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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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