School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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SIR PETER. Certainly a little mortification appears very becoming
in a wife--don't you think it will do her good to let her Pine a little. ROWLEY. O this is ungenerous in you-- SIR PETER. Well I know not what to think--you remember Rowley the Letter I found of her's--evidently intended for Charles? ROWLEY. A mere forgery, Sir Peter--laid in your way on Purpose-- this is one of the Points which I intend Snake shall give you conviction on-- SIR PETER. I wish I were once satisfied of that--She looks this way----what a remarkably elegant Turn of the Head she has! Rowley I'll go to her-- ROWLEY. Certainly-- SIR PETER. Tho' when it is known that we are reconciled, People will laugh at me ten times more! ROWLEY. Let--them laugh--and retort their malice only by showing them you are happy in spite of it. SIR PETER. Efaith so I will--and, if I'm not mistaken we may yet be the happiest couple in the country-- ROWLEY. Nay Sir Peter--He who once lays aside suspicion---- |
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