Oliver Goldsmith: She Stoops to Conquer

[Music] I found mr. Hardcastle you're very particular is there not a creature in the whole country with ourselves that does not take a trip to town now and then to rub off the dust a little best to miss hogs and our neighbor mrs. Grigsby go to take a month's polish another winter I am bring back vanity and affectation to last in the whole year I wonder why London cannot keep its fools at home my time the follies of the town crept slowly among us but now they travel faster than a stagecoach it's for paris' come down that only is inside passengers but in the very basket your time's worth Fame times indeed if in telling us of them for many long year here we live in an old rumbling mansion that looks for all the world like an end but we never see company our best visitors are old mrs. art fish the curates wife and and little gave of the lame dancing master and all our entertainment your old stories Prince Eugene and the Duke of Marlborough I hates us old-fashioned trumpery and I love it I love everything that's old old friends old times old manners old books old wine and I believe Dorothea all alone I have been pretty fond of an old wife Oh mr. Hardcastle you're forever at your dorothy's and your old wives you may be a darby but i would be no german I promise you I'm not so old as you'd make me but another one good year add 20 to 20 and make money other let me see 20 added to 20 makes just fifty and seven sister falls mr. Hardcastle I was pricked when he when I was brought to bed of told me that I ad by mr. lamken my first husband and he's not couple years of discretion yet nor ever will I dare answer for him why you have taught him finally no matter Tony Lumpkin now is a good fortune my son is not to live by his learning don't think a boy once much learnin to spend 1,500 a year learning quota a mere composition of tricks and mischief oh mighty yeah nothing but Homer oh come mr. Hardcastle he must allow the boy little Homer I'd sooner allow him a horse pond if burning the footman shoes frightening maids and worrying kittens B humor he has it it was but yesterday he fastened my wing to the back of my chair that when I went to make a bower put my bald head he misses Frizzles face and am I to blame the poor boy was always too sickly to do any good the school would have been his death when he comes to be a little stronger knows what your toes like me do for it Latin for him a can of fiddle know the alehouse and the stables are the only schools he'll ever go to well we must not snob the poor boy now before I believe we shot having longer mamas anybody that looks in his face may say he's in something I have grown too fat me one of the symptoms he coughs sometimes yes when his liquor goes the wrong way I'm actually afraid of his lung and truly so am i for he sometimes whoops like a speaking triage oh here he comes very consumptive figure true why are you going my charmer well you get the part and I a little if you come near lovely I'm in haste mother I cannot stay you sad venture out this raw afternoon my dear you look most shockingly I can't stay I tell you the three pigeons expects me down every moment there's some fun going forward hi the alehouse the old place I thought so allo poultry set of fellows not solo neither there's dick muggins the excise man Jack slang the horse doctor little am in a dab that grinds the music box and Tom twist that spins the puta product pray my dear disappointing her one night at least as for disappointing them or should not much mine but I can't abide to disappoint myself well you shan't go oh well I tell you say you sharp we'll see which is the strongest you were oh hi there go to spoil each other but isn't the whole age in a combination to drive sense and discretion out of doors there's my pretty darling Kate the fashions of the times have almost infected her too by spending a year or two in town she is as fond of gauze and French frippery as the best of them [Music] blessings are my pretty innocence but dressed out as usual my Kate goodness what a quantity of superfluous silks thou has got about P go I can never teach the fools of this age that the indigent world could be clothed out of the trimmings of the vein you know our agreement sir you allow me the morning to receive and pay visits and to dress in my own manner and in the evening I put on my Housewives dress to please you well remember I insist upon the terms of our agreement by the by I believe I shall have occasion to try your obedience this very evening I protest sir I don't comprehend your meaning then to be plain with you Kate I expect the young gentlemen I have chosen to be your husband from town this very day I have his father's letter in which he informs me his son is set out and that he intends to follow himself shortly after indeed I wish I had known something of this before bless me how shall I behave two thousand to one I shan't like him our meeting will be so formal and so like a thing of business that I shall find no room for friendship or fee depend upon a child I'll never control your choice but young mr. Marlowe whom I have pitched upon is the son of my old friend Sir Charles Marlow of whom you've heard me talk so often the young gentleman is bred to be a scholar and is designed for an employment in the service of his country I'm told he's a man of an excellent understanding is he very generous I believe I shall like him young and brave I'm sure I too like him and very handsome My dear Papa say no more he's mine I'll have him and to crown it all Kate he's one of the most bashful and reserved young fellows in all the world oh you're frozen me to death again that word reserved has undone all the rest of his accomplishments a reserved lover it is said always makes a suspicious husband on the contrary modesty seldom resides in a breast which is not enriched with nobler virtues it was the very feature in his character that first struck me must have more striking features to catch me I promise you however if you'd be so young so handsome so everything as you mentioned I believe he'll do still I think I'll have him I Kate but there is still an obstacle it's more than an even wager he may not you the par I will mortify one so well if he refuses instead of breaking