[50]:
NOVEL.
But, as I was saying, madam, I have been treated to-day with all the ceremony and kindness imaginable at my Lady Autumn's But the nauseous old woman at the upper hand of her table....
OLIVIA.
Revives the old Grecian custom of serving in a death's head with their banquets....
I detest her hollow cherry cheeks, she looks like an old coach new painted.
.... She is most splendidly, gallantly ugly, and looks like an ill piece of daubing in a rich frame. (Acte II, scène i.)
La scène est empruntée au Misanthrope et à la Critique de l'École des Femmes; jugez de la transformation.
[51]:
FIDELIA.