Lover's Vows by August von Kotzebue
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page 45 of 97 (46%)
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AMELIA. Whatever I know, and you don't.
ANHALT. There are some things I had rather never know. AMELIA. So you may remember I said when You began to teach me mathematics. I said I had rather not know it--But now I have learnt it gives me a great deal of pleasure--and [hesitating] perhaps, who can tell, but that I might teach something as pleasant to you, as resolving a problem is to me. ANHALT. Woman herself is a problem. AMELIA. And I'll teach you to make her out. ANHALT. _You_ teach? AMELIA. Why not? none but a woman can teach the science of herself: and though I own I am very young, a young woman may be as agreeable for a tutoress as an old one.--I am sure I always learnt faster from you than from the old clergyman who taught me before you came. ANHALT. This is nothing to the subject. AMELIA. What is the subject? ANHALT. ---- Love. AMELIA [going up to him]. Come, then, teach it me--teach it me as you taught me geography, languages, and other important things |
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