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I do your bidding willingly.

Mr. Clermont, when young people, like yourself and Miss Frankland, quarrel together, I take no account of it; but if one can do the other any service, propose the business just as freely as if they were the best friends in the world.

Explain your meaning, Lady Shrewdly. Can I in any way be useful to Miss Frankland?

You can; and I engage your services on her behalf.

I thank you—I thank you most heartily.—But will she do so? Would not Sir John Crofton prove a more acceptable agent?—a more zealous one I defy him to be.

No, no; it is a service he would never perform: not faithfully, I'm sure, standing, as it does, opposed to his own worldly designs.

O tell me what it is, my dear Madam! I will do it most gladly.