my heart I did indifference I'll only break my glass for its flattery set my cap to some newer fashion and look out for some less difficult admirer bravely resolved in the meantime I'll go prepare the servants for his reception since we seldom see company they want as much training as a bunch of recruits the first day's muster this news of papayas puts me on in a flutter young handsome these heap at last I've had them for most sensible good-natured I like all that but then reserve in sheepish that's much against him it can't be cured of his timidity by being taught to be proud of his wife yes and can't I but I vow I'm disposing of the husband before I have secured the lover Wow I'm glad you're come never my dear tell me Constance how do I look this afternoon is there anything whimsical about me is it one of my well looking days child am i in face today perfectly my dear yet no I look again bless me sure no accident has happened among the canary birds or the goldfish it's as your brother or the cat been meddling or has the last novel been to move know nothing of all this I have been threatened because guess get it out I have been threatened with a lover and his name is Marla the son of Sir Charles Marla as I lived the most intimate friend of mr. Hastings my admirer they are never asunder I believe you must have seen him when we lived in town never he's a very singular character I assure you among women of reputation and virtue he is the modest dismantle I've but his acquaintance give him a very different character among creatures of another stamp he understands me odd character indeed I shall never be able to manage him what should I do ah sure think no more of him but trust two occurrences for success oh but how goes on your own affair my dear has my mother been courting you for my brother Tony as usual I have just come from one of our agreeable tete-a-tetes she has been saying a hundred tender things and setting off her pretty monsters the very pink of the fetch and her partiality is such that she actually thinks himself a fortune like yours is no small temptation besides as she has the sole management of it I'm not surprised to see her unwilling to let it go out of the family a fortune like mine which chiefly consists in jewels there's no such mighty temptation but at any rate if my dear Hastings be but constant I make no doubt to be too hard for her at last however I let her suppose that I'm in love with her son and she never wants dreams that my affections are fixed upon another my good brother holds out stoutly I could almost love him for hating you so it is a good-natured creature at bottom and I'm sure would wish to see me married to anybody but himself but my outs bell rings for our afternoons walk through the improvements Allen courage is necessary as our affairs are critical would it were bedtime in all the world [Music] then I'll sing you gentlemen a song I made upon this outhouse the three pigeon let's go masters parcel their brain with grammar and oxygen learning Guernica I stoutly maintained give Janis a better discerning let them drive the heathenish God's their little mystics and this digits their Quizon they're quite in their quads the robot parcel of pigeons [Music] when Methodist preachers come down a preaching the trick in is sinful a wager no Rascals our crown there'll always be mess with a skinful but when you come down with your pets for a slice of strv religion or leave it knew all men of sense but you my good friend are the pigeon - Ronald Aurora the roads or olives are on a zero to a little Pulitzer all the comfort that you're in the pie and then has been very ever our hearts and our liquors our search is the three jolly pigeons forever let some play up Woodcock oh hey you're busted your Ducks and your which ins but of all of the birds in the air these are health of the three jolly pigeon Roeder one of the remote tomorrow tomorrow tomorrow sky got spunky never loves to hear him sing cuz he never gives us nothing that's love ah damn anything that's low I cannot bear it the genteel thing as a genteel thing at any time if so be that a gentleman and decent concatination accordingly hmm I like the maximum that Massa muggins what don't obligate you to dance a bear a man may be a gentleman for all of that may this be my poison if my bear ever dances to put the gentlest attunes is they water party or the minuet Ariadne what a pity the Squires not come to his own it would be well for all the publicans within ten miles round of him he cotton so it would master slang I then show what it was to keep Joyce accompany oh oh he take after his own father for that oh to be sure old Lumpkin was the finest gentleman I ever set my eyes on for winding a straight horn or beatin the thicket for a hair or wench he never had his fellow it was a sign in the place he kept the best horses dogs and girls in the whole county he cotton when I'm of age I'll be no bastard I promise you I've been thinking a bet bouncer in the Miller's driver I don't come my boys drink about me marry for you pay no reckon well stinker what's the matter there be two gentlemen in a couch at the door they've lost their way upon the forest and they're talking something about mr. Hardcastle sure as can be one of them must be the gentleman that's coming down to court my sister do they seem to be Londoners I believe they may they look wounded li-like Frenchmen then desire them step this way I'll set them right in a twinkling gentlemen as they might be good enough company for you step down for a moment I'll be with you in the squeezing of a lemon [Music] father-in-law has been calling me well pound this up here now I'm please don't be so avenged upon the old grumble Tony but then I'm afraid afraid of what will soon be worth 1,500 a year let him fight me out with a heavy cannon what a tedious uncomfortable day we've had of it we were told it was but 40 miles across the country we've come about threescore and all Marlo from an unaccountable reserve of yours that would not let us inquire more frequently on the way Ione Hastings I am unwilling to lay myself under an obligation to everyone I meet and often stand the chance of an unmanly answer present however we are not likely to receive any answer no offense gentlemen but I'm told