myself, in this great scarcity of money, what a happiness it would be to have three thousand guineas by one. I tell you this, that you might not misunderstand me, and imagine that I said I had three thousand guineas.

Fred. I enter not into your affairs, sir.

Love. But I have an affair of consequence to mention to you. Pray, sir, you, who are a fine gentleman, and converse much amongst the ladies, what think you of a certain young lady called Mariana?

Fred. Mariana, sir?

Love. Aye, what do you think of her?
Fred. Think of her, sir?

Love. Why do you repeat my words? Aye, what do you think of her?

Fred. Why, I think her the most charming woman in the world.

Love. Would she not be a desirable match? Fred. So desirable, that, in my opinion, her husband will be the happiest of mankind.

Love. There is one thing I'm a little afraid of; that is, that she has not quite as much fortune as one might fairly expect.

Fred. Oh, sir, consider but her merit, and you may easily make an abatement in her fortune. For heaven's sake, sir, don't let that prevent your design. Fortune is nothing, in comparison with her beauty and merit.

Love. Pardon me there: however, there may be some matters found, perhaps, to make up some little deficiency; and if you would, to oblige your father, retrench your extravagances on this occasion, perhaps the difference in some time might be made up.

Fred. My dearest father! I'll bid adieu to all extravagance for ever.

Love. Thou art a dutiful good boy; and since I find you have the same sentiments with me, provided she can but make out a pretty tolerable fortane, I am even resolved to marry her.

Fred. Ha! you resolved to marry Mariana!
Love. Aye, to marry Mariana.
Pred. Who? You! you! you!
Love. Yes, I! I! I!

Fred. I beg you will pardon me, sir; a sudden dizziness has seized me, and I must beg leave to [Exit.

retire.

Love. What the devil's the matter with the boy? Enter JAMES.

Love. Where have you been? I have wanted you above an hour.

James. Whom do you want, sir? your coachman or your cook? for I'm both one and t'other. Love. I want my cook.

James.. I thought, indeed, it was not your coachman; for you have had no great occasion for him since your last pair of geldings was starved; but your cook, sir, shall wait upon you in an instant. (Puts off his coachman's great coat, and appears as a cook.) Now, sir, I am ready for your commands.

Love. I am engaged this evening to give a

supper.

James. A supper, sir! I have not heard the word this half year; a dinner, indeed, now and thes; but for a supper, I'm almost afraid, for want of practice, my hand is out.

Love. Leave off your saucy jesting, and see that you provide me a good supper. James. That may be done with a good deal of

money, sir.

Love. Is the devil in you? Always money. Can you say nothing else but money, money, money? My children, my servants, my relations, ran pronounce nothing but money.

James. Well, sir, but how many will there be at table?

Love. About eight or ten; but I will have a

Love. I'll have no ragout. Would you burst the good people, you dog

James. Then pray, sir, say what you will have. Love. Why, see and provide something to cloy their stomachs: let there be two good dishes of soup-maigre; a large suet-pudding; some dainty fat pork-pie, very fat; a fine small lean breast of mutton, and a large dish with two artichokes. There; that's plenty and variety.

James. O, dear

Love. Plenty and variety.

James. But, sir, you must have some poultry. Love. No; I'll have none.

James. Indeed, sir, you should.

Love. Well, then-kill the old hen, for she has done laying.

James. Lord! sir, how the folks will talk of it; indeed, people say enough of you already.

Love. Eh! why what do the people say, pray? James. Ah, sir, if I could be assured you would not be angry.

Love. Not at all; for I'm always glad to hear what the world says of me.

James. Why, sir, since you will have it then, they make a jest of you everywhere; nay, of your servants, on your account. One says, you pick a quarrel with them quarterly, in order to find an excuse to pay them no wages.

Love. Pah! pah!

James. Another says, you were taken one night stealing your own oats from your own horses. Love. That must be a lie; for I never allow them any.

James. In a word, you are the bye-word every where; and you are never mentioned, but by the names of covetous, stingy, scraping, oldLove. Get along, you impudent villain! James. Nay, sir, you said you wouldn't be angry. Love. Get out! [Exit James.

Lap.

Enter LAPPET.

Who's there?

Love. Ah, is that you, Lappet? Lap. I should rather ask if it be you, sir? Why, you look so young and vigorousLove. Do I? do I?

