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Lady S. What gown is that you have put on today? It makes you look like a child from the nursery.—Mr. Supplecoat is to accompany Lord Allcrest, who is a very promising young man, of good expectations, and I could have wish'd you had dress'd to more advantage. There is a young friend of mine, scarcely a year older than yourself, who is just going to be married to one of the best matches in the country; and it is of great importance to have a daughter of a large family well and early settled in life.

''Soph. (looking very much surprized.)'' O how different! My poor mother used to say, that young women ought not to be married too early, but wait till they had sense to conduct themselves at the head of a family.

Lady S. Some of them would wait till they were pretty well wrinkled then.

Soph. It must be confessed that some, who do wait till they are pretty well wrinkled, are fain at last to marry without it. (Voices heard without.)

Lady S. (rising quickly.) It is my brother's voice: he is come early.

Lord A. I am happy to see you look so well, sister.