit and the produce of a whole farm and a
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 2: pair of buckles.
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 1: Adieu, exit singing. Whilst Sparkle is speaking, Belleville seats himself
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: and begins to write. Belleville writing good morning, my compliments
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 1: to the lady's blushes. Enter Kitty passes Beuville in the
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 1: front of the stage.
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 11: So so his lordship has forgot me. I must go after.
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 1: Him, Belleville coming forward, Ha ha, that's.
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 5: The confidant, so pretty one. Whose chattels are you?
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  Speaker 11: My mistresses?
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 4: Sir?
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 5: And who is your mistress?
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 11: A lady, sir, and her name that of her father.
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 5: I take it upon my word, your lady has a
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 5: very brilliant servant. Is she as clever as you are?
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 9: Why not quite?
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 4: I think, or she would not keep me to eclipse her.
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 5: Bravo. I wish I knew her? Will you tell me
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 5: her name?
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 11: Can you spell?
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 5: Yes?
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 19: Why?
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 11: Then you'll find it in the four and twenty letters.
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 1: Going Bellville catching her?
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 5: Nay, by heaven, you have raised my curiosity?
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 11: Uh what signifies asking me? You know well enough who
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 11: she is? I heard you and Lord Sparkle talking about her.
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 11: Let me go for I am going to carry a
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 11: message to mister fitz Herbert.
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 5: Mister fitz Herbert, I her guardian, her guardian? What mister
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 5: fitz Herbert of Cambridgeshire.
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 11: Yes, and if you want to know more, he's the
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 11: crossest old wretch that ever breathed. You'll find him out
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 11: by that description. And so your servant, except Kitty.
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 5: Fitz Herbert's ward and this creature her servant at Lord
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 5: Sparkle plotting to get her.
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 1: For a mistress.
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 5: I am astonished the very lady he this morning offered
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 5: me for my bride. I must find fitz Herbert immediately.
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 5: Lord Sparkle will perhaps think me guilty of a breach
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 5: of honor. The invitation. I must incur that I may
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 5: not be really guilty of a breach of humanity and
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 5: of gratitude.
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: Exit Belleville, sing to Lady Bell Bloomers Enter fitz Herbert,
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 1: followed by a servant, tell as manners, I am here,
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 1: Exit servant.
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 3: I cannot perhaps be seriously angry with Julia, but I
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 3: must take some revenge on her disobedience before I acquaint
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 3: her with the felicity that attends her. Come in Yon,
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 3: Cornish pray, enter Pendragon war.
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 6: Does the lady live in this foreign house?
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 3: Yes, but pray observe that I don't engage. She will
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 3: be smitten with you. I can go no further than
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 3: to introduce you. The rest must depend on the brilliancy
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 3: of your manners.
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 6: Oh, leave me alone. For that I knew how it
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 6: would be if once I showed myself in Lunnon, if
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 6: she has a long purse, all whiskered down to Cornwall jockey,
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 6: Lord Sparkle, and have the borough myself.
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 19: A man of spirit, I see, Oh as to my spirit,
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 19: nobody ever dabted that I have bet our exciseman and
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 19: gone to lord a Parson, And to show that I
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 19: did not leave my spirit in the country.
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 6: Since I came to London, I have fined a Hackney
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 6: coachman for abuse.
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 3: Very commendable. But here comes the lady.
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 1: Enter Julia, mister.
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 3: Pendragon, this is my ward, who I am sure will
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 3: give your addresses all the encouragement I wish.
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 6: Them servant, ma'am aside? She looks pleague glum.
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 8: Julia aside, I can scarcely support myself.
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 3: Pray my dear speak. Mister Pendragon. You seem greatly confused.
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 6: Oh sir, I understand it. Young ladies will look confused
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 6: and embarrassed and all that sort of thing on these occasions. Uh,
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 6: we men of the world up to all.
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 1: That, Julia aside.
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 8: Heavens is it to such a being? I should have
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 8: been sacrificed.
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 6: I see your ward is one of the modest diffident ones.
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 6: I am surprised at that bred in eye life.
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 3: Oh now, and then you find a person of that
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 3: cast and the best company, would they soon get over it?
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 7: Yes?
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 6: Formerly I used to blush and be modest and all
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 6: that sort of thing. But if anyone ever catches me
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 6: modest again, I'll give them my estate for a pilchard.
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 8: Then it seems impossible to fitz Herbert, pardon me, Sa,
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 8: that an union can take place between you and me,
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 8: For I place modesty among the elegancies of manners, and
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 8: I think it absolutely necessary to the character of a gentleman.
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 1: Fitz Herbert, aside, well.
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 3: Done, Julia, fly upon you to treat my friend with
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 3: such asperity.
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 6: Oh leave her to me, sir. She's ignorant, but I
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 6: shall teach her. There are three things miss only necessary
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 6: to the character of a gentleman. Good air, good assurance,
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 6: and good teeth.
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 1: Grinning Julia too, fitz Herbert.
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 8: Doesn't his list want good manners?
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 4: Sir?
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 6: Oh no, ma'am. If you would say good taste, it
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 6: would have been nearer the thing. But even those are
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 6: nesssh A gentleman's friends can furnish his house and choose
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 6: his books and his pictures, and he can learn to
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 6: criticize them. By horror. Nothing is so easy as to
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 6: criticize people do it continually.
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 3: But you see, mister Pendragon has information, Julia. I leave
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 3: you a few moments that he may unfold himself to advantage.
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 3: And remember, if you refuse the man I design for
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 3: your husband, you lose.
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 1: Me to Pendragon.
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 3: Keep it up with spirit. I'll wait for you below.
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 3: Now shall impertinence and disobedience correct each.
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 1: Other except fitz Herbert Pendragon aside?
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 6: Now to Striker with my superior ease. So, miss your guardian,
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 6: I think has a mind that we shall in the
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 6: vulgar speech marry.
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 10: Well, sir?
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 8: But are you not frightened at your approach to such
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 8: a state? Do you know what belongs to the character
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 8: of a husband?
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 6: What belongs to it?
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 5: Ay?
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 6: Do you know what belongs to being a wife?
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 4: Yes?
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 8: I guess that to your wife will belong ill, humor
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 8: with you at home, shame with you abroad in her face,
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 8: forced smiles in her heart, hidden thorns.
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 6: The devil? What you have found your tongue, ma'am, oh,
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 6: I shall have a fine time on. I guess when
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 6: our connection begins.
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 8: Poor connection? Pray, sir, drop the idea. I protest to
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 8: you that were it possible for me to become your wife,
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 8: I should be the most wretched of women.
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 6: Oh no, you wouldn't. I hardly know a wife who
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 6: is not wretched.
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 8: Unfeeling man, would you presume to enter into a state
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 8: to the happiness of which union of soul, delicacy of
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 8: sentiment and all the elegant attention of polished manners are
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 8: necessary and indispensable.
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 6: What's all that union of soul sentiment attentions? That's not life.
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 8: I'm sure I am not able to conceive by what witchcraft.
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 8: Mister fitz Herbert has been blinded to the weakness of
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 8: your head and the turpitude of your heart. Tell him, sir,
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 8: there is not a fate I would not prefer to
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 8: that of being united to a man whose whole vice
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 8: is the effect of folly, and whole folly is as
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 8: hateful even as his vice.
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 6: Except Julia, Yes, yes, I'll tell Depennant he gat she's
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 6: a spirit, so much the better or pleasure in taming her.
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 6: A meet wife cheats a man of his rights and
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 6: deprives him of the pleasure of exacting her obedience. Let
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 6: me see vice, folly, impudence, ignorance too.
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 1: Except Pendragon, re enter Julia, What have I done?
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 8: I dare not now see my guardian? His displeasure will
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 8: kill me. Oh, Belleville, where art thou come and shield
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 8: thy unhappy bride? What steps can I take?
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 11: Enter Kitty, Dear ma'am, I'm so grieved to see you
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 11: so unhappy. If I had such a crosshold Guardian, I'd
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 11: run away from him.
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 8: The very thought which that instant presented itself to my mind.
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 8: Have you not told me that some relation of yours
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 8: has lodgings?
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 11: Yes, ma'am, the most elegantest in London.
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 8: I don't want elegant apartments, but I wish for a
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 8: short time to be concealed in some family of reputation.
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 11: To be sure, ma'am, tis the most prudent thing you
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 11: can do.
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 8: And yet my heart fails me.
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 11: Oh, ma'am, don't hesitate. I'll go and pack up a
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 11: few things and call a coach and be off before
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 11: Lady Bell comes from court.
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 8: I fear tis a wrong step, And yet what other
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 8: can I take? I dare not reveal my marriage without
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 8: the permission of my husband until his arrival. I must
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 8: avoid both a guardian's anger and the addresses of a lover. Aside,
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 8: the honor of Belleville would be insulted should I permit
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 8: them to be repeated.
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 11: Except Julia, I know not what she means, but there
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 11: is some mystery I find, so there should be. If
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 11: ladies had not mysteries, a chamber maid place would be
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 11: hardly worth keeping. I have mysteries too, and she shall
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 11: have their explanation. From Lord Sparkle.
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 1: Exit scene three, Clorinda's house and to Lady Bell meeting Clorinda.
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 7: Ha ha, my dear creature, what ann barras driving swiftly
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 7: through the streets. Lady Whipcourt dashed upon us in her
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 7: flaming feet, and fix gave a monstrous, big new market
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 7: word to my poor fellows, and with infinite dexterity entangled
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 7: the traces. It happened near your door. So I have
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 7: taken shelter with you and left her ladyship to settle
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 7: the dispute with my coachman. Ha ha ha. But why were
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 7: you not at court to day?