Lap. Why, you grow younger and younger every day, sir; you never looked half so young in your life, sir, as you do now. Why, sir, I know fifty young fellows of five-and-twenty that are older than you are.

Love. That may be, that may be, Lappet, considering the lives they lead; and yet I am a good ten years above fifty.

Lap. Well, and what's ten years above fifty? 'tis the very flower of a man's age. Why, sir, you are now in the very prime of your life.

Love. Very true, that's very true, as to understanding; but I'm afraid, could I take off twenty years, it would do me no harm with the ladies, Lappet. How goes on our affair with Mariana? Have you mentioned anything about what her mother can give her? for now-a-days nobody marries a woman unless she brings something with her besides her petticoat.

Lap. Sir! why, sir, this young lady will be worth to you as good a thousand pounds a-year as ever was told.

Love. How! a thousand pounds a-year?

Lap. Sir, she'll bring you in marriage a vast store of sobriety; the inheritance of a great love for simplicity of dress; and a vast acquired fund of hatred for play; there's your thousand a-year. Love. In short, Lappet, I must touch, touch, touch, something real.

Lap. Never fear, you shall touch something real. I have heard them talk of a certain country where she has a very pretty freehold, which shall be put into your hands.

Love. Nay, if it were a copyhold I should be glad to touch it. But there is another thing that disturbs me you know this girl is young, and young people generally love one another's company; it would ill agree with a person of my temper to keep an assembly for all the young rakes and flaunting girls in town.

Lap. Ah, sir, how little do you know of her ; this is another peculiarity that I had to tell you of: she has a most terrible aversion for all young people, and loves none but persons of your years. I would advise you, above all things, to take care not to appear too young; she insists on sixty at least. She says fifty years are not able to content her. Love. This humour is a little strange, methinks; to say the truth, had I been a woman, I should never have loved young fellows.

Lap. I believe you. Pretty sort of stuff, indeed, to be in love with young fellows. Pretty masters, indeed, with their fine complexions and their fine feathers. Now, I should be glad to taste the savour that is in any of them.

Love. tolerable?

And do you really think me pretty

Lap. Tolerable! you are ravishing! If your picture were drawn by a good hand, sir, it would be invaluable! Turn about a little, if you please. There! what can be more charming? Let me see you walk! (Lovegold struts about.) There's a person for you! tall, straight, free, and degagée! Why, sir, you have no fault about you.

Love. Not many; hem, hem; not many, I thank heaven; only a few rheumatic pains now and then, and a small catarrh that seizes me sometimes.

Lap. Ah, sir, that's nothing; your catarrh sits very well upon you, and you cough with a very good grace.

Love. But tell me, what does Mariana say of my person?

Lap. She has a particular pleasure in talking of it; and I assure you, sir, I have not been backward on all such occasions to blazon forth your merit, and to make her sensible how advantageons a match you will be to her.

Love. You did very well, and I'm obliged to you. Lap. But, sir, I have a small favour to ask of you: I have a law-suit depending, which I am on the very brink of losing, for want of a little money; (He looks gravely) and you could easily procure my success if you had the least friendship for me. You can't imagine, sir, the pleasure she takes in talking of you. (He looks pleased.) Ah! how you will delight her! how your venerable mien will charm her! she will never be able to withstand you. But, indeed, sir, this lawsuit will be of terrible consequence to me. (He looks grave again.) I am ruined if I lose it; which a very small matter would prevent. Ah, sir, had you but seen the raptures with which she has heard me talk of you; (He resumes his gaiety) how pleasure sparkled in her eyes at the recital of your good qualities; in short, to discover a secret to you which I promised to conceal, I have worked up her imagination 'till she is downright impatient of having the match concluded.

ance, sir; (He looks serious) it will set me on my feet, and I shall be eternally obliged to you. Love. Farewell; I'll go and finish my dispatches.

Lap. assure you, sir, you could never assist me in a greater necessity.

Love. I must go and give some orders about a particular affair—

Lap. I would not importune you, sir, if I was not forced by the last extremity.

Love. I expect the tailor about turning my coat. Don't you think this coat will look well enough turned, with new buttons, for a wedding suit?

Lap. For pity's sake, sir, don't refuse me this small favour. I shall be undone, indeed, sir; if it were but so small a matter as ten pounds, sir. Love. I think I hear the tailor's voice.

