Category: Humour
BLUNTLY. Have not I a right to be cross? For while the whole house is in good humour, if there was not one person cross enough to take a little care, every thing would be wasted and ruined through extreme good temper. (_A man crosses the stage._) Here, you--Mister----Pray are...
MANLY. Show him to me directly. And take Mr. Lucre, or any other person of fashion that may call, to my clerks. [_Exit Servant._] But for the poor, let them be under _my_ protec...
3. SCENE I. _An Apartment at_ SIR GEORGE SPLENDORVILLE'S.SIR GEORGE. Then it was in my sleep--and could not you suppose so?----After going to bed at five, to make me rise at noon! (_in a violent passion_) What am I to do with myself,...
4. SCENE I. _The apartment at_ SIR GEORGE SPLENDORVILLE'S, _where theSIR GEORGE. [_Taking_ LADY CAROLINE _aside_. Lady Caroline, you are the sole person who has profited by my loss.--Prove to me that your design was not to ruin me; to sink me int...
2. SCENE II. _An Apartment, which denotes the Poverty of theHENRY. The poor have still more to complain of, when chance throws them thus near the rich,--it forces upon their minds a comparison might drive them to despair, if--
1. SCENE I. _An Antichamber at Sir_ GEORGE SPLENDORVILLE'_s_, _adjoiningBLUNTLY. Have not I a right to be cross? For while the whole house is in good humour, if there was not one person cross enough to take a little care, every thing would be wasted...
6. ACT 3, Scene 1, Sir George: