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"Miss Arabella Mason was the eldest daughter of the steward of the old\nLord de Versely, brother to the Honourable Miss Delmar, and was much",
"as usual, by Ben, and the second day after their arrival it was made\nknown to all whom it might concern, that Miss Arabella Mason had\nactually contracted a secret marriage with the handsome Benjamin Keene.",
"It hardly need be observed, that the clever and sprightly Miss Arabella\nMason considered Ben as one much beneath her, that is, she said so on",
"\"I only say, madam, what was said at the time by everybody, that Bella\nMason never would have married that marine, whom she looked upon with",
"captain, liked attention, and liked sailors; this was Miss Arabella\nMason, a very pretty young woman of eighteen years of age, who\nconstantly looked in the glass merely to ascertain if she had ever seen",
"occasional invitation. It may be inquired in what capacity Miss\nArabella Mason remained at the Hall; she was not a servant, for her\nposition in life was above that of a menial; neither was she received",
"have broken his heart, if, in his lifetime, my daughter Arabella had\nmade the foolish marriage which she did with a private marine--however,",
"\"The matter is this, nephew,\" replied the old lady--\"that marriage of\nyour marine and Bella Mason should have taken place six months sooner",
"\"Yes; God's will be done, Captain Bridgeman; now you see, sir, that this\nmarriage of Bella's has done no good to the prospects of her sister",
"I am getting on as well as I could wish in my small way; Jane and I are\nto be married in a few days, and I hope you will honour me by being\npresent at the wedding.\"",
"Bella Mason might have done better--but she was his aunt's servant, and\nKeene was his valet, so that the disparity was not so very great. He",
"\"Comfort yourself, dear Arabella, as well as you can with the\n reflection that it has been the will of Heaven, to whose decrees we",
"and a tree fell upon him. He left a widow and two daughters: it was\nsaid that at his death Mrs Mason was not badly off, as her husband had",
"maid at the time that it happened, and I was constantly in company with\nBella Mason. She was very respectful towards you, but you did not know",
"match had he not been prompted to it by his master, who actually\nproposed that he should marry the girl. That such was the fact is\nundoubted, although they knew it not; and Ben, who considered the wish",
"\"That may be, madam, but still Captain Delmar was the father of that\nboy; for, if you recollect, old Mrs Mason came to the Hall, and went\naway almost immediately.\"",
"\"I have been thinking,\" said one of the mids, \"what I shall do if Mammy\nCrissobella takes pepper-pot; I shall marry Leila, and keep the hotel.\nMammy, you'll leave me the plate and furniture.\"",
"are allowed to give vent to their indignation without the smallest\nopposition they soon talk it away; such was the case with the Honourable\nMiss Delmar. When it was first announced that Bella Keene was safely in",
"\"That marine, ma'am! he was innocent enough; Bella was not likely to\nlisten to one like him.\"\n\n\"Who can you mean then, Phillis?\"",
"\"Very true, child,\" replied granny; \"but recollect, neither would you\nhave married a marine--a private marine, Bella, while your sister looks"
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"\"Percival Keene\" was published in 1842, the nineteenth book to flow from\nMarryat's pen.",
"duly registered in the church books as Percival Keene.",
"Percival Keene, by Captain Marryat.\n\n________________________________________________________________________",
"Keene, whose name, at least, you have often heard of lately. I have\nbrought him with me because he is a follower of mine: he entered the",
"PERCIVAL KEENE, BY CAPTAIN FREDERICK MARRYAT.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER ONE.",
"THE END.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEnd of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Percival Keene, by Frederick Marryat",
"\"Good Heavens! that voice!--why, who are you?\" cried Captain Delmar,\nstarting back a pace.\n\n\"Mr Keene, sir,\" replied I, again putting my hand to my head.",
"\"Certainly, Keene,\" replied his lordship.\n\n_Keene_! not _Mr_ Keene, thought I.",
"\"We manage them that way on board ship,\" replied I, laughing.\n\n\"You are a sailor, then, sir,\" replied the little man. \"Probably I have\nthe pleasure of addressing Captain Keene?\"",
"\"Well, sir, the master could not bear the sneering of the sogers on\nshore, and he consented that Mr Keene should take your place, which he",
"\"Percival,\" said my mother, \"I see the judiciousness of what you say and\nof your behaviour towards him; but allow me to ask you: What is the",
"\"Mr Keene,\" said she, \"I didn't know your name before you told it to\nthe skipper here; you're in a pretty scrape. I don't know what Jim",
"GUTENBERG EBOOK PERCIVAL KEENE ***\n\n\n\n\nProduced by Nick Hodson of London, England",
"personage had been selected out of the marine corps which had been\ndrafted into the frigate. Benjamin Keene, for such was his name, was\ncertainly endowed with several qualities which were indispensable in a",
"Keene,\" he would say--\"sit down; the master has reported favourably of\nyou, and I am glad to hear of it.\"",
"\"Yes, Bob, not very far from it.\"\n\n\"Well, I suppose I must say Mister Keene for the future.\"",
"\"I believe you are, Keene,\" replied his lordship. \"By the bye, you\nleave your letters so exposed, that one cannot help seem them. I see\nyou are writing to your grandmother. I hope the old lady is well?\"",
"\"Happy to see you, Keene,\" said the admiral. \"Hollo! what makes you\nlimp in that way? Have you hurt your leg?\"",
"\"My dear Keene,\" said he, \"I have been to the major, and, to my\nsurprise, when I stated to him what had passed at the table last night,",
"\"Mr Keene, I presume?\" said the first lieutenant, eyeing me from head\nto foot.\n\n\"Yes, sir,\" replied I, touching my hat."
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"\"Percival,\" said my mother, \"I see the judiciousness of what you say and\nof your behaviour towards him; but allow me to ask you: What is the",
"suddenly. Percival, you naughty boy,\" continued Milly, shaking her\nfinger at me, \"it was all your doing.\"",
"\"So you think, that because a lad steals a few of your confounded\nplums,\" observed the second lieutenant, \"he deserves to be eaten by the\nsharks. If I were Tommy Dott, I would haunt you if I could.\"",
"\"Here it is, ma'am,\" said Ben, who perceived it sticking in her skirt.\n\"That's Percival's work, I'll answer for it.\"",
"The boys went out at the dinner hour, leaving me, as before, to wait for\nmy basket, after the tyrant had helped himself. I stood by him in\nsilence while he was rummaging its contents.",
"\"My dear Percival,\" said old Mr Vanderwelt, after I had concluded my\nnarrative, \"you have been pursuing a shadow, although the pursuit has",
"or another, Mr Culpepper stepped forward from where he stood, and he\ntouched Tommy, whom he immediately seized crying out, \"Thieves!",
"\"I fear that he will never do that, Percival; nor, indeed, do I think\nyou would gain by it. When you are more advanced in the world, your",
"\"An why so, Percival? I cannot see how that will benefit you; it was on\nmy account that he took charge of you. You are not sure that he may not",
"Bob Cross stepped over him, and hastened up to the lower deck, followed\nby Tommy Dott, who first, by way of revenge, jumped several times upon\nthe purser's face and body before he climbed up.",
"As soon as Captain Delmar was gone, my mother turned round, and said,\n\"You naughty, mischievous boy, to play such pranks. I'll have that dog\nkilled, without you promise me never to do so again.\"",
"other end of the schoolroom. The boy, who had been talking to his\nneighbour, rubbed his poll, and whined.",
"My mother burst out a laughing as the lieutenant disappeared. \"I was\nnot far wrong when I said he was thinking of himself,\" said she, \"for a\n_calf_ is a sort of _bull pup_.\"",
"possession of it. You will tell me, my dearest Percival, I'm sure, if\nyou did play this trick to granny, or not; you know you may trust me\nwith any of your tricks.\"",
"the blows. At last he dropped the ruler, and, pressing both hands to\nhis stomach, he rolled himself backwards and forwards, and then twisted",
"One by one were the boys summoned up to the throne of Mr O'Gallagher,\nand their pockets searched by Phil Mooney, who emptied them of their",
"Walter Puddock, as soon as he was on the back of Phil Mooney, received a\ndozen cuts with the rod, well laid on. He bore it without flinching,\nalthough the tears rolled down his cheeks.",
"\"As for that,\" replied aunt Milly, \"I'm sure that sister, if she hears\nwhat's going on, as she cannot take Percival away, will order her\nhusband, Ben, to go up and thrash him.\"",
"to their books, that he could not discover one; at last he singled out a\nfat chubby lad.",
"high; but at times he changed the subject, and then he spoke of me and\nmy mother. \"Where is my boy--my own boy, Percival?\" said he--\"my"
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"By the time that the whole school had been rifled, the heap of fireworks\nwas very considerable, and Mr O'Gallagher, to prevent any of them being",
"The boy, who was not a little confused with the blow, sufficiently\nrecovered his senses to obey the order, and whimpering as he came up,\nreturned the ruler to the hands of Mr O'Gallagher.",
"No one could explain how the catastrophe occurred, further than that Mr\nO'Gallagher had collected all the squibs and crackers from the boys, and",
"O'Gallagher, about an hour before dinner, announced to us that all the\nsquibs and crackers, with which our pockets were crammed, were to be",
"explosion and the cries of the boys, rushed in, and perceiving only me\nand Mr O'Gallagher, who still howled, they caught hold of us both, and",
"suddenly. Percival, you naughty boy,\" continued Milly, shaking her\nfinger at me, \"it was all your doing.\"",
"\"Well then, sir, you didn't say it well yesterday,\" continued Mr\nO'Gallagher.\n\n\"Yes I did, sir,\" replied the boy, whimpering.",
"Once more we were all assembled. Mr O'Gallagher surveying, with the\nsmile of a demon, the unhappy and disappointed faces of the boys, was",
"them all underneath it. This was done; Mr O'Gallagher resumed his\nseat, and the lessons continued till the dinner hour arrived, but, alas!",
"\"Oh, by the powers! don't I know him?\" cried Mr O'Gallagher; \"it's the\nyoung gentleman who bit a hole in his grandmother; Master Keene, as they",
"O'Gallagher, for, much as I detested him, I certainly had no intention\nto kill him; so after a time, I made inquiries, and found that he was",
"Here Mr O'Gallagher looked round the school, as if to find a culprit;\nbut the boys, aware of what was going on, kept their eyes so attentively",
"Mr O'Gallagher grinned as he finished his oration; and he looked so\nmuch like a wild beast, that I was glad to be off as fast as I could. I",
"Much to Mr O'Gallagher's surprise I said them all without one mistake.\nInstead of commendation I received abuse. \"By all the powers,\"",
"\"Percival,\" said my mother, \"I see the judiciousness of what you say and\nof your behaviour towards him; but allow me to ask you: What is the",
"One by one were the boys summoned up to the throne of Mr O'Gallagher,\nand their pockets searched by Phil Mooney, who emptied them of their",
"of beef sandwiches, a piece of bread and cheese, and three or four\nslices of seed-cake. Mr O'Gallagher opened all the packages, and,\nafter a pause, said--",
"The boys had been saving up all their money to purchase fireworks for\nthe celebrated 5th of November--a day on which it was said that certain",
"\"An why so, Percival? I cannot see how that will benefit you; it was on\nmy account that he took charge of you. You are not sure that he may not",
"O'Gallagher could not leave his room for three days, nor resume his seat\nin the school until a week had elapsed, during which I remained at home\nplotting still further mischief."
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"\"Percival,\" said my mother, \"I see the judiciousness of what you say and\nof your behaviour towards him; but allow me to ask you: What is the",
"As we passed the vessel hove to, which we took it for granted was a\nmerchantman, which the pirate had been plundering, the captain ordered",
"\"You have made me do what I never did before,\" replied he, raising\nhimself and sitting with his feet on the deck.\n\n\"I know I have; I have made you spare those of my colour.\"",
"The reader will perhaps recollect that the old Dutch gentleman, whose\nlife I had saved in the pirate vessel, had stated that his name was",
"\"An why so, Percival? I cannot see how that will benefit you; it was on\nmy account that he took charge of you. You are not sure that he may not",
"\"I fear that he will never do that, Percival; nor, indeed, do I think\nyou would gain by it. When you are more advanced in the world, your",
"\"Yes, my lord and I assure you that I never shall execute any with so\nmuch pleasure. Has Captain Keene told you how he saved my life this\nmorning?\"",
"\"I have relations and friends--a profession to follow. What can I gain\nby remaining here, except your friendship? I never will be a pirate,\nyou may be assured, I wish from my heart that you were not one.\"",
"\"Well, Percival you will allow me till to-morrow to think about it\nbefore I give a decided answer.\"",
"Captain Delmar had shown great kindness to the son of the Dutch captain\nand he did not send him on shore with the rest of the prisoners, but",
"you see, sir, that Dutch gentleman whom you saved from the nigger pirate\ncame to call on Captain Delmar yesterday morning, and, after some\npalaver, he told the captain that he wished you to remain with him",
"\"And you won't go to sea any more--will you, Percival?\" said Minnie.",
"\"Well,\" replied Captain Delmar, rather amused, \"give me the information\nand you shall have the spar.\"\n\n\"That's agreed.\"",
"\"The pirate-boy,\" replied the little girl, bursting into a paroxysm of\ntears, on my shoulders.",
"in chase was made immediately, and we came up within three miles of\nthem, when one, evidently the pirate we were in search of, made sail,\nwhile the other remained hove to.",
"\"I tell you before all your officers that I am Captain Keene, of the\nCirce frigate, belonging to His Britannic Majesty, and no spy; if you",
"\"My dear Percival,\" said old Mr Vanderwelt, after I had concluded my\nnarrative, \"you have been pursuing a shadow, although the pursuit has",
"\"Mercy!--murder!\" cried the purser, dropping the lantern, which went out\nand left them in the dark; and he tumbled down on the coals.",
"The captain, turning to me--for I had stood up the last of the row--\nsaid, \"I understand the officer of the impress agreed to release you if",
"sharks are thick enough in Port Royal, that he was safely stowed away in\none of their maws. I will say that the whole of the ship's company were"
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"\"Certainly, Captain Delmar, if it is possible. I think that a little\nblood must be taken from you immediately, and probably the fever may\nsubside.\"",
"Captain Delmar had passed close to me, the middy at his heels was\npassing, and I thought all chance was gone, when, suddenly, Captain",
"As soon as the crash was over, Captain Delmar cried out--\"Up, men, and\nfire, as I round to under her stern.\"",
"In the meantime Captain Delmar had been assisted to his legs by Captain\nBridgeman, who well knew who had played the trick, and who, as well as\nAunt Milly, had great difficulty in controlling his mirth.",
"\"Yes,\" said Mr Culpepper, \"and a strong one too. Captain Delmar is so\nhigh and mighty, that he would not have it thought that he could ever",
"The surgeon came in, and Captain Delmar then said to him, \"Is this all\ntrue that Cross has been telling me? Have I really fought a duel and\nkilled my adversary?\"",
"The master bit his lips, and was silent for a short time. At last he\nsaid, \"What you propose is certainly very easy; but why should you risk\nyour life for Captain Delmar?\"",
"As soon as Captain Delmar was gone, my mother turned round, and said,\n\"You naughty, mischievous boy, to play such pranks. I'll have that dog\nkilled, without you promise me never to do so again.\"",
"was then Captain Delmar, and he was more shocked at the impropriety than\neven I was, and offered to give the marine a good whipping.\"",
"\"God bless you, sir,\" replied my mother, weeping, as Captain Delmar\nshook her hand, and then we left the room. As we were walking back to",
"Captain Delmar then walked to the capstern, and, in few words, pointed\nout what I have just stated as the difficulty which might occur, and the\nchances of capture.\n\n\"You understand me, Mr Keene?\"",
"\"Merciful heaven! what was it? Was the animal mad? Has it bitten me?\"\nexclaimed Captain Delmar, falling back in his chair, in which he had\nbeen seated by Captain Bridgeman.",
"\"Now, my men,\" cried Captain Delmar, \"make short work of her.\"",
"Just at that time, I called out \"Mad dog! mad dog!\" and Captain Delmar,\nhearing those alarming words, became dreadfully frightened; his cocked",
"Captain Delmar was, to use a sailor's term, completely taken aback;\nindeed he was nearly capsized by the unexpected assault. For a short",
"Captain Delmar was very furious at this want of respect of certain\nparties unknown, and had we been discovered, whatever might have been my\nfate, it would have gone hard with Tommy Dott; but we kept our own\ncounsel, and escaped.",
"Captain Delmar, who was the naval commanding officer, had taken up his\nquarters on shore; he had done all he possibly could to prevent the",
"It so happened, that one afternoon, as I was cruising about with Bob at\nmy heels, I perceived the newly-arrived Captain Delmar, in all the pomp",
"\"I must say that I gave you up for lost,\" said Captain Delmar; \"the\nboat's crew were picked up the next morning, and reported that you were",
"The surgeon answered Captain Delmar,--\"As only you and Mr Keene were\ntaken with the fever, I thought it better that he should remain here,"
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"\"Percival,\" said my mother, \"I see the judiciousness of what you say and\nof your behaviour towards him; but allow me to ask you: What is the",
"\"Well, Percival, I cannot blame you; and do not you, therefore, blame\nyour mother too much, when you consider that the same feeling was the\ncause of her becoming your mother.\"",
"suddenly. Percival, you naughty boy,\" continued Milly, shaking her\nfinger at me, \"it was all your doing.\"",
"high; but at times he changed the subject, and then he spoke of me and\nmy mother. \"Where is my boy--my own boy, Percival?\" said he--\"my",
"\"But your grandmother, Percival--must I tell her?\"",
"This was my first blow, and a heavy one, to my poor mother; for what\nwoman can bear to be humiliated by her offspring being acquainted with",
"\"Yes, indeed she was, madam; but she had a private meeting with Captain\nDelmar; and Mrs Short, the housekeeper, overheard what passed, and I",
"\"My dear Percival,\" said old Mr Vanderwelt, after I had concluded my\nnarrative, \"you have been pursuing a shadow, although the pursuit has",
"and at last decided upon paying a visit to the mother, who was now\nsufficiently recovered to undergo a lecture of about two hours' length,\nin which the honourable spinster commented upon her _in_decency,",
"A dreadful accident has occurred, and indeed I feel most sincerely for\n you. On the night of the 10th, Percival was in a boat which broke",
"\"I fear that he will never do that, Percival; nor, indeed, do I think\nyou would gain by it. When you are more advanced in the world, your",
"her, and, in a low voice, said, \"Excessively strange,--so very\nunexpected!\" He then rose up from the chair and followed my mother into\nthe back room.",
"\"That may be, madam, but still Captain Delmar was the father of that\nboy; for, if you recollect, old Mrs Mason came to the Hall, and went\naway almost immediately.\"",
"possession of it. You will tell me, my dearest Percival, I'm sure, if\nyou did play this trick to granny, or not; you know you may trust me\nwith any of your tricks.\"",
"\"As for that,\" replied aunt Milly, \"I'm sure that sister, if she hears\nwhat's going on, as she cannot take Percival away, will order her\nhusband, Ben, to go up and thrash him.\"",
"mother upon him, but not so much ashamed of me; and, now that she was\nremoved, probably he might not be at all ashamed. My mother was no",
"mother, when, finding she could no longer conceal the truth from me, she\nentered into a narrative to extenuate her conduct, pointing out her",
"\"What's the matter, mother?\" said I.\n\n\"Oh! my child, my child!\" replied my mother, wringing her hands, \"you\nare an orphan, and I am a lonely widow.\"",
"seen nor had any communications with the captain, during the whole of\nthis time. He was informed by the surgeon that I was in great distress\nof mind at the news of my mother's death, and that my recovery would be",
"\"Oh Percival! you must not do anything to granny,\" said aunt Milly,\nlooking very archly; \"I must not hear anything of the kind.\""
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"the French, and at the most can only be prisoners of war. Upon what\ngrounds do you order us to be shot?\"",
"his sword. His left arm was bound up, and he was very pale from loss of\nblood. He spoke pretty good English; and we found that we had captured",
"that he and his men had been mastered, and the French were in possession\nof the vessel. But now our turn came. Dividing my boats, six in",
"seized upon Cross and me. A few minutes afterwards, General Moraud came\nup, and inquired, in a rough tone, who we were. I replied in French,\nthat we were English officers.",
"\"Percival,\" said my mother, \"I see the judiciousness of what you say and\nof your behaviour towards him; but allow me to ask you: What is the",
"\"General Moraud,\" said he, \"what that officer says is true: he is\nCaptain Keene, and I was prisoner on board of his vessel; and I also\nknow the other man as well.\"",
"until he saw me come down under French colours, upon which he felt that\nfurther resistance was vain. I told him I was afraid the schooner would",
"fired, and one went over us. At last the Frenchman anchored, and set to\nwork in good earnest. He found that he was within range, and as we did",
"French, till a bullet through my leg put a stop to my progress. I\ncalled to Cross, who came to my assistance, and he helped me back to the\nGrand Place, which was now clear of troops.",
"\"An why so, Percival? I cannot see how that will benefit you; it was on\nmy account that he took charge of you. You are not sure that he may not",
"suddenly. Percival, you naughty boy,\" continued Milly, shaking her\nfinger at me, \"it was all your doing.\"",
"peppered that Frenchman very well; and I am convinced that you have put\na good many shots into him between wind and water. Now, that he is",
"\"I fear that he will never do that, Percival; nor, indeed, do I think\nyou would gain by it. When you are more advanced in the world, your",
"\"Farewell, Vangilt,\" said I in French; \"I thank you for your\ninterference, although you have not succeeded with the _scoundrel_.\"\n\n\"Take them away!\" roared the general.",
"\"I think you are right, Bob,\" says I. \"Hoist French colours. He will\nmake sure of his prize then, and we shall laugh at his disappointment.\"",
"who lay in them, and then had their bottoms beat out to sink them. The\nFrench lieutenant and two other officers I ordered into our own boats,\nto take on board as prisoners; the rest of the French who had been",
"sees us, if we hoist English colours; but if you hoist French colours,\nwe may get down and pin him before he knows what we are.\"",
"The French lieutenant was then questioned; but with the exception of the\nname of the ship and captain, there was little to be expected from him,\nand he was dismissed and sent below.",
"conjecture; they had been captured by a French line-of-battle ship,\nwhich they had left in shore the evening before. The English reported",
"Our conversation was here interrupted by a party of French soldiers, who\nopened the door and ordered us to follow them. We had not far to go,"
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"\"My dear Percival,\" said old Mr Vanderwelt, after I had concluded my\nnarrative, \"you have been pursuing a shadow, although the pursuit has",
"\"Yes, sir, it is very good news: but, Master Keene, I only hope, knowing\nCaptain Delmar as you do, that you will act towards him as if you had\nnever heard it.\"",
"\"I fear that he will never do that, Percival; nor, indeed, do I think\nyou would gain by it. When you are more advanced in the world, your",
"\"Percival,\" said my mother, \"I see the judiciousness of what you say and\nof your behaviour towards him; but allow me to ask you: What is the",
"\"Yes, Percival, but there is a postscript overleaf, which you have not\nread.\"\n\nI turned back to the letter.",
"saved. At all events, it's no use telling bad news too soon, and\ntherefore you'll oblige me by not saying anything on the subject. A few\nhours will decide our fate.\"",
"A few days afterwards a packet arrived from England, and letters were\nreceived by Captain Delmar, informing him of the death of his elder",
"\"My dear Percival:--",
"the Admiralty; and as I have business unexpectedly come to hand, I\nthought I would be the bearer myself of the good news. I leave you the\nletter, and shall of course see you to dinner.\"",
"suddenly. Percival, you naughty boy,\" continued Milly, shaking her\nfinger at me, \"it was all your doing.\"",
"lieutenant has brought them on shore for the captain, and among the\nletters from England I found this one for you. I have seen Cross,\"\ncontinued the surgeon, nodding his head significantly as he left the",
"high; but at times he changed the subject, and then he spoke of me and\nmy mother. \"Where is my boy--my own boy, Percival?\" said he--\"my",
"Of course, the last person made acquainted with this interesting\nintelligence was the Honourable Miss Delmar, and her nephew took upon",
"\"An why so, Percival? I cannot see how that will benefit you; it was on\nmy account that he took charge of you. You are not sure that he may not",
"such escapes--twice reported dead at head-quarters, and twice come to\nlife again. Now Master Keene, I've very good news to tell you: you",
"\"Here it is, ma'am,\" said Ben, who perceived it sticking in her skirt.\n\"That's Percival's work, I'll answer for it.\"",
"\"Only one more, sir:--is the adjutant dead?\"\n\n\"I have not heard,\" replied the surgeon; \"but we shall know to-morrow:\nnow go to sleep, and good-night.\"",
"THE END.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEnd of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Percival Keene, by Frederick Marryat",
"We had been three weeks at Portsmouth when Colonel Delmar received a\nletter from a friend of his, a Major Stapleton, which he read aloud to",
"possession of it. You will tell me, my dearest Percival, I'm sure, if\nyou did play this trick to granny, or not; you know you may trust me\nwith any of your tricks.\""
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"of the de Versely family. It is a handsome building, surrounded by a\nfinely timbered park of some extent, and, what is more important, by",
"Versely, who was with her in her private room. I therefore remained\nwith Mr Warden for about an hour, when Lord de Versely came down and",
"\"Lord de Versely,\" replied Tommy, who felt the truth of what I said:\n\"he's a peculiar sort of man.\"",
"confided to me. You will see, therefore, that Lord de Versely did not\n neglect your interests. The de Versely property he could not leave",
"where his aunt, Miss de Versely, was still flourishing at a green old\nage. \"Here is a letter of introduction to her, Keene,\" said he, \"as she",
"Lord de Versely's letter to my mother, and confided it to his care. At\nthe same time I wrote a long letter to Mr Warden explaining as far as I",
"brother and his succeeding to the title of Lord de Versely; for his\nelder brother, although married, had no male issue. Upon this\nintelligence, Captain Delmar immediately resigned the command of the",
"After a few minutes' conversation, Lord de Versely rose, and we left the\nroom. As soon as we were in the carriage his lordship said, \"Keene, you",
"The next morning I called at Lord de Versely's and sent up my card. I\nwas immediately ushered up, and found myself in his presence. Lord de",
"Versely; that is to say, his eldest brother has no children. I have\nbeen nearly fifty years in the family as a confidential, Captain",
"de Versely believe that your mother was dead. The old lady, who is\n now very far gone in her intellect, could hardly understand me.",
"de Versely, of whom I spoke in terms of admiration and gratitude, I had\nsoon established myself in her good graces. Indeed, as I subsequently",
"it is. Had Lord de Versely not been so suddenly called away, this\n would never have happened; as it is, we must make the best fight we",
"Versely's death, as it was so sudden; the property left you is not\n perhaps of so much value in itself, as it is as a mark of his regard",
"de Versely, that his gun had gone off accidentally as he was putting on\na copper cap, and bitterly lamenting the circumstance. Lord de Versely",
"Versely; so that it appeared the old lady had been written to by Lord de\nVersely respecting me.",
"Miss Arabella Mason was the eldest daughter of the steward of the old\nLord de Versely, brother to the Honourable Miss Delmar, and was much",
"flashed into my memory. Lord de Versely was dead. I groaned, and fell\nback on the pillow.",
"supposed to be dead many years I knew well for Lord de Versely told me\n so. The old lady has shown me these letters, which certainly appear",
"\"Why, Lord de Versely, ma'am, to be sure. Everybody in the Hall was\nsure the child was his; he and Bella were for ever together for months\nbefore her marriage.\""
],
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"to spend a month at Madeline Hall, and used to bring her eldest\ndaughter, who had left school, with her. Latterly, however, the\ndaughter remained as a fixture, and Mrs Mason received but an",
"A few miles from the town of Southampton there is an old mansion-house,\nwhich has been for centuries known as Madeline Hall, in the possession",
"his first arrival at Madeline hall; but, strange to say, that two years\nafterwards, just at the time that reports had been raised that she had\nbeen frequently discovered in tears, there was a change in her manner",
"can come home the better, and I advise you to take up your quarters at\n Madeline Hall, for possession is nine points of the law, and you can\n keep off all trespassers.--Yours most truly,",
"After tea, I rose to take my leave, and then I received an invitation\nfrom the old lady to come and spend some time at Madeline Hall, and to",
"that he has, by some means, discovered that you have ousted him, and\n since you sailed he has returned to Madeline Hall, and has so",
"yourself as agreeable to the old lady as you can; you will find Madeline\nHall a very pleasant place, when you are tired of the dockyard and the\nsmell of pitch and tar.\"",
"down to Madeline Hall, as fit company for you? No; so, madam, depend\nupon it, Captain Keene is a Delmar, and no wonder his lordship is so",
"post-captain's father was a marine in those barracks. Another letter\nfrom Lord de Versely, announcing his arrival at Madeline Hall, and",
"with a flourish to his head, in token of his obedience. Shortly\nafterwards, Captain Delmar again came over to Madeline Hall, accompanied",
"not disproved, may seriously affect your future interests. Know then,\n that when you were last at Madeline Hall, I was sent for to draw up",
"very attentive in visiting his aunt, who lived at Madeline Hall;\nill-natured people asserted, because she had so fine an estate in her",
"After a little conversation, Cross took leave. The next day I took\npost-horses, and went over to Madeline Hall, having two or three days",
"old Mrs Mason set off for Madeline Hall. She first had a closeted\ninterview with her daughter, and then with Captain Delmar, and as soon\nas the latter was over, she immediately took her departure, without",
"my mother since the interview which she had had with her at Madeline\nHall shortly after her marriage with Ben the marine. Latterly, however,\nthey had corresponded; for my mother, who was too independent to seek",
"When I took my leave of Lord de Versely, he told me that he should come\ndown on the first of the following month (September) to Madeline Hall,",
"have come to her knowledge, I certainly should have written to my\ngrandmother from Madeline Hall; but I imagined that she knew nothing\nabout it, until my return to Portsmouth, when her anxious letters proved",
"\"F. WARDEN.\"\n\n\"Well, Minnie dearest, I may congratulate you, I believe, as the lady of\nMadeline Hall,\" said I, folding up the letter.",
"cell, the back of which was turned towards the hall. I knew the voice\nto be that of the old lady, who, it appears, had, as usual, come out in",
"The chaise stopped, and the boys dismounted and rang the bell. In a\nminute three or four servants made their appearance, and on inquiring, I\nfound that the Honourable Miss Delmar was at home, and visible."
],
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"The master bit his lips, and was silent for a short time. At last he\nsaid, \"What you propose is certainly very easy; but why should you risk\nyour life for Captain Delmar?\"",
"more at her demeaning herself by marrying a private marine. Captain\nDelmar replied, that it was true that Ben was only a private, but that\nevery common soldier was a gentleman by profession. It was true that",
"After our return, my mother gave me a great deal of advice. She told me\nthat, as I had lost my father Ben, I must now look upon Captain Delmar",
"by from her business, and that therefore there was no longer any\noccasion that I should be an expense to Captain Delmar. It must not,\nhowever, be supposed, from my grandmother stating this, that Captain",
"before others. Captain Delmar informed her that he should take me\nimmediately under his protection, pay all my expenses, and, if I behaved\nwell, advance me in the service.",
"the reason why Captain Delmar was interested about me, and had promised\nto do so much for me; begging me to treat him with great respect and\nnever venture to play him any tricks, or otherwise he would be highly",
"to Captain Delmar, and in a day or two I received an answer, with a copy\nof what she had sent. It was to the effect that I was now going away",
"was then Captain Delmar, and he was more shocked at the impropriety than\neven I was, and offered to give the marine a good whipping.\"",
"respectful to Captain Delmar, and keep yourself at as great a distance\nfrom him as he does from you.\"",
"Captain Delmar then walked to the capstern, and, in few words, pointed\nout what I have just stated as the difficulty which might occur, and the\nchances of capture.\n\n\"You understand me, Mr Keene?\"",
"\"I ax your pardon, marm; but if you know anything of Captain Delmar, you\nmust know he's not a man to be played with, and you would not wish to",
"for the second time, and that it was possible she might never see me or\nCaptain Delmar again; that she wished him success and happiness, and\nbegged him, in case she should be called away, not to forget his",
"\"I trust not, Captain Delmar,\" replied I. \"I have but one wish in the\nworld, which is to please you, who have so befriended me from my",
"match had he not been prompted to it by his master, who actually\nproposed that he should marry the girl. That such was the fact is\nundoubted, although they knew it not; and Ben, who considered the wish",
"Bridgeman; \"so take my advice, and do as your mother wishes; be very\ncivil and respectful to Captain Delmar, and he may be as good as a\nfather to you.\"",
"Captain Delmar was very furious at this want of respect of certain\nparties unknown, and had we been discovered, whatever might have been my\nfate, it would have gone hard with Tommy Dott; but we kept our own\ncounsel, and escaped.",
"you to change your name, and, in one word, I wish Captain Delmar should\nbelieve that you are dead.\"",
"\"If you have no objection, Captain Delmar,\" said the old gentleman, with\nanother low bow, \"I am sure that Mrs Culpepper will be most proud to",
"\"God bless you, sir,\" replied my mother, weeping, as Captain Delmar\nshook her hand, and then we left the room. As we were walking back to",
"\"Now, my men,\" cried Captain Delmar, \"make short work of her.\""
],
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"It hardly need be observed, that the clever and sprightly Miss Arabella\nMason considered Ben as one much beneath her, that is, she said so on",
"as usual, by Ben, and the second day after their arrival it was made\nknown to all whom it might concern, that Miss Arabella Mason had\nactually contracted a secret marriage with the handsome Benjamin Keene.",
"pleased at so unusual an occurrence, and already the sneers and\ninnuendoes of the servants' hall were not wanting. It appeared,\nhowever, that an interview had taken place between Ben and Captain",
"Miss Arabella Mason was the eldest daughter of the steward of the old\nLord de Versely, brother to the Honourable Miss Delmar, and was much",
"\"As for that,\" replied aunt Milly, \"I'm sure that sister, if she hears\nwhat's going on, as she cannot take Percival away, will order her\nhusband, Ben, to go up and thrash him.\"",
"benefit. At all events, it will satisfy my pride; for I feel that I am\nnot the son of your husband, but have blood boiling in my veins which",
"\"Comfort yourself, dear Arabella, as well as you can with the\n reflection that it has been the will of Heaven, to whose decrees we",
"CHAPTER FOUR.\n\nAs soon as I was clear of the door, I looked up into Ben's face and\nsaid, \"Father, where are we going?\"",
"\"Yes; handsome boy,\" croaked the old lady.\n\n\"Papa's dead.\"\n\n\"Dead! I thought so,\" observed Miss Medea, winking at her mother.",
"match had he not been prompted to it by his master, who actually\nproposed that he should marry the girl. That such was the fact is\nundoubted, although they knew it not; and Ben, who considered the wish",
"After this came on a series of questions and cross-questions; I replied\nto her so as to make it appear that Ben was my father, and nobody else,",
"\"You see, my daughter Amelia has been well brought up, and carefully\neducated, as was, indeed, my daughter, Arabella, through the kindness of",
"Ben, although he felt that this would be a virtual separation _a mensa\net thoro_, named no objections. Having thus obtained the consent of her",
"After our return, my mother gave me a great deal of advice. She told me\nthat, as I had lost my father Ben, I must now look upon Captain Delmar",
"So one fine day Ben wished us all good bye; my mother was very generous\nto him, as she could well afford to be. I rather think that Ben himself",
"pride--where is he? Arabella, you must not be angry with me--no,\nArabella; consider the consequence;\" and then he would burst out in such",
"my mother since the interview which she had had with her at Madeline\nHall shortly after her marriage with Ben the marine. Latterly, however,\nthey had corresponded; for my mother, who was too independent to seek",
"\"Here it is, ma'am,\" said Ben, who perceived it sticking in her skirt.\n\"That's Percival's work, I'll answer for it.\"",
"and as Ben had made known his determination to resent any remarks upon\nthe subject, not a word more was said, at all events when he was\npresent.",
"A minute afterwards, Ben the marine first tapped gently, and then opened\nthe door and came in; for at that late hour the officers were all at\ndinner, and the shop empty."
],
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"As soon as it was ascertained that Mr O'Gallagher was gone, my\ngrandmother insisted upon my being sent to another school, and on this",
"\"Percival,\" said my mother, \"I see the judiciousness of what you say and\nof your behaviour towards him; but allow me to ask you: What is the",
"suddenly. Percival, you naughty boy,\" continued Milly, shaking her\nfinger at me, \"it was all your doing.\"",
"my grandmother had put me to that school out of feelings of ill-will for\nthe tricks I had played, and had threatened that if I were removed she\nwould leave Chatham and take her away with her. My mother required",
"possession of it. You will tell me, my dearest Percival, I'm sure, if\nyou did play this trick to granny, or not; you know you may trust me\nwith any of your tricks.\"",
"\"But your grandmother, Percival--must I tell her?\"",
"\"Because I have not been long enough at school to learn manners,\ngranny.\"\n\n\"Come and kiss me before you go, my child,\" said my mother.",
"\"Oh Percival! you must not do anything to granny,\" said aunt Milly,\nlooking very archly; \"I must not hear anything of the kind.\"",
"\"An why so, Percival? I cannot see how that will benefit you; it was on\nmy account that he took charge of you. You are not sure that he may not",
"high; but at times he changed the subject, and then he spoke of me and\nmy mother. \"Where is my boy--my own boy, Percival?\" said he--\"my",
"\"As for that,\" replied aunt Milly, \"I'm sure that sister, if she hears\nwhat's going on, as she cannot take Percival away, will order her\nhusband, Ben, to go up and thrash him.\"",
"\"My dear Percival,\" said old Mr Vanderwelt, after I had concluded my\nnarrative, \"you have been pursuing a shadow, although the pursuit has",
"\"For biting your grandmother, I expect, in the first place, and to get a\nlittle learning, and a good deal of flogging, if what they say is true!\nI never was at school myself.\"",
"\"I fear that he will never do that, Percival; nor, indeed, do I think\nyou would gain by it. When you are more advanced in the world, your",
"satisfaction in my grandmother's eyes, which even her spectacles could\nnot conceal from me: the fact was, my grandmother had triumphed, and I\nwas going to school.",
"she was virtually separated from her husband. As my grandmother found\nit rather lonely at the isolated house in which she resided, and Amelia\ndeclared herself bored to death, it was at last agreed that my",
"\"Well,\" replied he, \"I am going to take you to school.\"\n\n\"School! What am I going to school for?\" replied I.",
"took his departure from the Hall. My mother returned to her room as the\nwheels of his carriage rattled over the gravel of the drive, and many\nwere the bitter tears which she shed over her unconscious boy.",
"The neighbours perceiving how ill he was, led him out of the\nschool-rooms into his own apartment, one going for a doctor, and the\nothers telling the boys they might all go home, a notice of which they\ngladly availed themselves.",
"I have not mentioned my grandmother lately. The fact is, that when\nCaptain Delmar made his appearance, for some cause or another, which I"
],
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"As we passed the vessel hove to, which we took it for granted was a\nmerchantman, which the pirate had been plundering, the captain ordered",
"The reader will perhaps recollect that the old Dutch gentleman, whose\nlife I had saved in the pirate vessel, had stated that his name was",
"\"Yes, my lord and I assure you that I never shall execute any with so\nmuch pleasure. Has Captain Keene told you how he saved my life this\nmorning?\"",
"\"I have relations and friends--a profession to follow. What can I gain\nby remaining here, except your friendship? I never will be a pirate,\nyou may be assured, I wish from my heart that you were not one.\"",
"often heard the history of my saving their lives on board of the pirate\nvessel from Mr Vanderwelt who made it a constant theme of his",
"\"Percival,\" said my mother, \"I see the judiciousness of what you say and\nof your behaviour towards him; but allow me to ask you: What is the",
"\"You have made me do what I never did before,\" replied he, raising\nhimself and sitting with his feet on the deck.\n\n\"I know I have; I have made you spare those of my colour.\"",
"you see, sir, that Dutch gentleman whom you saved from the nigger pirate\ncame to call on Captain Delmar yesterday morning, and, after some\npalaver, he told the captain that he wished you to remain with him",
"\"I tell you before all your officers that I am Captain Keene, of the\nCirce frigate, belonging to His Britannic Majesty, and no spy; if you",
"Captain Delmar had shown great kindness to the son of the Dutch captain\nand he did not send him on shore with the rest of the prisoners, but",
"\"General Moraud,\" said he, \"what that officer says is true: he is\nCaptain Keene, and I was prisoner on board of his vessel; and I also\nknow the other man as well.\"",
"\"An why so, Percival? I cannot see how that will benefit you; it was on\nmy account that he took charge of you. You are not sure that he may not",
"\"You may pass yourself off as the captain of a frigate, but your dress\ndisproves it, and I have better information. You are two spies, and\nsmugglers, and therefore you will be shot.\"",
"As usual, the crew were brought on board by the pirates, who reported to\nthe captain that the vessel was in ballast, and of no value. As the",
"\"Why,\" replied the captain, smiling, \"I think you have been sufficiently\npunished already for your temerity; I appreciate your motive of action",
"\"And a quarter four, sir,\" said the master.\n\n\"This chase won't last long,\" observed the captain. \"Take in the lower\nstudding-sail.\"",
"I pretended to sleep, although I could not; and I found out by their\nconversation that I gained the goodwill not only of the crew, but of the\ncaptain, by my behaviour.",
"\"Yes, I see,\" replied the captain; \"you did perfectly right--I did not\nthink of that. I hope Mr Keene is doing well?\"\n\n\"I trust that we shall get him through it, sir,\" replied the surgeon.",
"The captain, turning to me--for I had stood up the last of the row--\nsaid, \"I understand the officer of the impress agreed to release you if",
"\"Yes, indeed, Bob; this has indeed been a miraculous preservation, and\nwe ought to thank Heaven for it.\"\n\n\"Why, Captain Keene, I thought just now you did not care whether you\nlived or died.\""
],
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"brother and his succeeding to the title of Lord de Versely; for his\nelder brother, although married, had no male issue. Upon this\nintelligence, Captain Delmar immediately resigned the command of the",
"\"Lord de Versely,\" replied Tommy, who felt the truth of what I said:\n\"he's a peculiar sort of man.\"",
"\"Yes: but if his brother dies--and he is a very infirm man--the captain\nwill then be Viscount de Versely, and inherit very large estates, and",
"Lord de Versely's letter to my mother, and confided it to his care. At\nthe same time I wrote a long letter to Mr Warden explaining as far as I",
"The sudden death of Lord de Versely, at the age of fifty-six, left me\nwithout a patron, and had destroyed all my hopes centred in him. The",
"confided to me. You will see, therefore, that Lord de Versely did not\n neglect your interests. The de Versely property he could not leave",
"After a few minutes' conversation, Lord de Versely rose, and we left the\nroom. As soon as we were in the carriage his lordship said, \"Keene, you",
"Versely, who was with her in her private room. I therefore remained\nwith Mr Warden for about an hour, when Lord de Versely came down and",
"flashed into my memory. Lord de Versely was dead. I groaned, and fell\nback on the pillow.",
"but I was too young to know anything about his connections, whom he had\nquitted at an early age; since that I had been educated and brought\nforward by Lord de Versely, who had, since the death of my mother,",
"of the de Versely family. It is a handsome building, surrounded by a\nfinely timbered park of some extent, and, what is more important, by",
"de Versely, that his gun had gone off accidentally as he was putting on\na copper cap, and bitterly lamenting the circumstance. Lord de Versely",
"The next morning I called at Lord de Versely's and sent up my card. I\nwas immediately ushered up, and found myself in his presence. Lord de",
"Versely; that is to say, his eldest brother has no children. I have\nbeen nearly fifty years in the family as a confidential, Captain",
"Versely's death, as it was so sudden; the property left you is not\n perhaps of so much value in itself, as it is as a mark of his regard",
"it is. Had Lord de Versely not been so suddenly called away, this\n would never have happened; as it is, we must make the best fight we",
"It so happened, that about a month after Ben's departure, Captain Delmar\nhad, through the interest of his uncle, Lord de Versely, been appointed",
"the will of the Honourable Miss Delmar, and I then discovered that the\n will which had been made in favour of Lord de Versely, to whom Miss",
"after I had arrived, Colonel Delmar made his appearance: he was a cousin\nof Lord de Versely's, but I certainly should not, from his appearance,",
"Versely; so that it appeared the old lady had been written to by Lord de\nVersely respecting me."
