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my dear Mr. Seabright, that coat becomes you very much: I wish you would always wear that colour.

Sea. I'll wear any thing you like, my dear. But, by-the-bye, my constituents at Crockdale, have a manufacture of woollen in the town: I must buy two or three hundred yards of their stuff from them, I believe, lest I should have occasion to be elected again.

Lady S. (taking her hand eagerly off his shoulder.) Two or three hundred yards of stuff from them! Why the cheapest kind they make is eightpence-halfpenny a yard: only consider what that will come to.

Sea. No very great sum!

Lady S. I am surprised to hear you say so! Now I should think if you were to send the mayor and aldermen a haunch of venison now and then when it comes in your way, and the earliest information of any great public events that may occur, it would be a more delicate and pleasing attention.

Sea. Well, well, my dear Lady Sarah, don't let us fall out about it.

Lady S. I am perfectly good humoured, I assure you; but you are so

Sea. Yonder is your maid coming to speak to you, I'll leave you.

Lady S. Indeed she has nothing to say: I won't suffer her to break in upon our tender conversation.