you've been inquiring for one mr. Hardcastle in these parts do you know what part of the country you're it not in the least sir but should thank you for information not the way you came no sir but if you can inform us why gentlemen you no need the road you're going nor where you are nor the way you came the first thing I have to inform you is that you have lost your way we wanted no ghost to tell us that prey gentleman may I be so bold as to ask the place from whence you came that's not necessary towards directing where we are they ask the question for question is all fair you know pray gentlemen is not this same Hardcastle er cross-grained old-fashioned whimsical fellow with an ugly face a daughter and a pretty son we have not seen the gentleman that he has the family mentioned the daughter at all traipsing hollering talkative maple the son are pretty well bred agreeable youth that everybody is fond of our information differs in this the daughter is said to be well-bred and beautiful the son an awkward boobie reared up and spoiled at his mother's apron string then gentlemen all I have to tell you is you won't reach mr. Hardcastle's house this night I believe unfortunate so damn long dark boggy dirty dangerous way Stingo tell the gentleman the way to mr. Hardcastle mr. Hardcastle a quagmire marsh you understand me mr. Hardcastle's cool flakka Daisy my masters you've come a deadly deal wrong when you came to the bottom of the hill you should have crossed down squash lack Ross down squash lane then you were to keep straight for it until you came to four roads come to where four roads meet alright but you must be sure to take only one of them sir your facetious then keep them to the right you two go sideways till he come to farmer Marines bum coming to the farmers barn your turn to the right then to the left then to the right about again till you find out the old mill xun's man we could assume find our longitude what's to be done Marla this house promises but a poor reception though perhaps the landlord can accommodate us bro I lack master we have but one spare bed in the whole house and to my knowledge that's taken up by three lodgers already I have hit it don't you think Stingo our landlady could accommodate the gentleman by the fireside with three chairs and a bolster I hate sleeping by the fire and I detest your three chairs and a bolster you do do you and let me see what if you go on a mile further to the box head the old bucks head on the hill one of the best inns in the whole country oh so I've escaped an adventure for this night however sure you've been sending them to your father's as an Indian mum you fool you let them find that out you've only to keep on straight forward till he come to a large old house by the roadside you see a pair of large horns over the door that's the sign dry not the yard and call stately about you sir we are obliged to you the servants not miss the way no no I'll tell you though the landlord is rich going to leave off business so he wants to be thought of gentlemen saving your presence you'll be forgiven you his company an e-card have you mind him it'll persuade you that his mother was an alderman and his aren't a justice of the paper troublesome old blade to be sure but he keeps there's good wines and beds as any in the whole country well if he supplies us with these we shall want no further connection we have to turn to the right did you say no no straightforward I'll just step myself and show you a piece of the work [Music] bless your heart for a sweet Pleasant dad mischievous son of the hole well I hope you're perfect in the table exercises I have been teaching you these three days you all know your posts in your places I can show that you've been used a good company without ever stirring from home when company comes you're not to pop out and stare and then running again like frightened rabbits in a warrant no no your Diggory whom I have taken from the barn are to make a show at the side table and you Roger whom I've advanced from the plow are to place yourself behind my chair but you're not to stand so with your hands in your pockets take your hands from your pockets Roger and from your head you blockhead you see how Diggory carries his hands they're a little too stiff indeed but that's no great matter I know I Oldham I don't dwell my hands like this when I was a pound drill for the militia and so being a pantry you must not be so talkative you must be all attention to the guests you must hear us talk and not think of talking or Macias drink or not think of drinking and you miss TSE to not think of eating either loves your worship that's perfectly unpassable when other Diggory sees Yeaton going forward Accardi is always wishing for a mouthful himself blockhead is not a bellyful in the kitchen as good as a bellyful in the parlor stay your stomach with that reflection thank you worship I'll make a shift to stay my stomach with the slice of cold beef in the pan Diggory you are too talkative then if I happen to say a good thing or tell a good story at table you're not all to burst out a laughing as you do made part of the company card your worship must not tell the story of old grouse in the gun room ha ha so lovey we've laughed about these 20 years well the story is a good one well on its Diggory you may laugh at that but still remember to be attentive suppose one of the company suppose one of the company should call for a glass of wine how will you behave the glass of wine sir if you please hey why don't you move it cards your worship I never have the courage till I see the eatables and drink the balls brought upon the table and then I'm as bold as a lion well nobody moves I'm not leave this place I'm sorry it's no place that mind you don't know Martha sir lose I'm sure it can't be mine oh you numbskulls and so while like your betters you are quarreling for places the guests must be starved oh you dances I find I must begin all over again don't I hear a coke driving to the yard to your post you Blockheads I'll go in the meantime and give my old friends son a haughty reception of the gate [Music] 2011 is my place akan quite out of my head I know the high places - forever away where there is more my faces to be nowhere at all sir [Music] well this way after the