Lap. If it were but five pounds, sir; but three pounds, sir; nay, sir, a single guinea would be of service, for a day or two. (As he offers to go out on either side she intercepts him.)

Love. I must go; I can't stay. Hark! there, somebody calls me. I'm very much obliged to you; indeed, I'm very much obliged to you. I'll do for you, Lappet; you shall never know what I'll do for you. [Exit.

Lap. Go to the gallows, to the devil, like a covetous, good-for-nothing villain as you are.[Exit. ACT II. SCENE I.-A Chamber.

Enter RAMILIE and LAPPET. Ram. Well, madam, what success? Lap. Never was a person of my function so used; all my rhetoric availed nothing. While I was talking to him about the lady, he smiled and was pleased; but the moment I mentioned money to him, his countenance changed, and he understood not one word that I said. But, now, Ramilie, what do you think this affair is that I'm transacting?

Ram. Nay, Mrs. Lappet, now you are putting too severe a task upon me. How is it possible, in the vast variety of affairs which you honour with taking into your hands, that I should be able to guess which is so happy to employ your immediate thoughts?

Lap. Let me tell you then, sweet sir! that I am transacting an affair between your master's mistress and his father.

Ram. What affair, pr'ythee?

Lap. What should it be but the old one, matrimony? In short, your master and his father are rivals.

Ram. I am glad on't, and I wish the old gentleman success with all my heart.

Lap. How are you your master's enemy? Ram. No, madam; I am so much his friend that I had rather he should lose his mistress than his humble servant, which must be the case, for I am determined against a married family. I will never be servant to any man who is not his own master. But is the old gentleman in love?

Lap. Oh, profoundly! delightfully! Oh, that you had but seen him as I have; with his feet tottering, his eyes watering, his teeth chattering! His old trunk was shaken with a fit of love, just as if it had been a fit of an ague.

Ram. He will have more cold fits than hot, I believe.-Well, if you do succeed in your undertaking, you will allow this, I hope, that I first put it into your head.

Lap. Yes, it is true you did mention it first; but I thought of it first, I am sure; I must have thought of it: but I will not lose a moment's time; for notwithstanding all I have said, young fellows are devils. Besides, this has a most plausible tongue, and should he get access to Mariana, may do in a few minutes what I shall never be able to undo as long as I live. [Exit.

SCENE II-A Room in Lovegold's house. Enter LOVEGOLD and FREDERICK, Mrs. WISELY and MARIANA.

Mrs. Wise. Mr. Lovegold-my daughter. Love. Pray give me leave, young lady: I have been told that you have no great aversion to spectacles. (Puts on kis spectacles.) It is not that your charms do not sufficiently strike the naked eye, or that they want addition; but it is with glasses we look at the stars, and I'll maintain you are a star of beauty; that is the finest, brightest, and most glorious of all stars.

Mar. I shall never be able to hold it out, unless you keep him at a greater distance. (Aside. Love. (Listening.) I shall make the fellow keep his distance, madam. Harkye, you Mr. Spendall, why don't you come and make this lady some acknowledgment for the great honour she does your father?

Fred. My father has indeed, madam, much reason to be vain of his choice; you will be doubtless a very great honour to our family; notwithstanding which, I cannot help saying, that if it were in my power, I believe I should make no scruple of preventing the match.

Mar. I believe it, indeed; were they to ask the leave of their children, few parents would marry twice.

Love. Why, you ill-bred blockhead, is that the compliment you make your mother-in-law?

Fred. Well, sir, since you will have me talk in another style-Suffer me, madam, to put myself in the place of my father; and believe me, when I swear to you, I never saw any one half so charming; that I can imagine no happiness equal to that of pleasing you; that to be called your husband would be to my ears a title more blest, more glorious, than that of the greatest of princes.

Love. Hold, hold, sir! softly, if you please. Fred. I am only saying a few civil things, sir, for you to this lady.

Love. Your humble servant, sir! I have a tongue to say civil things with myself; I have no need of such an interpreter as you are, sweet sir! Mar. If your father could not speak better for himself than his son can for him, I am afraid he

would meet with little success.

Love. I don't ask you, ladies, to drink any wine before supper, lest it should spoil your stomachs. Fred. have taken the liberty to order some sweetmeats, sir, and tokay, in the next room: I hope the ladies will excuse what is wanting.