],
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"\"I came to wish you joy of your promotion and appointment to a fine\nfrigate, Keene,\" said Lord de Versely. \"I have just received this from",
"\"The French ship is getting up her yard tackles,\" said the signal man.\n\n\"Then you have no time to lose, Mr Keene. As for the small boats, they\nare of no consequence.\"",
"The next morning, when the day broke, the French line-of-battle ship was\nin the offing about eight miles distant. It may easily be imagined that",
"fired, and one went over us. At last the Frenchman anchored, and set to\nwork in good earnest. He found that he was within range, and as we did",
"\"Why, what good can he do to me?\" inquired I.\n\n\"He may advance you properly in life--who knows?--he may put you on the\nquarter-deck, and get you promoted in the service.\"",
"that he and his men had been mastered, and the French were in possession\nof the vessel. But now our turn came. Dividing my boats, six in",
"Lord de Versely was faithful to his promise: the next day I received\nfrom the admiral my appointment to the Firefly, and, what was more",
"situations it is not to be thought of for a moment. Read this.\" I\nhanded him my appointment as commander of the Diligente: Tommy cast his",
"\"Now, Tommy,\" replied I, \"you know, that although you talk so big, if\nyou had been appointed a lieutenant into a ship commanded by Lord de",
"lieutenant has brought them on shore for the captain, and among the\nletters from England I found this one for you. I have seen Cross,\"\ncontinued the surgeon, nodding his head significantly as he left the",
"The French line-of-battle ship had stood in for the land, under all\nsail, until half-past-seven, being then, as she was when we first saw",
"The French lieutenant was then questioned; but with the exception of the\nname of the ship and captain, there was little to be expected from him,\nand he was dismissed and sent below.",
"from the largest French boat. This was the signal to advance, and I was\nvery glad, as the affair would now be soon decided.",
"As I was walking the quarter-deck, delighted with my success, Cross, who\nhad the watch and was by my side, said, \"I think, Captain Keene, you did\nvery right in hoisting French colours.\"",
"As the breeze freshened, and the French ship had the first of it; she\nrapidly gained upon us, and in an hour and a half was about three miles",
"But when the sun rose the mystery was cleared off. It was a French\nschooner privateer engaging a large English ship, apparently an",
"Our first shot was successful; it struck one of the pinnaces, and she\nswamped immediately. Our men cheered, while the other French boats",
"As we pulled for the frigate, I perceived that the line-of-battle ship's\nsails were filling, and that it was touch and go with us; but I also",
"us. In half an hour we were both within less than a mile of the\nmerchant vessel; but the French boats were the nearest of the two. The\naffair now became very exciting. In another ten minutes the French",
"I had been a fortnight with the admiral when the Naiad arrived with the\nprizes in company, and, my wound being now cured, I took leave of the"
],
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"\"Percival,\" said my mother, \"I see the judiciousness of what you say and\nof your behaviour towards him; but allow me to ask you: What is the",
"\"I fear that he will never do that, Percival; nor, indeed, do I think\nyou would gain by it. When you are more advanced in the world, your",
"\"My dear Percival:--",
"\"An why so, Percival? I cannot see how that will benefit you; it was on\nmy account that he took charge of you. You are not sure that he may not",
"\"Well, Percival you will allow me till to-morrow to think about it\nbefore I give a decided answer.\"",
"\"My dear Percival,\" said old Mr Vanderwelt, after I had concluded my\nnarrative, \"you have been pursuing a shadow, although the pursuit has",
"suddenly. Percival, you naughty boy,\" continued Milly, shaking her\nfinger at me, \"it was all your doing.\"",
"\"Here it is, ma'am,\" said Ben, who perceived it sticking in her skirt.\n\"That's Percival's work, I'll answer for it.\"",
"\"As for that,\" replied aunt Milly, \"I'm sure that sister, if she hears\nwhat's going on, as she cannot take Percival away, will order her\nhusband, Ben, to go up and thrash him.\"",
"possession of it. You will tell me, my dearest Percival, I'm sure, if\nyou did play this trick to granny, or not; you know you may trust me\nwith any of your tricks.\"",
"dislike to matrimony, and laugh at people's getting married, which has\npleased me very much for your sake, Master Percival. You see, a man",
"\"But your grandmother, Percival--must I tell her?\"",
"\"Well, Percival, I cannot blame you; and do not you, therefore, blame\nyour mother too much, when you consider that the same feeling was the\ncause of her becoming your mother.\"",
"\"And you won't go to sea any more--will you, Percival?\" said Minnie.",
"\"Yes, Percival, but there is a postscript overleaf, which you have not\nread.\"\n\nI turned back to the letter.",
"\"Oh Percival! you must not do anything to granny,\" said aunt Milly,\nlooking very archly; \"I must not hear anything of the kind.\"",
"The next day the captain proposed and was accepted, and six weeks from\nthat date my aunt Milly became his wife.",
"\"Indeed, madam, if her affections are not otherwise engaged--I say--are\nnot engaged, madam, I do not think she could do better. Would, you like\nme to sound Miss Amelia on the subject?\"",
"high; but at times he changed the subject, and then he spoke of me and\nmy mother. \"Where is my boy--my own boy, Percival?\" said he--\"my",
"At this sally Captain Bridgeman laughed, and danced about the shop; at\nlast he said, \"Poor Flat! Miss Amelia, he's desperately in love with\nyou.\""
],
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"\"My dear Percival,\" said old Mr Vanderwelt, after I had concluded my\nnarrative, \"you have been pursuing a shadow, although the pursuit has",
"\"Percival,\" said my mother, \"I see the judiciousness of what you say and\nof your behaviour towards him; but allow me to ask you: What is the",
"\"I fear that he will never do that, Percival; nor, indeed, do I think\nyou would gain by it. When you are more advanced in the world, your",
"\"My dear Percival:--",
"possession of it. You will tell me, my dearest Percival, I'm sure, if\nyou did play this trick to granny, or not; you know you may trust me\nwith any of your tricks.\"",
"\"Well, Percival you will allow me till to-morrow to think about it\nbefore I give a decided answer.\"",
"\"An why so, Percival? I cannot see how that will benefit you; it was on\nmy account that he took charge of you. You are not sure that he may not",
"\"Here it is, ma'am,\" said Ben, who perceived it sticking in her skirt.\n\"That's Percival's work, I'll answer for it.\"",
"suddenly. Percival, you naughty boy,\" continued Milly, shaking her\nfinger at me, \"it was all your doing.\"",
"\"Yes, Percival, but there is a postscript overleaf, which you have not\nread.\"\n\nI turned back to the letter.",
"\"Perfectly, sir,\" replied I.\n\n\"Well, then, I trust to your discretion, Mr Keene, and hope I shall not\nbe disappointed. Now you may go.\"",
"THE END.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEnd of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Percival Keene, by Frederick Marryat",
"\"I certainly have, my dear Percival, much more than is necessary for me\nto live in comfort, and I may say, some little luxury; but I have",
"\"Well, Percival, I cannot blame you; and do not you, therefore, blame\nyour mother too much, when you consider that the same feeling was the\ncause of her becoming your mother.\"",
"high; but at times he changed the subject, and then he spoke of me and\nmy mother. \"Where is my boy--my own boy, Percival?\" said he--\"my",
"delirium, had called me his own boy, his Percival and I felt more happy.",
"I then explained the whole to him. \"You are right, Master Keene--right\nin everything. May God bless you, and send you good luck. I wish I\nmight go with you.\"",
"\"Well, white boy, I accept your present; and now, good bye.\"\n\n\"Good-bye, sir. Do me one kindness in return,\" said I, very gravely,\nfor I felt my hour was come.",
"\"Well, well, it's a bargain,\" replied the old man. \"I'm a poor blind\nbeetle, a sinful old soul; I've nothing to do but to make my peace with",
"\"Not a bad idea, my little Percival,\" said Captain Bridgeman; \"I'll just\nask the doctor how much calomel a man may take without a coroner's\ninquest being required.\""
],
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"Miss Arabella Mason was the eldest daughter of the steward of the old\nLord de Versely, brother to the Honourable Miss Delmar, and was much",
"It hardly need be observed, that the clever and sprightly Miss Arabella\nMason considered Ben as one much beneath her, that is, she said so on",
"captain, liked attention, and liked sailors; this was Miss Arabella\nMason, a very pretty young woman of eighteen years of age, who\nconstantly looked in the glass merely to ascertain if she had ever seen",
"occasional invitation. It may be inquired in what capacity Miss\nArabella Mason remained at the Hall; she was not a servant, for her\nposition in life was above that of a menial; neither was she received",
"\"Comfort yourself, dear Arabella, as well as you can with the\n reflection that it has been the will of Heaven, to whose decrees we",
"\"MY DEAR ARABELLA:--",
"\"You see, my daughter Amelia has been well brought up, and carefully\neducated, as was, indeed, my daughter, Arabella, through the kindness of",
"as usual, by Ben, and the second day after their arrival it was made\nknown to all whom it might concern, that Miss Arabella Mason had\nactually contracted a secret marriage with the handsome Benjamin Keene.",
"have broken his heart, if, in his lifetime, my daughter Arabella had\nmade the foolish marriage which she did with a private marine--however,",
"pride--where is he? Arabella, you must not be angry with me--no,\nArabella; consider the consequence;\" and then he would burst out in such",
"\"I only say, madam, what was said at the time by everybody, that Bella\nMason never would have married that marine, whom she looked upon with",
"maid at the time that it happened, and I was constantly in company with\nBella Mason. She was very respectful towards you, but you did not know",
"are allowed to give vent to their indignation without the smallest\nopposition they soon talk it away; such was the case with the Honourable\nMiss Delmar. When it was first announced that Bella Keene was safely in",
"\"You are right,\" said he, \"I know her well; it is the Arrow, and she has\ncome out to cruise for me. This is the third time that she has been",
"\"Yes, indeed she was, madam; but she had a private meeting with Captain\nDelmar; and Mrs Short, the housekeeper, overheard what passed, and I",
"The chaise stopped, and the boys dismounted and rang the bell. In a\nminute three or four servants made their appearance, and on inquiring, I\nfound that the Honourable Miss Delmar was at home, and visible.",
"\"That may be, madam, but still Captain Delmar was the father of that\nboy; for, if you recollect, old Mrs Mason came to the Hall, and went\naway almost immediately.\"",
"\"I have been thinking,\" said one of the mids, \"what I shall do if Mammy\nCrissobella takes pepper-pot; I shall marry Leila, and keep the hotel.\nMammy, you'll leave me the plate and furniture.\"",
"\"That marine, ma'am! he was innocent enough; Bella was not likely to\nlisten to one like him.\"\n\n\"Who can you mean then, Phillis?\"",
"\"The matter is this, nephew,\" replied the old lady--\"that marriage of\nyour marine and Bella Mason should have taken place six months sooner"
],
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"Keene,\" he would say--\"sit down; the master has reported favourably of\nyou, and I am glad to hear of it.\"",
"Keene, whose name, at least, you have often heard of lately. I have\nbrought him with me because he is a follower of mine: he entered the",
"Indeed, I must do Ben Keene the justice to say that he had the virtue of\nhumility. He felt that his wife was in every way his superior and that",
"\"Yes, Bob, not very far from it.\"\n\n\"Well, I suppose I must say Mister Keene for the future.\"",
"\"Captain Keene, madam,\" said he, as he introduced me into a large room,\nat the end of which sat a venerable-looking old lady, very busy with her",
"\"My dear Keene,\" said he, \"I have been to the major, and, to my\nsurprise, when I stated to him what had passed at the table last night,",
"Keene. Why, Mr Dott and you look as if you knew each other.\"",
"\"Mr Keene, I presume?\" said the first lieutenant, eyeing me from head\nto foot.\n\n\"Yes, sir,\" replied I, touching my hat.",
"Bob Cross, who had for some time been at his bedside, wiped the tears\nfrom his eyes, and said, \"Master Keene, how this man must have suffered",
"dared. And, then, madam, only look at Captain Keene,--why, he is the\nvery image of his lordship.\"",
"\"Now, then, Mr Keene,\" said he, \"we will know what has taken place. Of\ncourse we have seen most of it.\"\n\nI narrated what the reader already knows.",
"\"Master Keene, I'm sure, by your looks, you knew something about this.\nThat foolish lad never had dared do so, if he knew what it was he had",
"Captain Keene,\" said Bob, as I shook him warmly by the hand, \"I'm\ndelighted at your success, and I know you will not be sorry to hear that",
"\"Mr Keene,\" said she, \"I didn't know your name before you told it to\nthe skipper here; you're in a pretty scrape. I don't know what Jim",
"\"Happy to see you, Keene,\" said the admiral. \"Hollo! what makes you\nlimp in that way? Have you hurt your leg?\"",
"\"Good Heavens! that voice!--why, who are you?\" cried Captain Delmar,\nstarting back a pace.\n\n\"Mr Keene, sir,\" replied I, again putting my hand to my head.",
"\"Yours truly, P. KEENE.\"\n\nThis was very short, and, it must be admitted, direct to the point. I\ncould not perhaps have written one which was so calculated to give my\nmother uneasiness.",
"\"Well, sir, the master could not bear the sneering of the sogers on\nshore, and he consented that Mr Keene should take your place, which he",
"\"You're Captain Keene, then, whose letters to the Admiralty Jane has so\noften read to me in the newspapers. Where have we met? I've heard that\nvoice before.\"",
"\"I believe you are, Keene,\" replied his lordship. \"By the bye, you\nleave your letters so exposed, that one cannot help seem them. I see\nyou are writing to your grandmother. I hope the old lady is well?\""
],
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"as usual, by Ben, and the second day after their arrival it was made\nknown to all whom it might concern, that Miss Arabella Mason had\nactually contracted a secret marriage with the handsome Benjamin Keene.",
"match had he not been prompted to it by his master, who actually\nproposed that he should marry the girl. That such was the fact is\nundoubted, although they knew it not; and Ben, who considered the wish",
"pleased at so unusual an occurrence, and already the sneers and\ninnuendoes of the servants' hall were not wanting. It appeared,\nhowever, that an interview had taken place between Ben and Captain",
"marines are quite so strict as they ought to be; however, Ben has\nmarried her. Come, my dear aunt, allow me to plead for them, although I",
"Ben had taken up the affair so seriously, it was presumed that if there\nhad been anticipation of the hymeneal rites he was himself the party who",
"Indeed, I must do Ben Keene the justice to say that he had the virtue of\nhumility. He felt that his wife was in every way his superior and that",
"Ben, although he felt that this would be a virtual separation _a mensa\net thoro_, named no objections. Having thus obtained the consent of her",
"A minute afterwards, Ben the marine first tapped gently, and then opened\nthe door and came in; for at that late hour the officers were all at\ndinner, and the shop empty.",
"After this came on a series of questions and cross-questions; I replied\nto her so as to make it appear that Ben was my father, and nobody else,",
"majority; but still the intimacy appeared rapidly to increase. It was\nafterwards asserted by those who find out everything after it has taken\nplace, that Ben would never have ventured to look up to such an unequal",
"husband of whom she was ashamed; in the second, she did not like widow's\nweeds, and the unbecoming cap. So it was decided, as Ben had been dead",
"my mother since the interview which she had had with her at Madeline\nHall shortly after her marriage with Ben the marine. Latterly, however,\nthey had corresponded; for my mother, who was too independent to seek",
"eat than he could have in his own mess, or obtain from her an occasional\nshilling to spend in beer. Ben, the marine, found at last that somehow",
"and as Ben had made known his determination to resent any remarks upon\nthe subject, not a word more was said, at all events when he was\npresent.",
"more at her demeaning herself by marrying a private marine. Captain\nDelmar replied, that it was true that Ben was only a private, but that\nevery common soldier was a gentleman by profession. It was true that",
"private marine. It was however, ascribed to her having been captivated\nwith the very handsome person and figure of her husband, and having\nyielded to her feelings in a moment of infatuation. The ladies",
"\"As for that,\" replied aunt Milly, \"I'm sure that sister, if she hears\nwhat's going on, as she cannot take Percival away, will order her\nhusband, Ben, to go up and thrash him.\"",
"as a father to me; that Ben had been a faithful servant to the captain,\nand that she had been the same to Mrs Delmar, his aunt; and that was",
"\"Here it is, ma'am,\" said Ben, who perceived it sticking in her skirt.\n\"That's Percival's work, I'll answer for it.\"",
"It hardly need be observed, that the clever and sprightly Miss Arabella\nMason considered Ben as one much beneath her, that is, she said so on"
],
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"\"Percival Keene\" was published in 1842, the nineteenth book to flow from\nMarryat's pen.",
"PERCIVAL KEENE, BY CAPTAIN FREDERICK MARRYAT.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER ONE.",
"THE END.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEnd of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Percival Keene, by Frederick Marryat",
"GUTENBERG EBOOK PERCIVAL KEENE ***\n\n\n\n\nProduced by Nick Hodson of London, England",
"\"My dear Percival,\" said old Mr Vanderwelt, after I had concluded my\nnarrative, \"you have been pursuing a shadow, although the pursuit has",
"\"Percival,\" said my mother, \"I see the judiciousness of what you say and\nof your behaviour towards him; but allow me to ask you: What is the",
"\"Yours truly, P. KEENE.\"\n\nThis was very short, and, it must be admitted, direct to the point. I\ncould not perhaps have written one which was so calculated to give my\nmother uneasiness.",
"duly registered in the church books as Percival Keene.",
"Keene,\" he would say--\"sit down; the master has reported favourably of\nyou, and I am glad to hear of it.\"",
"Percival Keene, by Captain Marryat.\n\n________________________________________________________________________",
"Keene, whose name, at least, you have often heard of lately. I have\nbrought him with me because he is a follower of mine: he entered the",
"\"I fear that he will never do that, Percival; nor, indeed, do I think\nyou would gain by it. When you are more advanced in the world, your",
"\"My dear Percival:--",
"\"I believe you are, Keene,\" replied his lordship. \"By the bye, you\nleave your letters so exposed, that one cannot help seem them. I see\nyou are writing to your grandmother. I hope the old lady is well?\"",
"\"Perfectly, sir,\" replied I.\n\n\"Well, then, I trust to your discretion, Mr Keene, and hope I shall not\nbe disappointed. Now you may go.\"",
"The second and third lieutenants, Mr Percival and Mr Weymss, were\nyoung men of good family, and were admitted to a very slight degree of",
"\"Master Keene, I'm sure, by your looks, you knew something about this.\nThat foolish lad never had dared do so, if he knew what it was he had",
"\"An why so, Percival? I cannot see how that will benefit you; it was on\nmy account that he took charge of you. You are not sure that he may not",
"\"My dear Keene,\" said he, \"I have been to the major, and, to my\nsurprise, when I stated to him what had passed at the table last night,",
"\"Good Heavens! that voice!--why, who are you?\" cried Captain Delmar,\nstarting back a pace.\n\n\"Mr Keene, sir,\" replied I, again putting my hand to my head."
