Category: Plays/Films/Dramas
_Lewis_ [ironically]. Oh, certainly; All the affecting graces of a pining love-sick swain will be destroyed: you'll lose all your credit with the ladies.--Apropos of ladies, how do you stand with Miss Drave?
_Mrs. D._ I'll read it you. "Madam---Counsellor Fleffel has come with a warrant to examine Mr. Brook's apartment. He has forced the locks of his bureau and drawers, and seized t...
3. Chapter 3_Mrs. D._ Overcome? Can you do that? I know your heart too well. But be cheerful now--dream not of impediments that will never arise. Your father consents to whatever can tend t...
5. Chapter 5_Mr. D._ It is easier to complain of mankind, than to act for their welfare. The first is the part of a gloomy, discontented mind; the latter, the virtue of a good citizen, and...
7. Chapter 7_Counsellor._ Send in the porter. [Exit Servant. Counsellor looking at the papers]. That will do very well. As Brook stands plaintiff, all the odium will fall upon him; we only...
1. Chapter 1_Lewis_ [ironically]. Oh, certainly; All the affecting graces of a pining love-sick swain will be destroyed: you'll lose all your credit with the ladies.--Apropos of ladies, how...
6. Chapter 6_Mrs. D._ I know not how to act. My husband suffers, and I am too much affected myself, to be able to afford him consolation--Oh, this Brook! who would have thought him so mean?
2. Chapter 2_Mr. D._ And now this Chancellor sends me a letter, desiring me to bring him my accounts, as guardian to Lewis this afternoon that he may overlook them. I'll not do it. [Takes a...
4. Chapter 4_Chancellor._ That shall be my care. I have already given orders to our Jew Broker; he is to join with some other creditors of young Brook, and insist on immediate payment.