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can I pronounce or think of any thing immediately? Do you determine it.

You give me leave to do so, on the spot, then?

O no, no! not immediately.

I beg pardon, Madam, immediately is a position you dislike: I shall take time to consider; and, at your tea-table, in the evenings it shall be pronounced.

Round which, I presume, we are all invited to assemble.

Most assuredly; I request all present to do me that honour. Excuse me now; I must retire: the thoughts of my own folly make me quite bewildered and unwell.[Exit.

She must have a bad time of it, I think, if she sicken on every new proof of her folly. (Half aside to ).

The caustic of thy tongue is intolerable; her