],
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"As soon as it was ascertained that Mr O'Gallagher was gone, my\ngrandmother insisted upon my being sent to another school, and on this",
"\"Percival,\" said my mother, \"I see the judiciousness of what you say and\nof your behaviour towards him; but allow me to ask you: What is the",
"\"An why so, Percival? I cannot see how that will benefit you; it was on\nmy account that he took charge of you. You are not sure that he may not",
"high; but at times he changed the subject, and then he spoke of me and\nmy mother. \"Where is my boy--my own boy, Percival?\" said he--\"my",
"suddenly. Percival, you naughty boy,\" continued Milly, shaking her\nfinger at me, \"it was all your doing.\"",
"The neighbours perceiving how ill he was, led him out of the\nschool-rooms into his own apartment, one going for a doctor, and the\nothers telling the boys they might all go home, a notice of which they\ngladly availed themselves.",
"\"My dear Percival:--",
"\"My dear Percival,\" said old Mr Vanderwelt, after I had concluded my\nnarrative, \"you have been pursuing a shadow, although the pursuit has",
"\"I fear that he will never do that, Percival; nor, indeed, do I think\nyou would gain by it. When you are more advanced in the world, your",
"\"Well,\" replied he, \"I am going to take you to school.\"\n\n\"School! What am I going to school for?\" replied I.",
"The second and third lieutenants, Mr Percival and Mr Weymss, were\nyoung men of good family, and were admitted to a very slight degree of",
"Soon afterwards the bell rang, and we returned to the schoolroom. I was\nput under the tuition of another boy, and took care to learn my lesson.",
"Mr O'Gallagher resumed his occupations, and I was again sent off to\nschool. When I entered the school-room I found him looking very pale",
"my grandmother had put me to that school out of feelings of ill-will for\nthe tricks I had played, and had threatened that if I were removed she\nwould leave Chatham and take her away with her. My mother required",
"given to his constitution was so great, that for three or four months he\nmay be said to have crawled to his school room, and I really began to\nthink that the affair would turn out more serious than was intended; but",
"\"No, that he has not,\" cried my aunt Milly. \"Sister should have\ninquired what sort of a school it was before she sent him.\"",
"had been placed, put the powder under it, leaving only sufficient for a\nvery small train, which would not be perceived in the green baize\ncovering; having so done, I left the school-room immediately, and",
"there were one or two schools of the same kind much nearer to my\nmother's house. Ben, who probably had a great respect for learning, in\nconsequence of his having none himself, gave a military salute to Mr",
"other end of the schoolroom. The boy, who had been talking to his\nneighbour, rubbed his poll, and whined.",
"to look for it all the while; you shall go to school, sir, that you\nshall.\""
],
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"\"Percival,\" said my mother, \"I see the judiciousness of what you say and\nof your behaviour towards him; but allow me to ask you: What is the",
"\"My dear Percival,\" said old Mr Vanderwelt, after I had concluded my\nnarrative, \"you have been pursuing a shadow, although the pursuit has",
"\"My dear Percival:--",
"\"An why so, Percival? I cannot see how that will benefit you; it was on\nmy account that he took charge of you. You are not sure that he may not",
"\"Well, Percival, I cannot blame you; and do not you, therefore, blame\nyour mother too much, when you consider that the same feeling was the\ncause of her becoming your mother.\"",
"high; but at times he changed the subject, and then he spoke of me and\nmy mother. \"Where is my boy--my own boy, Percival?\" said he--\"my",
"\"I fear that he will never do that, Percival; nor, indeed, do I think\nyou would gain by it. When you are more advanced in the world, your",
"suddenly. Percival, you naughty boy,\" continued Milly, shaking her\nfinger at me, \"it was all your doing.\"",
"\"Who brought him down, Cross?\" said the surgeon, carelessly.\n\n\"His own mother, sir; he has no father, sir, I hear.\"",
"possession of it. You will tell me, my dearest Percival, I'm sure, if\nyou did play this trick to granny, or not; you know you may trust me\nwith any of your tricks.\"",
"delirium, had called me his own boy, his Percival and I felt more happy.",
"\"Yes, Percival, but there is a postscript overleaf, which you have not\nread.\"\n\nI turned back to the letter.",
"worth asking. However, as you have given me the preference, I will now\ntell you that the Culpepper people have been trying to find out who is\nyour father. Ain't I right?\"",
"\"But your grandmother, Percival--must I tell her?\"",
"\"Here it is, ma'am,\" said Ben, who perceived it sticking in her skirt.\n\"That's Percival's work, I'll answer for it.\"",
"\"Do you know who it is that you have been?\" etcetera. I felt sure that\nhe was my father, and I felt a sort of duty towards him; perhaps an\nincrease of respect.",
"\"Percival Keene\" was published in 1842, the nineteenth book to flow from\nMarryat's pen.",
"\"Well, Percival you will allow me till to-morrow to think about it\nbefore I give a decided answer.\"",
"The second and third lieutenants, Mr Percival and Mr Weymss, were\nyoung men of good family, and were admitted to a very slight degree of",
"you had no father. There was a great deal more which the steward could\nnot make out, but it was all to that effect. Well, the captain said"
],
[
"\"An why so, Percival? I cannot see how that will benefit you; it was on\nmy account that he took charge of you. You are not sure that he may not",
"\"His Britannic Majesty's ship Calliope,\" replied Captain Delmar; and\nthen he repeated--\"What ship is that? Let every man lie down at his",
"\"Percival,\" said my mother, \"I see the judiciousness of what you say and\nof your behaviour towards him; but allow me to ask you: What is the",
"suddenly. Percival, you naughty boy,\" continued Milly, shaking her\nfinger at me, \"it was all your doing.\"",
"the Calliope above the horizon: but this we thought little of, as we\nknew that as soon as she had captured the pirate she would run back\nagain, and take us out.",
"\"You deserved it, Mr Keene, and it certainly will be of great advantage\nto you when you have served your time. Has your time gone on since the\nCalliope was paid off?\"",
"\"My dear Percival,\" said old Mr Vanderwelt, after I had concluded my\nnarrative, \"you have been pursuing a shadow, although the pursuit has",
"possession of it. You will tell me, my dearest Percival, I'm sure, if\nyou did play this trick to granny, or not; you know you may trust me\nwith any of your tricks.\"",
"\"I fear that he will never do that, Percival; nor, indeed, do I think\nyou would gain by it. When you are more advanced in the world, your",
"Keene, we are now at anchor as near as possible to where the Calliope\nwas when you went adrift in the boat with poor Peggy. Some difference\nbetween your situation now and then.\"",
"\"General Moraud,\" said he, \"what that officer says is true: he is\nCaptain Keene, and I was prisoner on board of his vessel; and I also\nknow the other man as well.\"",
"By noon everything was so far ready that we were enabled to take the\nprize in tow, and make sail on the Calliope, after which the men, who",
"prisoners were on board, the boats hoisted up, and the Manilla still\nremained hove to. The fact was, the captain did not know which way to",
"\"As for that,\" replied aunt Milly, \"I'm sure that sister, if she hears\nwhat's going on, as she cannot take Percival away, will order her\nhusband, Ben, to go up and thrash him.\"",
"permitted him to remain, and come home in the Calliope. He recovered\nslowly, but was soon out of danger, and was walking about with his arm",
"Delmar, and the officers of his Majesty's ship Calliope. Of course the\ngrateful young lady sent my mother some tickets of admission, and two of\nthem I reserved for Tommy Dott and myself.",
"\"Here it is, ma'am,\" said Ben, who perceived it sticking in her skirt.\n\"That's Percival's work, I'll answer for it.\"",
"delirium, had called me his own boy, his Percival and I felt more happy.",
"\"My dear Percival:--",
"But long before all these discussions were over, H.M. ship Calliope had\nbeen ordered to sail, and was steering down the Channel before a smart\nbreeze."
],
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"\"My dear Percival,\" said old Mr Vanderwelt, after I had concluded my\nnarrative, \"you have been pursuing a shadow, although the pursuit has",
"\"My dear Percival:--",
"suddenly. Percival, you naughty boy,\" continued Milly, shaking her\nfinger at me, \"it was all your doing.\"",
"high; but at times he changed the subject, and then he spoke of me and\nmy mother. \"Where is my boy--my own boy, Percival?\" said he--\"my",
"\"Percival,\" said my mother, \"I see the judiciousness of what you say and\nof your behaviour towards him; but allow me to ask you: What is the",
"\"An why so, Percival? I cannot see how that will benefit you; it was on\nmy account that he took charge of you. You are not sure that he may not",
"\"Here it is, ma'am,\" said Ben, who perceived it sticking in her skirt.\n\"That's Percival's work, I'll answer for it.\"",
"\"Yes, Percival, but there is a postscript overleaf, which you have not\nread.\"\n\nI turned back to the letter.",
"delirium, had called me his own boy, his Percival and I felt more happy.",
"\"I fear that he will never do that, Percival; nor, indeed, do I think\nyou would gain by it. When you are more advanced in the world, your",
"We pulled on board in the gig, and Peggy was soon in the arms of her\nhusband. As Pearson embraced her at the gangway--for he could not help",
"\"Well, Percival, I cannot blame you; and do not you, therefore, blame\nyour mother too much, when you consider that the same feeling was the\ncause of her becoming your mother.\"",
"permitted him to remain, and come home in the Calliope. He recovered\nslowly, but was soon out of danger, and was walking about with his arm",
"The second and third lieutenants, Mr Percival and Mr Weymss, were\nyoung men of good family, and were admitted to a very slight degree of",
"at last, and we were united. The _fete_ was over, the company had all\nleft us, and we were again alone, and I held my dearest Minnie in my",
"\"As for that,\" replied aunt Milly, \"I'm sure that sister, if she hears\nwhat's going on, as she cannot take Percival away, will order her\nhusband, Ben, to go up and thrash him.\"",
"\"Well, Percival you will allow me till to-morrow to think about it\nbefore I give a decided answer.\"",
"lieutenant has brought them on shore for the captain, and among the\nletters from England I found this one for you. I have seen Cross,\"\ncontinued the surgeon, nodding his head significantly as he left the",
"possession of it. You will tell me, my dearest Percival, I'm sure, if\nyou did play this trick to granny, or not; you know you may trust me\nwith any of your tricks.\"",
"re-appearance appeared to give unusual satisfaction. I went down into\nthe gun-room and was stripped. They were much surprised to find that I\nwas not hurt, and even more when they discovered that I was black all"
],
[
"Minnie. In another fortnight I was completely recovered, and then I\nmentioned to Mr Vanderwelt my anxiety that the marriage should take\nplace. No difficulties were raised; and it was settled that on that day",
"of and talk to Minnie. That my progress in her affections was rapid,\nwas not to be wondered at, her attachment to me having commenced so\nearly; and as her father was evidently pleased at our increasing",
"\"And so it was in attempting to come and see us that you were wounded\nand nearly murdered?\"\n\n\"Yes, Minnie; I had long been anxious to see you, and could not help\navailing myself of the first opportunity.\"",
"Shortly afterwards we went to bed. I must say, his description of\nMinnie, which was even much more in detail than I have narrated to the",
"child; he had married late in life, and his wife had died a few days\nafter Minnie was born. She was very affectionate in disposition, and",
"The report of Minnie's beauty was fully warranted. When she first made\nher appearance, the effect upon me was quite electrical: her style was",
"that I was for the first time in love, and that in no small degree--\nbefore morning I was desperately so. Indeed, there was excuse\nsufficient, for Minnie was as winning in her manners as she was lovely",
"After this conversation, the subject was not renewed. I felt too happy\nwith Minnie's love to care much about anything else; my ambition melted\naway before it, and I looked forward to the time when I might embrace\nher as my own.",
"\"Yes, your fault; for I could not sleep for thinking of you; I thought\nyou were looking at me as you do now the whole night.\"\n\nMinnie blushed, and I kissed her hand.",
"\"And little Minnie, sir?\" inquired I: \"it is now nearly five years since\nI saw her.\"",
"attended on the captain. By this plan my duty was not interfered with,\nand I had many pleasant meetings with my new friends, and became, as may\nbe imagined, very intimate with little Minnie.",
"\"F. WARDEN.\"\n\n\"Well, Minnie dearest, I may congratulate you, I believe, as the lady of\nMadeline Hall,\" said I, folding up the letter.",
"Minnie stood by me during the time her father was speaking, her large\nblue eyes beaming through the tears with which they brimmed; and as I",
"holding the not unwilling one of Minnie. That evening I made known to\nthem all that had taken place since I last wrote to them, winding up",
"\"I have indeed, sir,\" replied I, as I kissed his daughter; \"and I will\nnot repine. I will take your name when you give me Minnie, and I will\nthink no more about that of Delmar.\"",
"\"Little Minnie is no longer little Minnie, Mr Keene, I can assure you.\nShe was _fifteen_ when she left the island, and had grown a tall and",
"The next morning I was pale and feverish, which they observed with\nconcern, Minnie was sitting by me, and Mr Vanderwelt had left the room,",
"\"And you won't go to sea any more--will you, Percival?\" said Minnie.",
"she had grown, and was no longer the little Minnie that used to kiss me.\nIn fact, I wrote quite romantically as well as affectionately, and when",
"arms, when Mr Vanderwelt brought me in a letter from England. It was\nfrom Mr Warden, and I hastily opened it. Minnie shared my impatience,"
]
] | [
"Who does Arabella Mason wed?",
"How does Percival Keene get his name?",
"Who is the bully that steals Percival's lunch?",
"How does Percival get even with O'Gallagher after he takes all of the boy's fireworks?",
"Who does Percival convince the Pirates to spare?",
"How does Percival save Captain Delmar's life?",
"What shocking news does Percival's mother admit to?",
"What happens when Percival is captured by the French?",
"What news does Percival receive at the end of the story?",
"What is the name of the de Versely family house?",
"Who lives at Madeline Hall?",
"Who does Capitan Delmar suggest Ben marry in secret?",
"Who is Ben and Arabella's son?",
"What does Percival do to his grandmother that caused him to go away to school?",
"Who's lives does Percival convince the pirate captain to spare?",
"Who becomes Lord de Versely after his brother dies?",
"What is Percival promoted to after a battalion with a French war ship?",
"Who does Percival propose to?",
"What is Percival granted at the end of the story?",
"Who is Arabella Manson?",
" Who is Been Kneene?",
"Who did Ben married in secrete ?",
"Who was Percival Kneene?",
"What school did Percival was sent to?",
"Who was Percival biological father?",
"Why did H. M. Calliope took Percival as prisoner?",
"Who did Percival reunited with?",
"Who was Minnie?"
] | [
[
"Ben Keene, Delmar's valet",
"Ben Keene"
],
[
"Percival is Captain Delmar's first name, and Keene is Ben's last name",
"Captain's name and Ben's surname"
],
[
"his teacher, Mr. O'Gallagher",
"The schoolmaster"
],
[
"He sets them on fire with the teacher sitting on them",
"He sets them off underneath him"
],
[
"a rich Dutch merchant and his daughter Minnie",
"A Dutch Merchant and his daughter"
],
[
"When the captain is ill, Percival takes his place in a duel with a French officer",
"Take his place in a duel"
],
[
"Captain Delmar is Percival's father",
"He's a bastard"
],
[
"he is sentenced to execution",
"He escapes"
],
[
"He has been granted the right to use his father's name, Delmar",
"He gets the arms and name of his biological father"
],
[
"Madeline Hall",
"Madeline Hall"
],
[
"Miss Delmar",
"Miss Delmar"
],
[
"Arabella",
"Arabella Mason"
],
[
"Percival Keene",
"Percival"
],
[
"He bit his grandmother.",
"bites her"
],
[
"A Dutch merchant and his daughter",
"a wealthy dutch merchant and his daughter minnie"
],
[
"Colonial Delmar",
"Captain Delmar"
],
[
"Capitan",
"captain"
],
[
"Minni",
"Minnie"
],
[
"The arms and name of Delmar",
"Arms and name of Delmar"
],
[
"Miss Delma house guest",
"She's Percival's mother"
],
[
"His Captain Delmar valet",
"valet and private marine"
],
[
"Arabella Manson",
"Arabella Mason."
],
[
"Arabella and Been son",
"Ben and Arabella's son"
],
[
"Mr O'Gallagher school",
"Mr. O'Gallagher's school house."
],
[
"Captain Delmar",
"Captain Delmar"
],
[
"Because Percival skin was dyed tan",
"He doesn't recognize him"
],
[
"Minnie",
"minnie"
],
[
"A Heiress",
"Daughter to the dutch merchant"
]
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[
"Enter Landlord.\n\n\nLANDLORD. There be two gentlemen in a post-chaise at the door. They\nhave lost their way upo' the forest; and they are talking something\nabout Mr. Hardcastle.",
"HARDCASTLE. (Aside.) Their impudence confounds me. (To them.)\nGentlemen, you are my guests, make what alterations you please. Is",
"SCENE--An old-fashioned House.\n\n\nEnter HARDCASTLE, followed by three or four awkward Servants.",
"TONY. No offence, gentlemen. But I'm told you have been inquiring for\none Mr. Hardcastle in these parts. Do you know what part of the\ncountry you are in?",
"HARDCASTLE. Forty miles in three hours; sure that's too much, my\nyoungster.\n\nTONY. Stout horses and willing minds make short journeys, as they say.\nHem.",
"HARDCASTLE. Sure, Dorothy, you have not lost your wits? So far from\nhome, when you are within forty yards of your own door! (To him.)",
"HARDCASTLE. Then your first sight deceived you; for I think him one of\nthe most brazen first sights that ever astonished my senses.",
"MRS. HARDCASTLE. Mr. Hardcastle, as I'm alive! My fears blinded me.\nBut who, my dear, could have expected to meet you here, in this",
"HARDCASTLE. If we should find him so----But that's impossible. The\nfirst appearance has done my business. I'm seldom deceived in that.",
"MARLOW. Mr. Hardcastle's house! Is this Mr. Hardcastle's house,\nchild?\n\nMISS HARDCASTLE. Ay, sure! Whose else should it be?",
"HARDCASTLE. Ay, young gentleman, that, and a little philosophy.\n\nMARLOW. (Aside.) Well, this is the first time I ever heard of an\ninnkeeper's philosophy.",
"HARDCASTLE. You numskulls! and so while, like your betters, you are\nquarrelling for places, the guests must be starved. O you dunces! I",
"HARDCASTLE. Bravely resolved! In the mean time I'll go prepare the\nservants for his reception: as we seldom see company, they want as much",
"HARDCASTLE. I believe you do, from my soul, sir. But though I say\nnothing to your own conduct, that of your servants is insufferable.",
"TONY. He-he-hem!--Then, gentlemen, all I have to tell you is, that you\nwon't reach Mr. Hardcastle's house this night, I believe.\n\nHASTINGS. Unfortunate!",
"HARDCASTLE. I believe, sir, you must be sensible, sir, that no man\nalive ought to be more welcome than your father's son, sir. I hope you\nthink so?",
"HARDCASTLE. I tell you, sir, I'm serious! and now that my passions are\nroused, I say this house is mine, sir; this house is mine, and I\ncommand you to leave it directly.",
"HARDCASTLE. Then they had your orders for what they do? I'm\nsatisfied!\n\nMARLOW. They had, I assure you. You shall hear from one of\nthemselves.",
"HARDCASTLE. Gentlemen, once more you are heartily welcome. Which is",
"HARDCASTLE. Mr. Marlow--Mr. Hastings--gentlemen--pray be under no\nconstraint in this house. This is Liberty-hall, gentlemen. You may do\njust as you please here."
