The Contrast by Royall Tyler
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what will now be received with rapture will then be
attributed to duty. JONATHAN Well, and what was the consequence? JESSAMY The consequence!--Ah! forgive me, my dear friend, but you New England gentlemen have such a laud- able curiosity of seeing the bottom of everything;-- why, to be honest, I confess I saw the blooming cherub of a consequence smiling in its angelic mother's arms, about ten months afterwards. JONATHAN Well, if I follow all your plans, make them six bows, and all that, shall I have such little cherubim conse- quences? JESSAMY Undoubtedly.--What are you musing upon? |
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