disappointments of the day Charles welcome once more to the comforts of a clean room and a good fire on my word very well looking house antique creditable the usual fate of a large mansion having first ruined the master by good housekeeping it at last comes to levy contributions as an inn as you say we passengers are to be taxed to pay for these fineries I've often seen a good sideboard or a marble chimney piece though not actually put in the bill in flame a reckoning confoundedly travelers George must pay in all places the only difference is that in Goodin's you pay dearly for luxuries in Baden's you fleeced and starved you have lived pretty much among them in truth I have been often surprised you who have seen so much of the world with your natural good sense and your many opportunities could never yet acquire a requisite share of assurance the Englishman's malady but tell me George where could I have learned that assurance you talk of my life has been chiefly spent in a college or an inn in seclusion from that lovely part of the creation that chiefly teaches men confidence I don't know that I was ever familiarly acquainted with a single modest woman set my mother but among females of another class you know I among them you're impudent enough of all conscience they are of us you know but in the company of women of reputation I never saw such an idiot such a trembler you look for all the world as if you wanted an opportunity of stealing out of the room why man that's because I do want to steal out of the room faith I have often formed a resolution to break the ice and rattle away at any rate but I don't know how a single glance from a pair of fine eyes has totally over set my resolution an impudent fellow make counterfeit modesty but I'll be hanged if a modest man can ever counterfeit impotence if you could but say half the fine things to them that I've heard you lavish upon the bar made of it or even a college bed maker my George I can't say find things to them they freeze they petrify me they may talk of a comet or a burning mountain or somesuch Bagatelle but to me a modest woman dressed out in all her finery is the most tremendous object of the whole creation [Music] stepfather so excited that he can hardly wait he plans to marry Marlow up to my sister cake my mom's madly hoping or when my cousin car my cars and Kahn is moping much more on that unknown these terminal confusion they think they're at and in I helped in that delusional now let the fun begin to me a modest woman dressed out in all her finery is the most tremendous object of the whole creation this right man how can you ever expect to marry never unless as among kings and princes my bride were to be quartered by proxy if indeed like an Eastern bridegroom one were to be introduced to a wife he never saw before it might be endured but to go through all the terrors of a formal courtship together with the episodes of aunts grandmothers and cousins and at last to blurt out the broad stare in question of madam will you marry me no no that's a strain much above me I assure you I pity you but how do you intend behaving to the lady you will come down to visit at the request of your father as I behaved to all other ladies bow very low answer yes or no to all her demands but for the rest I don't think I shall venture to look in her face till I see my father's again I'm surprised that one who's so warm a friend can be so cool a lover to be explicit My dear Hastings my chief inducement down was to be instrumental in forwarding your happiness not my own miss Neville loves you the family don't know you as my friend you are sure of a reception let honor do the rest my dear Marlowe but I'll suppress the emotion where I a wretch meanly seeking to carry off a fortune you should be the last man in the world I would apply to for assistance but miss Neville's person is all I ask and that is mine both from her deceased father's can send on her own inclination you have talents and art to captivate anyone I'm doomed to adorn the sexes and yet to converse with the only part of it I despise the stammer in my address in this awkward prepossessing visit of mine can never permit me to soar above the reach of a milliner's apprentice one of the Duchess's of Drury Lane [Music] sure to follow here to interrupt us gentlemen once more you are welcome which is mr. Marlowe sir you are heartily welcome it's not my way you see to receive my friends with my back to the fire I like to give them a hearty reception in the old style at my gate I like to see their horses and trucks taken care of he's got our names from the servants already we approve your caution and hospitality sir I've been thinking George of changing our traveling dresses in the morning I'm grown confoundedly ashamed of mine I begged mr. Marlowe you'll use no ceremony in this house I fancy Charles you're right the first blow is half the battle I intend opening the campaign with the white and gold mr. Marlowe mr. Hastings gentlemen pray be under no constraint in this house this is Liberty Hall gentlemen you may do just as you please here yet George if we open the campaign too fiercely at first we may want ammunition before it is over I think to reserve the embroidery to secure retreat you're talking of retreat mr. Marlowe put me in mind of the Duke of Marlborough when we went to besieged a name he first summon the garrison don't you think the vaunted or waistcoat will do with the plain Brown he first son of the garrison which might consist of about 5000 men I think not brown and yellow mix but very poorly I say gentlemen as I was telling you he summoned the garrison which might consist of about 5,000 men the girls like finery which might consist of about 5000 men well-appointed with stores and ammunition and other implements of war now says the Duke of Marlborough to George Brooks it stood next to him you you must have heard of George Brooks I'll pawn my dukedom says he but I'll take that garrison without spilling a drop of blood so what my good friend if you gave us a glass of punch in the meantime it would help us to carry on the siege with vigor punch sir this is the most unaccountable kind of modesty I've ever met with yes sir punch a glass of warm punch after our journey would be comfortable this is Liberty