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SCENE II.

DONNA LAURA's.

Enter LAURA, with precipitation, followed by
VICTORIA.

Laura. "Tis his carriage!-How successful was my letter! This, my Florio, is a most important mo

ment.

Vict. It is, indeed; and I will leave you to make every advantage of it. If I am present, I must witness condescensions from you, that I shall not be able to bear, though I know them to be but affected.— Now, Gasper, [Aside.] play thy part well, and save Victoria!

[Exit.

Enter GASPER, dressed as an old Beau; two SER

VANTS follow him, and take off a rich Cloak.

Gasp. Take my cloak; and, d'ye hear, Ricardo, go home and bring the eider-down cushions for the coach, and tell the fellow not to hurry me post through the streets of Madrid. [Exeunt SERVANTS.] I have been jolted from side to side, like a pippin in a mill stream. Drive a man of my rank, as he would a city vintner and his fat wife, going to a bull fight! Ha, there she is! [Looking through a Glass, suspended by a red Ribbon.]—there she is! Charming Donna Laura! let me thus at the shrine of your beauty— [Makes an effort to kneel, and falls on his Face; LAURA assists him to rise.] Fie, fie, those new shoes!-they have made me skate all day, like a Dutchman on a canal; and now-Well, you see how profound my

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