She stoops to conquer Flashcards
(122 cards)
1
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Pray would you know the reason I’m crying?…
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… The Comic muse, long sick, is now a-dying!
2
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Is there a creature in the whole country, but ourselves…
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That does not take a trip to town now and then, to rub off the rust a little?
3
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I wonder why London cannot keep its own fools at home.
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(Mr Hardcastle)
4
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Here we live in an old rambling mansion…
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… That looks for all the world like an inn, but that we never see company.
5
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I hate such old-fashioned trumpery.
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And I love it. I love everything that’s old… you’ll own I have been pretty fond of an old wife.
6
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Add twenty to twenty, and make money of that.
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Twenty added to twenty, makes just fifty and seven.
7
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The poor boy was always too sickly to do any good. A school would be his death.
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No, no, the ale-house and the stable are the only schools he’ll ever go to.
8
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Anybody that looks in his face may see he’s consumptive.
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Ay, if growing too fat be one of the symptoms.
9
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The Three Pigeons expects me down every moment.
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Ay: the ale-house, the old place. I thought so.
10
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Pray, my dear, disappoint them for one night at least.
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As for disappointing them, I should not so much mind, but I can’t abide to disappoint myself.
11
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We’ll see which is strongest, you or I. (Tony)
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[EXIT TONY, HAULING MRS HARDCASTLE OUT] Ay, there goes a pair that only spoil each other.
12
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There’s my pretty darling Kate…
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… The fashions of the times have almost infected her too.
13
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Blessings on my pretty innocence!…
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… Dressed out as usual my Kate. Goodness! What a quantity of superfluous silk has thou got about thee girl!
14
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You Know our agreement, Sir…
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… You allow me morning to receive and pay visits, and to dress in my own manner; and in the evening, I put on my housewife’s dress to please you.
15
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I expect the young gentleman…
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… I have chosen to be your husband from town this very day.
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And to crown all, Kate, he’s one of the most bashful and reserved young fellows in the world.
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Eh! You have frozen me to death again… a reserved lover, it is said, always makes a suspicious husband.
17
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I believe he’ll do still. I think I’ll have him.
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Ay, Kate, but there is still an obstacle. It’s more than an even wager, he may not have you.
18
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Yet can’t he be cured of his timidity, by being taught to be proud of his wife…
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… I vow I’m disposing of the husband, before I have secured the lover.
19
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I can scarce get it out-…
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… I have been threatened with a lover.
20
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Among women of reputation and virtue, he is the modestest man alive…
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… But his acquaintance give him a very different character among creatures of another stamp.
21
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A fortune like yours is no small temptation.
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(Kate to Constance about Mrs Hardcastle)
22
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I let her believe that I am in love with her son, and she never once dreams that my affections are fixed upon another.
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My good brother holds out stoutly. I could almost love him for hating you so.
23
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As sure a can be one of them must be the gentlemen coming down to court my sister. Do they seem to be Londoners?
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I believe they may. They look woundily like Frenchmen.
24
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Gentlemen, as they mayn’t be good enough company for you, step down a moment…
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… Father-in-law ahs been calling me whelp, and hound, this half year.. I could be so revenged upon the old grumbletonian.
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Is not this same Hardcastle a...
... Cross-grained, old-fashioned, whimsical fellow, with an ugly face, a daughter, and a pretty son?
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The daughter a tall trapesing, trolloping, talkative maypole...
... The son, a pretty, well-bred, agreeable youth, that everybody is fond of.
27
Come to where four roads meet!...O sir, you're facetious.
... Ay; but you must be sure to take only one of them.
28
Sure, you ben't sending them to your father's as an inn, be you?
Mum, you fool you. Let them find that out.
29
Ah, bless your heart, for a sweet, pleasant-...
... Damned mischievous son of a whore.
30
You must see us eat, and not think of eating.
That's parfectly unpossible. Whenever Diggory sees yeating going forward, ecod he's always wishing for a mouthful himself.
31
You must not all burst out a-laughing... Ha! Ha! Ha! The story is a good one. Well, honest Diggory, you may laugh at that.
... Your worship must not tell the story of Ould Grouse in the gun-room.
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The usual fate of a large mansion...
Having first ruined the master by good housekeeping, it at last comes to levy contributions as an inn.
