School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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matter, for all that--mightn't He, Joseph?
SIR PETER. Well well I believe you-- SURFACE. Would they were both out of the Room! Enter SERVANT, whispers SURFACE SIR PETER. And in future perhaps we may not be such Strangers. SURFACE. Gentlemen--I beg Pardon--I must wait on you downstairs-- Here is a Person come on particular Business---- CHARLES. Well you can see him in another Room--Sir Peter and I haven't met a long time and I have something to say [to] him. SURFACE. They must not be left together.--I'll send this man away and return directly-- [SURFACE goes out.] SIR PETER. Ah--Charles if you associated more with your Brother, one might indeed hope for your reformation--He is a man of Sentiment-- Well! there is nothing in the world so noble as a man of Sentiment! CHARLES. Pshaw! He is too moral by half--and so apprehensive of his good Name, as he calls it, that I suppose He would as soon let a Priest in his House as a Girl-- SIR PETER. No--no--come come,--you wrong him. No, no, Joseph is no Rake but he is no such Saint in that respect either. I have a great |
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