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 10: I had a teasing headache. But pray tell me what
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 10: happened there?
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 1: Aside, Deuce take her.
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 10: She looks as well as ever.
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 7: Oh, the ladies as usual, brilliant, nothing so flat as
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 7: the man. The horrid English custom ruins them for conversation.
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 7: They make themselves members of clubs in the way of business,
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 7: and members of Parliament in the way of amusement. All
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 7: their passions are reserved for the first, and all their
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 7: wit for the last.
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 10: Tis better in Paris, Oh.
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 7: Tis quite another thing. Whilst we awkwardly copy the follies
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 7: of the Parisians, we absurdly omit the charming part of
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 7: their character. Devoted to elegance, they catch their opinions, their wit,
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 7: and their bon MOUs from the mouths of the ladies.
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 7: Tis in the drawing room of Madame the duchess. The
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 7: marquis learns the politics, whilst the sprightly countess dispenses taste
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 7: and philosophy to a circle of bishops, generals and abeys.
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 10: All that may be just, yet I am mistaken if
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 10: you have not found one Englishman to reconcile you to
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 10: manners of the rest. Lord Sparkle, for instance, your ladyship
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 10: thinks I am sure that he has wit at will.
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 7: Oh, yes, quite at will. His wit, like his essence bottle,
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 7: is a collection of all that is poignant in a
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 7: thousand flowers, and like that is most useful when he
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 7: himself is most insipidly vacant with such sentiments.
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 10: I wonder you can suffer his addresses?
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 7: What can I do? The man is so much to fashion,
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 7: and I shall be so much envied. Why you know,
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 7: my dear, for instance, you'd be inclined to stick a
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 7: poisoned nosegay in my bosom if I should take him.
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 10: Ha ha, ridiculous. Believe me, Madam, I shall neither prepare a
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 10: bouquet nor invoke of iery shower to graze your nuptials.
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 1: Lady Bell asighe No you.
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 7: Show as would be tears. I fancy here he comes.
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 1: Ha, Lord Sparkle sneering.
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 10: Your ladyship's accident was fortunate, And.
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 1: To Lord Sparkle heavens.
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 2: Lady Bell, your horses fly like the doves of Venus.
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 2: I followed you from Saint James's, but my poor earth
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 2: bound cattle wouldn't keep pace with yours.
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 10: Oh, don't complain. If her ladyship won the race. You see,
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 10: she stopped for you at the goal.
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 2: Charming Miss Bellmore, what an enlivening intimation. Where was your
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 2: ladyship on Thursday? You would have found excellent food for
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 2: your satire At missus Oleo's. We had all the law
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 2: ladies from Lincoln's Inn, a dozen gold velves from Bishop's Gate,
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 2: with the wives and daughters of half the m D's
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 2: and l l D's in town.
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 7: Oh, my entertainment was quite as good as yours. We
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 7: were in brook Street at Lady Laurel's, and found her
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 7: surrounded by her literati of all denominations. We had masters
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 7: of art and missus of science on one hand, an
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 7: essayist on the other moralists. They're a poetaster here, a
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 7: translator in that corner of philosopher, and in the other
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 7: a compiler of magazines. Chops, epigrams and syllogisms. Flew like
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 7: skyrockets in every direction till the ambition of pre eminence
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 7: lighted the flame of controversy, when they gave each other
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 7: the lie literary with infinite spirit and decorum.
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 2: Excellent. I'll repeat every word in a place where it
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 2: will be remembered and the satire enjoyed.
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 10: In that hope your lordship may safely knock at every
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 10: door in the street. Satire is a welcome everywhere.
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 7: Yes, if it will bear a laugh, that's the grand
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 7: art of conversation. They pretend we are fond of slender,
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 7: but rob scandal of its laugh, and would soon be
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 7: banished to the second table for the amusement of butler's
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 7: and chamber maids.
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 2: Indeed, then I believe half our acquaintance would go downstairs
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 2: to the second table too. They think their servants had
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 2: the best of the dish.
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 5: Enter.
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 1: A servant gives Lord Sparkle a letter and exit Sparkle
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 1: reads it aside.
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 2: M Julia, astonishing, so sudden in your movements, missus.
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 1: Kuty returning to the ladies.
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 2: This vulgar thing called business is the greatest evil in life.
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 2: It destroys our most brilliant hours, and is fit only
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 2: for younger brothers and humble cousins. Miss Belmore, I must
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 2: hear myself away. Shall I attend your ladyship to your carriage?
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 7: If you please, Miss Belmore, I must hear myself away.
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 7: But you will shine upon us at.
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 1: Night, excent Lord Sparkle, and Lady Bell.
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 10: Shine upon you at night that I know you are
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 10: insolent enough to believe impossible? What can I think of
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 10: her sentiments for Lord's Sparkle? Sometimes I believe it is
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 10: a mere attachment of vanity on both sides, that reserved creature.
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 10: Beauchamp is in his confidence. But he leaves town this
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 10: very day, and I shall have no opportunity of conversing
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 10: with him.
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 1: Muses, there is.
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 10: But one chance going to visit him. But how can
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 10: I possibly do that? Deuce take him. If he had
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 10: a library, one might go to look at his books. Well,
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 10: I don't care, go I will, and if I can't
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 10: invent an excuse, I'll put on a good face upon
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 10: the matter and go without one going. I should expire
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 10: if my visit should be discovered, I must risk everything.
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 10: To be bold is sometimes to be right.
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 1: Exit end of Act three, Act four, all of which
• 1:20:01
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• 1:20:06
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• 1:20:14
  Speaker 1: four seen one an apartment at Lady Bell's and to
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 1: Lady Bell, followed by her maid.
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 7: Miss Manner has gone out in a Hackney coach and
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 7: no message left.
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 17: No Madam, very strange. Mister Beauchamp has been waiting almost
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 17: an hour for your ladyship's return.
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 7: Mister Beecham, here go and put some otto of roses
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 7: in that handkerchief.
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 1: Exit made.
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 7: Now shall I admit him or not? This formal waiting
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 7: looks very like formal business. I hate it. I suppose
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 7: he has at length vanquished his modesty and has come
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 7: to tell me that that well, I vow I won't
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 7: hear him, Yes, I will. I long to know the
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 7: style in wi which these reserve men make love to.
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 7: What imprudence would my heart betray me? Yet I may
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 7: surely indulge myself in hearing him speak of love, in hearing,
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 7: probably for the first time its genuine language.
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 1: And a maid and presents the handkerchief.
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 7: Tell mister Beacham, I am here.
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 1: Exit maid.
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 7: Now how shall I receive him? It will be intolerable
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 7: to be formal.
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 1: Takes her fan from her pocket and traverses the stage,
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 1: humming a tune. And to Beauchamp.
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 7: Oh, mister Beacham, this is the luckiest thing. I have
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 7: had ten disputes to day about the figures in my fan,
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 7: and you shall decide them. Is that beautiful nymph of
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 7: flying Daphne or an Atalanta?
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 1: Beauchamp looking at her fan from.
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 4: The terror of the eye, Madam, in the swiftness of
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 4: her step, it must be a Daphne. I think Atalanta's
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 4: head would be more at variance with her feet, and
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 4: whilst she flies, her eye would be invitingly turned on
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 4: her pursuers.
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 7: I think you are right, Yes, that does want the
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 7: kind inviting glance.
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 4: To be sure, what a misfortune to a lover I know,
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 4: one to whom your ladyship appears, the disdainful Daphne. How
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 4: happy could he behold in your eye the encouragement of Atalanta's.
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 1: Lady bell Aside, mercy.
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 7: For so bashful a man? That's pretty plain.
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 4: This is probably the last visit I can make you
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 4: before I leave England. Will your ladyship permit me before
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 4: I leave it to acquaint you that there is a
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 4: man whose happiness depends on your.
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 1: Favor, Lady bell Aside, So now he is going to
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 1: be perplexing again looking on her fan and.
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 7: Whose happiness depends on me, mister Beacham.
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 4: Yes, madam, and and.
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 1: Aside, I cannot go on.
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 4: Why did I accept the commission in which success would
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 4: destroy me?
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 1: Lady bell Aside.
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 7: How evidently this is the first time he ever made love.
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 7: The man seems to have chosen a very diffident advocate
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 7: in you, sir.
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 4: Tis more than diffidence, Madam. My task is painful.
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 7: I I thought, so you have taken a brief in
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 7: a cause you don't like. I could plead it better myself.
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 4: I feel the reproach.
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 7: Tis difficult for you, perhaps to speak in the third person,
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 7: try it in the first. Suppose now only suppose I say,
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 7: for the jest's sake, that you yourself have a passion
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 7: for me, and then try how you can plead it?
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 1: Bouchal kneeling.
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 4: Thus, thus what I plead it? And swear that thou
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 4: art dear to my heart as fame an honor to
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 4: look at thee is rapture to love thee thou without
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 4: hope felicity.
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 1: Lady bell Aside, Oh.
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 7: I thought I should bring him to the point.
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 1: At last, Bouchell rising aside, to.
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 4: What dishonesty have I been betrayed? Thus, Madam speaks my
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 4: friend through my lips tis Thus he pleads his passion.
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 1: Lady bell Aside.
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 7: Provoking what friend is this, Sir? Who is weak enough
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 7: to use the language of another to explain his heart?
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 4: Lord Sparkle, Lord Sparkle.
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 7: Was it for him? You knelt?
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 1: He bows to her.
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 7: Then, Sir, I must inform you that the liberty you
• 1:25:09
  Speaker 7: have taken aside heavens, how do I betray myself? Tell me, sir,
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 7: on your honor, do you wish to succeed in pleading
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 7: the passion of Lord.
