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Act 1 · A School for Greybeards; or, The Mourning Bride

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Act one of a School for Graybeards or The Morning Bride by Hannah Cowley.
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This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain.
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For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org. Domatis Persone,
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Don Alexis read by Todd Don Gasper read by Ethan Hurst. Don Octavio
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read by Thomas Peter, Don Henry read by bees Wtecandle Don Sebastian read by
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Gregg Jeerdono, Donna Serafina read by Jen Broda, Donna Antonia read by val
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Roth, Donia Viola read by Matter Brachuch, Donna Clara read by Stunning,
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Rachel read by Sonya, Carlotta read by Michelle Wood, Bookworm, Pedrillo read
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by ale On Mapstone. Jacques read by Red Run, Peter read by David
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Purdy, Lady read by Agnes Robert Baer, Servant read by Inco. Don
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Philip read by Inco. Stage Directions read by Larry Wilson. Scene Portugal prologue
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prologues like mirrors which opticians place in their shop windows to reflect each face that
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passes by still mark how fashion varies reflecting ton in all her wild vagaries,
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point out when hats and caps are large or small, and register when collars
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rise or fall. Caricature the fashionable hobby, and tell if boots or shoe
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strings grace the lobby, nay, bold or grown, have sought for your
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applause with many a naughty joke on cork and gauze. Yet, howsoever,
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the saucy comic muse delights fantastic fashion to abuse from pert Thalia's wit. Let's
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try to save her, and see what can be said in Fashion's favor.
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How many own immortal handels sway, Since Fashion to the abbey led the way
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there, taking long neglected nature's part, she held him Shakespeare of the harmonic
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art in Vain had warbled Galatelia's woe. If Fashion had not bid the tear
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to flow, hew stones and fire had spent their rage in vain, you
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might as well have heard a shower of rain. But now awakened to his
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magic song, folks wonder how the deuce they slept so long His tortured airs.
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All voices made to suit his choruses adapted for a flute, hand organ,
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hurdy gurdy, tambourine, and Hondel's praise all join the general din when
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miss is seized to sing by every guest, and fond Mama too, joining
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with the rest, cries, get the new guitar Papa has bought you play
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the last lesson mister Tweedle taught you Miss Helms and simpers veins a cold of
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course, after the usual dear sir, I'm so hoarse, instead of a
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cotillion from her book, where favored Handel triumphs over Malbrook. By way of
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prelude to the charming squaw thrums like a minuet the march, and Saul Papa
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too, who a connoisseur now grows, accompanies divinely with his nose. Since
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music is so universal grown, shall not our Morning Bride its influence own.
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Sure tis the wish of every female breast that harmony may soothe her cares to
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rest, guided by harmonies enchanting laws, her sweetest music will be your applause.
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School for Graybeards or The Morning Bride. Act one scene an apartment ad
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done sebastians enter two servants on opposite sides. So our monster is dressing to
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dine with Don Gasper today previous to the wedding ceremony. Yes, gad,
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the bride will be well matched. There's hardly a richer man in Lisbon well
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married. You mean, as to the match, you might have made a
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better between a canary bird a jack o lantern sixty five and eighteen is a
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union full as vapory and unnatural. Now you've done it, prithee, Who
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can that stranger be so muffled up without? I know not? He takes
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as much pains to Aidy's face as though he had stolen it. Silly stolen
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faces are always shown off the most boldly, witness our ladies after they have
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been robbing the rouge pots. But as to this stranger, he says,
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he comes from our master's friend, Don Henry. Ah does he so w
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that Don Henry, who was obliged to fly for having for a jewel the
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same? Hang me? If I'd be playing at hide and seek in foreign
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lands for drawing a little blood, I'd go boldly to court and ask to
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speak to the Queen's majesty, and fall upon my knees and say, hist
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he comes Don Sebastian enters Sebastian, here is a stranger waiting with him,
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Sir, who is he truly, Sir, I can't discover. I have
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questioned and cross questioned him to no purpose. He's as dexterous as shifting announ
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sir, as though he was foster brother to a lawyer. But he says,
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Sir, he came from Don Henry, who was obliged to fly his
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country for challenging the Ah. Where is he going to the wing? No?
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Bring him hither, Bring him instantly, the brave, unfortunate Don Henry.
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This hour will be to him the heaviest of his life. He enters.
