you might then talk of beauty. Ecod, fhe has two eyes as black as floes, and cheeks as broad and red as a pulpit cushion. She'd make two of fhe. HASTINGS. Well, what fay you to a friend that would take this bitter bargain off your hands? Anon. TONY. HASTINGS. Would you thank him that would take Miss Neville, and leave you to happiness and your dear Betfy? TONY. Aye; but where is there fuch a friend, for who would take her? I am he. HASTINGS. If you but affift me, I'll engage to whip her off to France, and you shall never hear more of her. TONY. Affift you! Ecod I will, to the laft drop of my blood. I'll clap a pair of horses to your chaise that fhall trundle you off in a twinkling, and may be get you a part of her fortin befide, in jewels, that you little dream of. HASTINGS. My dear 'fquire, this looks like a lad of spirit. TONY. TONY. Come along then, and you shall see more of my spirit before you have done with me. (Singing.) We are the boys That fears no noise Where the thundering cannons roar. [Exeunt. VOL. II ACT АСТ ТНЕ THIRD. Enter HARDCASTLE, folus. HARDCASTLE. WHAT HAT could my old friend Sir Charles mean by recommending his fon as the modefteft young man in town? To me he appears the most impudent piece of brass that ever spoke with a tongue. He has taken poffeffion of the eafy chair by the firefide already. He took off his boots in the parlour, and defired me to fee them taken care of. I'm de firous to know how his impudence affects my daughter.—She will certainly be shocked at it. Enter Mifs HARDCASTLE, plainly dreffed. HARDCASTLE. Well, my Kate, I see you have changed your drefs you; and yet, I believe, there was no great as I bid occafion. Mifs HARDCASTLE. I find fuch a pleasure, Sir, in obeying your commands, that I take care to obferve them without ever debating their propriety.. HARD HARDCASTLE. And yet, Kate, I fometimes give you some cause, particularly when I recommended my modeft gentleman to you as a lover to-day. Mifs HARDCASTLE. You taught me to expect fomething extraordinary, and I find the original exceeds the defcription. HARDCASTLE. I was never fo furprised in my life! He has quite confounded all my faculties! Mifs HARDCASTLE, I never faw any thing like it; and a man of the world too! HARDCASTLE. Aye, he learned it all abroad,-what a fool was I, to think a young man could learn modesty by travelling. He might as foon learn wit at a mafquerade. Mifs HARDCASTLE. It feems all natural to him. HARDCASTLE. A good deal affiited by bad company and a French dancing-mafter. Mifs HARDCASTLE. Sure you mistake, papa! A French dancingmafter could never have taught him that timid look, —that aukward address,—that bashful manner HARDCASTLE. Whofe look? whofe manner, child? O 2 Mifs Mifs HARDCASTLE. Mr. Marlow's his mauvaise honte, his timidity ftruck me at the first fight. HARDCASTLE. Then your first fight deceived you; for I think him one of the most brazen firft fights that ever aftonished my fenfes. Mifs HARDCASTLE. Sure, Sir, you rally! I never faw any one so modeft. HARDCASTLE. And can you be ferious! I never faw fuch a bouncing fwaggering puppy fince I was born. Bully Dawson was but a fool to him. Mifs HARDCASTLE. Surprising He met me with a respectful bow, a ftammering voice, and a look fixed on the ground. HARDCASTLE. He met me with a loud voice, a lordly air, and a familiarity that made my blood freeze again. Mifs HARDCASTLE. He treated me with diffidence and respect; cenfured the manners of the age; admired the prudence of girls that never laughed; tired me with apologies for being tiresome; then left the room with a bow, and, "madam, I would not for the "world detain you." HARDCASTLE. He spoke to me as if he knew me all his life before. Asked twenty questions, and never waited for |