Category: Humour
The Belle's Stratagem
_Court._ Perhaps they have;--but I came on a different errand; and, had thy good fortune brought thee here half an hour sooner, I'd have given thee such a treat, ha! ha! ha!
Chapters
5. SCENE I. _Sir George Touchwood_'s.
_Sir Geo._ The sex is still what it has ever been since _la petite morale_ banished substantial virtues; and rather than have given my name to one of your high-bred fashionable...
10. ACT IV._Mount._ Different sorts, and for different customers. Here's a Liquor for Ladies--it expels the rage of Gaming and Gallantry; Here's a Pill for Members of Parliament--good to s...
15. SCENE V.----_Hardy_'s._Mrs. Rack._ Really, Miss Ogle, I had not time. Besides, when I marry, so many stout young fellows will hang themselves, that, out of regard to society, in these sad times, I sh...
4. SCENE IV.--_An Apartment at Mr._ Hardy'_s_._Vill._ I have not seen her yet. I have made a voyage to Lapland since I came in. (_flinging away the book._) A Lady at her toilette is as difficult to be moved, as a Quaker, (_...
6. SCENE I. _Mr._ Hardy'_s_._Letit._ Certainly. I know the design is a rash one, and the event important;--it either makes Doricourt mine by all the tenderest ties of passion, or deprives me of him for eve...
1. SCENE I.--_Lincoln's-Inn._Court._ Perhaps they have;--but I came on a different errand; and, had thy good fortune brought thee here half an hour sooner, I'd have given thee such a treat, ha! ha! ha!
3. SCENE III.----_An Apartment at_ Doricourt'_s_._Sav._ Well, this is some comfort, after the scurvy reception I met with in your hall.--I prepared my mind, as I came up stairs, for a _bon jour_, a grimace, and an _adieu_.
9. SCENE IV.----_Sir_ George Touchwood_'s._Vill._ Yielded herself up to the World! Why did you not bring her to town in a Cage? Then she might have taken a peep at the World!--But, after all, what has the World done? A...
7. SCENE II.----_Courtall_'s._First Gent._ May I be a bottle, and an empty bottle, if you catch me at that!--Why, I am going to the Masquerade. Jack----, you know who I mean, is to meet me, and we are to ha...
13. SCENE III.----_Sir_ George Touchwood'_s_._Lady Fran._ Thank Heaven! he's gone!--But I have a story for you--The Hardy family are forming a plot upon your Friend Doricourt, and we are expected in the evening to assist.
11. SCENE I.----_Hardy_'s._Har._ As true as you are alive;--but when I went up to him last night, at the Pantheon, out of downright good-nature to explain things----my Gentleman whips round upon his heel...
12. SCENE II.----_Doricourt_'s._Sav._ Why, she spends him three thousand a year with the ease of a Duchess, and entertains his friends with the grace of a _Ninon_. _Ergo_, she is handsome, spirited, and cleve...
2. SCENE II.--_A Hall at_ Doricourt'_s_. (_A gentle knock at the door._)_Crowq._ Oh, dear Sir, excuse me!--we always go on _foundation_; and if you can help me to a few anecdotes of your master, such as what Marchioness he lost money to, in Paris--w...
14. SCENE IV.----Doricourt'_s_._Doric._ (_flings away the book_) What effect can the morals of Fourscore have on a mind torn with passion? (_musing_) Is it possible such a soul as her's, can support itself in...
8. SCENE III.----_The Street._Sav._ The air has recover'd me! What have I been doing! Perhaps my petulance may be the cause of _her_ ruin, whose honour I asserted:--his vanity is piqued;--and where Women ar...