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as soon as she can find any wiseacre to have her.

Out upon thee, Frank, for a very spiteful creature! Thou hast paid thy devoirs to her, I dare say, and she has scorned such a stripling as thou wert at that time,

My devoirs, to a dull formal prude, who spoke two words in half a day, and those uttered as slowly and deliberately as if she were reading them from the spelling-book!

We must be at cross purposes now, surely; we are not speaking of the same lady.

Don't mind it, Lady Shrewdly; it is clearly a mistake, and is of no consequence whatever.—I wish you good morning. Good morning, Sir.[Exit.

O Francis Blount! what hast thou done?

Nothing very bad, I hope.