Love Makes a Man Volume 7, No. 1; Or, the Fop's Fortune. a Comedy (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. 1797 Excerpt: ... onuutest hypocrite, Modely--Throwing away the looh. Mod. Hypocrite --My dear friend, we men of gallantry must be so.--But have a care, we may have other listeners for aught I know, who may not be so proper for confidants. Loohing about. Bel. You may be easy on that head. We have the garden to ourselves. The widow and her daughter are just gone in, and Sir John is busy with his steward. Mod. The widow, and her daughter Why, were they in the garden? Bel. They just came into it; but upon seeing you and Aran.inta together, they turned back again. Mod. On seeing me and Araminta I I hope I have 11o jealousies there too. However, I am glad Caclia knows I am in the garden, because it may probably induce her to fall in my way--by chance you know, and give me an opportunity of talking 10 her. Bel. Do you think she likes you? Mod. She does not know what she docs. Bel. Do you likelier? Mod. Why, faith, I think I do. Bel. Why then do you pursue your affair-with Araminta; and not find some honourable means of breaking off with her? Mod. That might not be quite soxpedient. I think Araminta the finest woman, and Caelia the prettiest girl I know. Now they are both good fortunes, and one of them I am resolved to have, but which Bel. Your great wisdom has not yet determined. Thou art undoubtedly the vainest fcliow living.--I thought you brought me down here now to your wedding? Mod. 'Egad I thought so'too; but this plaguy little rustic has disconcerted all my schemes. Sir John, you know, by her father's will, may marry her if he pleases, and she forfeits her estate if she marries any one else--Now I am contriving to bring it about, that I may get her, and her fortune too. Bel. A very likely business, truly. So you modestly expect that Sir John Dorilant should give up his mi...

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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. 1797 Excerpt: ... onuutest hypocrite, Modely--Throwing away the looh. Mod. Hypocrite --My dear friend, we men of gallantry must be so.--But have a care, we may have other listeners for aught I know, who may not be so proper for confidants. Loohing about. Bel. You may be easy on that head. We have the garden to ourselves. The widow and her daughter are just gone in, and Sir John is busy with his steward. Mod. The widow, and her daughter Why, were they in the garden? Bel. They just came into it; but upon seeing you and Aran.inta together, they turned back again. Mod. On seeing me and Araminta I I hope I have 11o jealousies there too. However, I am glad Caclia knows I am in the garden, because it may probably induce her to fall in my way--by chance you know, and give me an opportunity of talking 10 her. Bel. Do you think she likes you? Mod. She does not know what she docs. Bel. Do you likelier? Mod. Why, faith, I think I do. Bel. Why then do you pursue your affair-with Araminta; and not find some honourable means of breaking off with her? Mod. That might not be quite soxpedient. I think Araminta the finest woman, and Caelia the prettiest girl I know. Now they are both good fortunes, and one of them I am resolved to have, but which Bel. Your great wisdom has not yet determined. Thou art undoubtedly the vainest fcliow living.--I thought you brought me down here now to your wedding? Mod. 'Egad I thought so'too; but this plaguy little rustic has disconcerted all my schemes. Sir John, you know, by her father's will, may marry her if he pleases, and she forfeits her estate if she marries any one else--Now I am contriving to bring it about, that I may get her, and her fortune too. Bel. A very likely business, truly. So you modestly expect that Sir John Dorilant should give up his mi...

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Rarebooksclub.com

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United States

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March 2012

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March 2012

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246 x 189 x 4mm (L x W x T)

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Paperback - Trade

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84

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978-1-130-78619-4

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9781130786194

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1-130-78619-6



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