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Lord A. I am infinitely obliged to you. Will you go with us too, Sir Crafty? You have a list of the voters for Underwall in your pocket. The ladies will excuse us. (Exeunt Lord All. Sir Crafty, and Sea. who goes out with them and re-enters almost immediately.)

''Sea. (to Lady'' S.) His Lordship sent me back to borrow your spectacles.

Lady S. Spectacles! I use no such thing.

Sea. He says you do.

Lady S. O yes, there is a particular kind which I sometimes look thro' to examine any thing very minutely. Sea. But is it your brother's interest that has made Supplecoat a baronet?

Lady S. I dare say it is.

Sea. Yes, yes! I make no doubt of it. (Exit, hurrying away.)

Lady S. (to Soph, angrily.) What made you, child, skulk behind backs so, like a simpleton?—You can be fluent enough when there is no occasion for it, and when you ought to speak you have not a word to say for yourself. This is true nursery breeding.

Soph. Indeed, Madam, you may thank yourself for it; for after what you said to me, before they arrived, about Sir Crafty Supplecoat and marrying, I could not bear to look at him; and every time he look'd at me, I felt strange and mortified, just