School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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SIR PETER. Yes, damned good-natured! Her own relation!
mercy on me! [Aside.] MRS. CANDOUR. For my Part I own I cannot bear to hear a friend ill-spoken of? SIR PETER. No, to be sure! SIR BENJAMIN. Ah you are of a moral turn Mrs. Candour and can sit for an hour to hear Lady Stucco talk sentiments. LADY SNEERWELL. Nay I vow Lady Stucco is very well with the Dessert after Dinner for she's just like the Spanish Fruit one cracks for mottoes--made up of Paint and Proverb. MRS. CANDOUR. Well, I never will join in ridiculing a Friend-- and so I constantly tell my cousin Ogle--and you all know what pretensions she has to be critical in Beauty. LADY TEAZLE. O to be sure she has herself the oddest countenance that ever was seen--'tis a collection of Features from all the different Countries of the globe. SIR BENJAMIN. So she has indeed--an Irish Front---- CRABTREE. Caledonian Locks---- SIR BENJAMIN. Dutch Nose---- CRABTREE. Austrian Lips---- |
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