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Page 12 - Kite. Oh! a mighty large bed ! bigger by half than the great bed at Ware — ten thousand people may lie in it together and never feel one another.
Page 52 - I like him the better : I was just such another fellow at his age : " I never set my heart upon any * * woman so much as to make myself uneasy at the " disappointment; but what was very surprising both " to myself and friends, I chang'd o' th' sudden from " the most fickle lover to the most constant husband
Page 48 - I have known thee a great while, never go, if I do not love thee as well as a new acquaintance.
Page 65 - Lord, what d'ye make a fool of me for ? Don't I know that letters are never writ but from the ) country to London, and from London into the country ? Now he's in town, and I am in town too ; therefore I can't write to him, you know.
Page 122 - Pardon ! No, no, child, your crime shall be your punishment. — Here, Captain, I deliver her over to the conjugal power for her chastisement ; since she will be a wife, be you a husband, a very husband. When she tells you of her love, upbraid her with her folly ; be modishly ungrateful, because she has been unfashionably kind, and use her worse than you would anybody else, because you can't use her so well as she deserves.
Page 103 - Ind. Yet, then, to find the most charming of mankind once more to set me free from what I thought the last distress, to load me with his services, his bounties, and his...
Page 69 - I am this moment obliged to be at every one of them, and 'twould be wrong if I should not be in the hall to attend one of 'em at least ; the rest would take it ill else. Therefore, I must leave what I have said to Mr. Serjeant's consideration, and I will digest his arguments on my part, and you shall hear from me again, sir.
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Page 18 - For whom ? Plume. For a regiment. — But for a woman ! — 'Sdeath ! I have been constant to fifteen at a time, but ] never melancholy for one ; and can the love of one bring / you into this pickle? Pray, who is this miraculous Helen? Wor. A Helen indeed, not to be won under a ten years' siege : as great a beauty, and as great a jilt.
Page 100 - Seal. Yes, madam, there came to my hands a bill drawn by Mr. Bevil, which is payable to-morrow ; and he, in the intercourse of business, sent it to me, who have cash of his, and desired me to send a servant with it; but I have made bold to bring you the money myself.