She stoops to conquer and The good natured man - Softcover

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ACT III. Scene I.—Enter Hardcastle, solus. Hard. What could my old friend Sir Charles mean, by recommending his son as the modestest young man in town ? To me he appears the most impudent piece of brass that ever spoke with a tongue. He has taken possession of the easy-chair by the fireside already. He took off his boots in the parlour, and desired me to see them taken care of. I'm desirous to know how his impudence affects my daughter. She will certainly be shocked at it. Enter Miss Hardcastle, plainly dressed. JIard. Well, my Kate, I see you have changed your dress, as I bid you; and yet, I believe, there was no great occasion. Miss Hard. I find such a pleasure, sir, in obeying your commands, that I take care to obey them without ever debating their propriety. Hard. And yet, Kate, I sometimes give you some cause, particularly when I recommended my modest gentleman to you as a lover to-day. Miss Hard. You taught me to expect something extraordinary, and I find the original exceeds the description. Hard. I was never so surprised in my Jife ! He has quite confounded all my faculties ! Miss Hard. I never saw anything like it: and a man of the world, too! Hard. Ay, he learned it all abroad. What a fool was I to think a young man could learn modesty by travelling ! He might as soon learn wit at a masquerade. Miss Hard. It seems all natural to him. Hard. A good deal assisted by bad company, and a French dancing-master. Miss Hard. Sure you mistake, papa! A French dancing-master could never have taught him that timid look — that awkward address — that bashful manner Hard. Whose look ? whose manner, child ? Miss Hard. Mr. Marlow's : his mauvaise honte, hia timidity, struck me at the first sight. Hard. Then your first sight deceived you; for ...