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day at my house, with my good friend the Vicar of Blackmorton; who has many things to tell you.

Mrs. Free. (aside to True.) As I am the elder brother's wife, the foolish ceremony of my talking precedence of Mrs. Baltimore will be settled accordingly; and I'm sure it will distress me extremely.

True. (aside to her.) Don't distress yourself, Madam; there is a bar to that, which you shall have the satisfaction of being acquainted with presently. Pray don't let your amiable delicacy distress you, (aloud.) Now let us leave this happy nook. But I am resolved to have a little bower erected in this very spot, where we will all sometimes retire, whenever we find any bad dispositions stirring within us, with that book in our hands, which says, "If thy brother offend thee seven times in a day"—No, no, no! I must not repeat sacred words with an unlicensed tongue: but I will bless God in silence for restoring a rational creature to the kindly feelings of humanity.(Exeunt.