Hall you know well here's a cup sir so this fellow in his Liberty Hall will only let us have just what he pleases I hope you find it to your mind I prepared it with my own hands I believe your own the ingredients are tolerable will you be so good as to pledge me sir here mr. Marlow here is to our better acquaintance a very impudent fellow this but he's a character and I'll humor him a little sir my service to you I see this fellow wants to give us his company and forgets that he's an innkeeper before he's not to be a gentleman hmm from the excellence of your cup my old friend I suppose you must have a good deal of business in this part of the country warm work now and then it's elections I suppose oh no sir I've long given that work over since our betters have hit upon the expedient of electing each other there's no business for us that's la oh so then you have no turn for politics I find not in the least there was a time indeed when I fretted myself about the mistakes of government like other people but finding myself every day grow more angry and the government growing no better I left it to mend itself since that time I no more trouble my head about Hyder Ali or Ali corn and I do about Ali croaker sir my service to you so that with eating above steps and drinking below with receiving your friends within and amusing them without you need a good Pleasant bustling life of it I do stir about a good deal that's certain half the differences of the parish are adjusted in this very parlor and you have an argument in your carpool gentlemen better than any in Westminster Hall aye young gentlemen that and a little philosophy well this is the first time I've ever heard of an innkeepers philosophy so then like an experienced general you attack them on every quarter if you find their reason manageable you attack it with your philosophy if you find they have no reason you attack them with this here's your health my philosopher ah very good oh good thank you yeah your generalship puts me in mind of Prince Eugene when we fought the Turks at the Battle of Belgrade you shall hear instead of the Battle of Belgrade I believe it's almost time to talk about supper what is your philosophy got in the house for supper for supper Sara was ever such a request made to a man in his own house yes sir supper sir I begin to feel an appetite I should make devilish work tonight in the larder I promise you such a brazen dog Sean never my eyes beheld well really sir eyes for supper I can't well tell about my Dorothea and the cook made settled these things between them I leave these kind of things entirely to them you do do you entirely by the by I believe they are an actual consultation upon what's for supper this very moment in the kitchen come on come on then I beg they'll admit me as one of their Privy Council it's a way I have got when I travel I always choose to regulate my own supper let the cook be called no offense I hope so oh no sir yeah none in the least yet I don't know how how Bridget the cook made is not very communicative upon these occasions sir should we send for her she might scold us all out of the house let's see your list of the larder then I ask it as a favor I always match my appetite to my bill of fare so he's very right and it's my way to says you have a right to command here not her bring us the bill of fare for tonight's supper I believe it's drawn out your manner mr. Hastings puts me in mind of my uncle Colonel what up it was a saying of his that no man was sure of his supper till you're eaten it well up on the high ropes uncle a curl we shall soon hear of his mother being a justice of the peace but that's here the bill of fare well what's here for the first course for the second course for the desert the devil sir do you think we brought down the whole join us company well the corporation of Bedford to eat up such a supper there were three little things clean and comfortable will do but let's hear it for the first course at the top a pig and prune sauce no Daniel Pig I say damn your prune sauce only a gentleman two men that are hungry a pig with prune sauce is very good eating at the bottom a calf's tongue and brains let your brains be knocked out my good sir I don't like or you may clap them on a plate by themselves I do impudence confound me gentlemen you are my guest make what alterations you please is there anything else you wish to retrench or alter gentlemen a pork pie a boiled rabbit and sausages a florentine a shaking pudding and a dish of Tiff's TAF taffeta cream confound your made dishes I shall be as much at a loss in this house as at a green and yellow dinner at the French ambassador's table I'm for plain eating well I'm sorry gentlemen that I have nothing you like but if there be anything you have a particular fact see - I really sir your bill of fare is so exquisite that any one part of it is full as good as another send as what you please so much for supper and now to see that our beds are aired and properly taken care of I entreat your leave all that to me you shall not stir a step leave that to you I protest sir you must excuse me I always look to these things myself but I must insist sir you'll make yourself easy on that head you see I'm resolved on it and very troublesome fellow this as I ever met with well I'm resolved at least to attend you this may be more modest table I never saw anything look so like old-fashioned impedance so I find this fellow civilities we can scroll some but who can be angry those are securities which are meant to please him miss leveled by always happy my dear hasting to was unexpected good fortune accident my to escape this have you looked it rather let me ask the same question as I could never have hoped to meet my dearest Constance as an end I'm in sure you mistake my aunt my guardian lives here what could induce you to think this house and in my friend mr. Marlowe with whom I came down and I have been sent here as to an inn I assure you a young fellow whom we accidentally met at a house heart by directed us hither certainly it must be one of my hopeful cousins tricks of whom you've heard me talk so often you want intense for you if we might have such just apprehensions you have nothing to fear from him I assure you you'd adore him if you knew how