Mrs. Wise. There was no necessity for such a collation.

Fred. (To Mariana.) Did you ever see, madam, so fine a brilliant as that on my father's finger?

Mar. It seems, indeed, to be a very fine one. Fred. You cannot judge of it, madam, unless you were to see it nearer. If you will give me leave, sir. (Takes it off from his father's finger and gives it to Mariana.) There is no seeing a jewel while it is on the finger.

Mar. It is, really, a prodigious fine one. Fred. (Preventing Mariana, who is going to return it.) No, madam, it is already in the best hands. My father, madam, intends it as a present to you; therefore I hope you will accept it.

Love. Present! I!

Fred. Is it not, sir, your request to this lady that she would wear this bauble for your sake? Love. (A side to his son.) Is the devil in you? Fred. He makes signs to me that I would entreat you to accept it.

Mar. I shall not, upon my word.
Fred. He will not receive it again.
Love. I shall run stark staring mad! (Aside.)
Mar. I must insist on returning it.

Fred. It would be cruel in you to refuse him:

let me entreat you, madam, not to shock my poor father to such a degree.

Mrs. Wise. It is ill-breeding, child, to refuse so often.

Love. Oh, that the devil would but fly away with this fellow! (Aside.)

Fred. See, madam, what agonies he is in lest you should return it. It is not my fault, dear sir! I do all I can to prevail with her; but she is obstinate. For pity's sake, madam, keep it.

Love. (To his Son.) Infernal villain! (Aside.) Fred. My father will never forgive me, madam, unless I succeed: on my knees I entreat you. Love. The cut-throat! (Aside.)

Mrs. Wise. Daughter, I protest you make me ashamed of you. Come, come, put up the ring, since Mr. Lovegold is so uneasy about it.

Mar. Your commands, madam, always determine me, and I shall refuse no longer. Love. I shall be undone! I wish I was buried while I have one farthing left. (Aside.) Enter JAMES.

James. Sir, there is a man at the door who desires to speak with you.

Love. Tell him I am busy; bid him come another time; bid him leave his business with you. James. Must he leave the money he has brought, with me, sir?

[Exit. Love. No, no, stay-tell him I come this instant. I ask pardon, ladies, I'll wait on you immediately. [Exit.

Fred. Will you please, ladies, to walk into the next room, and taste the collation I was mentioning?

Mrs. Wise. Really, sir, this is an unnecessary trouble; but since the tokay is provided, I will taste one glass.

Fred. I'll wait on you, madam.

[Exeunt.

SCENE III.-A Hall in Lovegold's house. Enter FREDERICK and RAMILIE. Fred. How! Lappet my enemy! and can she attempt to forward Mariana's marriage with my father?

Ram. Sir, upon my honour it is true.

Fred. Go and fetch Lappet hither; I'll try if I can't bring her over.

Ram. Bring her over! A fig for her, sir! I have a plot worth fifty of your's. I'll blow her up with your father: I'll make him believe just the contrary of every word she has told him.

Fred. Can you do that?

Ram. Never fear it, sir; I warrant my lies keep even pace with her's. But, sir, I have another plot; I don't question but before you sleep, I shall put you in possession of some thousands of your father's money.

Fred. But I am afraid that will be carrying the jest too far.

Ram. Sir, I will undertake to make it out that robbing him is a downright meritorious act. Besides, sir, if you have any qualms of conscience, you may return it him .again: your having possession will bring him to any terms.

Fred. Well, well, I believe there is little danger of thy stealing anything from him.-So, about the first affair; it is that only which causes my present pain.

Ram. Fear nothing, sir, whilst Ramilie is your friend. [Exit. Fred. If impudence can give a title to success, I am sure thou hast a good one. Ha! Lappet!

forwarded, or, by all the devils which inhabit that heart of your's

Lap. For heaven's sake, sir! you do not intend to kill me?

Fred. What could drive your villainy to attempt to rob me of the woman I doat on more than life? What could urge thee, when I trusted thee with my passion, when I have paid the most extravagant usury for money to bribe thee to be my friend, what could sway thee to betray me?

Lap. As I hope to be saved, sir, whatever I have done was intended for your service.

Fred. It is in vain to deny it; I know thou hast used thy utmost art to persuade my father into this match.

