The Duenna by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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such pains, or been so generous to a rival.
_Don Ant_. No, 'faith, I don't believe there's another beside yourself in all Spain. _Isaac_. Well, but you resign all pretensions to the other lady? _Don Ant_. That I do, most sincerely. _Isaac_. I doubt you have a little hankering there still. _Don Ant_. None in the least, upon my soul. _Isaac_. I mean after her fortune. _Don Ant_. No, believe me. You are heartily welcome to every thing she has. _Isaac_. Well, i'faith, you have the best of the bargain, as to beauty, twenty to one. Now I'll tell you a secret--I am to carry off Louisa this very evening. _Don. Louisa_. Indeed! _Isaac_. Yes, she has sworn not to take a husband from her father's hand--so I've persuaded him to trust her to walk with me in the garden, and then we shall give him the slip. _Don. Louisa_. And is Don Jerome to know nothing of this? |
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