heartily he despises me my aunt knows it too and has undertaken to court me for him and actually begins to think she's made a conquest doubt dear dissembler you must know my Constance I have just seized this happy opportunity of my friends visit here to get admittance into the family the horses that carried us down an alpha teat with their journey but they'll soon be refreshed then if my dearest girl will trust in her faithful Hastings we shall soon be landed in France where even among slaves the laws of marriage are respected I have often told you that though ready to obey you I yet should leave my little fortune behind with her reluctance the greatest part of it was led by my uncle the India director and chiefly consists in jewels I have been for some time persuading my aunt to let me wear them I fancy I'm very near succeeding the instant they are put into my possession you shall find me ready to make them and myself you'll perish the baubles your person is all I desire in the meantime my friend Marla must not be let into his mistake I know the strange reserve of his temper is such that if abruptly informed of it he would instantly quit the house before our plan was ripe for execution but how shall we keep him in the deception miss Hardcastle is just returned from walking what if we still continue to deceive him the annuities of these good people tease me beyond bearing my host seems to think it ill manners to leave me alone so he claps not only himself but his old fashioned wife on my back they talk of coming to sup with us too and then I suppose we had to run the gauntlet through all the rest of the family what have we got here My dear Charles let me congratulate you the most fortunate accident who do you think is just delighted cannot guess Oh mistress's boy miss Hardcastle and miss Neville give me leave to introduce Miss Constance Neville to your acquaintances happening to dine in the neighbourhood they called on their return to take fresh horses here miss Hardcastle has just stepped inside and will be back in an instant was it lucky hey I have just been mortified enough of all conscience and here comes something to complete my embarrassment well wasn't it the most fortunate thing in the world oh yes very fortunate a most joyful encounter but our dresses George you know are in disorder what if we should postpone the happiness till tomorrow tomorrow at our own house it will be every bit as convenient and rather more respectful tomorrow let it be by no means sir your ceremony will displease her the disorder of your dress will show the ardour of your impatience besides she knows you're in the house and will permit you to see her or the devil how I supported Hastings must not you are to assist me you know I shall be confoundedly ridiculous yet hang it I'll take courage hmm pusher man it's but the first plunge and alls over she's but a woman no and of all women she that I dread most doing candor miss Hardcastle mr. Marlowe I am proud of bringing two persons of such merit together that only want to know to esteem each other now for meeting my modest gentleman with a demure face and quite in his own manner I'm glad if your safe arrival sir I'm told you had some accidents by the way only a few madam yes we had some yes madam a good many accidents but should be sorry madam or rather glad of any accidents that are so agreeably concluded never spokes on whether your whole life keep it up and I'll ensure you the victory I'm afraid you flatter sir you that have seen so much of the finest company can find little entertainment in the lab skill corner of the country I have lived indeed in the world madam but I've kept very little company I've been but an observer upon life Adam while others were enjoying it with that I am told is the way to enjoy it at last Cicero never smoked better once more on you confirmed in assurance forever standby meaning and when I'm down throw in a word or two to set me up again an observer like you upon life where I fear disagreeably employed since you must have had much more to sense e'er than approve pardon me madam I was always willing to be amused the folly of most people is rather an object of mirth than uneasiness never smokes a willing a whole life well miss Hardcastle I see that you and mr. Marlow are going to be very good company I believe our being here but embarrassed the interview not in the least the stage things we like your company of all things Oh George so you won't go how can you believe us our presence will about spoil conversation so we'll retire inside we don't consider man the little matter little tete-a-tete of our own [Music] but you have not been wholly an observer I presume sir the ladies I should hope have employed some part of your dresses pardon me madam aye aye aye aye as yet have studied only to deserve them and that some say is the very worst way to obtain them perhaps Oh madam but I love to converse only with the grave and sensible part of the sex I'm afraid I grow tiresome oh not at all sir there's nothing I like so much as grave conversation myself I could hear it forever indeed I've often been surprised how a man of sentiment could ever admire those light airy pleasures where nothing reaches the heart it's a disease of the mind madam in a variety of tastes there must be some who wanting a relish for I understand you sir there must be some who wanting a relish for refined pleasures pretend to despise what they are incapable of tasting my meaning madam that infinitely better expressed and I can't help observing you were going to observe sir I was observing madam I protest madam I forget what I was going to observe oh do i you were observing so that in this age of hypocrisy something about hypocrisy sir yes madam in this age of hypocrisy there are few who upon strict inquiry do not yeah I understand you perfectly sir you garden that's more than I do myself you mean that in this hypocritical age there are few that do not condemn in public what they practice in private and think they pay every debt divert you when they praise it true madam those who have most virtue in their mouths have least of it in their bosoms I'm sure tying madam not in the least sir there's something so agreeable and spirited in your manner such life and force pray so go on yes