ABSOLUTE
No, upon my soul, I do not. But a devil of a fellow, hey? [Going.]
ACRES True, true—but stay—stay, Jack—you may add, that you never saw me in such a rage before—a most devouring rage!
ABSOLUTE
I will, I will.
ACRES
Remember, Jack—a determined dog!
ABSOLUTE
Ay, ay, Fighting Bob!
[Exeunt severally.]
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Scene II—Mrs. MALAPROP's Lodgings. [Mrs. MALAPROP and LYDIA.]
Mrs. MALAPROP Why, thou perverse one!—tell me what you can object to him? Isn't he a handsome man?—tell me that. A genteel man? a pretty figure of a man?
LYDIA
[Aside.] She little thinks whom she is praising!—[Aloud.] So is
Beverley, ma'am.