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Welcome, Sir, The friend of Don Henry cannot find a house in
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Portugal where he would be more joyfully received. You what, sir, day
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you thus receive the friend of a banished man, The man who were seen
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in Lisbon would have his head claimed the next all by the executioner. If
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thus you can receive his friend, how would you receive himself? Throwing open
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his cloak? In my arms and in my heart? I know I do
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not rejoice, Oh darn Henry, what imprudence? How dare you venture hither
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before your pardon has been obtained? Could you suppose the intelligence of Antonia's marriage
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would suffer me to rest in any other spot that the proud son visits.
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Had I been beneath the zone from which he paused his broadest rays, or
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in the dusky regions of Chimeria, such intelligence must have impelled me hither,
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and to what purpose? Surely this is a sort of chiotism that must end,
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like the Sublime Knight's contention with the windmills. I care not how it
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ends, the displeasure of my sovereign, and my heart torn by the ingratitude
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of the woman on whom it dotes the son. The end approaches, the
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better. I am not now to learn how hard it is to stem the
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torrent of your passions. Yet, if you would be patient, or might
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be well at least I trust so, though my visit to England at that
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period prevented me knowing precisely at the ground of your quarrel. Quarrel, do
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you then suspect it was a fray in which I fought that my sword is
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drawn in tavern brawls, or to support the insolence or perfidy of an abandoned
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wanton Jews of that sort a soldier stoops not to pray, then inform I
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fought to punish the slanderer of him who taught me how to fight, the
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brave Dulmata, that once conquering hero. I knew him well twas he first
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placed a sword upon my youthful thigh, and drawing forth the burnished blade.
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Never my henry, said the hoary general. Never be its lust a stained,
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except to serve your king or vindicate your friend. These are the outlines
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of a soldier's duty. Would you be a perfect soldier? Labor to be
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an exemplary man? With that sword? I thank it. Holding his sword
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and bending over it, I punished his traducer. Surely you cannot doubt of
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pardon. But whilst I wait for pardon in another kingdom, my antonia is
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lost. Oh is she not already lost? No, she is not.
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By heaven she shall not. She is my contracted wife. No power on
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earth can make her another's whilst I live. Are this, my friend,
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only proves the bitter excess of your disappointment? Have you any settled scheme?
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I have? At Madrid chanced that Don Julio, nephew to old Gasper,
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my rival, conceived a warm attachment for me from him. I learnt the
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news of this abhorrent marriage, the agonies that threw me in. He compassionated
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and formed a scheme which wears a face of success alas it is well,
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but pray go on. Learning that my person was unknown to Don Gasper,
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whose retired life throws him out of all public circles, Holyo conceived the resolution
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to make me pass for himself, you to pass for Don Gaspar's nephew.
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Well, with this view, he pretended an ardent to visit Portugal. His
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father has in course written to Don Gaspar. We both arrived last night,
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and Julio has given me the letter which will fix me in the house of
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my rival, to prevent, by whatever means that may offer themselves, the
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design upon my honor the robbery of my wife. My dear unhappy henry some
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in your fortitude whilst I tell you that Don Julio's friendship, united with your
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own temerity, cannot save your honor. If your honor is to be wounded
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by shaking his head? What's that? No speak, sebastion, My apprehensions
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choke me. I cannot give sound to words so cruel, But fly and
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save that life, which, if you are discovered here, must be forfeit.
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Huh understand you. She's married. She's married, and Tonia is another's.
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Oh, Sebastian, let me breathe, throwing himself on sebastian courage.
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Man, if he would but swear a little now and give all the sex,
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black, brown and yellow to the devil, I should have some hopes
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of you. No, there's no bearing this. A fine young fellow yielding
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himself to despair. At the very moment his perfidious mistress is giving herself to
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another. This very day she weds Don Gaspar, this very day, says
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thou speak it again, Sebastian, bless me with sound. Is this very
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day alas he's mad? No, no, if it be, but this
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day they're yet a hopes. She is now in the house of your rival.
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According to the custom of our country, she this morning went there,
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attended by her bridemaids, and in the evening Old Gaspar receives her vows.
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They are mine in the face of heaven and before witnesses they are mine.
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If she has given them to another, they cannot be valid. But by
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my assent, I'll fly instantly to the house, going Nay, suffer me
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to attend you, for though I have dear and tender cares of my own.
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I shall scarcely be awake to them. What's my friend is in such
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danger? Oh, sebast, the less or misery of all my years to
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come must be determined before the approaching night. Hath told out half it's ours.
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The enterprise is difficult, is full of danger? What danger can be
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formidable to a wretch who precipitated on a gulf must leap it or be lost?
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Excellent scene changes to don't gaspers. He enters meeting Rachel, Well,
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Rachel, how is my little girl? How is the bride? Or her
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spirits got up? What does she do? What does she say? Oh,
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Lord sir, she says, but little, and as to doing,
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a half stifled sigh pops out now and then or else she's as still as
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an ivory statute. Statute, But why don't you talk to her, then,
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missus statute, and tell her how happy she is? You should say,
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do you see, ma'am, with the fine house you have missed yourself?
