School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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yourself too I suppose--
CHARLES. Not that I know of, Sir Oliver. SIR OLIVER. What[!] little Premium has been let too much into the secret I presume. CHARLES. True--Sir--but they were Family Secrets, and should not be mentioned again you know. ROWLEY. Come Sir Oliver I know you cannot speak of Charles's Follies with anger. SIR OLIVER. Odd's heart no more I can--nor with gravity either-- Sir Peter do you know the Rogue bargain'd with me for all his Ancestors--sold me judges and Generals by the Foot, and Maiden Aunts as cheap as broken China! CHARLES. To be sure, Sir Oliver, I did make a little free with the Family Canvas that's the truth on't:--my Ancestors may certainly rise in judgment against me there's no denying it--but believe me sincere when I tell you, and upon my soul I would not say so if I was not--that if I do not appear mortified at the exposure of my Follies, it is because I feel at this moment the warmest satisfaction in seeing you, my liberal benefactor. SIR OLIVER. Charles--I believe you--give me your hand again: the ill-looking little fellow over the Couch has made your Peace. CHARLES. Then Sir--my Gratitude to the original is still encreased. |
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