“O sir,” cried I, “you should not run on so, you don't know what mischief you may do!”
Mr. S.-I wish I may—I shall be very glad to be accessory.
Sir J.-She has, certainly, something of a knack at characters; where she got it I don't know, and how she got it, I can't imagine; but she certainly has it. And to throw it away is—
Mr. S.-Oh, she won't, she will write a comedy, she has promised me she will!
F.B.-Oh! if you both run on in this manner, I shall—
I was going to say get under the chair, but Mr. Sheridan, interrupting me with a laugh, said,
“Set about one? very well, that's right.”
“Ay,” cried Sir Joshua, “that's very right. And You (to Mr. Sheridan) would take anything of hers, would you not? unsight, unseen?"[90] What a point blank question! who but Sir Joshua would have ventured it!
“Yes,” answered Mr. Sheridan, with quickness, “and make her a bow and my best thanks into the bargain.”
Now my dear Susy, tell me, did you ever hear the fellow to such a speech as this! it was all I could do to sit it.