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CAPTAIN FITZCHROME.
I entreat you do.
LADY CLARINDA.
Well, I really have very little to say in his favor.
CAPTAIN FITZCHROME.
I do not wish to hear any thing in his favor; and I rejoice to hear you say so, because—
LADY CLARINDA.
Do not flatter yourself. If I take him, it will be to please my father, and to have a town and country-house, and plenty of servants, and a carriage and an opera-box, and make some of my acquaintance who have married for love, or for rank, or for any thing but money, die for envy of my jewels. You do not think I would take him for himself. Why he is very smooth and spruce, as far as his dress goes; but as to his face, he looks as