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 1: Sparkle, bouchal hesitating.
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 4: My obligations to his lordship, our relationship, the confidence he
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 4: has reposed in.
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 7: Me, Stop, Sir, I too will repose confidence in you
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 7: and confess that there is a man whom I sometimes
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 7: suspect not to be indifferent to me. But this not,
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 7: Lord Sparkle, Tell him so, and tell him that that tell.
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 1: Him what you will Boucheal aside?
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 4: Heavens, what does she mean? What language is this? Her
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 4: eye speaks?
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 7: Do you visit me this evening? Here will be many
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 7: of my friends, and you shall then see me in
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 7: the presence of the man my heart prefers.
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 1: Beauchamp bows and goes to the door, then returns, advances
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 1: towards Lady Bell, makes an effort to speak, finds it impossible,
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 1: then bows and exit.
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 7: Heavens, What necessity have lovers for words? What persuasion in
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 7: that bashful irresolution? Now? Shall I let him quit England
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 7: or not? What give up a coronet? And Lord Sparkle
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 7: for a cockade? And Beecham preposterous, says vanity? But what
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 7: says love? I don't exactly know, but I'll examine their
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 7: separate claims and settle them with all the casistry of
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 7: four and twenty.
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 1: Exit Scene two, Lords Sparkle's house, Enter Julia and Kitty.
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 8: I am so agitated with this rash step that I
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 8: can hardly.
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 1: Breathe, throwing herself into a chair.
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 8: Why did you confirm me in my imprudent resolution?
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 11: Imprudent, I'm sure, ma'am, tis very prudent and very right
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 11: that a young lady like you should not be snubbed
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 11: and have her inclination thwarted by an ill natured, positive
• 1:27:27
  Speaker 11: old guardian.
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 1: Julia looking round.
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 8: What apardments and the hall we came through had an
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 8: air much beyond the lodging house. Tis all too fine
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 8: for my purpose. I want to be private.
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 11: Oh dear ma'am, you may be as private here.
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 4: As you please.
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 1: Ay rapping at the door.
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 11: There's my cousin come home. I dare say, I'll send
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 11: her to you, and then you may settle terms.
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 1: Exit.
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 8: I feel I have done wrong, and yet I am
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 8: so distracted. I know not how I could have done otherwise.
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 8: And to Lord Sparkle, heavens, Lord Sparkle, here.
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 2: Yes, my lovely Julia, here I am, and upon my
• 1:28:13
  Speaker 2: soul if you knew the engagements I have broke for
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 2: the happiness you would be gratified.
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 8: Gratified. I am astonished, equally astonished at your being here
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 8: and at your strange.
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 2: Address, astonished at my being here. Why, to be sure,
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 2: it is not usual to find a man of fashion
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 2: in his own house. But when I heard that you
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 2: were in my house, how could I do less than
• 1:28:43
  Speaker 2: fly home.
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 8: Home your own house? What can all this mean mean?
• 1:28:51
  Speaker 2: Love? Gallantry, joy, and ever new delight?
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 8: Oh I am betrayed. Where is my wicked servant?
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 2: Pah, never think of her? Why all this flutter? My
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 2: sweet girl? You have only changed guardians, and you shall
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 2: find that being ward to a young man of fashion
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 2: and spirit is a very different thing from.
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 8: Oh, heavens, what will become of me?
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 2: Nay, this is quite ridiculous. After having fled to my protection,
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 2: I feel myself highly honored by your confidence, and will
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 2: take care to deserve it.
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 8: Why do I remain here an instant.
• 1:29:37
  Speaker 1: Going towards the door, sparkle holding her?
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 2: This is downright rudeness. But you young ladies are so
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 2: fickle in your resolutions. But be assured, after having chosen
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 2: my house for your asylum, I shall not be so
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 2: impolite as to suffer you to seek another.
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 8: A wretched artifice. You know, sir, that your house and
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 8: you I would have fled from to the farthest corner.
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 1: Of entered Beauchamp.
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 8: Oh, mister Beauchamp, save me. I have been basely betrayed.
• 1:30:15
  Speaker 4: Betrayed, Miss Manners. Yes, Madam, I will protect you at
• 1:30:20
  Speaker 4: every hazard.
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 1: Am.
• 1:30:23
  Speaker 2: None of your antique virtues, George, pray. This is a
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 2: piece of bandonage of the eighteenth century, and you can't
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 2: possibly understand it. Miss Manners chose to pay me a visit,
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 2: and I desire you. You'll leave us, my lord?
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 8: How dare you thus trifle with a woman's honor?
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 4: Be not alarmed, Madam. I will defend you.
• 1:30:48
  Speaker 1: Sparkle taking him aside.
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 2: Pooh, prithe, George, be discreet. This is all female artifice.
• 1:30:57
  Speaker 2: You popped upon us, and this is a salver for
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 2: her reputation.
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 4: Pardon me, my lord, in believing you in opposition to
• 1:31:07
  Speaker 4: the evidence of this young lady's terrors, I may be
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 4: guilty of an irremediable error.
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 2: Nay, if you are serious, sir, how dare you break
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 2: in upon my privacy?
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 4: This is not a time to answer you, my lord,
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 4: the business that brought me here I am indebted to.
• 1:31:29
  Speaker 4: I should not else have prevented your base designs.
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 2: Base designs, mister Beecham.
• 1:31:37
  Speaker 4: Yes, Lord Sparkle. Shall I attend you home? Madam?
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 8: Oh sir, I dare not go there. I fled from
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 8: Lady Bell's when I was betrayed into this inhuman man's power.
• 1:31:51
  Speaker 8: Convey me to some place where I may have leisure
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 8: to reflect.
• 1:31:55
  Speaker 2: And do you think, mister Beecham, I shall put up
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 2: with this?
• 1:32:00
  Speaker 4: Remember, sir, yes, my lord, that as a man it
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 4: is my duty to protect endangered innocence, that as a
• 1:32:09
  Speaker 4: soldier it is part of the essence of my character.
• 1:32:14
  Speaker 4: And whilst I am grateful to you for the commission
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 4: I have the honor to bear, I will not disgrace
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 4: it in suffering myself to be intimidated by your frowns.
• 1:32:26
  Speaker 1: Exit Bouschel leading Julia.
• 1:32:29
  Speaker 2: So so so an antient hero in the house of
• 1:32:36
  Speaker 2: a modern man of fashion, Alexander in the Tent of
• 1:32:40
  Speaker 2: Darius Scipio and the Fair Aparthenia. The fellow has not
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 2: an idea of anymmorals, but those in use during the Olypiads,
• 1:32:51
  Speaker 2: and a servant mister Pendragon, and assisted my lord who
• 1:32:57
  Speaker 2: mistery miss Pendragon carry him to the housekeeper's room, give
• 1:33:03
  Speaker 2: him jelly's and plum cake, and tell him.
• 1:33:06
  Speaker 1: And to Pendragon leading Sophie.
• 1:33:09
  Speaker 2: Oh my dear miss Pendragon, you honor me, but I
• 1:33:15
  Speaker 2: am the most unlucky man on earth. I am obliged,
• 1:33:19
  Speaker 2: upon business of infinite consequence, to be at Whitehall within
• 1:33:24
  Speaker 2: five minutes.
• 1:33:26
  Speaker 6: But first, my lord, you must settle a little business
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 6: here with miss Pendragon.
• 1:33:33
  Speaker 9: I tell you, Bobby, I'll speak for myself and as
• 1:33:37
  Speaker 9: a few words are best. Pray, my lord, what do
• 1:33:39
  Speaker 9: you mean by treating me in this manner?
• 1:33:42
  Speaker 2: I shall be miserable beyond bearing. If any treatment of
• 1:33:46
  Speaker 2: mine has incurred your displeasure.
• 1:33:49
  Speaker 9: Well now you talk of being miserable. You have softened
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 9: my heart at once. But pray, my lord? Is it
• 1:33:54
  Speaker 9: fashionable for people on the terms you and I are
• 1:33:57
  Speaker 9: to keep asunder.
• 1:33:59
  Speaker 2: Sparkle a What the devil can the girl mean?
• 1:34:04
  Speaker 9: Never even write, no billets, no bribing the maid to
• 1:34:08
  Speaker 9: flip notes into my hand? Why you don't even complain?
• 1:34:12
  Speaker 9: Though tis five days since you.
• 1:34:13
  Speaker 2: Saw me complain? I am sure I have been exceedingly wretched.
• 1:34:19
  Speaker 9: Then why did you not tell me so? Why? That's
• 1:34:22
  Speaker 9: the very thing I wanted. If I had known you
• 1:34:24
  Speaker 9: had been wretched, I should have been happy.
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 6: Well, I see I shall lose an opportunity here. I
• 1:34:33
  Speaker 6: came to challenge you, my lord, challenge me. Yes, Miss
• 1:34:40
  Speaker 6: Pendragon told me she was dissatisfied, and says, I al
• 1:34:47
  Speaker 6: demon's satisfaction. And I didn't care if things had gone
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 6: a little further, for to call out a lord would
• 1:34:56
  Speaker 6: be a feather in my cap as long as I live. However,
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 6: you are agreed, do.
• 1:35:05
  Speaker 9: Be quiet, Bobby, We are not agreed. I have heard
• 1:35:08
  Speaker 9: nothing of settlements, yet nothing of jewels.
• 1:35:12
  Speaker 2: My dear ma'am, you are pleased to amuse yourself.
• 1:35:17
  Speaker 9: Why, my lord, those things must all be settled beforehand?
