The Man of the World (1792) by Charles Macklin
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fortune.--Sir, I will have no son of mine, because truly he has been
educated in an English seminary, presume, under the mask of candour, to speak against his native land, or against my principles. _Eger_. I never did--nor do I intend it. _Sir Per_. Sir, I do not believe you--I do not believe you.--But, sir, I know your connections and associates, and I know too, you have a saucy, lurking prejudice against your ain country:--you hate it;--yes, your mother, her family, and your brother, sir, have aw the same, dark, disaffected rankling; and, by that and their politics together, they will be the ruin of you--themselves--and of aw who connect with them.--However, nai mair of that now;--I will talk at large to you about that anon.--In the mean while, sir--notwithstanding your contempt of my advice, and your disobedience till my commands, I will convince you of my paternal attention till _your_ welfare, by my management of this voluptuary--this Lord Lumbercourt,--whose daughter you are to marry. You ken, sir, that the fellow has been my patron above these five and thraty years., _Eger_. True, sir. _Sir Per_. Vary weel.--And now, sir, you see, by his prodigality, he is become my dependent; and accordingly I have made my bargain with him:--the devil a baubee he has in the world but what comes thro' these clutches-- for his whole estate, which has three implicit boroughs upon it,--mark--is now in my custody at nurse;--the which estate, on my paying off his debts, and allowing him a life rent of five thousand pounds per annum, is to be made over till me for my life, and at my death is to descend till ye and your issue.--The peerage of Lumbercourt, you ken, will follow of course.-- So, sir, you see there are three impleecit boroughs, the whole patrimony |
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