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That is a cruelty I shall never be guilty of.

You delight, you transport me! on my knees I thank you, most bewitching of creatures!

Rise up, Sir John, and waste no thanks on so small an obligation; but hear me out. With-holding my consent is a cruelty, as you are pleased to call it, of which I shall never be guilty, since what will never be given, cannot be said to be withheld for any period.

Upon my honour. Miss Frankland, you are a practised angler, a very practised angler, no doubt; but do not think to hook a trout with bait that suits a gudgeon.

You are angry. Sir John, and that admonishes me that I should be plain—that I should be honest.

Ay, very honest, no doubt. (Going hastily away, and returning.) Nay, nay, nay! I am not angry; and you shall be as honest as you will, but kind at the same time.