• 1:35:20
  Speaker 2: You know before what?
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 4: What?
• 1:35:24
  Speaker 9: Before our marriage? My lord?
• 1:35:27
  Speaker 2: Marriage?
• 1:35:29
  Speaker 9: Hey day? Will you pretend that you did not intend
• 1:35:32
  Speaker 9: to marry me when I can prove that you have
• 1:35:35
  Speaker 9: courted me from twenty instances?
• 1:35:38
  Speaker 6: Indeed, ay, that she can instance is as striking as
• 1:35:44
  Speaker 6: your lordship's red heels. Come, miss Pendragon, your proofs are supportum.
• 1:35:53
  Speaker 9: Why in the first place, my lord, you once placed
• 1:35:56
  Speaker 9: a nosegay in my Bosom and said, oh I wish
• 1:35:59
  Speaker 9: I were these happy The very speech that Sir Harry
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 9: Hargrave made to Miss Woodville. Another time you said I
• 1:36:06
  Speaker 9: was a most bewitching and adorable girl, exactly what Colonel
• 1:36:09
  Speaker 9: Finch said to Lady Lucy Luster. Another time you said,
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 9: how would a coronet become those shining trestles? The very
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 9: speech Lord rose Hill to Miss Danvers. And these couples
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 9: were everyone married married?
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 2: I never heard of them? Who are they? Where the
• 1:36:29
  Speaker 2: devil do they live?
• 1:36:31
  Speaker 1: Pendragon, strutting up to him.
• 1:36:34
  Speaker 6: Live Why in our county? To be sure?
• 1:36:39
  Speaker 1: No?
• 1:36:40
  Speaker 9: No Bobby in the Reclaimed Rake and the constant Lovers,
• 1:36:43
  Speaker 9: and Sir Charles Grandison and Roger Random.
• 1:36:47
  Speaker 6: And yes, sir, they live at random with Sir Charles Grandeefont.
• 1:36:55
  Speaker 6: Now's you know them.
• 1:36:57
  Speaker 1: Lord Sparkle to Sophie, ha ha ha, you are.
• 1:37:01
  Speaker 2: A charming little lawyer, and might perhaps establish your proofs
• 1:37:07
  Speaker 2: for precedents if Sir Charles Grandison was on the bench.
• 1:37:12
  Speaker 2: Yet I never heard of his being made Chief Justice,
• 1:37:15
  Speaker 2: though I never thought him fit for anything else.
• 1:37:18
  Speaker 6: What the devil's this? What did you not bring all
• 1:37:24
  Speaker 6: those fine proofs of fashionable life and Are you such
• 1:37:29
  Speaker 6: a fool as not to understand what we call common place?
• 1:37:34
  Speaker 9: Commonplace?
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 6: Yes, we persons of elegant life use the figure hyperbly, hyperbly?
• 1:37:46
  Speaker 9: What's that?
• 1:37:47
  Speaker 6: Why? That's as much as to say a stretch?
• 1:37:53
  Speaker 9: A stretch?
• 1:37:54
  Speaker 19: What?
• 1:37:55
  Speaker 9: Then you have been mocking me, my lord.
• 1:37:58
  Speaker 2: Not in the least. I shall be the happiest man
• 1:38:02
  Speaker 2: existing to to aside, he get, I must take care
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 2: of my phrases. I mean that I shall be always
• 1:38:14
  Speaker 2: and upon all occasions. You're most devoted trasphomeloent serviture. Were
• 1:38:23
  Speaker 2: there ever two such pumpkins?
• 1:38:26
  Speaker 1: Exit?
• 1:38:27
  Speaker 9: What's he gone?
• 1:38:29
  Speaker 7: Oh?
• 1:38:29
  Speaker 9: Fillain monster? I am forsatan, Oh I am rejected. All
• 1:38:34
  Speaker 9: Cornwall will.
• 1:38:35
  Speaker 6: Know it, crying tim minds and all. But don't ye cry,
• 1:38:41
  Speaker 6: miss Pendragon, don't ye cry sobbing.
• 1:38:47
  Speaker 9: Oh I am rejected.
• 1:38:50
  Speaker 6: I'm glad on it with all my heart, all challenging
• 1:38:54
  Speaker 6: yet and they won't, knowing Cornwall exactly how twas they'll
• 1:39:01
  Speaker 6: hear that a lord for about ye and all that
• 1:39:05
  Speaker 6: sort of thing, and whether for ye or against ye
• 1:39:10
  Speaker 6: twill be much the same.
• 1:39:13
  Speaker 9: But will you challenge him? Really?
• 1:39:15
  Speaker 6: Bobby upon honor? I admire the claw of the thing
• 1:39:23
  Speaker 6: he gads, Sophie. I'm glad he's forsaking me. Now my
• 1:39:30
  Speaker 6: character we've finished. A man can't show his facing company
• 1:39:36
  Speaker 6: till he has stood shot and fired his pistol in
• 1:39:40
  Speaker 6: the air, in the air.
• 1:39:43
  Speaker 9: If you don't fire through.
• 1:39:44
  Speaker 6: Him, Oh, never fear, I'll do all that sort of thing.
• 1:39:51
  Speaker 6: Come along, I'll go home directly and practice at the
• 1:39:57
  Speaker 6: hen coop in the yard. All fire through one end,
• 1:40:02
  Speaker 6: and you shall hold your clash against the other. And
• 1:40:07
  Speaker 6: if I don't hit it, say I'm no marksman.
• 1:40:12
  Speaker 1: Exit Pendragon with Sophie under his arm. Scene three, Beauchamp's lodgings.
• 1:40:20
  Speaker 1: Enter Beauchamp and Julia.
• 1:40:22
  Speaker 4: I entreat your pardon for conducting you to my own lodgings.
• 1:40:27
  Speaker 4: But here, madam, you will be safe, so you determine
• 1:40:30
  Speaker 4: how to act. What are your commands for.
• 1:40:33
  Speaker 8: Me, Oh, mister Beauchamp, I have no commands. I have
• 1:40:37
  Speaker 8: no designs. I have been very imprudent. I'm still more unhappy.
• 1:40:44
  Speaker 4: Shall I acquaint mister fitz Herbert.
• 1:40:48
  Speaker 8: It was to avoid him that I left Lady Bell.
• 1:40:52
  Speaker 8: I have reasons that make it impossible to see mister
• 1:40:55
  Speaker 8: fitz Herbert.
• 1:40:55
  Speaker 4: Now is there no other friend.
• 1:41:00
  Speaker 8: Oh, yes, I have one friend. Were he here, all
• 1:41:04
  Speaker 8: my difficulties would vanish. It may seem strange, mister Beauchamp,
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 8: but I expect that you believe looking at the wing heavens.
• 1:41:14
  Speaker 8: Here's company tis miss Bellmore, the last woman on earth
• 1:41:19
  Speaker 8: whom I would trust. Where can I go?
• 1:41:22
  Speaker 4: Miss Bellmore? Very odd? But pray be not uneasy that room, madam,
• 1:41:29
  Speaker 4: if you will condescend.
• 1:41:32
  Speaker 1: She rushes through the door, Enter Clorinda, laughing.
• 1:41:36
  Speaker 10: Ah, I expect your gravity to be amazingly discomposed at
• 1:41:42
  Speaker 10: so hearty a visit. But I took it very ill
• 1:41:45
  Speaker 10: that you did not design to call upon me before
• 1:41:47
  Speaker 10: your departure, And so as I was passing your door,
• 1:41:52
  Speaker 10: I stopped in mere folck to inquire the cause.
• 1:41:55
  Speaker 4: You do me infinite honor? Madam. I am thankful that
• 1:42:00
  Speaker 4: I failed in my attention, since it has procured me
• 1:42:04
  Speaker 4: so distinguished a favor.
• 1:42:06
  Speaker 10: Oh, you are most obedient. You are going to leave
• 1:42:10
  Speaker 10: England for a long while. You'll find us all in
• 1:42:13
  Speaker 10: different situations, probably on your return. Your friend Lord Sparkle,
• 1:42:18
  Speaker 10: for instance, I am informed that he is really to
• 1:42:22
  Speaker 10: marry Lady Bell Bloomer. But I don't believe it, do you?
• 1:42:26
  Speaker 4: Tis impossible, madam?
• 1:42:29
  Speaker 10: For me, hah, impossible. Such friends as you and I
• 1:42:34
  Speaker 10: are supposed to keep nothing from one another. We women
• 1:42:38
  Speaker 10: cannot exist without a confidant. And I dare say you
• 1:42:42
  Speaker 10: men are full as communicative. Not that it is anything
• 1:42:47
  Speaker 10: to me, but as I have a prodigious regard for.
• 1:42:50
  Speaker 1: Lady Bell Belleville, behind Beauchamp, Beauchamp.
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  Speaker 10: Heaven and Earth. How unlucky here's some man. I am
• 1:43:00
  Speaker 10: the nicest creature breathing in my reputation. What will he think?
• 1:43:05
  Speaker 10: I'll run into this.
• 1:43:06
  Speaker 1: Room, runs toward the door, Bouschel preventing her.
• 1:43:10
  Speaker 4: Pardon me, madam, you cannot enter.
• 1:43:13
  Speaker 1: There, Clorinda pushing at the door.
• 1:43:16
  Speaker 10: I must oh, Oh, the door is held, sir.
• 1:43:21
  Speaker 4: My dear Madam, I am infinitely sorry for the accident.
• 1:43:25
  Speaker 4: But suppose suppose I say, ma'am, that a friend of
• 1:43:31
  Speaker 4: mine has been in a duel and concealed in that room.
