A Trip to Calais; A Comedy in Three Acts (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. 1778 Excerpt: ...your ladyship madam L. Kitty. Why, will you teaze me to sustain a Jedious life? I have no relish for rich wines, or delicate viands; the bread of affliction is the best banquet for me. Clack. And that is but coarse food, Heaven knows. L. Kitty. Don't I hear some other voice in the room? my eyes are grown so misty and dim Hetty. With crying --Mrs. Clack, your ladyship's mantua-maker, from England, to pay her duty; and desires your ladyship's commands for that country. L. Kitty. Let her approach.--How d'ye do, Mrs. Clack?--Hetty, child, you may go to your dinner.--A good creature; an humble kind of friend, Mrs. Clack: To her care and ati.-tentjon tention I think myself deeply indebted; as flic will find when they open my will. Hetty. For Heaven's fake your ladyship makes my blood run cold in my vein6. L. Kitty. D'ye think, Hetty, you sliall lament me? Hetty. Can your ladyfliip doubt it? I mould almost break my heart, if your ladyship was not to leave me a farthing. L.Kitty.: Should you? Kind soul --IsliaU try the-experiment, you hypocritical slut Hetty. But when our superiors are so considerate as to think of their menials in their last moments, to be sure it gives poor servants greater spirits to cry for their loss.. It-Kitty. Poubtless. You may go. Exit Hetty. Well, Mrs. Clack, you find me vastly altered since the death of Sir John. Clack. To be sure, your ladyship is something changed since the day I had the honour to try on your ladyship's cloaths for your ladyship's. wedding. L.Kitty. True. You, I think, Mrs. Clack, decked me out like another Iphigenia, to be sacrificed at the temple of Hymen. Don't you recollect: the tremors, the terrors, that invaded each nerve, on that solemn, that awful pccasipn? You must remember, with what reluctance luctance I...