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My life has chiefly spent in a college...
... Or an inn, in seclusion from that lovely part of the creation that chiefly teach men confidence.
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But among females of another class you know-...
... Ay, among them you are impudent enough of all conscience.
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But in the company of women of reputation...
... I never saw such an idiot, such a trembler.
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An impudent fellow may counterfeit modesty...
... But I'll be hanged if a modest man can ever counterfeit impudence
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I don't think I'll look her in the face, till I see my father's again.
I'm surprised that one who is son warm a friend can be so cool a lover.
38
Don't you think the ventre d'or waistcoat will do with the plain brown?
I think not. Brown and yellow mix but very poorly.
39
This is the most unaccountable kind of modesty I ever met with.
Mr Hardcastle, first meeting
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A very impudent fellow this! But he's a character and I'll humour him a little.
Marlow, first meeting
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I see this fellow wants to give us his company, and forgets that he's an innkeeper.
Hastings, first meeting
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Ay, young gentleman, that, and a little philosophy.
[MARLOW, ASIDE] Well, this is the first time I ever heard of an innkeeper's philosophy.
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Such a brazen...
... Dog sure never my eyes beheld.
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His uncle a colonel!...
... We shall soon hear of his mother being a justice of peace.
45
Damn your pig, I say.
Hastings
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And damn your prune sauce, say I.
Marlow
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And yet, gentlemen, to men that are hungry, pig, with prune sauce, is very good eating...
... Their impudence confounds me.
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[MARLOW ASIDE] A very troublesome fellow this, as I ever met with.
This may be modern modesty, but I never saw any thing that look so like old-fashioned impudence.
49
Miss Neville, by all that's happy!
My dear Hastings!
50
I could never have hoped to meet my dearest Constance at an inn.
An inn! Sure you mistake! My aunt, my guardian, lives here. What could induce you to think this house an inn?
51
Mr Marlow... and I, have been sent here as to an inn...
... A young fellow whom we accidentally met at a house hard by directed us hither.
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Certainly it must have been one of my hopeful cousin's tricks...
... You'd adore him if you knew how heartily he despises me.
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Thou dear dissembler!...
... If my dearest girl will trust in her faithful Hastings, we shall soon land in France, where even among slaves the laws of marriage are respected.
54
Though ready to obey you... I yet should leave my little fortune behind with reluctance...
... Left me by my uncle, the India director, and chiefly consists in jewels... persuading my aunt to let me wear them... The instant they are put into my possession, you shall find me ready to make them and myself yours.
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Perish the baubles!...
... Your person is all I desire.
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My friend Marlow must not be let into his mistake... The strange reserve of his temper is such, that... he would instantly quit the house before our plan was ripe for execution.
But how shall we keep him in the deception?... What if we still continue to deceive him?
57
My host seems to think...
... It ill manners to leave me alone, and so he claps not only himself but his old-fashioned wife on my back.
58
But our dresses, George...
... Are in disorder. What if we should postpone the happiness 'till tomorrow?
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You are to assist me, you know...
... I shall be confoundedly ridiculous.
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She's but a woman, you know.
And of all women, she that I dread most to encounter!
61
You never spoke better in your whole life...
Keep it up, and I'll ensure you the victory... Cicero never spoke better.
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You don't consider, man...
... That we are to manage a little tete-a-tete of our own.
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[MARLOW RELAPSING INTO TIMIDITY] Pardon me, madam, I-I-I- as yet have studied- only- to- deserve them.
Who could ever suppose this fellow impudent upon some occasions.
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This pretty smooth dialogue has done for me.
Was there ever such a sober sentimental interview? I'm certain he scarce looked in my face the whole time... yet the fellow, but for his accountable bashfulness, is pretty well too. He has good sense... I could teach him a little confidence.
65
There's nothing in the world I love to talk of so much as London, and the fashions, though I was never there myself.
Never there! You amaze me!... I concluded you had been bred all your life either at Ranelagh, St James's, or Tower Wharf.
66
We country persons can have no manner at all. I'm in love with the town...
... But who can have a manner, that has never seen the Pantheon, the Grotto Gardens, the Borough, and such places where the Nobility chiefly resort?
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One must dress a little particular or one may escape in the crowd... Yet, what signifies my dressing when I have such a piece of antiquity by my side as Mr Hardcastle.