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Do you see how many servants are at your command? And this rich
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casket of jewels, ma'am, which my master presents to you. How many
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ladies will envy you these jewels. Did not her eyes sparkle when she found
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them on her toilet, No, sir, but they glittered, for there
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was a tear in each tear, Aye, tears of joy. To be
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sure, the bridemaids and the rest of the ladies endeavored all they could to
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divert her, but to no purpose. So I up and said, says
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I, loss, ma'am, you are the happiest lady in Portugal. My
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master is the most agreeablest man for an old hm, I mean a middle
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aged gentleman. That was the word. Indeed, Sir, for a middle
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aged gentleman in all the world. He's never out of temper nor peevish,
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except when he has the gout. Shah. Then says I, ma'am.
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As to wrinkles, Lord, what signify is minding a few wrinkles? Why,
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in forty years, ma'am, you will be as rinkly as he is.
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What the devil did you talk to her of wrinkles for wrinkles? To
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be sure, I have the crows feet about my eyes, but many men
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have them before they are thirty. That's true, then, says I.
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As to my master's teeth, ma'am, they are as white and even and
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polished. I as your ladyships, and so they are, you know,
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sir, they have been home, but a fortnight sounds, get into the
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kitchen and go neither, lady no more? Was there ever such a stupid
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chattering? It's nuts to me to sting him, for I pity the poor
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young creature from my soul exit. I don't know whether it is stupidity or
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archness in the winch. I'm afraid she means to laugh at me. Hang
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me if I would have married at all, if my son would have married.
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But families must be kept up, and nothing can be swayed that young
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dog into the trammels. He'll rather turn monk than turn to matrimony. Inter
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servant, Well you saw your lady, honest Peter, Yes, sir.
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Oh, well, well, isn't she a pretty tight thing? Look at
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the garden. There she trips. There she trips with submission, Sir,
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I wish the trip mayn't have been yours. I am afraid this marriage is
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one of the falsest steps your worship ever made. And here's my young master.
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I am out if he does not think so too, For all he
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looks so full of spirits. What care I for what your young master thinks
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or you either you old exit a servant enter Octavio. Joy to you,
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sir, joy on the fest of morn. But by the way, it
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is very ill dressed for a bridal morn, the same dust sky blue it
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has worn this fortnight. Nor has the son been at the expense of one
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ray extraordinary all nature should have been in Galla on such an event as your
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nuptials. But where is my mother? I came eagerly to pay my duty
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mother gad that would look odd to see such a trapper as you call her
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mother? Shall it be Mamma, sir? No madam? That's grave and
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calmly. Madame has a distant sound in it. You shall call her madam.
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But instead of coming dutifully to congratulate me, sir, why did you
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not dutifully marry yourself? Faith sir, of all the duty's fate has imposed
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upon a man. I think that the hardest tis an imposition that some hundred
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dozen of your greag ansires, as wise and as witty as your worship have
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submitted to tis devil strange that it was necessary for so many great men to
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play the fool to bring me into existence. There's Don Alexis, to Alva,
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had been half mad to give you his daughter ever since your return from
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Italy. Ay had I had the grace to humor him, Sir, how
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happy for your fair antonia. She might have become at the same moment of
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virgin bride and to Grandmamma shall nonsense. However, Sir, let her not
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despair. She may hope for the honor of being a grandmother. Yet I
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refused the daughter of Don Alexis without having seen her. But now that I
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have seen her, I think I could venture to exchange my dear prize liberty
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for captivity with her. Say you so, my boy, it's the happiest
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news that I have heard. But where could you see her? For Don
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Alexis is so nicely jealous that if his stone walls had eyes, he'd never
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suffer either his wife or daughter to unveil before them. I saw her at
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church with her father. The sermon was on Christian charity, and to show
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how well she could illustrate the doctrine, she lifted her veil on that side
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next me, for she saw me hungering and thirsting for a view memorandum.
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My wife never goes to church. You shock me, sir. What is
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my dear mamma to turn heathen? No, Sir, I'll read homilies to
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her and she shall have prayers at home. Inter Servant Don Alexis de Alva,
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Sir, is come to pay his compliments to you on your wedding.
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Tis a happy presage. Pray recommend my suit, sir, And in the
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meantime, I'll go and ask blessing of the young lady in the garden.
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Exit enter. Don Alexis, so, my old friend. You're going to
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do a wise deed to day Solomon, and the child was nothing to it.
