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Lover's Vows by August von Kotzebue
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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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