• 1:43:35
  Speaker 10: Ridiculous. I saw the corner of a hoop and a
• 1:43:37
  Speaker 10: white satin petticoat. Is that the dress of your dueling friends?
• 1:43:43
  Speaker 1: I will go in, struggling, so flinging away spitefully. Tis
• 1:43:49
  Speaker 1: too late enter Belleville, So.
• 1:43:52
  Speaker 5: Sir, so I beg your pardon. How could you be
• 1:43:55
  Speaker 5: so indiscreet? Beauchamp? Well, though a young soldier, I thought
• 1:43:58
  Speaker 5: you knew enough of generalship to be bad for surprise.
• 1:44:01
  Speaker 10: Oh so he was, but not for two surprises. One
• 1:44:06
  Speaker 10: has already happened, and a hasty retreat the consequence.
• 1:44:11
  Speaker 4: Believe me, Belleville to Clorinda, I am infinitely concerned.
• 1:44:17
  Speaker 10: Oh, I detest your impertinent concern. Keep it for the
• 1:44:21
  Speaker 10: lady in the other room.
• 1:44:23
  Speaker 5: A lady in the other room too, Hey day, oh Beauchamp,
• 1:44:28
  Speaker 5: who would have suspected.
• 1:44:30
  Speaker 4: Tis all a mistake? The lady in the next room.
• 1:44:34
  Speaker 5: But prithee, go only tell me if you have seen Fitzobert.
• 1:44:38
  Speaker 5: I've been seeking him this hour on a business of
• 1:44:40
  Speaker 5: the utmost consequence.
• 1:44:42
  Speaker 4: I have not, But about this time you'll find him
• 1:44:46
  Speaker 4: at home.
• 1:44:48
  Speaker 5: Enough, Miss Belmore, pray suffer no concern, depend on my honor, Beauchamp.
• 1:44:54
  Speaker 1: Taking him aside?
• 1:44:56
  Speaker 5: Who's this lady in the other room?
• 1:44:58
  Speaker 4: Had I meant you to have known that rooum would
• 1:45:02
  Speaker 4: have been unnecessary.
• 1:45:04
  Speaker 1: Belleville seems still inquisitive. Beauchamp draws him towards the wing.
• 1:45:10
  Speaker 10: Now do I die to know who it can be?
• 1:45:13
  Speaker 10: Indeed tis necessary for my own sake. Whilst she has
• 1:45:18
  Speaker 10: been hid, I have been exposed, and who knows what
• 1:45:21
  Speaker 10: the creature may say. I'll try once more. She has
• 1:45:26
  Speaker 10: my secret and I'll.
• 1:45:27
  Speaker 1: Have hers forces open the door. Julia rushes out, Belleville
• 1:45:34
  Speaker 1: running towards him. Belleville starting back.
• 1:45:38
  Speaker 8: Julia, miss Manners, Oh Belleville, throw me not from you astonishing,
• 1:45:47
  Speaker 8: oh charming, the modest Julia and the reserved beaucham But
• 1:45:55
  Speaker 8: mister Belleville, how came you of this sober party?
• 1:46:01
  Speaker 10: Speak to me now, mister Beauchamp, you know the purpose
• 1:46:05
  Speaker 10: of my visit. I had heard that Miss Manners has
• 1:46:08
  Speaker 10: seemed to visit you, and, not being willing to trust
• 1:46:11
  Speaker 10: to such a report, was resolved, if possible to discover
• 1:46:16
  Speaker 10: the truth.
• 1:46:17
  Speaker 1: Belleville to Julia, wretched woman. Julia to Clorinda, barbarous creature.
• 1:46:24
  Speaker 8: Oh hear me, I conjure you, hear you.
• 1:46:29
  Speaker 5: No, madam, And if my content my hatred, my oh you, sir,
• 1:46:34
  Speaker 5: I will speak to in another place. Yet, perhaps you
• 1:46:37
  Speaker 5: were not acquainted that what would I say the word
• 1:46:42
  Speaker 5: which I had pronounced with so much rapture chokes me
• 1:46:46
  Speaker 5: to Julia from this moment, farewell, exit Belleville.
• 1:46:52
  Speaker 4: What can I think of all this? Oh sir, permit me,
• 1:46:57
  Speaker 4: madam to ask if you have a long known mister Bellville.
• 1:47:03
  Speaker 8: Yes? Too long?
• 1:47:05
  Speaker 10: Oh, oh, too long, eye, young lady should be cautious
• 1:47:11
  Speaker 10: how they form acquaintance for my part.
• 1:47:15
  Speaker 1: But you look ill child taking her by the hand.
• 1:47:19
  Speaker 10: Well, I have no hard heart. I can pity your weakness. Miss.
• 1:47:23
  Speaker 10: I won't upbraid you. Now my coach waits, Shall I
• 1:47:28
  Speaker 10: conduct you home?
• 1:47:30
  Speaker 8: Yes to Lady Bell, To Lady Bell, I am very ill.
• 1:47:36
  Speaker 10: Adieu, mister Beauchamp. This has been an unlucky frolic. Tis
• 1:47:41
  Speaker 10: amazing you grave people can be so careless.
• 1:47:45
  Speaker 1: Exit Julia and Clorinda.
• 1:47:49
  Speaker 4: An unlucky frolic indeed, And I am so thoroughly confounded
• 1:47:55
  Speaker 4: that I know not what judgment to form of the adventure.
• 1:48:00
  Speaker 4: He considered Miss Manners as a pattern of delicacy and virtue.
• 1:48:05
  Speaker 4: Nor dare I now, spites of circumstances, think otherwise?
• 1:48:13
  Speaker 2: Enter Lord Sparkle, so so senor Quixote, what so soon
• 1:48:20
  Speaker 2: lost your prize? Ah? You see quarreling for these virtuous
• 1:48:26
  Speaker 2: women is as unprofitable as the assault of the windmills.
• 1:48:31
  Speaker 2: Have you seen Lady Bell in my behalf?
• 1:48:34
  Speaker 4: Lady Bell, my lord, by sure tis impossible after your
• 1:48:39
  Speaker 4: attempt on Miss manners.
• 1:48:42
  Speaker 2: Bah, that is a stroke in my favor. Women like
• 1:48:46
  Speaker 2: to receive the duvoirs of those whom others of their
• 1:48:49
  Speaker 2: sex have found are dangerous. What did you discover of
• 1:48:53
  Speaker 2: Lady Bell's sentiment towards me?
• 1:48:56
  Speaker 4: I meant to have given the intelligence softened, but the
• 1:49:00
  Speaker 4: agitations of my mind make it impracticable. I must therefore
• 1:49:05
  Speaker 4: inform you in one word, Lady Bell, Bloomer's choice is made,
• 1:49:11
  Speaker 4: and that choice has not fallen upon your lordship.
• 1:49:16
  Speaker 2: Then I must inform you in two words that I
• 1:49:20
  Speaker 2: am convinced you are mistaken. But your reason, Sir, your reasons.
• 1:49:26
  Speaker 4: Her ladyship furnished me with a decisive one. She acknowledged
• 1:49:32
  Speaker 4: a pre engagement and added, if I visited her this evening,
• 1:49:38
  Speaker 4: I should see her in the presence of the man.
• 1:49:41
  Speaker 4: Her heart prefers.
• 1:49:45
  Speaker 2: Excellent, charming ingenuity, the kindest softest message that ever woman framed,
• 1:49:56
  Speaker 2: And you, like the sheep loading with the golden fleece,
• 1:50:00
  Speaker 2: bore it insensible of its value. Ha ha ha ha. You
• 1:50:06
  Speaker 2: can't see through the pretty artifice. No, really, why tis
• 1:50:13
  Speaker 2: I who am to be there? There by particular invitation?
• 1:50:18
  Speaker 2: You'll see her in my presence. And this was her
• 1:50:22
  Speaker 2: pretty mysterious way of informing me that I am the
• 1:50:26
  Speaker 2: object of her choice, indeed, without a doubt. But you
• 1:50:32
  Speaker 2: deep people are the dullest fellows. At a hint, a
• 1:50:36
  Speaker 2: man of half your parts would have seen it. But
• 1:50:40
  Speaker 2: I am satisfied and shall go to her route in
• 1:50:43
  Speaker 2: brilliant spirits. You shall come and see my triumph confirmed. Come,
• 1:50:50
  Speaker 2: you rogue and see the lovely widow in the presence
• 1:50:53
  Speaker 2: of the man her heart prefers. Poor George, you must
• 1:50:59
  Speaker 2: have been cursedly stupid not to have conceived that I
• 1:51:03
  Speaker 2: was the person.
• 1:51:04
  Speaker 1: Exit.
• 1:51:06
  Speaker 4: Yes, I will come, Oh vanity, I dare to explain. Yes,
• 1:51:13
  Speaker 4: I construed the sweet confusion. Oh I blush in my
• 1:51:19
  Speaker 4: own arrogance. Lord Sparkle must be right well, this knight
• 1:51:25
  Speaker 4: decides it narrowly. Will I watch each tone and look
• 1:51:29
  Speaker 4: to discover. Oh, ever, blessed he whom her heart prefers.
• 1:51:38
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• 1:51:48
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• 1:52:02
  Speaker 1: one an apartment at Lady Bell's. A table with candles
• 1:52:07
  Speaker 1: and a Lady Bell and servant.
• 1:52:10
  Speaker 7: At the tables placed in the outer room.
• 1:52:12
  Speaker 18: Yes, ma'am all, but the fearaoh table, then.
• 1:52:16
  Speaker 7: Carry that there too. I positively will not have a
• 1:52:18
  Speaker 7: table in the drawing room.