madam I was saying that there are some occasions when a total want of courage madame destroys all the and puts us opponent oh I agree with you entirely I want of courage upon some occasions assumes the appearance of ignorance and betrays us when we most want to excel I beg you'll proceed yes madam morally speaking madam but I see miss Neville expecting us inside I would not intrude for the world I protest sir I was never more agreeably entertained in all my life pray go on yes madam I was but she beckons us to join her madam shall I do myself the honour to attend you well then I thought this pretty smooth dialogue is done for me is that ever such a sober sentimental interview I'm certain these guys looked in my face the whole time yet the fellow spot for his unaccountable bashfulness is pretty well - he has good sense but then so buried in his fears that have to Teague's one more than ignorance if I could teach him political confidence you'd be doing somebody that I know of a piece of service but who is that somebody that faith is a question I can scarce answer what do you follow me for cousin Connor wonder you're not ashamed to be so very engaging I hope because anyone may speak to ones relations and not be to play I buy no what's the relation you want to make me them but it won't do I tell you cousin kana it won't do so I beg you keep your distance and want no nearer relationship [Music] well I used to be steps you are very educated and there's nothing in the world I love to talk of some arches London and the fashions though I was never there myself never there you're amazing well from your air and manner I concluded you had been bred all your life either at Ranelagh some James's or tower Wharf [Music] you're only pleased to see soon we contra persons can have no man at all I'm in love with the town and that serves to raise me above some of our neighbouring rustics but who can have a manner that has never seen the Pantheon the the grotto garden the the barrier or such places where the nobility chiefly resort all I can do is to enjoy London at secondhand I die take care to know every tete-a-tete from the scandalous magazine and have all the fashions as they come out in a letter from the Tormentor rickets of crooked leaden pre how do you like this the head mr. Hastings extremely elegant and dégagé a upon my word madam your freezer is a Frenchman I suppose a protest they dressed it myself off from a print in the lady's memorandum book for the last year indeed such a head in a side box at the Playhouse would draw as many gazes as my Lady Mayoress at a city ball hi Val since inoculation began there's no such thing to be seen as a plain woman so one must dress a little particular ah when we escape in the crowd hmm but that can never be your case madam in any dress yes what signifies me dress it when I have such a piece of antiquity by my side is mr. Hardcastle all I can say would never argue that a single button from his clothes I've often wanted him to prove his great flaxen wig and where he was bald to PLAs 3 oval like my low pay play with powder you are right madam for as among the ladies there are none ugly so among the men there are none old yet what you think his answer was right with his usual gothic vivacity he said I only wanted him to throw off his wig to convert it into a check for my own wearing intolerably at your age you may wear what you please and it must become pray mr. Hastings what you take to be the most fashionable age about town sometime ago 40 was all about but I'm told the ladies intend to bring up 50 for the ensuing winter suit miss me then I shall be too young for the fashion no lady begins now to put on jewels till she's past 40 for instance miss they're in a polite circle would be considered as a child as a mere maker of samplers yet mrs. nice thinks herself as much a woman and is as fond of jewels as the oldest of us all your niece is she and that young gentleman a brother of yours I should presume this my son they are contracted to each other observe the little sports they fall in them out 10 times a days if they were man and wife already why Tony child what's are things you st. your cousin can sense this evening I have been saying no soft things but it's very hard to be fallen about so he could have not a place in the house now that's left to myself but the stable don't mind him come my dear he's in another story behind you back there's something generous in my cousin's manner he falls out before faces to be forgiven in private so damned confounded ah he's a sly one don't you think they are like each other about the mouth mr. Hastings Fe the Blenkinsop mouth to teeth and then of a size two back to back my pretties but mr. Hastings may see you come tell me did not make me I tell you the shame Tony your mana be a soul if I'm a man let me have my fortune he caught I'll not be made a fool of no longer [Music] Oh [Music] George Hastings meets his lover and Marlowe meets his match too soon they will discover that then heylia cash Charles Marlow so damn nervous and kate is quite perplexed the gentleman quite service and fathers very bent and all the while my mother refuses to concede I'd rather any harder still facts where comes or greed I'm a man let me have my fortune he caught I'll not be made a fool of no longer is this ungrateful boy all that's aim to get for the pains I have taken in your education die hey that have rocked you in your cradle and fed that pretty mouth with a spoon did I not work that Wizkid to make you jaunty did I not prescribe for you every day and weep well the dosage was operating he caught you had reason to we for you have been dosing me ever since I was born I have gone through every dosage in the complete housewife ten times over and your thoughts have cost me through Quincy next spring because I tell you I'll not be made a fool of no longer who wasn't it all for your good vapor wasn't it all feel good I wish you'd let me am I good alone then snubbing this way when I'm in spirits if I'm to have any good then it come of itself not I keep digging it digging it into one's own house false I never see you when you're in spirits no Tony you then go to the Ale House at the kennel I never be delighted by your agreeable wild notes unfeeling monster you cut