Lap. Be but appeased, sir, and let me recover out of this terrible fright you have put me into, and I will engage to make you easy yet.-Sir, I never did anything yet so effectually but that I have been capable of undoing it; nor have I ever said anything so positively but that I have been able as positively to unsay it again. As for truth, I have neglected it so long, that I often forget which side of the question it is of; besides, I look on it to be so very insignificant towards success, that I am indifferent whether it is for me or against me. Fred. Let me entreat you, dear madam, to consider how very precious our time is, since the marriage is intended this very evening.

Lap. That cannot be, nor it shall not be. Fred. How! how will you prevent it? Lap. By an infallible rule I have. But, sir, you was mentioning a certain little word called money just now. I should not repeat it to you, sir, but that really one goes about a thing with so much better a will, and one has so much better luck in it too, when one has got some little matter by it.

Fred. Here, take all the money I have in my pocket, and on my marriage with Mariana thou shalt have fifty more.

Lap. That is enough, sir; if they were halfmarried already I would unmarry them again. I am impatient 'till I am about it.-[Exit Fred.] Oh! there is nothing like gold to quicken a woman's capacity. Ha! here he is.

Enter LOVEgold.

Lap. Oh, unhappy, miserable creature that I am! what shall I do? whither shall I go?

Love. What is the matter, Lappet?

Lap. To have been innocently assisting in betraying so good a man, so good a master, so good a friend!

Love. Lappet! I say.

Lap. I shall never forgive myself; I shall never outlive it; I shall never eat, drink, sleep-(Runs against him.)

Love. One would think you were walking in your sleep now. What can be the meaning of this? Lap. Oh, sir!-you are undone, sir; and I am undone.

Love. How! what! has any one robbed me? have I lost any thing?

Lap. No, sir; but you have got something.
Love. What? what?

you, sir, that she had an estate in a certain country; but I find it is all a cheat, sir; the devil of any estate has she!

Love. How! not any estate at all?-How can she live then?

Lap. Nay, sir, heaven knows how half the people in this town live.

Love. However, it is an excellent good quality in a woman to be able to live without an estate. She that can make something out of nothing, will make a little go a great way. I am sorry she has no fortune; but considering all her saving qualities, Lappet

Lap. All an imposition, sir; she is the most extravagant wretch upon earth.

Love. How! how! extravagant?

Lap. I tell you, sir, she is downright extravagance itself.

Love. How was it possible for you to be deceived in her?

Lap. Alas! sir, she would have deceived the devil; she would have deceived even you: for, sir, during a whole fortnight, since you have been in love with her, she has made it her whole business to conceal her extravagance, and appear thrifty. Love. That is a good sign though, Lappet, let me tell you; that is a good sign: right habits, as well as wrong, are got by affecting them; and she who could be thrifty a whole fortnight, gives lively hopes that she may be brought to be so as long as she lives.

Lap. She loves play to distraction; it is the only visible way in the world she has of a living.

Love. She must win then, Lappet; and play, when people play the best of the game, is no such very bad thing. I'd play, myself, if I were sure of winning. Besides, as she plays only to support herself, when she can be supported without it, she may leave it off.

Lap. To support her extravagance, in dress particularly; why, don't you see, sir, she is dressed out to-day like a princess?

Love. It may be an effect of prudence in a young woman to dress, in order to get a husband; and as that is apparently her motive, when she is married that motive ceases; and, to say the truth, she is in discourse a very prudent young woman. Lap. Think of her extravagance.

Love. A woman of the greatest modesty.
Lap. And extravagance.

Love. She has really a very fine set of teeth.
Lap. She will have all the teeth out of your head.
Love. I never saw finer eyes.

Lap. She will eat you out of house and home.
Love. Charming hair.

Lap. She will ruin you.

descended from father to son ever since the flood,,
to see even that disposed of. What will they
have next, I wonder, when they have had all that
he is worth in the world, and left the poor old man
without anything to furnish his old age with the
necessaries of life? Will they be contented then?
or, will they tear out his bowels, and eat them
too!-(Both burst into tears.)—The laws are cruel
to put it in the power of a wife to ruin her husband
in this manner. And will any one tell me, that
such a woman as this is handsome?-What is a
pair of shining eyes, when they must be bought
with the loss of all one's shining gold?
Love. Oh my poor old gold!

Lap. Perhaps she has a fine set of teeth.
Love. My poor plate, that I have hoarded with

so much care!

