The Modern Theatre a Collection of Successful Modern Plays by Mrs. Inchbald Volume 1 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1811 Excerpt: ...you made haste to get here. You did not stay ong in London. Prim. London plague on the place, it's worse than ever.-In point of heat, Jamaica's cool to itin point of noise, a hurricane is silence to it-and for company and conversation, certainl the crew of the ship I came in runs it very hard in eed, cousin. Crqft. Ha ha ha still devoted to a country life, I see.-' Prim. Oh, yes-I think of nothing else-for there's the seat of purity and peace; and now for it, coz-noyv for the darling them'e-Gabriel's married, I find. Crqfi'. Yes, he's married.-Sighs aside.) Prim.' And to a woman of your c using-to a sweet innocent soul, that's as much attached to rural life as her husband is. ' 13 Crqft. Yes, as much as he is. Prim. And they're now at the cottage-and I am come in time For the honey-moon.-Uh, my dear cousin, this is all your doing -you gave him a country education-you taught him to manage the farm. I purchased-and now ifl can but get rid of my old malady-if I can but forget my poor, poor daughter '.-. Craft. What grieve for her, when she has been dead these twelve years? and consider, you scarcely recollect her, for she was but a child-only eight years old, when you sent her from Jamaica to a London boarding school.. P-rim. That's it-sending her to London was the cause of all-T here Marchmont saw her, eloped with her Oh ifl had but brought her up in the country But come-l'll do my best-only, in the midst ofmy happiness, if' now and then you see a tear trickle down m cheek, you'll know it is for my lost, my wronge Louisa. Enter JONATHAN and CLIFFORD. Jon. Here's Mr Clifford, sir. Prim. Well, sir, have you read your good father's letter? " Clif Iha...