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Give ye joy? I give ye joy. You have a happnack in
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your civilities. You wish me joy as though you hoped it would be sorrow,
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and congratulated with an ailer reports air rubber fiddlesticks. And why didn't ye
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ask my advice? Could anybody have given ye better? Have I not done
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the same thing? Have I not made an old ass of myself by marrying
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a girl? Never mind that if your girl does not transform your s ship's
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ears to horns. Ah, that's a blessed fear to be goaded with.
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In the last stage, of one's mortal journey. I wish the day I
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left my bed to marry I had been confined in it with a gout,
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an asthma and a dropsy horns. Man, There's no end of your plagues
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from this moment. Pray keep your temper. Now, keep your temper tis
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a very bad one, but pray keep it. However, why you'd find
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it easier to spin cables out of cobwebs, what appears through the earth and
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swim out of the antipodes than a manager, young rant, a poor wife,
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and so your servant, I give you joy much good? May it?
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Do you going? Stay? Stay a moment, man, and tell
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me which is the greatest torment a young wife or daughter? Oh Lord?
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Why a daughter is a seventh day agieux and a wife is a frenzy fever?
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Well come, I recommend you a physician for ragu a physician. What
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do you mean? Why a lover to take your daughter off your hands?
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Who'd be the bold man to do that? An indident, young rascal six
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feet in the half high, who, upon such authority as husbands are obliged
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to take, calls me father. If you like it, he may call
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you so what doctor have you? Will he be my doctor? Octavio,
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marry my daughter? But perhaps this is a wedding day joke of yours,
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old Signor gad, you'll find this day's work no joke. WI leave me.
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If it's a joke, you have it. The second hand, there's
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no inventors now in the house, and has just desired me to employ all
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my interest in his favor. Interest. Let him use his own interest.
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Bid him come, or the stout rogue your interest. You have no more
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than a cork cutter with an archbishop. Bid him come. I say,
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I'll hurry home and prepare my daughter. Ay, ay, Let boys and
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girls marry my old friend. But as for well, I'll say no more
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much good? May it do ye exceit? By Saint Jeffrey, the old
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fellow has made me feel chilly upon the business, brought him here to throw
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cold water upon all my orders and all the pretty little loves that were springing
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up and warming the lapland region around my heart in once wintery age. Those
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gleams required to be cherished, and not Gad, I'll go to little Tony.
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The baggage has never yet given me one kiss, the one touch of
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her lips will be an antidote to his cold poison. Or I'm going into
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servants, Sir. Here's one Don Julio from Spain. Hey, your worship's
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nephew, Sir, from Madrid. He's brought you a letter from his father,
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Don Henriquez, and desires you'll admit him to pay his duty. Ha,
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my own sister's son, my poor Olivia's boy, of whom she died
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in childbirth. Let him come in, Don Henry, introduced, my dear
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nephew. Why I am as glad to see thee as if how does do
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grown up as a man? Dear dear, how time slips does? But
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yesterday that your mother came out of the convent to be married like her two
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very like her? Indeed well? And how does do Julio? How is
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thy father don Orrequez was well, Sir when I left Madrid. That letter
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will inform you of his wishes beside scarcely can I contain my feelings? I
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am now under the roof of perfidious antonia, and this wretch will call his
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wife. Let him beware how he shows the slightest fondness by heaven. If
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he should aye very well, very well, your father desires you may be
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received as my guest, and as that you are of a remarkable, sober,
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serious turn, I'm glad of it, Julio, Never be wild,
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my boy. I suppose you can see a pretty woman without wishing her husband
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at the devil, or endeavoring to persuade her that you are a finer fellow
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than he is. Those are not my habits, sir. I believe it.
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Ye, there's something in your look that confirms what you say. Well,
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you are come in happy time. You are going to have a new
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aunt. I'll present you to her. But she is very rigid. Remember
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that she'll expect you to treat her with the most distant respect. She's not
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so young as she looks. No, No a city person. Some women
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would look young in spite of yours, true, sir, Some men will
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be fools in spite of wrinkles. Ah, you are right, nephew,
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tis a vile, foolish age. Now I'll carry you to your aunt.
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Ah. Here she comes. But not so pretty a woman, I assure
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you, when examined as at the first glance, some women strike at first,
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you know, don Henry aside hypo critical slanderer. How shall I contain
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my emotions? Antonia enters with ladies. Huh, she doth not look happy?
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Some consolation to my racked heart. Come, dearie, cheer up,
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cheer up. What all these trinkets and rich laces and finery not brighten me?
