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Tales and Novels — Volume 09 by Maria Edgeworth
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daughter most uncommon fond of him, to a degree! Can't, now, bear any
reflections the most distant, now, sir, upon the Jews, which was what
distressed me when I found the play was to be this Jew of Venice, and I
would have come away, only that I couldn't possibly." Here Mrs. Coates,
without any mercy upon my curiosity about Mr. Montenero and his daughter,
digressed into a subject utterly uninteresting to me, and would explain to
us the reasons why Mr. Alderman Coates and Mr. Peter Coates her son were
not this night of her party. This lasted till we reached her box, and then
she had so much to say to all the Miss Issys, Cecys, and Hennys, that it
was with the utmost difficulty I could, even by carefully watching my
moment, obtain a card with her own, and another with Miss Montenero's
address. This time there was no danger of my losing it. I rejoiced to see
that Miss Montenero did not live with Mrs. Coates.

For all further satisfaction of my curiosity, I was obliged to wait till
the next morning.



CHAPTER VIII.

During the whole of the night, sleeping or waking, the images of the fair
Jewess, of Shylock, and of Mrs. Coates, were continually recurring, and
turning into one another in a most provoking manner. At breakfast my mother
did not appear; my father said that she had not slept well, and that she
would breakfast in her own apartment; this was not unusual; but I was
particularly sorry that it happened this morning, because, being left
_tete-a-tete_ with my father, and he full of a debate on the malt-tax,
which he undertook to read to me from the rival papers, and to make me
understand its merits, I was compelled to sit three-quarters of an hour
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