],
[
"Enter Landlord.\n\n\nLANDLORD. There be two gentlemen in a post-chaise at the door. They\nhave lost their way upo' the forest; and they are talking something\nabout Mr. Hardcastle.",
"HARDCASTLE. Forty miles in three hours; sure that's too much, my\nyoungster.\n\nTONY. Stout horses and willing minds make short journeys, as they say.\nHem.",
"HARDCASTLE. Bravely resolved! In the mean time I'll go prepare the\nservants for his reception: as we seldom see company, they want as much",
"SCENE--An old-fashioned House.\n\n\nEnter HARDCASTLE, followed by three or four awkward Servants.",
"HARDCASTLE. (Aside.) Their impudence confounds me. (To them.)\nGentlemen, you are my guests, make what alterations you please. Is",
"HARDCASTLE. Young man, young man, from your father's letter to me, I\nwas taught to expect a well-bred modest man as a visitor here, but now",
"HARDCASTLE. Who gone?\n\nMRS. HARDCASTLE. My dutiful niece and her gentleman, Mr. Hastings,\nfrom town. He who came down with our modest visitor here.",
"HARDCASTLE. I believe you do, from my soul, sir. But though I say\nnothing to your own conduct, that of your servants is insufferable.",
"HARDCASTLE. I saw him grasp her hand in the warmest manner myself; and\nhere he comes to put you out of your IFS, I warrant him.\n\n\nEnter MARLOW.",
"HARDCASTLE. Then they had your orders for what they do? I'm\nsatisfied!\n\nMARLOW. They had, I assure you. You shall hear from one of\nthemselves.",
"Enter HARDCASTLE.",
"Enter HARDCASTLE.",
"HARDCASTLE. But if you talked to yourself you did not answer\nyourself. I'm certain I heard two voices, and am resolved (raising his\nvoice) to find the other out.",
"Enter HARDCASTLE and SIR CHARLES from behind.\n\n\nSIR CHARLES. Here, behind this screen.",
"TONY. No offence, gentlemen. But I'm told you have been inquiring for\none Mr. Hardcastle in these parts. Do you know what part of the\ncountry you are in?",
"HARDCASTLE. Ay, young gentleman, that, and a little philosophy.\n\nMARLOW. (Aside.) Well, this is the first time I ever heard of an\ninnkeeper's philosophy.",
"MRS. HARDCASTLE. Mr. Hardcastle, as I'm alive! My fears blinded me.\nBut who, my dear, could have expected to meet you here, in this",
"MISS NEVILLE. You may depend upon it. I just saw his letter to Mr.\nHardcastle, in which he tells him he intends setting out a few hours\nafter his son.",
"HARDCASTLE. If we should find him so----But that's impossible. The\nfirst appearance has done my business. I'm seldom deceived in that.",
"HARDCASTLE. Well, sir, I'm resolved at least to attend you. (Aside.)\nThis may be modern modesty, but I never saw anything look so like"
],
[
"Enter Landlord.\n\n\nLANDLORD. There be two gentlemen in a post-chaise at the door. They\nhave lost their way upo' the forest; and they are talking something\nabout Mr. Hardcastle.",
"HASTINGS. My friend, Mr. Marlow, with whom I came down, and I, have\nbeen sent here as to an inn, I assure you. A young fellow, whom we",
"SCENE--An Alehouse Room. Several shabby Fellows with punch and\ntobacco. TONY at the head of the table, a little higher than the\nrest, a mallet in his hand.",
"MARLOW. That is, you act as the bar-maid of this inn.",
"They always preach best with a skinful.\n But when you come down with your pence,\n For a slice of their scurvy religion,",
"MARLOW. What a tedious uncomfortable day have we had of it! We were\ntold it was but forty miles across the country, and we have come above\nthreescore.",
"of his night walks. (To her.) Ah, it's a highwayman with pistols as\nlong as my arm. A damned ill-looking fellow.",
"TONY. You shall hear. I first took them down Feather-bed Lane, where\nwe stuck fast in the mud. I then rattled them crack over the stones of",
"TONY. You do, do you? then, let me see--what if you go on a mile\nfurther, to the Buck's Head; the old Buck's Head on the hill, one of\nthe best inns in the whole county?",
"MARLOW. This house promises but a poor reception; though perhaps the\nlandlord can accommodate us.\n\nLANDLORD. Alack, master, we have but one spare bed in the whole\nhouse.",
"TONY. He-he-hem!--Then, gentlemen, all I have to tell you is, that you\nwon't reach Mr. Hardcastle's house this night, I believe.\n\nHASTINGS. Unfortunate!",
"than four hours, and I see no likelihood of its coming to an end. I'm\nnow resolved to be master here, sir; and I desire that you and your\ndrunken pack may leave my house directly.",
"MARLOW. How's this? Sure I have not mistaken the house. Everything\nlooks like an inn. The servants cry, coming; the attendance is",
"MARLOW. Eighteen years! Why, one would think, child, you kept the bar\nbefore you were born. How old are you?",
"Then come, put the jorum about,\n And let us be merry and clever,\n Our hearts and our liquors are stout,",
"MARLOW. Ha! ha! ha! They're safe, however. What an unaccountable set\nof beings have we got amongst! This little bar-maid though runs in my",
"MARLOW. You, Jeremy! Come forward, sirrah! What were my orders?\nWere you not told to drink freely, and call for what you thought fit,\nfor the good of the house?",
"HARDCASTLE. Ay, young gentleman, that, and a little philosophy.\n\nMARLOW. (Aside.) Well, this is the first time I ever heard of an\ninnkeeper's philosophy.",
"awkward; the bar-maid, too, to attend us. But she's here, and will\nfurther inform me. Whither so fast, child? A word with you.",
"OMNES. Ay, a song, a song!\n\nTONY. Then I'll sing you, gentlemen, a song I made upon this\nalehouse, the Three Pigeons."
],
[
"Enter Landlord.\n\n\nLANDLORD. There be two gentlemen in a post-chaise at the door. They\nhave lost their way upo' the forest; and they are talking something\nabout Mr. Hardcastle.",
"MISS HARDCASTLE. Inn! O law----what brought that in your head? One\nof the best families in the country keep an inn--Ha! ha! ha! old Mr.\nHardcastle's house an inn!",
"HARDCASTLE. (Aside.) Their impudence confounds me. (To them.)\nGentlemen, you are my guests, make what alterations you please. Is",
"MARLOW. Mr. Hardcastle's house! Is this Mr. Hardcastle's house,\nchild?\n\nMISS HARDCASTLE. Ay, sure! Whose else should it be?",
"SCENE--An old-fashioned House.\n\n\nEnter HARDCASTLE, followed by three or four awkward Servants.",
"MISS NEVILLE. But how shall we keep him in the deception? Miss\nHardcastle is just returned from walking; what if we still continue to\ndeceive him?----This, this way----[They confer.]",
"MISS HARDCASTLE. What an unaccountable creature is that brother of\nmine, to send them to the house as an inn! ha! ha! I don't wonder at\nhis impudence.",
"MRS. HARDCASTLE. Humour, my dear; nothing but humour. Come, Mr.\nHardcastle, you must allow the boy a little humour.",
"TONY. He-he-hem!--Then, gentlemen, all I have to tell you is, that you\nwon't reach Mr. Hardcastle's house this night, I believe.\n\nHASTINGS. Unfortunate!",
"MRS. HARDCASTLE. Mr. Hardcastle, as I'm alive! My fears blinded me.\nBut who, my dear, could have expected to meet you here, in this",
"HARDCASTLE. Ay, young gentleman, that, and a little philosophy.\n\nMARLOW. (Aside.) Well, this is the first time I ever heard of an\ninnkeeper's philosophy.",
"MRS. HARDCASTLE. It's false, Mr. Hardcastle; I was but twenty when I\nwas brought to bed of Tony, that I had by Mr. Lumpkin, my first",
"HARDCASTLE. For supper, sir! (Aside.) Was ever such a request to a\nman in his own house?",
"TONY. No offence; but question for question is all fair, you know.\nPray, gentlemen, is not this same Hardcastle a cross-grained,",
"LANDLORD. Master Hardcastle's! Lock-a-daisy, my masters, you're come\na deadly deal wrong! When you came to the bottom of the hill, you\nshould have crossed down Squash Lane.",
"HARDCASTLE. Sure, Dorothy, you have not lost your wits? So far from\nhome, when you are within forty yards of your own door! (To him.)",
"HARDCASTLE. You numskulls! and so while, like your betters, you are\nquarrelling for places, the guests must be starved. O you dunces! I",
"HARDCASTLE. Ay; the alehouse, the old place: I thought so.\n\nMRS. HARDCASTLE. A low, paltry set of fellows.",
"TONY. No offence, gentlemen. But I'm told you have been inquiring for\none Mr. Hardcastle in these parts. Do you know what part of the\ncountry you are in?",
"MISS NEVILLE. You may depend upon it. I just saw his letter to Mr.\nHardcastle, in which he tells him he intends setting out a few hours\nafter his son."
],
[
"SIR CHARLES. Who, my honest George Hastings? As worthy a fellow as\nlives, and the girl could not have made a more prudent choice.",
"MISS NEVILLE. A fortune like mine, which chiefly consists in jewels,\nis no such mighty temptation. But at any rate, if my dear Hastings be",
"HASTINGS. Perish the baubles! Your person is all I desire. In the\nmean time, my friend Marlow must not be let into his mistake. I know",
"HASTINGS. My dear Charles! Let me congratulate you!--The most\nfortunate accident!--Who do you think is just alighted?\n\nMARLOW. Cannot guess.",
"HASTINGS. But are you so sure, so very sure of her?\n\nMARLOW. Why, man, she talked of showing me her work above stairs, and\nI am to improve the pattern.",
"MRS. HARDCASTLE. Ay, but he's not of age, and she has not thought\nproper to wait for his refusal.\n\n\nEnter HASTINGS and MISS NEVILLE.",
"HASTINGS. I am he. If you but assist me, I'll engage to whip her off\nto France, and you shall never hear more of her.",
"MISS NEVILLE. As I live, the most intimate friend of Mr. Hastings, my\nadmirer. They are never asunder. I believe you must have seen him\nwhen we lived in town.",
"HASTINGS. (To MISS HARDCASTLE.) Come, madam, you are now driven to\nthe very last scene of all your contrivances. I know you like him, I'm",
"HASTINGS. Would you thank him that would take Miss Neville, and leave\nyou to happiness and your dear Betsy?\n\nTONY. Ay; but where is there such a friend, for who would take her?",
"HASTINGS. (Introducing them.) Miss Hardcastle, Mr. Marlow. I'm\nproud of bringing two persons of such merit together, that only want to\nknow, to esteem each other.",
"MISS NEVILLE. Well, my dear Hastings, if you have that esteem for me\nthat I think, that I am sure you have, your constancy for three years\nwill but increase the happiness of our future connexion. If----",
"HASTINGS. Thousands do it every day. But to be plain with you; Miss\nNeville is endeavouring to procure them from her aunt this very",
"HASTINGS. I believe the girl has virtue.\n\nMARLOW. And if she has, I should be the last man in the world that\nwould attempt to corrupt it.",
"MARLOW. To be explicit, my dear Hastings, my chief inducement down was\nto be instrumental in forwarding your happiness, not my own. Miss",
"HASTINGS. No, nothing. Never was in better spirits in all my life.\nAnd so you left it with the landlady, who, no doubt, very readily\nundertook the charge.",
"HASTINGS. (To him.) Bravo, bravo. Never spoke so well in your whole\nlife. Well, Miss Hardcastle, I see that you and Mr. Marlow are going",
"HASTINGS. My dear Constance, why will you deliberate thus? If we\ndelay a moment, all is lost for ever. Pluck up a little resolution,\nand we shall soon be out of the reach of her malignity.",
"HASTINGS. The rebuke is just. But I must hasten to relieve Miss\nNeville: if you keep the old lady employed, I promise to take care of\nthe young one. [Exit HASTINGS.]",
"HASTINGS. But though he had the will, he has not the power to relieve\nyou.\n\nMISS NEVILLE. But he has influence, and upon that I am resolved to\nrely."
],
[
"tell you. I know she'll forgive you. Won't you forgive him, Kate?\nWe'll all forgive you. Take courage, man. (They retire, she",
"SERVANT. Yes, sir. Old Sir Charles has arrived. He and the old\ngentleman of the house have been laughing at Mr. Marlow's mistake this\nhalf hour. They are coming this way.",
"answer just now to Mr. Marlow. We so laughed.--You must know,\nmadam.--This way a little, for he must not hear us. [They confer.]",
"Enter Landlord.\n\n\nLANDLORD. There be two gentlemen in a post-chaise at the door. They\nhave lost their way upo' the forest; and they are talking something\nabout Mr. Hardcastle.",
"MISS NEVILLE. Mr. Marlow, we never kept on your mistake till it was\ntoo late to undeceive you.\n\n\nEnter Servant.",
"HASTINGS. (To HARDCASTLE.) For my late attempt to fly off with your\nniece let my present confusion be my punishment. We are now come back,",
"MAID. It will do, madam. But he's here. [Exit MAID.]\n\n\nEnter MARLOW.",
"than four hours, and I see no likelihood of its coming to an end. I'm\nnow resolved to be master here, sir; and I desire that you and your\ndrunken pack may leave my house directly.",
"TONY. Ay, you may steal for yourselves the next time. I have done my\nduty. She has got the jewels again, that's a sure thing; but she\nbelieves it was all a mistake of the servants.",
"service. But who is that somebody?--That, faith, is a question I can\nscarce answer. [Exit.]",
"of the night shall be crowned with a merry morning. So, boy, take her;\nand as you have been mistaken in the mistress, my wish is, that you may",
"MISS NEVILLE. Mr. Hastings! Mr. Marlow! Why will you increase my\ndistress by this groundless dispute? I implore, I entreat you----\n\n\nEnter Servant.",
"MARLOW. (Aside.) I have been mortified enough of all conscience, and\nhere comes something to complete my embarrassment.\n\nHASTINGS. Well, but wasn't it the most fortunate thing in the world?",
"MISS HARDCASTLE. The question is very abrupt, sir. But since you\nrequire unreserved sincerity, I think he has.\n\nHARDCASTLE. (To SIR CHARLES.) You see.",
"MRS. HARDCASTLE. Mr. Hardcastle, as I'm alive! My fears blinded me.\nBut who, my dear, could have expected to meet you here, in this",
"MRS. HARDCASTLE. (From behind.) Sure he'll do the dear boy no harm.\n\nHARDCASTLE. But I heard a voice here; I should be glad to know from\nwhence it came.",
"HASTINGS. My dear Charles! Let me congratulate you!--The most\nfortunate accident!--Who do you think is just alighted?\n\nMARLOW. Cannot guess.",
"and I'll wait no longer. What do I see? It is he! and perhaps with\nnews of my Constance.",
"Enter Tony, booted and spattered.\n\n\nHASTINGS. My honest 'squire! I now find you a man of your word.\nThis looks like friendship.",
"MARLOW. (Aside.) He has got our names from the servants already. (To\nhim.) We approve your caution and hospitality, sir. (To HASTINGS.) I"
],
[
"TONY. (Apart to MRS. HARDCASTLE.) Then why don't you tell her so at",
"TONY. I will, I tell you.\n\nMRS. HARDCASTLE. I say you shan't.",
"MRS. HARDCASTLE. It's false, Mr. Hardcastle; I was but twenty when I\nwas brought to bed of Tony, that I had by Mr. Lumpkin, my first",
"TONY. Never fear me. Here she comes. Vanish. She's got from the\npond, and draggled up to the waist like a mermaid.\n\n\nEnter MRS. HARDCASTLE.",
"MRS. HARDCASTLE. (Apart to TONY.) You know, my dear, I'm only\nkeeping them for you. So if I say they're gone, you'll bear me",
"MRS. HARDCASTLE. No matter. Tony Lumpkin has a good fortune. My son\nis not to live by his learning. I don't think a boy wants much\nlearning to spend fifteen hundred a year.",
"TONY. As for disappointing them, I should not so much mind; but I\ncan't abide to disappoint myself.\n\nMRS. HARDCASTLE. (detaining him.) You shan't go.",
"HASTINGS. (To him.) Bravo, bravo. Never spoke so well in your whole\nlife. Well, Miss Hardcastle, I see that you and Mr. Marlow are going",
"MRS. HARDCASTLE. O, the monster! For shame, Tony. You a man, and\nbehave so!",
"MRS. HARDCASTLE. Humour, my dear; nothing but humour. Come, Mr.\nHardcastle, you must allow the boy a little humour.",
"MRS. HARDCASTLE. Oh, death!\n\nTONY. No; it's only a cow. Don't be afraid, mamma; don't be afraid.",
"MRS. HARDCASTLE. As I'm alive, Tony, I see a man coming towards us.\nAh! I'm sure on't. If he perceives us, we are undone.",
"HARDCASTLE. Be it what it will, I'm glad they're come back to reclaim\ntheir due. Come hither, Tony, boy. Do you refuse this lady's hand\nwhom I now offer you?",
"Enter TONY, crossing the stage.\n\n\nMRS. HARDCASTLE. Tony, where are you going, my charmer? Won't you\ngive papa and I a little of your company, lovee?",
"TONY. I can bear witness to that. [He runs off, she follows him.]\n\n\nEnter Miss HARDCASTLE and Maid.",
"TONY. Ecod! mamma, your own notes are the wildest of the two.\n\nMRS. HARDCASTLE. Was ever the like? But I see he wants to break my\nheart, I see he does.",
"MISS HARDCASTLE. And depend on't I'm not much in the wrong.\n[Exeunt.]\n\n\nEnter Tony, running in with a casket.",
"TONY. No offence; but question for question is all fair, you know.\nPray, gentlemen, is not this same Hardcastle a cross-grained,",
"MISS HARDCASTLE. Did you call, sir? Did your honour call?\n\nMARLOW. (Musing.) As for Miss Hardcastle, she's too grave and\nsentimental for me.",
"MISS HARDCASTLE. And her partiality is such, that she actually thinks\nhim so. A fortune like yours is no small temptation. Besides, as she"
],
[
"MRS. HARDCASTLE. To be plain with you, my dear Constance, if I could\nfind them you should have them. They're missing, I assure you. Lost,",
"MRS. HARDCASTLE. Don't be alarmed, Constance. If they be lost, I must\nrestore an equivalent. But my son knows they are missing, and not to\nbe found.",
"HASTINGS. Our mistresses, boy, Miss Hardcastle and Miss Neville.\nGive me leave to introduce Miss Constance Neville to your",
"MRS. HARDCASTLE. Humour, my dear; nothing but humour. Come, Mr.\nHardcastle, you must allow the boy a little humour.",
"MRS. HARDCASTLE. (Apart to TONY.) You know, my dear, I'm only\nkeeping them for you. So if I say they're gone, you'll bear me",
"MRS. HARDCASTLE. Well, I must retire. Come, Constance, my love. You\nsee, Mr. Hastings, the wretchedness of my situation: was ever poor",
"MRS. HARDCASTLE. (Within.) Miss Neville. Constance, why Constance, I\nsay.",
"MRS. HARDCASTLE. Yet, what signifies my dressing when I have such a\npiece of antiquity by my side as Mr. Hardcastle: all I can say will",
"MRS. HARDCASTLE. The most becoming things in the world to set off a\nclear complexion. You have often seen how well they look upon me. You\nSHALL have them. [Exit.]",
"MRS. HARDCASTLE. Well, if he has taken away the lady, he has not\ntaken her fortune; that remains in this family to console us for her\nloss.",
"MRS. HARDCASTLE. Indeed, Constance, you amaze me. Such a girl as you",
"MARLOW. Mr. Hardcastle's house! Is this Mr. Hardcastle's house,\nchild?\n\nMISS HARDCASTLE. Ay, sure! Whose else should it be?",
"MRS. HARDCASTLE. I vow, Mr. Hardcastle, you're very particular. Is\nthere a creature in the whole country but ourselves, that does not take",
"MRS. HARDCASTLE. Mr. Hardcastle, as I'm alive! My fears blinded me.\nBut who, my dear, could have expected to meet you here, in this",
"HASTINGS. (To him.) Bravo, bravo. Never spoke so well in your whole\nlife. Well, Miss Hardcastle, I see that you and Mr. Marlow are going",
"MRS. HARDCASTLE. It's false, Mr. Hardcastle; I was but twenty when I\nwas brought to bed of Tony, that I had by Mr. Lumpkin, my first",
"make it out. Of no consequence! (Giving MRS. HARDCASTLE the letter.)",
"HARDCASTLE. Sure, Dorothy, you would not be so mercenary?\n\nMRS. HARDCASTLE. Ay, that's my affair, not yours.",
"MRS. HARDCASTLE. My son, sir. They are contracted to each other.\nObserve their little sports. They fall in and out ten times a day, as",
"MRS. HARDCASTLE. And yet Mrs. Niece thinks herself as much a woman,\nand is as fond of jewels, as the oldest of us all."