But that can never be your case, madam, in any dress.
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Pray, Mr Hastings, what do you take to be the most fashionable age about town... I shall be too young for the fashion.
Some time ago, forty was all the mode, but I'm told the ladies intend to bring up fifty for the ensuing winter.
69
Your niece, is she? And that young gentleman, a brother of yours, I should presume?
What soft things are you saying to your cousin Constance this evening?
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O lud! He has almost cracked my head.
O, the monster! For shame, Tony. You a man, and behave so!
71
You see, Mr Hastings, the wretchedness of my situation...
... Was ever poor woman ever plagued with a dear, sweet, pretty, provoking, undutiful boy?
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But there is a meek modesty about her that charms me.
Yes, but curb her never so little, she kicks up, and you're flung in a ditch.
73
What say you to a friend that would take this bitter bargain off your hands... take Miss Neville, and leave you to happiness and your dear Betsy?
Ay; but where is there such a friend, for who would take her?
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I am he. If you but assist me, I'll engage to whip her off to France, and you shall never hear more of her.
Assist you!... I will, to the last drop of my blood... and maybe get you a part of her fortin beside, in jewels, that you little dream of.
75
[TONY SINGING]
We are the boys that fears no noise where the thundering cannons roar.
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What could my old friend Sir Charles mean by recommending his son as the modestest young man in town?...
... To me he appears the most impudent piece of brass that ever spoke with a tongue... I'm desirous to know how his impudence affects my daughter. She will certainly be shocked at it.
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He has quite confounded all my faculties!
A French dancing-master could never have taught him that timid look, that awkward address, that bashful manner.
78
Then your first sight deceived you, for I think him one of the most brazen first sights that ever astonished my senses.
Sure, sir, you rally! I never saw anyone so modest.
79
One of us must certainly be mistaken... And if he be the sullen thing I take him, he shall never have mine.
If he be what he has shown himself, I'm determined he shall never have my consent... In one thing then we are agreed- to reject him.
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And yet there may be many good qualities under that first appearance.
Ay, when a girl finds a fellow's outside to her taste, she then sets about guessing the rest of his furniture.
81
I hope, sir, a conversation begun with a compliment to my good sense won't end with a sneer to my understanding?
Pardon me, Kate. But if young Mr Brazen can find the art of reconciling contradictions, he may please us both, perhaps.
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But, depend on't, I'm in the right.
And, depend on't, I'm not much in the wrong.
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And here's something to bear your charges...
... Your sweetheart's jewels... Ask me no questions and I'll tell you no fibs.
84
You must learn resignation, my dear, for though we lose our fortune, yet we should not lose our patience. See me, how calm I am.
Ay, people are generally calm at the misfortunes of others.
85
Confusion! Thieves! Robbers! We are cheated, plundered, broke open, undone.
Oh! Is that all? Ha, ha, ha. By the laws, I never saw it better acted in my life.
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Was there ever such a blockhead, that can't tell the difference between jest and earnest. I tell you I'm not in jest, booby.
Was there ever such a cross-grained brute, that won't hear me!... Was ever poor woman so beset with fools on one hand, and thieves on the other?
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He mistook you for the barmaid, madam.
I'm resolved to keep up the delusion.
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His fears were such, that he never once looked up during the interview...
... My chief, aim is to take my gentleman off his guard, and like an invisible champion of romance examine the giant's force before I offer to combat.
89
One would think you wanted to know one's age as they do horses, by mark of mouth...
... And who wants to be acquainted with you?... I'm sure you did not treat Miss Hardcastle... in this obstropalous manner.
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A mere, awkward, squinting thing, no, no...
... And why not now, my angel? Such beauty fires beyond the power of resistance.
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This is your humble admirer... Art thou not ashamed to deceive your father so...I believe his impudence is infectious... You may like his impudence, and call it modesty.
He's still the modest man I first took him for... Give me that hour then, and I hope to satisfy you... My duty as yet has been inclination.
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Well, success attend you!...
... In the meantime, I'll go amuse my aunt with the old pretence of a violent passion for my cousin.
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This little barmaid though runs in my head most strangely...
... And drives out the absurdities of all the rest of the family. She's mine, she must be mine, or I'm greatly mistaken.
