_Jar._ Did you, madam? I am an old man, and had forgot. Perhaps too
you forbad my tears; but I am old, madam, and age will be forgetful.

_Mrs. Bev._ The faithful creature! how he moves me!
[_To Charlotte._

_Char._ Not to have seen him had been cruelty.

_Jar._ I have forgot these apartments too. I remember none such in
my young master's house; and yet I have lived in't these five and
twenty years. His good father would not have dismissed me.

_Mrs. Bev._ He had no reason, Jarvis.

_Jar._ I was faithful to him while he lived, and when he died, he
bequeathed me to his son. I have been faithful to Him too.

_Mrs. Bev._ I know it, I know it, Jarvis.

_Char._ We both know it.

_Jar._ I am an old man, madam, and have not a long time to live.
I asked but to have died with him, and he dismissed me.

_Mrs. Bev._ Prithee no more of this! 'Twas his poverty that
dismissed you.

_Jar._ Is he indeed so poor then? Oh! he was the joy of my old
heart. But must his creditors have all? And have they sold his house
too? His father built it when He was but a prating boy. The times I