],
[
"MARLOW. She's mine, you rogue you. Such fire, such motion, such\neyes, such lips; but, egad! she would not let me kiss them though.",
"HASTINGS. Perish the baubles! Your person is all I desire. In the\nmean time, my friend Marlow must not be let into his mistake. I know",
"MARLOW. Daughter!--This lady your daughter?\n\nHARDCASTLE. Yes, sir, my only daughter; my Kate; whose else should she\nbe?",
"answer just now to Mr. Marlow. We so laughed.--You must know,\nmadam.--This way a little, for he must not hear us. [They confer.]",
"Enter MISS HARDCASTLE.\n\n\nHARDCASTLE. Kate, come hither, child. Answer us sincerely and\nwithout reserve: has Mr. Marlow made you any professions of love and\naffection?",
"MARLOW. As I behave to all other ladies. Bow very low, answer yes or\nno to all her demands--But for the rest, I don't think I shall venture\nto look in her face till I see my father's again.",
"your humble admirer, that kept his eyes fixed on the ground, and only\nadored at humble distance. Kate, Kate, art thou not ashamed to deceive\nyour father so?",
"HASTINGS. But are you so sure, so very sure of her?\n\nMARLOW. Why, man, she talked of showing me her work above stairs, and\nI am to improve the pattern.",
"MARLOW. No, no, I tell you. (Looks full in her face.) Yes, child, I\nthink I did call. I wanted--I wanted--I vow, child, you are vastly\nhandsome.",
"too, and has undertaken to court me for him, and actually begins to\nthink she has made a conquest.",
"MARLOW. By heavens, madam! fortune was ever my smallest\nconsideration. Your beauty at first caught my eye; for who could see",
"MARLOW. Yes, madam, I was----But she beckons us to join her. Madam,\nshall I do myself the honour to attend you?",
"MARLOW. Rather too readily. For she not only kept the casket, but,\nthrough her great precaution, was going to keep the messenger too. Ha!\nha! ha!",
"MARLOW. And why now, my pretty simplicity?\n\nMISS HARDCASTLE. Because it puts me at a distance from one that, if I\nhad a thousand pounds, I would give it all to.",
"MARLOW. (Aside.) This simplicity bewitches me, so that if I stay, I'm\nundone. I must make one bold effort, and leave her. (To her.) Your",
"MARLOW. As Heaven is my witness, I came down in obedience to your\ncommands. I saw the lady without emotion, and parted without",
"I give it up--morals won't do for me;\n To make you laugh, I must play tragedy.\n One hope remains--hearing the maid was ill,",
"MARLOW. (To Tony.) You see now, young gentleman, the effects of your\nfolly. What might be amusement to you, is here disappointment, and\neven distress.",
"MAID. It will do, madam. But he's here. [Exit MAID.]\n\n\nEnter MARLOW.",
"tell you. I know she'll forgive you. Won't you forgive him, Kate?\nWe'll all forgive you. Take courage, man. (They retire, she"
],
[
"MAID. It will do, madam. But he's here. [Exit MAID.]\n\n\nEnter MARLOW.",
"SIR CHARLES. I'll to your father, and keep him to the appointment.\n[Exit SIR CHARLES.]\n\n\nEnter MARLOW.",
"MARLOW. (To Tony.) You see now, young gentleman, the effects of your\nfolly. What might be amusement to you, is here disappointment, and\neven distress.",
"MARLOW. (Aside.) I have been mortified enough of all conscience, and\nhere comes something to complete my embarrassment.\n\nHASTINGS. Well, but wasn't it the most fortunate thing in the world?",
"MARLOW. And why now, my pretty simplicity?\n\nMISS HARDCASTLE. Because it puts me at a distance from one that, if I\nhad a thousand pounds, I would give it all to.",
"MARLOW. (Aside.) This simplicity bewitches me, so that if I stay, I'm\nundone. I must make one bold effort, and leave her. (To her.) Your",
"MARLOW. (Aside.) All's well; she don't laugh at me. (To her.) Do\nyou ever work, child?",
"Enter HASTINGS.\n\n\nHASTINGS. Bless me! I quite forgot to tell her that I intended to\nprepare at the bottom of the garden. Marlow here, and in spirits too!",
"MARLOW. So then, all's out, and I have been damnably imposed on. O,\nconfound my stupid head, I shall be laughed at over the whole town. I",
"MARLOW. May I die, sir, if I ever----\n\nHARDCASTLE. I tell you, she don't dislike you; and as I'm sure you\nlike her----",
"HASTINGS. (To him.) Bravo, bravo. Never spoke so well in your whole\nlife. Well, Miss Hardcastle, I see that you and Mr. Marlow are going",
"MARLOW. By heavens, madam! fortune was ever my smallest\nconsideration. Your beauty at first caught my eye; for who could see",
"HASTINGS. Perish the baubles! Your person is all I desire. In the\nmean time, my friend Marlow must not be let into his mistake. I know",
"answer just now to Mr. Marlow. We so laughed.--You must know,\nmadam.--This way a little, for he must not hear us. [They confer.]",
"MARLOW. Thank ye, George: I ask no more. Ha! ha! ha!\n\n\nEnter HARDCASTLE.",
"MARLOW. (Aside.) He has got our names from the servants already. (To\nhim.) We approve your caution and hospitality, sir. (To HASTINGS.) I",
"MARLOW. (Aside.) A very impudent fellow this! but he's a character,\nand I'll humour him a little. Sir, my service to you. [Drinks.]",
"MARLOW. (Aside.) Egad, she has hit it, sure enough! (To her.) In",
"MARLOW. (Aside.) This girl every moment improves upon me. (To her.)\nIt must not be, madam. I have already trifled too long with my heart.",
"MARLOW. But hear me, sir--\n\nHARDCASTLE. Your father approves the match, I admire it; every\nmoment's delay will be doing mischief. So--"
],
[
"HASTINGS. Thou dear dissembler! You must know, my Constance, I have\njust seized this happy opportunity of my friend's visit here to get",
"and I'll wait no longer. What do I see? It is he! and perhaps with\nnews of my Constance.",
"Constance Neville may marry whom she pleases, and Tony Lumpkin is his\nown man again.",
"HASTINGS. (Aside.) So now all hopes of fortune are at an end, and we\nmust set off without it. (To him.) Well, Charles, I'll leave you to",
"MRS. HARDCASTLE. My son, sir. They are contracted to each other.\nObserve their little sports. They fall in and out ten times a day, as",
"HASTINGS. My dear Constance, why will you deliberate thus? If we\ndelay a moment, all is lost for ever. Pluck up a little resolution,\nand we shall soon be out of the reach of her malignity.",
"MARLOW. (Aside.) I have been mortified enough of all conscience, and\nhere comes something to complete my embarrassment.\n\nHASTINGS. Well, but wasn't it the most fortunate thing in the world?",
"HASTINGS. Then, my Constance, all must be completed before he\narrives. He knows me; and should he find me here, would discover my\nname, and perhaps my designs, to the rest of the family.",
"HASTINGS. I am he. If you but assist me, I'll engage to whip her off\nto France, and you shall never hear more of her.",
"of the night shall be crowned with a merry morning. So, boy, take her;\nand as you have been mistaken in the mistress, my wish is, that you may",
"MRS. HARDCASTLE. Well, I must retire. Come, Constance, my love. You\nsee, Mr. Hastings, the wretchedness of my situation: was ever poor",
"but constant, I make no doubt to be too hard for her at last. However,\nI let her suppose that I am in love with her son; and she never once",
"Lumpkin, exactly. The jewels, my dear Con., shall be yours\nincontinently. You shall have them. Isn't he a sweet boy, my dear?",
"SIR CHARLES. Agreed. And if I find him what you describe, all my\nhappiness in him must have an end. [Exit.]",
"SIR CHARLES. I'll to your father, and keep him to the appointment.\n[Exit SIR CHARLES.]\n\n\nEnter MARLOW.",
"tell you. I know she'll forgive you. Won't you forgive him, Kate?\nWe'll all forgive you. Take courage, man. (They retire, she",
"character in which I STOOPED TO CONQUER; but will undeceive my papa,\nwho perhaps may laugh him out of his resolution. [Exit.]",
"HARDCASTLE. Ay, ay; make no noise. I'll engage my Kate covers him\nwith confusion at last.",
"HASTINGS. (To MISS HARDCASTLE.) Come, madam, you are now driven to\nthe very last scene of all your contrivances. I know you like him, I'm",
"MAID. It will do, madam. But he's here. [Exit MAID.]\n\n\nEnter MARLOW."
],
[
"HASTINGS. My dear Constance, why will you deliberate thus? If we\ndelay a moment, all is lost for ever. Pluck up a little resolution,\nand we shall soon be out of the reach of her malignity.",
"HASTINGS. Then, my Constance, all must be completed before he\narrives. He knows me; and should he find me here, would discover my\nname, and perhaps my designs, to the rest of the family.",
"MISS HARDCASTLE. And if he be the sullen thing I take him, he shall\nnever have mine.\n\nHARDCASTLE. In one thing then we are agreed--to reject him.",
"and I'll wait no longer. What do I see? It is he! and perhaps with\nnews of my Constance.",
"Anthony Lumpkin, Esquire, of BLANK place, refuse you, Constantia\nNeville, spinster, of no place at all, for my true and lawful wife. So",
"Constance Neville may marry whom she pleases, and Tony Lumpkin is his\nown man again.",
"HASTINGS. Rather let me ask the same question, as I could never have\nhoped to meet my dearest Constance at an inn.",
"HASTINGS. Thou dear dissembler! You must know, my Constance, I have\njust seized this happy opportunity of my friend's visit here to get",
"but constant, I make no doubt to be too hard for her at last. However,\nI let her suppose that I am in love with her son; and she never once",
"TONY. Ay, but I know what sort of a relation you want to make me,\nthough; but it won't do. I tell you, cousin Con, it won't do; so I beg",
"HARDCASTLE. But you know if your son, when of age, refuses to marry\nhis cousin, her whole fortune is then at her own disposal.",
"MARLOW. Never; unless, as among kings and princes, my bride were to be\ncourted by proxy. If, indeed, like an Eastern bridegroom, one were to",
"MRS. HARDCASTLE. Don't be alarmed, Constance. If they be lost, I must\nrestore an equivalent. But my son knows they are missing, and not to\nbe found.",
"HASTINGS. I believe the girl has virtue.\n\nMARLOW. And if she has, I should be the last man in the world that\nwould attempt to corrupt it.",
"MARLOW. (Aside.) This simplicity bewitches me, so that if I stay, I'm\nundone. I must make one bold effort, and leave her. (To her.) Your",
"MISS HARDCASTLE. One of us must certainly be mistaken.\n\nHARDCASTLE. If he be what he has shown himself, I'm determined he\nshall never have my consent.",
"MARLOW. I protest, child, you use me extremely ill. If you keep me at\nthis distance, how is it possible you and I can ever be acquainted?",
"MARLOW. May I die, sir, if I ever----\n\nHARDCASTLE. I tell you, she don't dislike you; and as I'm sure you\nlike her----",
"MARLOW. Sure, sir, nothing has passed between us but the most\nprofound respect on my side, and the most distant reserve on hers. You",
"MARLOW. But why won't you hear me? By all that's just and true, I\nnever gave Miss Hardcastle the slightest mark of my attachment, or even"
],
[
"MRS. HARDCASTLE. Don't be alarmed, Constance. If they be lost, I must\nrestore an equivalent. But my son knows they are missing, and not to\nbe found.",
"Constance Neville may marry whom she pleases, and Tony Lumpkin is his\nown man again.",
"HASTINGS. My dear Constance, why will you deliberate thus? If we\ndelay a moment, all is lost for ever. Pluck up a little resolution,\nand we shall soon be out of the reach of her malignity.",
"HARDCASTLE. But you know if your son, when of age, refuses to marry\nhis cousin, her whole fortune is then at her own disposal.",
"HASTINGS. Then, my Constance, all must be completed before he\narrives. He knows me; and should he find me here, would discover my\nname, and perhaps my designs, to the rest of the family.",
"MRS. HARDCASTLE. To be plain with you, my dear Constance, if I could\nfind them you should have them. They're missing, I assure you. Lost,",
"and I'll wait no longer. What do I see? It is he! and perhaps with\nnews of my Constance.",
"HASTINGS. Thou dear dissembler! You must know, my Constance, I have\njust seized this happy opportunity of my friend's visit here to get",
"but constant, I make no doubt to be too hard for her at last. However,\nI let her suppose that I am in love with her son; and she never once",
"MRS. HARDCASTLE. Well, if he has taken away the lady, he has not\ntaken her fortune; that remains in this family to console us for her\nloss.",
"HASTINGS. Rather let me ask the same question, as I could never have\nhoped to meet my dearest Constance at an inn.",
"HARDCASTLE. Depend upon it, child, I'll never control your choice; but\nMr. Marlow, whom I have pitched upon, is the son of my old friend, Sir",
"MRS. HARDCASTLE. Well, I must retire. Come, Constance, my love. You\nsee, Mr. Hastings, the wretchedness of my situation: was ever poor",
"Lumpkin, exactly. The jewels, my dear Con., shall be yours\nincontinently. You shall have them. Isn't he a sweet boy, my dear?",
"HASTINGS. Our mistresses, boy, Miss Hardcastle and Miss Neville.\nGive me leave to introduce Miss Constance Neville to your",
"MRS. HARDCASTLE. (Within.) Miss Neville. Constance, why Constance, I\nsay.",
"has the sole management of it, I'm not surprised to see her unwilling\nto let it go out of the family.",
"MRS. HARDCASTLE. Indeed, Constance, you amaze me. Such a girl as you",
"MARLOW. What, a poor relation.\n\nMISS HARDCASTLE. Yes, sir. A poor relation, appointed to keep the\nkeys, and to see that the guests want nothing in my power to give them.",
"her bureau, and she does not know it. Fly to your spark, he'll tell\nyou more of the matter. Leave me to manage her."
],
[
"MAID. But you are sure you can act your part, and disguise your voice\nso that he may mistake that, as he has already mistaken your person?",
"MAID. But what is more, madam, the young gentleman, as you passed by\nin your present dress, asked me if you were the bar-maid. He mistook\nyou for the bar-maid, madam.",
"MAID. It will do, madam. But he's here. [Exit MAID.]\n\n\nEnter MARLOW.",
"SERVANT. Your cloak, madam. My mistress is impatient. [Exit\nServant.]",
"SERVANT. Yes, sir. Old Sir Charles has arrived. He and the old\ngentleman of the house have been laughing at Mr. Marlow's mistake this\nhalf hour. They are coming this way.",
"SERVANT. My mistress desires you'll get ready immediately, madam. The\nhorses are putting to. Your hat and things are in the next room. We\nare to go thirty miles before morning. [Exit Servant.]",
"I give it up--morals won't do for me;\n To make you laugh, I must play tragedy.\n One hope remains--hearing the maid was ill,",
"MISS NEVILLE. Mr. Marlow, we never kept on your mistake till it was\ntoo late to undeceive you.\n\n\nEnter Servant.",
"TONY. Ay, you may steal for yourselves the next time. I have done my\nduty. She has got the jewels again, that's a sure thing; but she\nbelieves it was all a mistake of the servants.",
"SERVANT. Yes, she said she'd keep it safe enough; she asked me how I\ncame by it; and she said she had a great mind to make me give an\naccount of myself. [Exit Servant.]",
"of the night shall be crowned with a merry morning. So, boy, take her;\nand as you have been mistaken in the mistress, my wish is, that you may",
"ACT THE FIFTH.\n\n\n(SCENE continued.)\n\n\nEnter HASTINGS and Servant.",
"HASTINGS. Thou dear dissembler! You must know, my Constance, I have\njust seized this happy opportunity of my friend's visit here to get",
"service. But who is that somebody?--That, faith, is a question I can\nscarce answer. [Exit.]",
"TONY. I can bear witness to that. [He runs off, she follows him.]\n\n\nEnter Miss HARDCASTLE and Maid.",
"MISS NEVILLE. Well! success attend you. In the mean time I'll go and\namuse my aunt with the old pretence of a violent passion for my cousin.\n[Exit.]",
"MARLOW. Ha! ha! ha! They're safe, however. What an unaccountable set\nof beings have we got amongst! This little bar-maid though runs in my",
"MISS NEVILLE. I come. Pray be pacified. If I leave you thus, I\nshall die with apprehension.\n\n\nEnter Servant.",
"MARLOW. (Aside.) He has got our names from the servants already. (To\nhim.) We approve your caution and hospitality, sir. (To HASTINGS.) I",
"answer just now to Mr. Marlow. We so laughed.--You must know,\nmadam.--This way a little, for he must not hear us. [They confer.]"
],
[
"HASTINGS. (To him.) Bravo, bravo. Never spoke so well in your whole\nlife. Well, Miss Hardcastle, I see that you and Mr. Marlow are going",
"HASTINGS. (Introducing them.) Miss Hardcastle, Mr. Marlow. I'm\nproud of bringing two persons of such merit together, that only want to\nknow, to esteem each other.",
"MRS. HARDCASTLE. Humour, my dear; nothing but humour. Come, Mr.\nHardcastle, you must allow the boy a little humour.",
"HARDCASTLE. Depend upon it, child, I'll never control your choice; but\nMr. Marlow, whom I have pitched upon, is the son of my old friend, Sir",
"HARDCASTLE. (Joining their hands.) And I say so too. And, Mr.\nMarlow, if she makes as good a wife as she has a daughter, I don't",
"MARLOW. Mr. Hardcastle's house! Is this Mr. Hardcastle's house,\nchild?\n\nMISS HARDCASTLE. Ay, sure! Whose else should it be?",
"MISS HARDCASTLE. And her partiality is such, that she actually thinks\nhim so. A fortune like yours is no small temptation. Besides, as she",
"MARLOW. Daughter!--This lady your daughter?\n\nHARDCASTLE. Yes, sir, my only daughter; my Kate; whose else should she\nbe?",
"MARLOW. But hear me, sir--\n\nHARDCASTLE. Your father approves the match, I admire it; every\nmoment's delay will be doing mischief. So--",
"HARDCASTLE. (To SIR CHARLES.) You see.\n\nSIR CHARLES. But did be profess any attachment?\n\nMISS HARDCASTLE. A lasting one.",
"HARDCASTLE. Then to be plain with you, Kate, I expect the young\ngentleman I have chosen to be your husband from town this very day. I",
"HARDCASTLE. Well, I'm in too good spirits to think of anything but\njoy. Yes, my dear friend, this union of our families will make our\npersonal friendships hereditary; and though my daughter's fortune is\nbut small--",
"MARLOW. But why won't you hear me? By all that's just and true, I\nnever gave Miss Hardcastle the slightest mark of my attachment, or even",
"MISS HARDCASTLE. Is he?\n\nHARDCASTLE. Very generous.\n\nMISS HARDCASTLE. I believe I shall like him.",
"MISS HARDCASTLE. Is Marlow.\n\nMISS NEVILLE. Indeed!\n\nMISS HARDCASTLE. The son of Sir Charles Marlow.",
"HARDCASTLE. Tut, boy, a trifle! You take it too gravely. An hour or\ntwo's laughing with my daughter will set all to rights again. She'll\nnever like you the worse for it.",
"MISS HARDCASTLE. Did you call, sir? Did your honour call?\n\nMARLOW. (Musing.) As for Miss Hardcastle, she's too grave and\nsentimental for me.",
"HARDCASTLE. IF, man! I tell you they DO like each other. My\ndaughter as good as told me so.\n\nSIR CHARLES. But girls are apt to flatter themselves, you know.",
"Enter MISS HARDCASTLE.\n\n\nHARDCASTLE. Kate, come hither, child. Answer us sincerely and\nwithout reserve: has Mr. Marlow made you any professions of love and\naffection?",
"HARDCASTLE. But you know if your son, when of age, refuses to marry\nhis cousin, her whole fortune is then at her own disposal."
],
[
"Charles Marlow, of whom you have heard me talk so often. The young\ngentleman has been bred a scholar, and is designed for an employment in",
"answer just now to Mr. Marlow. We so laughed.--You must know,\nmadam.--This way a little, for he must not hear us. [They confer.]",
"HASTINGS. My friend, Mr. Marlow, with whom I came down, and I, have\nbeen sent here as to an inn, I assure you. A young fellow, whom we",
"HASTINGS. You surprise me; Sir Charles Marlow expected here this\nnight! Where have you had your information?",
"MAID. It will do, madam. But he's here. [Exit MAID.]\n\n\nEnter MARLOW.",
"MARLOW. (Gathering courage.) I have lived, indeed, in the world,\nmadam; but I have kept very little company. I have been but an\nobserver upon life, madam, while others were enjoying it.",
"SIR CHARLES. I'll to your father, and keep him to the appointment.\n[Exit SIR CHARLES.]\n\n\nEnter MARLOW.",
"HASTINGS. And all, Marlow, from that unaccountable reserve of yours,\nthat would not let us inquire more frequently on the way.",
"MARLOW. This house promises but a poor reception; though perhaps the\nlandlord can accommodate us.\n\nLANDLORD. Alack, master, we have but one spare bed in the whole\nhouse.",
"MARLOW. The assiduities of these good people teaze me beyond bearing.\nMy host seems to think it ill manners to leave me alone, and so he",
"HASTINGS. Tortured as I am with my own disappointments, is this a time\nfor explanations? It is not friendly, Mr. Marlow.\n\nMARLOW. But, sir----",
"Enter HASTINGS.\n\n\nHASTINGS. Bless me! I quite forgot to tell her that I intended to\nprepare at the bottom of the garden. Marlow here, and in spirits too!",
"SERVANT. Yes, sir. Old Sir Charles has arrived. He and the old\ngentleman of the house have been laughing at Mr. Marlow's mistake this\nhalf hour. They are coming this way.",
"him.) Mr. Marlow, your servant. I'm your very humble servant.\n(Bowing low.)",
"MARLOW. What a tedious uncomfortable day have we had of it! We were\ntold it was but forty miles across the country, and we have come above\nthreescore.",
"Mr. Marlow? Sir, you are heartily welcome. It's not my way, you see,\nto receive my friends with my back to the fire. I like give them a",
"MARLOW. Though prepared for setting out, I come once more to take\nleave; nor did I, till this moment, know the pain I feel in the\nseparation.",
"MARLOW. The Englishman's malady. But tell me, George, where could I\nhave learned that assurance you talk of? My life has been chiefly",
"MARLOW. Ha! ha! ha! They're safe, however. What an unaccountable set\nof beings have we got amongst! This little bar-maid though runs in my",
"MISS HARDCASTLE. Is Marlow.\n\nMISS NEVILLE. Indeed!\n\nMISS HARDCASTLE. The son of Sir Charles Marlow."
