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''Mor. (to Bea. who looks significantly to him.)'' Yes, my friend, he was sent to you from him who has given you many blessings.

Bea. But none like this. (fervently.) He is a brave and upright spirit, passing with me thro' this world to a better. When he was but so high, yea but so high, how his little heart would spurn at all injustice!

Mrs. B. Where is William?

Bea. He is gone over the way I believe to fetch Sophia here.

Mrs. B. I'm glad of that: I came here only to see her, and I will never enter Seabright's door again, as long as I live.

Bea. "As long as I live," my dear, is a phrase of very varied significations: it means the term of an angry woman's passion, or a fond woman's fancy, or a—

Mrs. B. Or a good man's simplicity, Mr. Beaumont. Do you think I will ever enter the house where that woman is the mistress; unfeeling, undelicate, uncivil?

Bea. But she won't squander his fortune, however, and that is a good thing for the children.

Mrs. B. Poo, Mr. Beaumont! the wickedest creature on earth has always your good word for some precious quality or other.

Bea. Well, my dear, and the wickedest creature in the world always has something about it, that shews whose creature it is—that shews we were all