• 1:52:20
  Speaker 1: Exit servant.
• 1:52:22
  Speaker 7: Those who play don't visit me, but the car tables
• 1:52:26
  Speaker 7: and where they find them is very immaterial. Let me
• 1:52:29
  Speaker 7: see for with Sir James Janet, Lady Ponteau, Missus Luge,
• 1:52:35
  Speaker 7: and Lady Carmine for Pharaoh, Missus Evergreen, Lord Dangle, Sir Harry.
• 1:52:41
  Speaker 1: Heyday, Enter Clorinda and Julia.
• 1:52:45
  Speaker 10: Come child, don't faint. You had more cause for terror
• 1:52:49
  Speaker 10: half an hour ago.
• 1:52:50
  Speaker 7: Heavens, Julia, where have you been?
• 1:52:53
  Speaker 10: Ay, that's a circumstance you would not have known but
• 1:52:56
  Speaker 10: for an accident, And I am very sorry it fell
• 1:53:00
  Speaker 10: to my lot to make the discovery.
• 1:53:03
  Speaker 1: Lady Bell, taking Julia's hand, speak.
• 1:53:06
  Speaker 8: My love, Miss bellmore will tell you all she knows.
• 1:53:10
  Speaker 8: I am too wretched.
• 1:53:12
  Speaker 10: Nay, as to what I know, I know very little.
• 1:53:17
  Speaker 10: I can tell you what I saw. Indeed, having received
• 1:53:21
  Speaker 10: intimations not quite constant to one's notions of decorum, I
• 1:53:25
  Speaker 10: pretended a frolic and called on mister Beauchamp, and there
• 1:53:29
  Speaker 10: I found this lady concealed.
• 1:53:32
  Speaker 7: Heaven's Julia tis impossible, Nay.
• 1:53:36
  Speaker 10: She can't attempt to deny what I myself saw. Other
• 1:53:39
  Speaker 10: discoveries had liked to have been made, too, But Miss
• 1:53:43
  Speaker 10: Manners may explain them herself. For I see your rooms
• 1:53:47
  Speaker 10: begin to fill. I shall report that your ladyship is
• 1:53:51
  Speaker 10: a little indisposed, has an excuse for your not immediately appearing.
• 1:53:56
  Speaker 1: Exit Clorinda, Lady Bell with a countenance of terne Right.
• 1:54:00
  Speaker 8: Julia, you and mister Beechams, Lady Belle, though I have
• 1:54:06
  Speaker 8: acted rashly and was indeed found there, I am not
• 1:54:10
  Speaker 8: the guilty creature you imagine. I am married.
• 1:54:14
  Speaker 9: I will no longer conceal it.
• 1:54:17
  Speaker 1: Bursting into tears, married, Oh Heavens, throws herself in a
• 1:54:23
  Speaker 1: chair with her back to Julia.
• 1:54:26
  Speaker 8: I dared not reveal into my guardian, and for that
• 1:54:29
  Speaker 8: reason fled from your house.
• 1:54:31
  Speaker 7: Oh Julia, and you are married. What the serpent have
• 1:54:35
  Speaker 7: I nourished? But forgive me you knew not alas I
• 1:54:41
  Speaker 7: knew not myself till this moment.
• 1:54:43
  Speaker 8: How much, my dearest madam, do not add to my afflictions,
• 1:54:48
  Speaker 8: for indeed they are severe and generous?
• 1:54:52
  Speaker 7: Girl? Why did you conceal it from me? Your situation?
• 1:54:56
  Speaker 8: Good heavens, is it destined that one prudent step is
• 1:55:01
  Speaker 8: to lose me every blessing in the agonies of my heart.
• 1:55:06
  Speaker 8: I flew to your friendship, and you kill me with reproaches.
• 1:55:10
  Speaker 7: And you have killed me by your want of confidence.
• 1:55:14
  Speaker 7: Oh Julia, had you revealed to me?
• 1:55:17
  Speaker 8: I dared not for when mister Bellville prevailed on me
• 1:55:22
  Speaker 8: to give him my hand.
• 1:55:23
  Speaker 7: Mister Bellville, mister Bellville, say you.
• 1:55:27
  Speaker 8: Yes, it was in Paris. We were married, Lady bell Aside,
• 1:55:34
  Speaker 8: so so.
• 1:55:34
  Speaker 7: So, what a pretty mistake I made? But it was
• 1:55:38
  Speaker 7: a mistake. And so my sweet Julia is married, married
• 1:55:44
  Speaker 7: in Paris. Sly thing? But how came you at, mister Beechance,
• 1:55:48
  Speaker 7: my love?
• 1:55:50
  Speaker 8: In my rash flight this morning, my wicked maid betrayed
• 1:55:54
  Speaker 8: me into Lord Sparkle's house. There, mister Beauchamp snatched me
• 1:55:58
  Speaker 8: from ruin, and gave me a momentary asylum in his lodgings.
• 1:56:02
  Speaker 1: Did Beecham asighed?
• 1:56:05
  Speaker 7: But what is his worth and his galantry?
• 1:56:07
  Speaker 8: To me?
• 1:56:08
  Speaker 7: Can't he do a right thing? But my heart must triumph.
• 1:56:13
  Speaker 8: At mister Beauchamp's. My husband found me and found me
• 1:56:17
  Speaker 8: hid with so suspicious a secrecy. Ah here comes mister
• 1:56:22
  Speaker 8: fitz Herbert. How can I see him?
• 1:56:25
  Speaker 1: Enter fitz Herbert.
• 1:56:27
  Speaker 3: My Julia, My dear Julia, Oh sir, come, I know all,
• 1:56:35
  Speaker 3: and to relieve one cause of your distress, we'll tell
• 1:56:38
  Speaker 3: you that the lover I shocked you with to day
• 1:56:41
  Speaker 3: was only my agent in a little revenge I had
• 1:56:44
  Speaker 3: resolved to take for you, having married without my consent,
• 1:56:49
  Speaker 3: the very man for whom all my cares designed.
• 1:56:52
  Speaker 1: You, Julia clasping his hands.
• 1:56:55
  Speaker 8: Is it possible at.
• 1:56:58
  Speaker 3: The moment he left Paris for Florence, you received my
• 1:57:01
  Speaker 3: directions to return home. Thus Belville's letter missed you, and
• 1:57:05
  Speaker 3: he remained ignorant that you were in London.
• 1:57:09
  Speaker 8: Oh sir, had you revealed this to me this morning,
• 1:57:12
  Speaker 8: what evils should I have escaped?
• 1:57:15
  Speaker 3: My dear girl. I decreed you a little punishment, but
• 1:57:19
  Speaker 3: your own rashness has occasioned you a severer portion than
• 1:57:23
  Speaker 3: you deserved.
• 1:57:24
  Speaker 7: But where is the bridegroom? I longed to see the
• 1:57:27
  Speaker 7: necromancer whose spells can thowt a vestal's heart and light
• 1:57:30
  Speaker 7: up flames in the cold region of a monastery.
• 1:57:34
  Speaker 3: Fitz Herbert to Julia, he is without satisfied from the
• 1:57:39
  Speaker 3: mouth of Beauchamp of your conduct, and impatient to fold
• 1:57:43
  Speaker 3: his Julia to his heart.
• 1:57:45
  Speaker 8: Oh sir, lead me to him. To find my husband
• 1:57:49
  Speaker 8: and to be forgiven by you are felicities too great.
• 1:57:53
  Speaker 1: Exit led by fitz Herbert.
• 1:57:57
  Speaker 7: What a discovery has Julia's marriage made to me? Of
• 1:58:00
  Speaker 7: my own heart? I have persuaded myself it knew no
• 1:58:04
  Speaker 7: passion but the desire of conquest. That it knew no
• 1:58:07
  Speaker 7: motive to admiration but vanity. But the pangs of jealousy
• 1:58:12
  Speaker 7: proved to me in one moment that all its sense
• 1:58:15
  Speaker 7: is love.
• 1:58:17
  Speaker 1: Exit. Lady Bell an elegant apartment, lighted up card part
• 1:58:23
  Speaker 1: is seen two servants carrying refreshments. A lady enters from
• 1:58:28
  Speaker 1: the top of the stage and comes down in a hurry.
• 1:58:33
  Speaker 16: I protest, there have been three quarters of an hour
• 1:58:35
  Speaker 16: getting from the top of the street to the door.
• 1:58:38
  Speaker 16: I really believe when people give roads to think more
• 1:58:40
  Speaker 16: of the buzzardly occasion with out doors than the company
• 1:58:43
  Speaker 16: they have within.
• 1:58:45
  Speaker 10: Oh yes, I am quite of that opinion. The noise
• 1:58:49
  Speaker 10: and racket in the streets are frequently the pleasantest part
• 1:58:52
  Speaker 10: of the entertainment, and to plague one's sober neighbors is delightful.
• 1:58:59
  Speaker 10: My next door friend, missus Saffron, always wheels into the
• 1:59:03
  Speaker 10: country on my public nights on pretense of her delicate nerves.
• 1:59:08
  Speaker 10: But the truth is her rooms would hold but six
• 1:59:11
  Speaker 10: card tables and mine thirteen.
• 1:59:14
  Speaker 14: Well, I protest. I wish the ladies would banish cards
• 1:59:18
  Speaker 14: from their assemblies and give us something in the style
• 1:59:21
  Speaker 14: of conversations.
• 1:59:23
  Speaker 15: Oh no, sir Charles, that won't do. On this side
• 1:59:26
  Speaker 15: of the Alps, we have no knack at conversation. We
• 1:59:30
  Speaker 15: think too much to be able to talk good talkers.
