Cliff. I confess, Lady Emily, you are on the point of complete victory.
Lady E. Pooh, I would not give a farthing for victory without a more spirited defence.
Cliff. Then you must engage with those (if those there are) that do not find you irresistible.
Lady E. I could find a thousand such; but I'll engage with none whose triumph I could not submit to with pleasure.
Sir C. [Apart.] Pretty significant on both sides. I wonder how much farther it will go.
Lady E. Uncle, did you speak?
Sir C. [Reading to himself.] "And the parties to this indenture do farther covenant and agree, that all and every the said lands, tenements, and hereditaments—um—um."——How useful sometimes is ambiguity.
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Cliff. A very natural observation of Sir Clement's upon that long parchment.