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SCENE II. A garden, with a temple seen at some distance, in which are discovered Lady Sarah, Sophia, Mr. and Mrs. Beaumont, and William Beaumont, as if seated after breakfast, whilst Gardener and one or two of the Servants skulk near the front of the stage, behind some hushes, looking at them.

Gar. Bride indeed! she's as unlovely a looking piece of goods as ever I look'd upon. See how she stares at every thing about her, and curls up her nose like a girkin! I'll warrant you she'll be all thro' my kitchen grounds by-and-by, to count over my cabbages.

First Ser. Hold your tongetongue [sic], man: we're too long here: see, they are all breaking up now, and some of them will be here in a trice. (Exeunt Servants. Bea. (continuing to talk.) Nay, my dear, you are prejudiced and severe, it did not strike me that she behaved to you with so much forbidding coldness. She has an ungracious countenance to be sure, but now and then when it relaxes, she looks as if she had some good in her.

Mrs. B. Yes, Charles, you find always some good in every one of God's creatures.

Bea. And there is some good in every one of God's creatures, if you would but look for it.