• 1:59:34
  Speaker 15: Never think, Sir Harry glare full of bonmo never thinks
• 1:59:41
  Speaker 15: I myself am allowed to be tolerable. Yet I never think.
• 1:59:46
  Speaker 10: Oh that, I believe all your friends will allow. Hey day,
• 1:59:51
  Speaker 10: here comes Lord Sparklesborough acquaintance, mister Pendragon.
• 1:59:56
  Speaker 1: Enter Pendragon bombs Miss bell More how you do.
• 2:00:03
  Speaker 6: Or didn't think to see you? Mister fitz Herbert brought
• 2:00:07
  Speaker 6: me here, and I have been examining every face to
• 2:00:11
  Speaker 6: see if I knew anybody. But fine ladies are so
• 2:00:16
  Speaker 6: alike that one must have a long intimacy to no
• 2:00:20
  Speaker 6: one's acquaintance. Red cheeks, white necks, and smiling lips crowd
• 2:00:27
  Speaker 6: every room.
• 2:00:29
  Speaker 16: Hey Jay, in natural curiosity, pray sir, how long have
• 2:00:33
  Speaker 16: you been in the world?
• 2:00:35
  Speaker 6: How long? Just twenty years last, lamass?
• 2:00:41
  Speaker 16: I don't inquire into your age. How long is it
• 2:00:44
  Speaker 16: since you left your native woods?
• 2:00:47
  Speaker 7: Was you ever at the rout before?
• 2:00:50
  Speaker 6: Oh? That I was last week. It beat this all
• 2:00:54
  Speaker 6: to nothing, twas our neighbors. The wine Merchants is kind
• 2:00:59
  Speaker 6: of tree house at Kentish Town.
• 2:01:03
  Speaker 17: Oh, lud, I wish I had been of your party.
• 2:01:07
  Speaker 17: I should have enjoyed a Kentish Town route.
• 2:01:10
  Speaker 6: Oh you must have been pleased, for the rooms were
• 2:01:14
  Speaker 6: so little and the company so large that everything was
• 2:01:19
  Speaker 6: done with one consent. We were packed so close that
• 2:01:23
  Speaker 6: if one party moved, all arrests were obliged to obey
• 2:01:27
  Speaker 6: the motion.
• 2:01:29
  Speaker 16: Delightful, well, sir.
• 2:01:32
  Speaker 6: We had all the fat widows, notable misses and managing
• 2:01:36
  Speaker 6: wives of the parish. So there was no scandal, for
• 2:01:41
  Speaker 6: they were all there at length. The assembly broke up
• 2:01:46
  Speaker 6: such clattering and squeeching down the gangway staircase, whilst the
• 2:01:51
  Speaker 6: little footboy board from the passage. Miss Bobby's Bonny is ready,
• 2:01:58
  Speaker 6: Missus sugar Plum's Lanthorp, wait, Missus Peppercorn's pans stop the way.
• 2:02:05
  Speaker 10: Oh you creature, come with me. I must exhibit him
• 2:02:09
  Speaker 10: in the next room.
• 2:02:11
  Speaker 1: Exit Clorinda and Pendragon.
• 2:02:14
  Speaker 16: Oh, stay, take my cart. I shall have company next Wednesday.
• 2:02:18
  Speaker 16: And I insist on yours. He is really amusing.
• 2:02:23
  Speaker 1: And to Lord Sparkle from the top, but hide.
• 2:02:26
  Speaker 16: Your diminished heads see bows and whittlings, for here comes
• 2:02:31
  Speaker 16: Lord Sparkle.
• 2:02:33
  Speaker 1: Sparkle speaking as he comes down.
• 2:02:36
  Speaker 2: I hope the Bells won't hide theirs, for it an
• 2:02:40
  Speaker 2: age where the head is so large a part of
• 2:02:43
  Speaker 2: the lady one should look about for the sex.
• 2:02:47
  Speaker 14: Well, my lord, you see I have obeyed your summons.
• 2:02:50
  Speaker 14: I should not have been here, notwithstanding Lady Bell's invitation,
• 2:02:54
  Speaker 14: had you not pressed it.
• 2:02:56
  Speaker 15: Nor I I promised to meet a certain lady in
• 2:02:59
  Speaker 15: the gallery at the opera to night, and I regret
• 2:03:02
  Speaker 15: that I did not, for I see her husband is here.
• 2:03:06
  Speaker 15: Why did you press us so earnestly to come?
• 2:03:09
  Speaker 2: Why faith to have as many witnesses as I could?
• 2:03:13
  Speaker 2: To my glory? This night is given by Lady Bell
• 2:03:18
  Speaker 2: to me. I am the hero of the fed and
• 2:03:22
  Speaker 2: expect your gratulations. Here the dear creature comes.
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  Speaker 1: Lady Bell comes down from the top, addressing the company
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  Speaker 1: on each side.
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  Speaker 7: How do you do? How do you do? You wicked creature?
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  Speaker 7: Why did you disappoint me last night? Lady Harriet, I
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  Speaker 7: have not seen you this age, oh Lord Sparkle. I
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  Speaker 7: have been detained from my company by mister fitz Herbert,
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  Speaker 7: planning a scheme for your amusement.
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  Speaker 2: Indeed, I did not expect that attention from him, although
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  Speaker 2: I acknowledged my obligation to your ladyship's politeness.
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  Speaker 1: Lady Bell asigdhe that.
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  Speaker 7: Air of self possession I fancy would be incommoded if
• 2:04:08
  Speaker 7: you guessed at the entertainment. Have you seen mister Beacham.
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  Speaker 2: For a moment, but charming Lady Bell taking her hand,
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  Speaker 2: I shall make you expire with laughing. I really believe
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  Speaker 2: the poor fellow explained your message in his own favor.
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  Speaker 7: Ridiculous, a.
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  Speaker 1: Enter beauchamp.
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  Speaker 4: Ah tis true. There they are retired from the crowd
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  Speaker 4: and enjoying the privacy of lovers.
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  Speaker 7: See, there is I long to have a little buddy
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  Speaker 7: nash on the subject, let us tease him.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, nothing can be more delightful. Hither sighing, shepherd, Come, come, beejem,
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  Speaker 2: take one last one, lingering look shanty, lady Bell.
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  Speaker 7: Doubtless, if he has your lordship's.
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  Speaker 2: Leave, he seems astonished. Nay, it is cruel if the
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  Speaker 2: poor youth has the misfortune to be stricken. You know
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  Speaker 2: he can't resist fate. Ixion sighed for Juno.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, and he was punished too. What punishment, mister beacham,
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  Speaker 7: share we decree for you?
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  Speaker 4: I am astonished. Was it for this? Your ladyship commanded
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  Speaker 4: me to attend you?
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  Speaker 7: How did I command you? Do you remember the words
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  Speaker 7: I do?
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  Speaker 4: Madam? You bid me come this evening that I might
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  Speaker 4: behold you in the presence of the man your heart prefers.
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  Speaker 7: Well, sir. And now now you see.
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  Speaker 2: Me, ah, the sweet confusion of the sweet confess.
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  Speaker 1: Kissing her hand bouschel aside staff.
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  Speaker 4: This ostentation of felicity, Madam, is ungenerous, since you know
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  Speaker 4: my heart tis unworthy you, but I thank you for it.
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  Speaker 4: I have a pang the.
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  Speaker 1: Less going, How sir are you going this instant?
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  Speaker 4: Madam? I came in obedience to your commands, But my
• 2:06:28
  Speaker 4: chase is at your door, and before your gay assembly
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  Speaker 4: he breaks up. I shall be far from London, and
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  Speaker 4: in a day or two from England. I probably now
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  Speaker 4: see your ladyship for the last time.
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  Speaker 7: Adieu, Stay mister Beecham, aye, bythee to day.
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  Speaker 2: I believe Lady Bell has a mind to make you
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  Speaker 2: her conjugal father at the wedding.
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  Speaker 4: I forgive you, my lord. Excess of happiness frequently overflows
• 2:07:01
  Speaker 4: into insolence, and it is the privilege of felicity to
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  Speaker 4: be unfeeling. But how Madam, has the humble passion which
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  Speaker 4: has so long consumed my life rendered me so hateful
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  Speaker 4: to you as to prompt you to this barbarity. I
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  Speaker 4: have not insulted you with my love. I have scarcely
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  Speaker 4: dared whisper it to myself. How then have I deserved.
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  Speaker 7: Oh mercy, don't be so grave. I am not insensible
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  Speaker 7: to your marriage, nor have I beheld your passion with disdain,
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  Speaker 7: But what can I do? Lord Sparkle has so much fashion,
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  Speaker 7: so much elegance, so much.
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  Speaker 2: My dearest lady Bell, you justify my ideas of your discernment,
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  Speaker 2: and thus I thank you for the distinguished honor.
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  Speaker 1: Kneeling to kiss her hand, and to Sophie from the wing, crying.
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  Speaker 9: Oh, you false hearted man, hey day, don't believe a
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  Speaker 9: word he says. For all you are so fine a lady.
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  Speaker 9: He'll tell you of happiness and misery, of this and
• 2:08:11
  Speaker 9: that and the other. But tis all commonplace and hyperbole
• 2:08:15
  Speaker 9: and all that sort of thing.
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  Speaker 7: Indeed, what has this young lady claims on your lordship?
• 2:08:22
  Speaker 2: Claims? Surely your Ladyship can answer that in a single glance? Claims?
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  Speaker 2: Is it my fault that a little rustic does not
• 2:08:34
  Speaker 2: know the language of the day. Compliments are the ready
• 2:08:38
  Speaker 2: coin of conversation, and tis everyone's business to understand their value.