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But how can you, Charles, go about to rob a woman of her honour... I believe the girl has virtue.
We all know the honour of the barmaid of an inn. I don't intend to rob her, take my word for it. There's nothing in this house, I shan't honestly pay for.
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I no longer know my own house...
... It's all topsy-turvy. His servants have got drunk already.
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How's this! Sure I have not mistaken the house!...
... Everything looks like an inn.
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O, confound my stupid head...
... I shall be laughed at all over town... To mistake this house of all others for an inn, and my father's old friend for an innkeeper! What a swaggering puppy he must take me for!
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May I be hanged, my dear, but I mistook you for the barmaid.
I'm sure there's nothing in my behavour to put me upon a level with one of that stamp.
99
But I was in for a list of blunders...
... And could not help making you a subscriber... this house I no more show my face in.
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[KATE PRETENDING TO CRY]
By heaven, she weeps. This is the first mark of tenderness I ever had from a modest woman, and it touches me... My lovely girl, you are the only part of the family I leave with any reluctance.
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The difference of our birth, fortune and education make an honourable connection impossible...
... I can never harbour a thought of reducing simplicity that trusted in my honour, or bringing ruin upon one, whose only fault was being too lovely.
102
I never knew half of his merit till now...
... If I have power or art to detain him, I'll still preserve the character in which I stooped to conquer, but will undeceive my papa, who, perhaps, may laugh him out of his resolution.
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O, Mr Marlow! If you knew what a scene of constraint and ill-nature lies before me, I'm sure it would convert your resentment into pity.
I'm so distracted with a variety of passions, that I don't know what I do. Forgive me, madam. George, forgive me. You know my hasty temper, and should not exasperate it.
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You see now, young gentleman, the effects of your folly.
Meet me two hours hence at the bottom of the garden, and if you don't find Tony Lumpkin a more good- natured fellow than you thought for, I'll give you leave to take my best horse, and Bet Bouncer into the bargain.
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He might have seen something in me above a common innkeeper.
Yes, Dick, but he mistook you for an uncommon innkeeper.
106
We had but one interview, and that was formal, modest and uninteresting
This fellow's formal modest impudence is beyond bearing.
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I understand. You took them in a round, while they supposed themselves going forward.
Only mother is confoundedly frightened. She thinks herself forty miles off.
108
She's got from the pond, and draggled up to the waist like a mermaid.
Oh, Tony, I'm killed. Shook. Battered to death. I shall never survive it.
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By my guess we should be upon Crackskull Common about forty miles from home.
The most notorious spot in all the country. We only want a robbery to make a complete night on't... The fright will certainly kill me.
110
Father-in-law, by all that's unlucky, come to take one of his night walks.
Ah, its a highwayman, with pistols as long as my arm. A damned ill-looking fellow.
111
He'll muder my poor boy, my darling. Here, good gentleman, whet your rage upon me...
... Take my money, my life, but spare that young gentleman. Spare my child, if you have any mercy.
112
Sure, Dorothy, you have not lost your wits...
... This is one of your old tricks, you graceless rogue, you.
113
Mother, all the parish says you have spoiled me, and so you may take the fruits on't.
There's morality, however, in his reply.
114
Two or three years' patience will at last crown us with happiness.
But since you persist, I must reluctantly obey you.
115
What a situation am I in?...
... If what you say appears, I shall then find a guilty son. If what he says be true, I shall then lose one that... I most wished for a daughter.
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[KATE IN HER OWN NATURAL MANNER]
This girl every moment improves upon me... My very pride begins to submit to my passion.
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Do you think I would take the mean advantage of a transient passion, to load you with confusion?...
... Do you think I could ever relish that happiness, which was acquired by lessening yours?
118
I'm proud of the connection.
Hardcastle about Tony and Constance.
119
This is all but the whining end of a modern novel.
My undutiful offspring.
120
And could I prevail upon my little tyrant here to be less arbitrary.
The mistakes of the night shall be crowned with a merry morning... As you have been mistaken in the mistress, my wish is, that you may never be mistaken in the wife.
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Kate's epilogue.
Gained a husband without aid from dress... our life is all a play composed to please... the unblushing barmaid of a country inn.
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Tony's epilogue.
Cousin Neville, I renounce her... I'll carry big Bet Bouncer... we'll set the fashions too.