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Had you married a young fellow, he'd have made you no such presents.
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His money would have been lavish, and all his mistresses. I'll keep
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no mistresses. No naughty woman shall seduce thine own old man, Antonia aside
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Nasius, Oh Clara, My fate seems to open on me at this moment
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with a horror I never yet conceived. Tis a moment too late. Sweet
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cousin, you have submitted to your fate. Think now how to make your
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fate submit to you. Out out no whispering, to hugro old enough to
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turn back biers. Nuckle up your smiles, patty in Antonia's cheek and your
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pretty roguish leers. Come, ladies, your spirits, your wit. I
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thought every woman happy on the wedding day, whether it was her own or
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her neighbors. The brine's pensiveness in facts, as Sir r, seems to
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be impertinent. Pardon me were my spirits obedient to my wishes, your reproach
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would have been undeserved. But though we can determine how to act, I
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find we cannot determine how to feel feel feel. When I was a youngster,
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women had no such word in their vocabulary. Can't you leave your feelings
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alone? Never mind them? And in like neglected guests, there will be
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in no hurry to repeat their visits. I have not regarded my feelings many
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years, and now they have learned manners, and don't interrupt me. Don
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Henry aside, not one chance look this way? And yet I can forgive
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the sweet averted eyes because it speaks disgust to all around her. You know
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the cause I have for sorrow, and have allowed it. Yet my pensiveness
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ought not to throw a weight upon the day I will be better. Yes,
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yes, we shall be as happy and as faithful as too, turtle
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dove, shan't we pat? I hope to prove my duty. Sir Aside,
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dear, he never asked my love. I have forgot here. He
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is a nephew of mine, a nephew of yours now, but I receive
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him. Don Julio Kovallo. She curtsies without regarding him, Don Henry aside,
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Where then is the secret sympathy of love which should instructor that her Henry's
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near? She shall observe me. May this day be happy to you,
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lady, and to him whom most you wish to bless. She started,
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His voice looks and shrieks. Hey, dear little pat what ails ya?
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Why do you start? And shriek? Is my own flesh and blood?
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Surprise, sir, Oh, your nephews so much, he so much resembles
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I like me. Mayhap you think I believe there is a family likeness.
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But that need not have scared you so, No, sir, it was
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not that his resemblance is too to a most beloved relation whom I have lost.
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Oh what your cousin. I suppose that fine young man who went to
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Mexico and was drowned. Ay, a poor fellow he was drowned, were
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done Henry living? I should believe the stranger him? But oh, tis
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impossible. The grave will not give back its prey, No, not to
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agonizing love. Come, come, little Paddy, what do you cry for?
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Your cousin that was drowned went to Mexico to make his fortune, didn't
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he? Yes, sir, well he got us in there, what would
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you have come? Let us go to the music room. There, you
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who have husbands will find them, and you who have none may make snares
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for them. Combat leading her, you are already snarut and the gad he
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must look sharp? Who gets you back of my net? Excellent? All
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but done, Henry, I, who looks sharp? And get her out
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of thy net? Closely as thou hast entangled her. Dona Clara returns and
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twitches his arm. Turn young man, I pray he starts. Good,
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Don Julio, tell Don Henry, we did not expect to find him in
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masquerade to grace Antonia's nuptials. I am discovered, then, Dona Clara,
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your faithless cousin. Faithless has she been? Is she not this day to
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be married? Truly? I think so, signor or I am not a
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bridemaid. But how far faithless? I know not, For I returned from
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Aragon last night after more than a year's absence. We met but an hour
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since in the church. Nor have we yet had time for conversation. Then
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I entreat you let this discovery rest with yourself. It is of the last
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importance to me that I should not be known to Don Gaspar, and at
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present I would be equally concealed from Antonia. You must give me reasons for
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this request, for I am not certain that I ought not instantly to betray
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you. It is true you have been her lover, but she is now
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to be the wife of Don Gaspar. Her duties to him will be of
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the most sacred sort, and she must fulfill them scrupulously. Think me not
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a seduce, sir. I have loved Antonia for her purity and virtue,
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and to destroy her honor would be to trample on my own, Oh Clara,
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for you have loved as I do. My passion is mingled with the
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tender, protecting affection of a brother, and violation is impossible. Pray then,
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tell me you shall know all, And should Antonia's married be voluntary,
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I will take no revenge but to leave her that if, as her melancholy
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allows me to hope, she has been deceived into it. There is not
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a power on earth that can divide us. If your design is not contrary
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to rectitude, be assured I shall not oppose it. Follow me to a
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more distant room. A new secret is almost as delightful as a new lover,
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excellent in the fact, one