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  Speaker 1: And to Pendragon, Pendragon clapping him on the shoulder.
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  Speaker 6: True, my lord, true, and praying struck me what was
• 2:08:54
  Speaker 6: the value of the compliment when you told me I
• 2:08:58
  Speaker 6: should make a figure in the god words, and that
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  Speaker 6: you would speak to your great friends to make me
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  Speaker 6: a colonel.
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  Speaker 2: Value of just as much as it would bring. You
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  Speaker 2: thought it so valuable then that you got me a
• 2:09:14
  Speaker 2: hundred extra votes on the strength of it, And you
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  Speaker 2: are now a little ungrateful wretch to pretend was worth nothing.
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  Speaker 1: Enter fitz Herbert, leading Julia.
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  Speaker 3: But here, Lord Sparkle is a lady who claims a
• 2:09:29
  Speaker 3: right on a different foundation. She had no election interest
• 2:09:33
  Speaker 3: to provoke your flatteries. Yet you have not scrupled to
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  Speaker 3: profess love to her whilst under the roof of her friend,
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  Speaker 3: whose hand you were soliciting in marriage.
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  Speaker 8: Yes, I entreat your ladyship not to fancy that you
• 2:09:47
  Speaker 8: are to break the hearts of half our sex by
• 2:09:50
  Speaker 8: binding Lord Sparkle in the adamantine chains of marriage. I
• 2:09:54
  Speaker 8: boast an equal right with you, and don't flatter yourself.
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  Speaker 8: I shall resign him.
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  Speaker 2: There malice, Lady Bell fits Hubert's malice. I never had
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  Speaker 2: a serious thought of miss Manners in my life.
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  Speaker 1: Enter Belleville.
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  Speaker 5: What my lord and you have dared toook of love
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  Speaker 5: to that lady without a serious thought?
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  Speaker 2: Hey day, what right have.
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  Speaker 5: You, oh, very trifling, only the right of a husband.
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  Speaker 5: The lady so honored by your love making in jest
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  Speaker 5: is my wife. In course, all obligations to herd of
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  Speaker 5: olv on me.
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  Speaker 2: Your wife, My dear Belleville, I give you joy with
• 2:10:36
  Speaker 2: all my soul. You see, tis always dangerous to keep
• 2:10:41
  Speaker 2: secrets from your friends. But is anybody else coming? Have
• 2:10:45
  Speaker 2: I any new crimes to be accused of any more
• 2:10:49
  Speaker 2: witnesses coming to the bar?
• 2:10:51
  Speaker 5: No? But I am witnessing a new cause and accuse
• 2:10:55
  Speaker 5: you of loading the mind of my friend Beauchamp with
• 2:10:57
  Speaker 5: a sense of obligation. You had neither spirit nor justice
• 2:11:00
  Speaker 5: to confer a commission.
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  Speaker 7: My lord, which was sent mister Beecham under a blank
• 2:11:05
  Speaker 7: cover by one who could not bear to see his
• 2:11:07
  Speaker 7: noble spirit dependent on your caprices.
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  Speaker 5: And when his sentiments pointed out your lordship as a benefactor,
• 2:11:14
  Speaker 5: you accepted the honor and have laid heavy taxes on
• 2:11:18
  Speaker 5: his gratitude.
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  Speaker 2: Well, and what is there and all that? Beecham did
• 2:11:24
  Speaker 2: not know to whom he was obliged, And wouldn't have
• 2:11:27
  Speaker 2: been a most unchristian thing to let a good action
• 2:11:30
  Speaker 2: run about the world belonging to nobody.
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  Speaker 1: I found it.
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  Speaker 2: A stray orphan and so fathered it. But you, fitz Herbert,
• 2:11:41
  Speaker 2: I see, are the lawful owner of the brat so pruthee,
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  Speaker 2: take it back and thank me for the honor of
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  Speaker 2: my patronage.
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  Speaker 3: Your reflected pleasantry, Lord Sparkle, may shield you from resentment,
• 2:11:54
  Speaker 3: but it will not from content.
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  Speaker 2: You're effrontery, effrontery worthy make distinctions. What in certain lines
• 2:12:04
  Speaker 2: would be effrontery in me is only the ease of fashion,
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  Speaker 2: that delightful thing which enables me, at this moment to
• 2:12:12
  Speaker 2: stand serene amidst your meditated storm. Come, my dear lady Bell,
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  Speaker 2: let us leave these good gentry and love ourselves amidst
• 2:12:23
  Speaker 2: the delights of fashion and the charms of bonton.
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  Speaker 7: Pardon me, my lord, as caprice is absolutely necessary to
• 2:12:31
  Speaker 7: the character of a fine lady. You will not be
• 2:12:34
  Speaker 7: surprised if I give an instance of it. Now, in
• 2:12:37
  Speaker 7: spite of your elegance, your fashion, and your wit, present
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  Speaker 7: my hand to this poor soldier, who boths only worth, spirit,
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  Speaker 7: honor and love.
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  Speaker 4: Have a care, madam. Feelings like mine are not to
• 2:12:52
  Speaker 4: be trifled with. Once already the hopes you have inspired, the.
• 2:12:57
  Speaker 7: Hour of trifling is past, and surely it cannot appear
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  Speaker 7: extraordinary that I prefer the internal worth of an uncorrupted
• 2:13:05
  Speaker 7: heart to the outward polish of a mind too feeble
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  Speaker 7: to support itself against vice in the seductive forms of
• 2:13:12
  Speaker 7: fashionable dissipation.
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  Speaker 2: Yde, why is your ladyship in the plot.
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  Speaker 3: The plot has been deeper laid than you, my lord,
• 2:13:21
  Speaker 3: have been able to conceive. As I have the misfortune
• 2:13:24
  Speaker 3: to be related to you, I thought it my duty
• 2:13:27
  Speaker 3: to watch over your conduct. I have seen your plans
• 2:13:31
  Speaker 3: which generally tended to your confusion and disgrace, and many
• 2:13:34
  Speaker 3: of them have been defeated, though you knew not by
• 2:13:37
  Speaker 3: what means. But what fate does your lordship design for
• 2:13:40
  Speaker 3: these young people decoyed by you from their native ignorance
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  Speaker 3: and home.
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  Speaker 2: Let them return to their native ignorance and home as
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  Speaker 2: fast as they can.
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  Speaker 6: No now, hang me, af I do that. I know
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  Speaker 6: life now and life all ow Hyde park play these
• 2:14:00
  Speaker 6: operas and all that sort of thing. Oh gentlemen, as
• 2:14:07
  Speaker 6: you promise to do something for me, what think you
• 2:14:11
  Speaker 6: of a commission the captain there can't want? Is now?
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  Speaker 6: Suppose you turning over to me?
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  Speaker 3: No, young man, you shall be taken care of. But
• 2:14:22
  Speaker 3: the requisites of a soldier are not those of partners
• 2:14:25
  Speaker 3: and assurance, intrepid spirit, nice, honor, generosity, and understanding all
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  Speaker 3: unite to form him. It is these which will make
• 2:14:35
  Speaker 3: a British soldier once again the first character in Europe.
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  Speaker 3: It is such soldiers who must make England once again
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  Speaker 3: invincible and her glittering arms triumphant in every quarter of
• 2:14:47
  Speaker 3: the globe.
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  Speaker 9: Well, Bobby may do as he will. I'll go back
• 2:14:51
  Speaker 9: to Cornwall directly and warn all my neighbors to take
• 2:14:54
  Speaker 9: special care how they trust to a lord's promises at
• 2:14:57
  Speaker 9: an election.
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  Speaker 2: Again, Well, great attempts and great failings mark the life
• 2:15:03
  Speaker 2: of a man's spirit. There is a clot even in
• 2:15:06
  Speaker 2: my disappointment to night, and I am ready for a
• 2:15:10
  Speaker 2: fresh set of adventures to morrow.
• 2:15:13
  Speaker 3: Incorrigible man, But I have done with you. Beauchamp has
• 2:15:18
  Speaker 3: answered all my hopes and the discernment of this charming woman.
• 2:15:22
  Speaker 3: In rewarding him, merits the happiness that awaits her, And
• 2:15:25
  Speaker 3: that I may give the fullest sanction to her choice,
• 2:15:28
  Speaker 3: I declare him heir to my estate. This I know
• 2:15:33
  Speaker 3: is a stroke your lordship did not expect, and.
• 2:15:36
  Speaker 4: Was it then to you, sir? The tumults of my gratitude.
• 2:15:41
  Speaker 3: Your conduct has completely rewarded me, and in adopting you oh, I.
• 2:15:46
  Speaker 7: Protest against that our union would then appear a prudent,
• 2:15:50
  Speaker 7: sober business, and I should lose the credit of having
• 2:15:53
  Speaker 7: done a mad thing. For the sake of the man
• 2:15:56
  Speaker 7: my heart prefers to you.
• 2:15:59
  Speaker 3: I resign him him with pleasure. His fate is in
• 2:16:03
  Speaker 3: your hands.
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  Speaker 7: Then he shall continue as soldier, one of those whom
• 2:16:08
  Speaker 7: love and his country detained to guarter dearest last possessions.
• 2:16:14
  Speaker 4: Love and my country. Yes, ye shall divide my heart
• 2:16:20
  Speaker 4: animated by such passions. Our forefathers were invincible, and if
• 2:16:25
  Speaker 4: we would preserve the freedom and independence they obtained for us,
• 2:16:31
  Speaker 4: we must imitate their virtues.
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  Speaker 1: End of Act five, and of which is the Man
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  Speaker 1: by Hannah Cowley