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ll do--I wish to kill my own mutton. _Sir Abel._ Sir, you shall kill all the sheep in Hampshire. _Gerald._ Sir Abel, you have lost five thousand pounds, and with it, properly managed, an excellent wife, who, though I cannot condescend to take again as mine--you may depend on't shall never trouble you. Come! this way [_Beckoning to_ MRS. GERALD.]--important events now call on me, and prevent my staying longer with this company. Sir Abel, we shall meet soon. Nay, come, you know I'm not used to trifle; Come, come--[_She reluctantly, but obediently, crosses the stage, and runs off_--GERALD _follows._] _Sir Abel._ [_Imitating._] Come, come--That's a damn'd clever fellow! Joy, joy, my boy! Here, here, your hands--The first use I make of liberty, is to give happiness--I wish I had more imitators--Well, what will you do? [_Walks about exultingly._] Where will you go? I'll go any where you like--Will you go to Bath, or Brighton, or Petersburgh, or Jerusalem, or Seringapatam? all the same to me--we single fellows--we rove about--nobody cares about us--we care for nobody. _Handy, jun._ I must to the Castle, father. _Sir Abel._ Have with you Bob. [_Singing._] "I'll sip every flower--I'll change every hour."--[_Beckoning._]--Come, come--[_Exeunt_ SIR ABEL, HANDY, _jun. and_ SUSAN. SUSAN _kisses her hand to_ ASHFIELD _and_ DAME.] _Ash._ Bless her! how nicely she do trip it away with the gentry! _Dame._ And then, Tummas, think of the wedding. _Ash._ [_Reflecting._] I declare I shall be just the zame as ever--may be I may buy a smartish bridle, or a zilver backy stopper, or the like o' that. _Dame._ [_Apart._] And, then, when we come out of church, Mrs. Grundy will be standing about there-- _Ash._ I shall shake hands agreeably wi' all my friends. [_Apart._] _Dame._ [_Apart._] Then I just look at her in this manner. _Ash._ [_Apart._] How dost do, Peter--Ah, Dick,--glad to zee thee wi' all my zoul. [_Bows towards the centre of the stage._] _Dame._ [_Apart._] Then, with a kind of half curt'sy, I shall--[_She advances to the centre also, and their heads meet._] _Ash._ What an wold fool thee be'st, Dame--Come along, and behave pratty, do'e. [_Exeunt._ SCENE II. _The same as act fourth, scene third._ _Enter_ HANDY, _jun. with caution, bearing a light, and a large key._ _Handy, jun._ Now to fulfil my promise with Sir Philip Blandford--by--entering that c
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