Love. My poor India bonds, bearing at least three and a half per cent.!

Lap. A fine excuse, indeed, when a man is ruined by his wife, to tell us he married a beauty. Enter a Lawyer,

Lane. Sir, the contract is ready; my client has sent for the counsel on the other side, and he is Bow below examining it.

and

Love. Get you out of my doors, you villain! you your client too; I'll contract you with a plague. (Beats him off. -I'm very much obliged to you, Lappet; indeed, I'm very much obliged to you.

Lap. I am sure, sir, I have a very great satisfaction in serving of you, and I hope you will consider of that little affair that I mentioned to you to-day about my law-suit.

Love. I am very much obliged to you. Lap. I hope, sir, you won't suffer me to be ruined when I have preserved you from it. Love. Eh (Appearing deaf.)

Lap. You know, sir, that in Westminster-hall money and right are always on the same side. Love. Ay, so they are; very true, so they are; and therefore no one can take too much care of his money.

Lap. The smallest matter of money, sir, would do me an infinite service.

Love. Eh! what!

Lap. A small matter of money, sir, would do me a great kindness.

Love. Oh ho! I have a very great kindness for you; indeed I have a very great kindness for you. Lep. Plague take your kindness!-I'm only losing time; there's nothing to be got out of him; so I'll even to Frederick, and see what the report of my success will do there.-Ah! would I were married to thee myself. (Aside.) [Exit. Love. What a prodigious escape have I had! I cannot look at the precipice without being giddy. Enter RAMILIE,

Love. Who is that? Oh, is it you, sirrah? how dare you enter within these walls?

Ram. Truly, sir, I can scarcely reconcile it to myself. I think after what has happened, you have no great title to my friendship: but I don't know how it is, sir, there is something or other about you which strangely engages my affections, and which, together with the friendship I have for your son, won't let ine suffer you to be imposed upon; and to prevent that, sir, is the whole and sole occasion of my coming within your doors. Did not a certain lady, sir, called Mrs. Lappet, depart from you just now? Love. What if she did, sirrah?

Ram. Has she not, sir, been talking to you about a young lady whose name is Mariana? Love. Well, and what then?

Ram. Why then, sir, every single syllable she

has told you, has been neither more nor less than a most confounded lie, as is indeed every word she says; for I don't believe, upon a modest calculation, she has told six truths since she has been in the house. She is made up of lies: her father was an attorney, and her mother was chambermaid to a maid Love. She comes of a d- -d lying family.

of honour.

Ram. The first word she spoke was a lie, and so will be the last. I know she has pretended a great affection for you, that's one lie, and every thing she has said of Mariana is another.

Love. How! how! are you sure of this?

Ram. Why, sir, she and I laid the plot together; and one time, indeed, I myself was forced to deviate a little from the truth, but it was with a good design; the jade pretended to me that it was out of friendship to my master; that it was because she thought such a match would not be at all to his interest; but alas, sir! I know her friendship begins and ends at home, and that she has friendship for no person living but herself. Why, sir, do but look at Mariana, sir, and see whether you can

think her such a sort of woman as she has described her to you.

Love. Indeed she has appeared to me always in a different light. I do believe what you say. I will go and deny all that I said to the lawyer, and put an end to everything this moment. I knew it was impossible she could be such a sort of a woman. And for this piece of intelligence, I'll give you-I'll give you-No, I'll forgive you all your faults. [Exit.

Ram. And I will go find out my master, make him the happiest of all mankind, squeeze his purse, and then get drunk for the honour of all parti-coloured politicians. [Exit.

SCENE IV.-The Hall.

Ram. Oh, madam, I little expected to have found you and my master together after what has happened; I did not think you had the assurance

Fred. Peace, Ramilie; all is well, and Lappet is the best friend I have in the world.

Ram. Yes, sir, all is well, indeed; no thanks to her.-Happy is the master that has a good servant; a good servant is certainly the greatest treasure in this world.-I have done your business for you, sir; I have frustrated all she has been doing, denied all she has been telling him in short, sir, I observed her ladyship in a long conference with the old gentleman, mightily to your interest as you may imagine; no sooner was she gone, than I steps in, and made the old gentleman believe every single syllable she has told him to be a most confounded lie, and away he is gone, fully determined to put

an end to the affair.