whom this
Lord Brumpton was guardian; and he had also left them in the care of
this wicked woman. And this young Lord Hardy was in love with Lady
Charlotte; and Mr. Camply, a very lively young gentleman, his friend,
was in love with Lady Harriet and Lady Brumpton locked the two young
ladies up, and would not let them be seen by their lovers. But there
at last they contrived, by the help of old Trusty, who had their real
guardian's consent for it, both to get away; and Lady Harriet married
Mr. Camply directly; but Lady Charlotte did not get away so soon, and
so was not married till the end of the play. This Mr. Camply was a
very generous man, and was newly come to a large fortune; and in the
beginning of the play he contrives, in a very genteel manner, to give
his friend Lord Hardy, who very much wanted it, three hundred pounds;
but he takes care to let us know, that my lord had formerly, when he
waited his assistance, been very kind to him. And there at last, when
Lady Brumpton finds out that the two young ladies are gone, she goes
away in a rage to Lord Hardy's lodgings, and in an insulting manner she
pays all due legacies, as she calls it, that is, she gives Lord Hardy
the shilling, which, by her wicked arts, was all his father had left
him; and she was insulting the young ladies, and glorying in her
wickedness, when honest old Trusty came in, and brought in old Lord
Brumpton, whom they imagined to be dead, and all but Lady Brumpton
were greatly overjoyed to see him alive; but when he taxed her with
her falsehood, she defied him, and said that she had got a deed of
gift under his hand, which he could not revoke, and she WOULD enjoy his
fortune in spite of him. Upon which they all looked sadly vexed, till
the good old Trusty went out and came in again, and brought in a man
called Cabinet, who confessed himself the husband to the pretended Lady
Brumpton, and that he was married to her half a year before she was
married to my Lord Brumpton; but as my lord happened to fall in love
with her, they agreed to keep their marriage concealed, in order that
she should marry my lord, and cheat him in the manner she had done; and
the reason that Cabinet came to confess all this was, that he looked
into a closet and saw my lord writing, after he thought he was dead,
and, taking it for his ghost, was by that means frightened into this
confession, which he first made in writing to old Trusty, and therefore
could not now deny it. They