],
[
"Constance Neville may marry whom she pleases, and Tony Lumpkin is his\nown man again.",
"MRS. HARDCASTLE. No matter. Tony Lumpkin has a good fortune. My son\nis not to live by his learning. I don't think a boy wants much\nlearning to spend fifteen hundred a year.",
"MARLOW. Daughter!--This lady your daughter?\n\nHARDCASTLE. Yes, sir, my only daughter; my Kate; whose else should she\nbe?",
"MRS. HARDCASTLE. It's false, Mr. Hardcastle; I was but twenty when I\nwas brought to bed of Tony, that I had by Mr. Lumpkin, my first",
"TONY. Ay, but I know what sort of a relation you want to make me,\nthough; but it won't do. I tell you, cousin Con, it won't do; so I beg",
"TONY. Vanish. She's here, and has missed them already. [Exit MISS\nNEVILLE.] Zounds! how she fidgets and spits about like a Catherine\nwheel.",
"TONY. The daughter, a tall, trapesing, trolloping, talkative maypole;\nthe son, a pretty, well-bred, agreeable youth, that everybody is fond\nof.",
"TONY. That's as thereafter may be.\n\nMISS NEVILLE. My dear aunt, if you knew how it would oblige me.",
"TONY. I can bear witness to that. [He runs off, she follows him.]\n\n\nEnter Miss HARDCASTLE and Maid.",
"TONY. To be sure, aunts of all kinds are damned bad things. But what\ncan I do? I have got you a pair of horses that will fly like",
"HASTINGS. To me she appears sensible and silent.\n\nTONY. Ay, before company. But when she's with her playmate, she's as\nloud as a hog in a gate.",
"TONY. Ecod! mamma, your own notes are the wildest of the two.\n\nMRS. HARDCASTLE. Was ever the like? But I see he wants to break my\nheart, I see he does.",
"TONY. By the laws, mamma, you make me for to laugh, ha! ha! I know\nwho took them well enough, ha! ha! ha!",
"TONY. As sure as can be, one of them must be the gentleman that's\ncoming down to court my sister. Do they seem to be Londoners?",
"TONY. I will, I tell you.\n\nMRS. HARDCASTLE. I say you shan't.",
"Enter TONY, crossing the stage.\n\n\nMRS. HARDCASTLE. Tony, where are you going, my charmer? Won't you\ngive papa and I a little of your company, lovee?",
"HASTINGS. My dear 'squire, this looks like a lad of spirit.\n\nTONY. Come along, then, and you shall see more of my spirit before you\nhave done with me.",
"HARDCASTLE. Be it what it will, I'm glad they're come back to reclaim\ntheir due. Come hither, Tony, boy. Do you refuse this lady's hand\nwhom I now offer you?",
"MARLOW. (To Tony.) You see now, young gentleman, the effects of your\nfolly. What might be amusement to you, is here disappointment, and\neven distress.",
"TONY. No, no; straight forward. I'll just step myself, and show you a\npiece of the way. (To the Landlord.) Mum!"
],
[
"MARLOW. Cross down Squash Lane!\n\nLANDLORD. Then you were to keep straight forward, till you came to\nfour roads.",
"HASTINGS. My friend, Mr. Marlow, with whom I came down, and I, have\nbeen sent here as to an inn, I assure you. A young fellow, whom we",
"MARLOW. How's this? Sure I have not mistaken the house. Everything\nlooks like an inn. The servants cry, coming; the attendance is",
"MARLOW. You, Jeremy! Come forward, sirrah! What were my orders?\nWere you not told to drink freely, and call for what you thought fit,\nfor the good of the house?",
"MARLOW. This house promises but a poor reception; though perhaps the\nlandlord can accommodate us.\n\nLANDLORD. Alack, master, we have but one spare bed in the whole\nhouse.",
"MARLOW. What a tedious uncomfortable day have we had of it! We were\ntold it was but forty miles across the country, and we have come above\nthreescore.",
"MARLOW. That is, you act as the bar-maid of this inn.",
"answer just now to Mr. Marlow. We so laughed.--You must know,\nmadam.--This way a little, for he must not hear us. [They confer.]",
"HARDCASTLE. Ay, young gentleman, that, and a little philosophy.\n\nMARLOW. (Aside.) Well, this is the first time I ever heard of an\ninnkeeper's philosophy.",
"MARLOW. We wanted no ghost to tell us that.\n\nTONY. Pray, gentlemen, may I be so bold so as to ask the place from\nwhence you came?",
"MARLOW. Thank ye, George: I ask no more. Ha! ha! ha!\n\n\nEnter HARDCASTLE.",
"MARLOW. Not in the least, Mr. Hastings. We like your company of all\nthings. (To him.) Zounds! George, sure you won't go? how can you\nleave us?",
"Enter HASTINGS.\n\n\nHASTINGS. Bless me! I quite forgot to tell her that I intended to\nprepare at the bottom of the garden. Marlow here, and in spirits too!",
"HASTINGS. And all, Marlow, from that unaccountable reserve of yours,\nthat would not let us inquire more frequently on the way.",
"MARLOW. The usual fate of a large mansion. Having first ruined the\nmaster by good housekeeping, it at last comes to levy contributions as\nan inn.",
"MARLOW. Joy, my dear George! I give you joy sincerely. And could I\nprevail upon my little tyrant here to be less arbitrary, I should be\nthe happiest man alive, if you would return me the favour.",
"MARLOW. Ha! ha! ha! They're safe, however. What an unaccountable set\nof beings have we got amongst! This little bar-maid though runs in my",
"SCENE--An Alehouse Room. Several shabby Fellows with punch and\ntobacco. TONY at the head of the table, a little higher than the\nrest, a mallet in his hand.",
"MARLOW. Travellers, George, must pay in all places: the only\ndifference is, that in good inns you pay dearly for luxuries; in bad\ninns you are fleeced and starved.",
"MARLOW. Zounds, man! we could as soon find out the longitude!\n\nHASTINGS. What's to be done, Marlow?"
],
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"TONY. Ay, you may steal for yourselves the next time. I have done my\nduty. She has got the jewels again, that's a sure thing; but she\nbelieves it was all a mistake of the servants.",
"MRS. HARDCASTLE. Humour, my dear; nothing but humour. Come, Mr.\nHardcastle, you must allow the boy a little humour.",
"HASTINGS. (To him.) Bravo, bravo. Never spoke so well in your whole\nlife. Well, Miss Hardcastle, I see that you and Mr. Marlow are going",
"MRS. HARDCASTLE. I tell you, Tony, by all that's precious, the jewels\nare gone, and I shall be ruined for ever.",
"MRS. HARDCASTLE. We are robbed. My bureau has been broken open, the\njewels taken out, and I'm undone.",
"MISS NEVILLE. You may depend upon it. I just saw his letter to Mr.\nHardcastle, in which he tells him he intends setting out a few hours\nafter his son.",
"Lumpkin, exactly. The jewels, my dear Con., shall be yours\nincontinently. You shall have them. Isn't he a sweet boy, my dear?",
"MRS. HARDCASTLE. (Apart to TONY.) You know, my dear, I'm only\nkeeping them for you. So if I say they're gone, you'll bear me",
"MRS. HARDCASTLE. (Kneeling.) Take compassion on us, good Mr.\nHighwayman. Take our money, our watches, all we have, but spare our",
"MRS. HARDCASTLE. The most becoming things in the world to set off a\nclear complexion. You have often seen how well they look upon me. You\nSHALL have them. [Exit.]",
"Enter Landlord.\n\n\nLANDLORD. There be two gentlemen in a post-chaise at the door. They\nhave lost their way upo' the forest; and they are talking something\nabout Mr. Hardcastle.",
"MRS. HARDCASTLE. Well, if he has taken away the lady, he has not\ntaken her fortune; that remains in this family to console us for her\nloss.",
"MRS. HARDCASTLE. Don't be alarmed, Constance. If they be lost, I must\nrestore an equivalent. But my son knows they are missing, and not to\nbe found.",
"MRS. HARDCASTLE. And yet Mrs. Niece thinks herself as much a woman,\nand is as fond of jewels, as the oldest of us all.",
"MISS NEVILLE. But how shall we keep him in the deception? Miss\nHardcastle is just returned from walking; what if we still continue to\ndeceive him?----This, this way----[They confer.]",
"MARLOW. Mr. Hardcastle's house! Is this Mr. Hardcastle's house,\nchild?\n\nMISS HARDCASTLE. Ay, sure! Whose else should it be?",
"MRS. HARDCASTLE. Ay, but he's not of age, and she has not thought\nproper to wait for his refusal.\n\n\nEnter HASTINGS and MISS NEVILLE.",
"HASTINGS. (Introducing them.) Miss Hardcastle, Mr. Marlow. I'm\nproud of bringing two persons of such merit together, that only want to\nknow, to esteem each other.",
"HARDCASTLE. (Joining their hands.) And I say so too. And, Mr.\nMarlow, if she makes as good a wife as she has a daughter, I don't",
"HARDCASTLE. (Aside.) Their impudence confounds me. (To them.)\nGentlemen, you are my guests, make what alterations you please. Is"
],
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"HASTINGS. (Introducing them.) Miss Hardcastle, Mr. Marlow. I'm\nproud of bringing two persons of such merit together, that only want to\nknow, to esteem each other.",
"HARDCASTLE. (Joining their hands.) And I say so too. And, Mr.\nMarlow, if she makes as good a wife as she has a daughter, I don't",
"MARLOW. Daughter!--This lady your daughter?\n\nHARDCASTLE. Yes, sir, my only daughter; my Kate; whose else should she\nbe?",
"HARDCASTLE. Depend upon it, child, I'll never control your choice; but\nMr. Marlow, whom I have pitched upon, is the son of my old friend, Sir",
"MISS HARDCASTLE. Is Marlow.\n\nMISS NEVILLE. Indeed!\n\nMISS HARDCASTLE. The son of Sir Charles Marlow.",
"MARLOW. But hear me, sir--\n\nHARDCASTLE. Your father approves the match, I admire it; every\nmoment's delay will be doing mischief. So--",
"HASTINGS. (To him.) Bravo, bravo. Never spoke so well in your whole\nlife. Well, Miss Hardcastle, I see that you and Mr. Marlow are going",
"MARLOW. Mr. Hardcastle's house! Is this Mr. Hardcastle's house,\nchild?\n\nMISS HARDCASTLE. Ay, sure! Whose else should it be?",
"MARLOW. And why now, my pretty simplicity?\n\nMISS HARDCASTLE. Because it puts me at a distance from one that, if I\nhad a thousand pounds, I would give it all to.",
"Enter MISS HARDCASTLE.\n\n\nHARDCASTLE. Kate, come hither, child. Answer us sincerely and\nwithout reserve: has Mr. Marlow made you any professions of love and\naffection?",
"MISS HARDCASTLE. And her partiality is such, that she actually thinks\nhim so. A fortune like yours is no small temptation. Besides, as she",
"HARDCASTLE. Whose look? whose manner, child?\n\nMISS HARDCASTLE. Mr. Marlow's: his mauvaise honte, his timidity,\nstruck me at the first sight.",
"MARLOW. But why won't you hear me? By all that's just and true, I\nnever gave Miss Hardcastle the slightest mark of my attachment, or even",
"HARDCASTLE. I saw him grasp her hand in the warmest manner myself; and\nhere he comes to put you out of your IFS, I warrant him.\n\n\nEnter MARLOW.",
"MRS. HARDCASTLE. Humour, my dear; nothing but humour. Come, Mr.\nHardcastle, you must allow the boy a little humour.",
"Charles Marlow, of whom you have heard me talk so often. The young\ngentleman has been bred a scholar, and is designed for an employment in",
"MARLOW. Pray, child, answer me one question. What are you, and what\nmay your business in this house be?\n\nMISS HARDCASTLE. A relation of the family, sir.",
"MISS HARDCASTLE. The question is very abrupt, sir. But since you\nrequire unreserved sincerity, I think he has.\n\nHARDCASTLE. (To SIR CHARLES.) You see.",
"MISS HARDCASTLE. (Aside.) Now for meeting my modest gentleman with a\ndemure face, and quite in his own manner. (After a pause, in which he",
"MRS. HARDCASTLE. Mr. Hardcastle, as I'm alive! My fears blinded me.\nBut who, my dear, could have expected to meet you here, in this"
],
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"MARLOW. She's mine, you rogue you. Such fire, such motion, such\neyes, such lips; but, egad! she would not let me kiss them though.",
"Enter MISS HARDCASTLE.\n\n\nHARDCASTLE. Kate, come hither, child. Answer us sincerely and\nwithout reserve: has Mr. Marlow made you any professions of love and\naffection?",
"MARLOW. Daughter!--This lady your daughter?\n\nHARDCASTLE. Yes, sir, my only daughter; my Kate; whose else should she\nbe?",
"HASTINGS. Perish the baubles! Your person is all I desire. In the\nmean time, my friend Marlow must not be let into his mistake. I know",
"MARLOW. And why now, my pretty simplicity?\n\nMISS HARDCASTLE. Because it puts me at a distance from one that, if I\nhad a thousand pounds, I would give it all to.",
"MARLOW. As I behave to all other ladies. Bow very low, answer yes or\nno to all her demands--But for the rest, I don't think I shall venture\nto look in her face till I see my father's again.",
"MARLOW. (Aside.) This simplicity bewitches me, so that if I stay, I'm\nundone. I must make one bold effort, and leave her. (To her.) Your",
"MARLOW. Never; unless, as among kings and princes, my bride were to be\ncourted by proxy. If, indeed, like an Eastern bridegroom, one were to",
"answer just now to Mr. Marlow. We so laughed.--You must know,\nmadam.--This way a little, for he must not hear us. [They confer.]",
"MARLOW. No, no, I tell you. (Looks full in her face.) Yes, child, I\nthink I did call. I wanted--I wanted--I vow, child, you are vastly\nhandsome.",
"MARLOW. Happy man! You have talents and art to captivate any woman.\nI'm doom'd to adore the sex, and yet to converse with the only part of",
"MARLOW. I protest, child, you use me extremely ill. If you keep me at\nthis distance, how is it possible you and I can ever be acquainted?",
"MARLOW. By heavens, madam! fortune was ever my smallest\nconsideration. Your beauty at first caught my eye; for who could see",
"HASTINGS. But are you so sure, so very sure of her?\n\nMARLOW. Why, man, she talked of showing me her work above stairs, and\nI am to improve the pattern.",
"tell you. I know she'll forgive you. Won't you forgive him, Kate?\nWe'll all forgive you. Take courage, man. (They retire, she",
"MARLOW. (To Tony.) You see now, young gentleman, the effects of your\nfolly. What might be amusement to you, is here disappointment, and\neven distress.",
"MARLOW. Rather too readily. For she not only kept the casket, but,\nthrough her great precaution, was going to keep the messenger too. Ha!\nha! ha!",
"MARLOW. (Kneeling.) Does this look like security? Does this look\nlike confidence? No, madam, every moment that shows me your merit,\nonly serves to increase my diffidence and confusion. Here let me\ncontinue----",
"MARLOW. (Aside.) All's well; she don't laugh at me. (To her.) Do\nyou ever work, child?",
"MARLOW. Odso! then you must show me your embroidery. I embroider and\ndraw patterns myself a little. If you want a judge of your work, you\nmust apply to me. (Seizing her hand.)"
],
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"your humble admirer, that kept his eyes fixed on the ground, and only\nadored at humble distance. Kate, Kate, art thou not ashamed to deceive\nyour father so?",
"MARLOW. Daughter!--This lady your daughter?\n\nHARDCASTLE. Yes, sir, my only daughter; my Kate; whose else should she\nbe?",
"tell you. I know she'll forgive you. Won't you forgive him, Kate?\nWe'll all forgive you. Take courage, man. (They retire, she",
"HARDCASTLE. Ay, ay; make no noise. I'll engage my Kate covers him\nwith confusion at last.",
"Enter MISS HARDCASTLE, plainly dressed.\n\n\nHARDCASTLE. Well, my Kate, I see you have changed your dress, as I\nbade you; and yet, I believe, there was no great occasion.",
"discretion out of doors? There's my pretty darling Kate! the fashions\nof the times have almost infected her too. By living a year or two in",
"HASTINGS. My dear friend, how have you managed with your mother? I\nhope you have amused her with pretending love for your cousin, and that",
"I give it up--morals won't do for me;\n To make you laugh, I must play tragedy.\n One hope remains--hearing the maid was ill,",
"HARDCASTLE. Impudence! No, I don't say that--not quite\nimpudence--though girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little\ntoo, sometimes. But she has told no tales, I assure you.",
"HASTINGS. To me she appears sensible and silent.\n\nTONY. Ay, before company. But when she's with her playmate, she's as\nloud as a hog in a gate.",
"MISS NEVILLE. Well! success attend you. In the mean time I'll go and\namuse my aunt with the old pretence of a violent passion for my cousin.\n[Exit.]",
"hand at making punch. Yes, Kate, he asked your father if he was a\nmaker of punch!",
"but constant, I make no doubt to be too hard for her at last. However,\nI let her suppose that I am in love with her son; and she never once",
"too, and has undertaken to court me for him, and actually begins to\nthink she has made a conquest.",
"Enter MISS HARDCASTLE.\n\n\nHARDCASTLE. Kate, come hither, child. Answer us sincerely and\nwithout reserve: has Mr. Marlow made you any professions of love and\naffection?",
"TONY. Ay, you may steal for yourselves the next time. I have done my\nduty. She has got the jewels again, that's a sure thing; but she\nbelieves it was all a mistake of the servants.",
"MAID. But what is more, madam, the young gentleman, as you passed by\nin your present dress, asked me if you were the bar-maid. He mistook\nyou for the bar-maid, madam.",
"MISS HARDCASTLE. Did your honour call? (She still places herself\nbefore him, he turning away.)",
"MARLOW. Rather too readily. For she not only kept the casket, but,\nthrough her great precaution, was going to keep the messenger too. Ha!\nha! ha!",
"HASTINGS. But are you so sure, so very sure of her?\n\nMARLOW. Why, man, she talked of showing me her work above stairs, and\nI am to improve the pattern."
],
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"Constance Neville may marry whom she pleases, and Tony Lumpkin is his\nown man again.",
"MRS. HARDCASTLE. No matter. Tony Lumpkin has a good fortune. My son\nis not to live by his learning. I don't think a boy wants much\nlearning to spend fifteen hundred a year.",
"MARLOW. Daughter!--This lady your daughter?\n\nHARDCASTLE. Yes, sir, my only daughter; my Kate; whose else should she\nbe?",
"MRS. HARDCASTLE. It's false, Mr. Hardcastle; I was but twenty when I\nwas brought to bed of Tony, that I had by Mr. Lumpkin, my first",
"TONY. Ay, but I know what sort of a relation you want to make me,\nthough; but it won't do. I tell you, cousin Con, it won't do; so I beg",
"TONY. Vanish. She's here, and has missed them already. [Exit MISS\nNEVILLE.] Zounds! how she fidgets and spits about like a Catherine\nwheel.",
"TONY. The daughter, a tall, trapesing, trolloping, talkative maypole;\nthe son, a pretty, well-bred, agreeable youth, that everybody is fond\nof.",
"TONY. That's as thereafter may be.\n\nMISS NEVILLE. My dear aunt, if you knew how it would oblige me.",
"TONY. I can bear witness to that. [He runs off, she follows him.]\n\n\nEnter Miss HARDCASTLE and Maid.",
"TONY. To be sure, aunts of all kinds are damned bad things. But what\ncan I do? I have got you a pair of horses that will fly like",
"HASTINGS. To me she appears sensible and silent.\n\nTONY. Ay, before company. But when she's with her playmate, she's as\nloud as a hog in a gate.",
"TONY. Ecod! mamma, your own notes are the wildest of the two.\n\nMRS. HARDCASTLE. Was ever the like? But I see he wants to break my\nheart, I see he does.",
"TONY. By the laws, mamma, you make me for to laugh, ha! ha! I know\nwho took them well enough, ha! ha! ha!",
"TONY. As sure as can be, one of them must be the gentleman that's\ncoming down to court my sister. Do they seem to be Londoners?",
"TONY. I will, I tell you.\n\nMRS. HARDCASTLE. I say you shan't.",
"Enter TONY, crossing the stage.\n\n\nMRS. HARDCASTLE. Tony, where are you going, my charmer? Won't you\ngive papa and I a little of your company, lovee?",
"HASTINGS. My dear 'squire, this looks like a lad of spirit.\n\nTONY. Come along, then, and you shall see more of my spirit before you\nhave done with me.",
"HARDCASTLE. Be it what it will, I'm glad they're come back to reclaim\ntheir due. Come hither, Tony, boy. Do you refuse this lady's hand\nwhom I now offer you?",
"MARLOW. (To Tony.) You see now, young gentleman, the effects of your\nfolly. What might be amusement to you, is here disappointment, and\neven distress.",
"TONY. No, no; straight forward. I'll just step myself, and show you a\npiece of the way. (To the Landlord.) Mum!"
],
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"SIR CHARLES. Did he talk of love?\n\nMISS HARDCASTLE. Much, sir.\n\nSIR CHARLES. Amazing! And all this formally?",
"SIR CHARLES. And pray, madam, have you and my son had more than one\ninterview?\n\nMISS HARDCASTLE. Yes, sir, several.",
"HARDCASTLE. IF, man! I tell you they DO like each other. My\ndaughter as good as told me so.\n\nSIR CHARLES. But girls are apt to flatter themselves, you know.",
"but constant, I make no doubt to be too hard for her at last. However,\nI let her suppose that I am in love with her son; and she never once",
"HARDCASTLE. Impudence! No, I don't say that--not quite\nimpudence--though girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little\ntoo, sometimes. But she has told no tales, I assure you.",
"MRS. HARDCASTLE. My son, sir. They are contracted to each other.\nObserve their little sports. They fall in and out ten times a day, as",
"MARLOW. Sure, sir, nothing has passed between us but the most\nprofound respect on my side, and the most distant reserve on hers. You",
"keep it secret. But since I find she turns it to a wrong use, I must\nnow declare you have been of age these three months.",
"Enter MISS HARDCASTLE.\n\n\nHARDCASTLE. Kate, come hither, child. Answer us sincerely and\nwithout reserve: has Mr. Marlow made you any professions of love and\naffection?",
"more, for fear she should suspect us. [They retire, and seem to\nfondle.]",
"too, and has undertaken to court me for him, and actually begins to\nthink she has made a conquest.",
"SIR CHARLES. I can hold it no longer. Charles, Charles, how hast thou\ndeceived me! Is this your indifference, your uninteresting\nconversation?",
"aim is, to take my gentleman off his guard, and, like an invisible\nchampion of romance, examine the giant's force before I offer to\ncombat.",
"HASTINGS. Then, my Constance, all must be completed before he\narrives. He knows me; and should he find me here, would discover my\nname, and perhaps my designs, to the rest of the family.",
"MISS HARDCASTLE. The question is very abrupt, sir. But since you\nrequire unreserved sincerity, I think he has.\n\nHARDCASTLE. (To SIR CHARLES.) You see.",
"HARDCASTLE. (To SIR CHARLES.) You see.\n\nSIR CHARLES. But did be profess any attachment?\n\nMISS HARDCASTLE. A lasting one.",
"HASTINGS. Perish the baubles! Your person is all I desire. In the\nmean time, my friend Marlow must not be let into his mistake. I know",
"HASTINGS. My dear friend, how have you managed with your mother? I\nhope you have amused her with pretending love for your cousin, and that",
"her bureau, and she does not know it. Fly to your spark, he'll tell\nyou more of the matter. Leave me to manage her.",
"Neville loves you, the family don't know you; as my friend you are sure\nof a reception, and let honour do the rest."
],
[
"MRS. HARDCASTLE. Humour, my dear; nothing but humour. Come, Mr.\nHardcastle, you must allow the boy a little humour.",
"MISS HARDCASTLE. And her partiality is such, that she actually thinks\nhim so. A fortune like yours is no small temptation. Besides, as she",
"MRS. HARDCASTLE. No matter. Tony Lumpkin has a good fortune. My son\nis not to live by his learning. I don't think a boy wants much\nlearning to spend fifteen hundred a year.",
"MRS. HARDCASTLE. Don't be alarmed, Constance. If they be lost, I must\nrestore an equivalent. But my son knows they are missing, and not to\nbe found.",
"HASTINGS. (To him.) Bravo, bravo. Never spoke so well in your whole\nlife. Well, Miss Hardcastle, I see that you and Mr. Marlow are going",
"HASTINGS. Our mistresses, boy, Miss Hardcastle and Miss Neville.\nGive me leave to introduce Miss Constance Neville to your",
"but constant, I make no doubt to be too hard for her at last. However,\nI let her suppose that I am in love with her son; and she never once",
"MRS. HARDCASTLE. To be plain with you, my dear Constance, if I could\nfind them you should have them. They're missing, I assure you. Lost,",
"MRS. HARDCASTLE. My son, sir. They are contracted to each other.\nObserve their little sports. They fall in and out ten times a day, as",
"HARDCASTLE. (Joining their hands.) And I say so too. And, Mr.\nMarlow, if she makes as good a wife as she has a daughter, I don't",
"HARDCASTLE. But you know if your son, when of age, refuses to marry\nhis cousin, her whole fortune is then at her own disposal.",
"MRS. HARDCASTLE. Well, I must retire. Come, Constance, my love. You\nsee, Mr. Hastings, the wretchedness of my situation: was ever poor",
"MARLOW. Mr. Hardcastle's house! Is this Mr. Hardcastle's house,\nchild?\n\nMISS HARDCASTLE. Ay, sure! Whose else should it be?",
"MRS. HARDCASTLE. O! sir, you're only pleased to say so. We country\npersons can have no manner at all. I'm in love with the town, and that",
"MRS. HARDCASTLE. It's false, Mr. Hardcastle; I was but twenty when I\nwas brought to bed of Tony, that I had by Mr. Lumpkin, my first",
"HASTINGS. (Introducing them.) Miss Hardcastle, Mr. Marlow. I'm\nproud of bringing two persons of such merit together, that only want to\nknow, to esteem each other.",
"MARLOW. But why won't you hear me? By all that's just and true, I\nnever gave Miss Hardcastle the slightest mark of my attachment, or even",
"MRS. HARDCASTLE. Yet, what signifies my dressing when I have such a\npiece of antiquity by my side as Mr. Hardcastle: all I can say will",
"MARLOW. And why now, my pretty simplicity?\n\nMISS HARDCASTLE. Because it puts me at a distance from one that, if I\nhad a thousand pounds, I would give it all to.",
"HARDCASTLE. Depend upon it, child, I'll never control your choice; but\nMr. Marlow, whom I have pitched upon, is the son of my old friend, Sir"
],
[
"Constance Neville may marry whom she pleases, and Tony Lumpkin is his\nown man again.",
"TONY. Ay, but I know what sort of a relation you want to make me,\nthough; but it won't do. I tell you, cousin Con, it won't do; so I beg",
"if they were man and wife already. (To them.) Well, Tony, child, what\nsoft things are you saying to your cousin Constance this evening?",
"TONY. That's as thereafter may be.\n\nMISS NEVILLE. My dear aunt, if you knew how it would oblige me.",
"TONY. Ecod! mamma, your own notes are the wildest of the two.\n\nMRS. HARDCASTLE. Was ever the like? But I see he wants to break my\nheart, I see he does.",
"MARLOW. (To Tony.) You see now, young gentleman, the effects of your\nfolly. What might be amusement to you, is here disappointment, and\neven distress.",
"TONY. Vanish. She's here, and has missed them already. [Exit MISS\nNEVILLE.] Zounds! how she fidgets and spits about like a Catherine\nwheel.",
"TONY. I will, I tell you.\n\nMRS. HARDCASTLE. I say you shan't.",
"TONY. (Apart to MRS. HARDCASTLE.) Then why don't you tell her so at",
"Tony, my dear? does your cousin Con. want any jewels in your eyes to\nset off her beauty?",
"TONY. Here's another. Ask miss there, who betrayed you. Ecod, it was\nher doing, not mine.\n\n\nEnter MARLOW.",
"TONY. But I tell you, miss, it's of all the consequence in the world.\nI would not lose the rest of it for a guinea. Here, mother, do you",
"TONY. As for disappointing them, I should not so much mind; but I\ncan't abide to disappoint myself.\n\nMRS. HARDCASTLE. (detaining him.) You shan't go.",
"TONY. No, no. Only mother is confoundedly frightened. She thinks\nherself forty miles off. She's sick of the journey; and the cattle can",
"TONY. To be sure, aunts of all kinds are damned bad things. But what\ncan I do? I have got you a pair of horses that will fly like",
"TONY. That's because you don't know her as well as I. Ecod! I know\nevery inch about her; and there's not a more bitter cantankerous toad\nin all Christendom.",
"TONY. (Singing.) \"There was a young man riding by, and fain would\nhave his will. Rang do didlo dee.\"----Don't mind her. Let her cry.",
"TONY. Sure I know they're gone, and I'm to say so.\n\nMRS. HARDCASTLE. My dearest Tony, but hear me. They're gone, I say.",
"TONY. We'll see which is strongest, you or I. [Exit, hauling her\nout.]",
"TONY. You had as good not make me, I tell you. (Measuring.)\n\nMISS NEVILLE. O lud! he has almost cracked my head."
],
[
"tell you. I know she'll forgive you. Won't you forgive him, Kate?\nWe'll all forgive you. Take courage, man. (They retire, she",
"HARDCASTLE. Ay, ay; make no noise. I'll engage my Kate covers him\nwith confusion at last.",
"MARLOW. Daughter!--This lady your daughter?\n\nHARDCASTLE. Yes, sir, my only daughter; my Kate; whose else should she\nbe?",
"I give it up--morals won't do for me;\n To make you laugh, I must play tragedy.\n One hope remains--hearing the maid was ill,",
"Enter MISS HARDCASTLE, plainly dressed.\n\n\nHARDCASTLE. Well, my Kate, I see you have changed your dress, as I\nbade you; and yet, I believe, there was no great occasion.",
"TONY. Ay, you may steal for yourselves the next time. I have done my\nduty. She has got the jewels again, that's a sure thing; but she\nbelieves it was all a mistake of the servants.",
"your humble admirer, that kept his eyes fixed on the ground, and only\nadored at humble distance. Kate, Kate, art thou not ashamed to deceive\nyour father so?",
"MARLOW. Rather too readily. For she not only kept the casket, but,\nthrough her great precaution, was going to keep the messenger too. Ha!\nha! ha!",
"her bureau, and she does not know it. Fly to your spark, he'll tell\nyou more of the matter. Leave me to manage her.",
"MISS NEVILLE. Well! success attend you. In the mean time I'll go and\namuse my aunt with the old pretence of a violent passion for my cousin.\n[Exit.]",
"but constant, I make no doubt to be too hard for her at last. However,\nI let her suppose that I am in love with her son; and she never once",
"HASTINGS. My dear friend, how have you managed with your mother? I\nhope you have amused her with pretending love for your cousin, and that",
"make it out. Of no consequence! (Giving MRS. HARDCASTLE the letter.)",
"TONY. That's right, that's right; you must be in a bitter passion, and\nthen nobody will suspect either of us. I'll bear witness that they are\ngone.",
"HASTINGS. Thousands do it every day. But to be plain with you; Miss\nNeville is endeavouring to procure them from her aunt this very",
"discretion out of doors? There's my pretty darling Kate! the fashions\nof the times have almost infected her too. By living a year or two in",
"HASTINGS. My dear Constance, why will you deliberate thus? If we\ndelay a moment, all is lost for ever. Pluck up a little resolution,\nand we shall soon be out of the reach of her malignity.",
"TONY. Vanish. She's here, and has missed them already. [Exit MISS\nNEVILLE.] Zounds! how she fidgets and spits about like a Catherine\nwheel.",
"of the night shall be crowned with a merry morning. So, boy, take her;\nand as you have been mistaken in the mistress, my wish is, that you may",
"HASTINGS. But are you so sure, so very sure of her?\n\nMARLOW. Why, man, she talked of showing me her work above stairs, and\nI am to improve the pattern."
],
[
"HARDCASTLE. And, to crown all, Kate, he's one of the most bashful and\nreserved young fellows in all the world.",
"answer just now to Mr. Marlow. We so laughed.--You must know,\nmadam.--This way a little, for he must not hear us. [They confer.]",
"HARDCASTLE. Whose look? whose manner, child?\n\nMISS HARDCASTLE. Mr. Marlow's: his mauvaise honte, his timidity,\nstruck me at the first sight.",
"MARLOW. Sure, sir, nothing has passed between us but the most\nprofound respect on my side, and the most distant reserve on hers. You",
"MARLOW. (Gathering courage.) I have lived, indeed, in the world,\nmadam; but I have kept very little company. I have been but an\nobserver upon life, madam, while others were enjoying it.",
"HASTINGS. (Aside.) He must not see my uneasiness.\n\nMARLOW. You seem a little disconcerted though, methinks. Sure\nnothing has happened?",
"tell you. I know she'll forgive you. Won't you forgive him, Kate?\nWe'll all forgive you. Take courage, man. (They retire, she",
"HASTINGS. And all, Marlow, from that unaccountable reserve of yours,\nthat would not let us inquire more frequently on the way.",
"Enter MISS HARDCASTLE.\n\n\nHARDCASTLE. Kate, come hither, child. Answer us sincerely and\nwithout reserve: has Mr. Marlow made you any professions of love and\naffection?",
"MARLOW. (Kneeling.) Does this look like security? Does this look\nlike confidence? No, madam, every moment that shows me your merit,\nonly serves to increase my diffidence and confusion. Here let me\ncontinue----",
"MARLOW. She's mine, you rogue you. Such fire, such motion, such\neyes, such lips; but, egad! she would not let me kiss them though.",
"MARLOW. Daughter!--This lady your daughter?\n\nHARDCASTLE. Yes, sir, my only daughter; my Kate; whose else should she\nbe?",
"HASTINGS. Perish the baubles! Your person is all I desire. In the\nmean time, my friend Marlow must not be let into his mistake. I know",
"whole time. Yet the fellow, but for his unaccountable bashfulness, is\npretty well too. He has good sense, but then so buried in his fears,",
"MARLOW. As I behave to all other ladies. Bow very low, answer yes or\nno to all her demands--But for the rest, I don't think I shall venture\nto look in her face till I see my father's again.",
"Charles Marlow, of whom you have heard me talk so often. The young\ngentleman has been bred a scholar, and is designed for an employment in",
"MARLOW. (Aside.) By Heaven! she weeps. This is the first mark of\ntenderness I ever had from a modest woman, and it touches me. (To",
"MARLOW. (Relapsing into timidity.) Pardon me, madam, I--I--I--as yet\nhave studied--only--to--deserve them.",
"MARLOW. Yes, madam. I was saying----that there are some occasions,\nwhen a total want of courage, madam, destroys all the----and puts\nus----upon a--a--a--",
"HASTINGS. Tortured as I am with my own disappointments, is this a time\nfor explanations? It is not friendly, Mr. Marlow.\n\nMARLOW. But, sir----"
],
[
"MARLOW. (To Tony.) You see now, young gentleman, the effects of your\nfolly. What might be amusement to you, is here disappointment, and\neven distress.",
"TONY. Ay, but I know what sort of a relation you want to make me,\nthough; but it won't do. I tell you, cousin Con, it won't do; so I beg",
"Constance Neville may marry whom she pleases, and Tony Lumpkin is his\nown man again.",
"TONY. As for disappointing them, I should not so much mind; but I\ncan't abide to disappoint myself.\n\nMRS. HARDCASTLE. (detaining him.) You shan't go.",
"TONY. But I tell you, miss, it's of all the consequence in the world.\nI would not lose the rest of it for a guinea. Here, mother, do you",
"if they were man and wife already. (To them.) Well, Tony, child, what\nsoft things are you saying to your cousin Constance this evening?",
"TONY. That's as thereafter may be.\n\nMISS NEVILLE. My dear aunt, if you knew how it would oblige me.",
"TONY. I will, I tell you.\n\nMRS. HARDCASTLE. I say you shan't.",
"TONY. Ecod! mamma, your own notes are the wildest of the two.\n\nMRS. HARDCASTLE. Was ever the like? But I see he wants to break my\nheart, I see he does.",
"TONY. What signifies my refusing? You know I can't refuse her till\nI'm of age, father.",
"MRS. HARDCASTLE. Oh, death!\n\nTONY. No; it's only a cow. Don't be afraid, mamma; don't be afraid.",
"TONY. Sure I know they're gone, and I'm to say so.\n\nMRS. HARDCASTLE. My dearest Tony, but hear me. They're gone, I say.",
"TONY. Vanish. She's here, and has missed them already. [Exit MISS\nNEVILLE.] Zounds! how she fidgets and spits about like a Catherine\nwheel.",
"TONY. You had as good not make me, I tell you. (Measuring.)\n\nMISS NEVILLE. O lud! he has almost cracked my head.",
"TONY. (Still gazing.) A damned up and down hand, as if it was\ndisguised in liquor.--(Reading.) Dear Sir,--ay, that's that. Then",
"HASTINGS. My dear Constance, why will you deliberate thus? If we\ndelay a moment, all is lost for ever. Pluck up a little resolution,\nand we shall soon be out of the reach of her malignity.",
"TONY. I wish you'd let me and my good alone, then. Snubbing this way\nwhen I'm in spirits. If I'm to have any good, let it come of itself;",
"TONY. Here's another. Ask miss there, who betrayed you. Ecod, it was\nher doing, not mine.\n\n\nEnter MARLOW.",
"TONY. We'll see which is strongest, you or I. [Exit, hauling her\nout.]",
"TONY. Never you mind her resentment, leave ME to manage that. I\ndon't value her resentment the bounce of a cracker. Zounds! here they\nare. Morrice! Prance! [Exit HASTINGS.]"
]
] | [
"When the men arrive at Hardcastle, where do they think they really are?",
"Who are the two men traveling to Hardcastle?",
"What is the name of the bar that the two men stop at on their journey?",
"Who tricks the men into believing that the Hardcastle home is an Inn?",
"Who becomes engaged to Hastings?",
"The appearance of who clears up the misunderstandings?",
"Who does Mrs. Hardcastle want Tony to marry?",
"What does Mrs. Hardcastle have that belongs to Constance?",
"Kate decides to pretend to be what to get Marlow's attention?",
"At the conclusion of the play, who is engaged to Marlow?",
"At the conclusion onf the play, to whom is Constance engaged?",
"Who refuses to marry Constance?",
"Who is in control of Constance's inheritance?",
"Who masquerade's as a serving-maid?",
"To whom does Mr Hardcastle want his daughter to marry?",
"Where does Charles Marlow live?",
"How is Tony Lumpkin related to Kate?",
"What is the name of the Alehouse, where Marlow and George stop for directions?",
"Who agrees to steal the jewels from Mrs. Hardcastle?",
"Why does Mr. Hardcastle want his daughter to meet Charles Marlow?",
"What does Kate have to do to get Marlow to woo her?",
"What did Kate pretend to be?",
"How is Tony Lumpkin related to Kate?",
"Who has a secret romance?",
"Why does Mrs. Hardcastle want Constance to marry her son?",
"Who does Tony want to marry instead of Constance?",
"How does Kate's plan work out?",
"Who tells Kate about Marlow's shyness?",
"What is the result of Tony's refusal to marry Constance?"
] | [
[
"At an Inn.",
"An inn."
],
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"Charles Marlow and George Hastings",
"Marlow and Hastings"
],
[
"The Three Jolly Pigeons",
"The three jolly pigeons"
],
[
"Tony Lumpkin",
"Tony Lumpkin."
],
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"Constance Neville",
"Constance."
],
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"Sir Charles Marlow",
"Sir Charles Marlow"
],
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"Constance"
],
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"Her inheritance, which are her jewels",
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],
[
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"a maid"
],
[
"Kate",
"Kate."
],
[
"Hastings",
"Hastings"
],
[
"Tony",
"Tony"
],
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"Mrs. Hardcastle",
"Mrs. Hardcastle"
],
[
"Kate",
"Kate"
],
[
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"Charles Marlow"
],
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"London",
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],
[
"He is her step-brother.",
"Tony is Kate's step-brother"
],
[
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"The Three Jolly Pigeons"
],
[
"Tony",
"Tony."
],
[
"He hopes they will marry.",
"To keep the jewels in the family"
],
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"Pretend to be common",
"Shre pretends to be common"
],
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"A maid",
"a serving maid"
],
[
"Step brother",
"He is her step-brother."
],
[
"Constance and Hastings",
"Constance and Hastings"
],
[
"Keep the jewels in the family.",
"To keep the jewels in their family."
],
[
"A barmaid",
"A barmaid."
],
[
"Kate and Marlow get engaged",
"It succeeds and she becomes engaged."
],
[
"Constance",
"Constance"
],
[
"She is eligible for her inheritance.",
"she would be able to become engaged to hastings and receive her jewels"
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