him off your own no to the wireless to the to ever the like when I see he wants to break my heart see he does oh dear madam permit me to lecture the young John from them a little I'm certain I can persuade him of his duties well I must retire the come-come my love do you see mr. Hastings the wretchedness of my situation let's have a call woman so played with a dear sweet pretty provoking I'm Judith oh boy [Music] [Music] there was a young man ridin vine fain would have his room Ring Ding diddle dee don't mind her that I coy it's the comfort of her heart I've seen her nurse is to cry over a book for an hour together and they said they like the book the better the more it made them crying then you're no friend of the ladies I find my pretty young gentleman that's as I find him not to her of your mother's choosing I dare answer yet she appears to me a pretty well tempered girl that's cuz you don't know as well as I I know every inch about it there's not a more bitter cantankerous tone in all Christendom pretty encouragement this for a lover I've seen her since the height of that she has as many tricks as a hair in a thicket for a Colt the first day's breaking up to me shippers sensible and silent high before company when she's with her playmates she's as loud as a hog in a gate but there is a meek modesty about her that charms me high a cover never so little she kicks up you're flung in a dick well you must allow her a little beauty yes he must allow her some beauty Fanbox she's all a made-up thing man if you could see Bette bounce through these parts you might then talk a booty he could she has two eyes as black ass loads and cheeks as broad and red as a pulpit cushion she'd make tuition well what say you to a friend that would take that bitter bargain off your hands Oh nan would you thank him that would take miss Neville and leave you to happiness and your dear Betsy hi but where is there such a friend for who would take her I am he if you're but assist me I'll engaged her whip her off to France and you shall never hear more of her assist you he caught I will to the last drop of my blood I'll clap a pair of horses justshe social trend ly off in a twinkling and maybe get you a part of her fortune in jewels besides you little dream off my dear this looks a lot of spirit come along then you shall see more of my spirit before you're done with me we are the boys fear no noise as the thundering cannonball [Music] [Applause] [Music] could my friend Sir Charles mean by recommending his son has the modesty's young man in town to me he appears the most imminent 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 parlor and desired me to see them taken care of I'm desirous to know how his impedance affects my daughter she will certainly be shocked at it well my Kate I see you have changed your dress as I bid you yet I believe there was no great occasion I find such a pleasure sir and obeying your commands that I take care to observe them without ever debating their propriety and yet Kate I sometimes give you some cause particularly when I recommend my modest gentlemen to you as a lover today you taught me to expect something extraordinary I find the original exceeds the description I was never so surprised in all my life he is quite confounded all my faculties I never saw anything like it and a man of the world - are you learnt it all abroad what a fool was I to think that a young man could learn modesty by travelling you might as well learn wit at a masquerade seems all natural to him a good deal assisted by bad company and a French dancing master show you mistake but a French dancing master could never have taught in that timid look that awkward address that bashful manner whose look whose manner child mr. Marlowe's his more gaze art his timidity struck me at the first sight and your first sight deceived you but I think in one of the most brazen first sights that ever astonished my senses sure you rally sir I never saw anyone so modest can you be serious I never saw such a bouncing swaggering puppy since I was born bully dawson's but a fool to his surprising he met me with a respectful bow a stammering voice and a look fixed on the ground he met me with a loud voice of a lordly air and a familiarity that made my blood freeze again treating me with diffidence and respect censured the manners of the aged admired the prude some girls that never laughed tired me with apologies for being tiresome then left with a bow and Madame I would not for the world detain you he spoke to me as if he knew me all his life before asked 20 questions and ever waited for an answer interrupted my best remarks with some silly pun and when I was in my best story of the Duke of Marlborough and Prince Eugene he asked if I'd not a good hand at making punch yes Kate he asked your father if he was a maker of punch one of us must certainly be mistaken if he be what he had shown himself I'm determined he shall never have my consent if you'd be the solemn thing I take him he shall never have my in one thing then we are agreed to reject him but upon conditions for if you should find him less impudent and I more presuming if you find him more respectful and I'm more important it I don't know the fellow is well enough for a man certainly we don't meet many such add a horse race in the country if we should find him so but that's impossible no the first appearance has done my business I'm seldom deceived in that and yet there may be many good qualities under that first appearance I when a girl finds her fellows outside to her tissue then sets about getting the rest of his furniture with her a smooth face stands for good sense and a genteel figure for every virtue I hope sir a conversation began with a compliment to my good sense won't end with a sneer my understanding pardon me Kate but if young mr. brazen can find the art of reconciling contradictions he may please us both perhaps and as one of us must be mistaken what if we go to make further discoveries agreed the dependent I'm in the right and dependent I'm not much in the wrong [Music] he called I have got here they are my cousin Kahn's necklace is Bobson my mother shap shape the poor souls out of their fortune me hygienist chat you my dear friend how have you managed with your mother I hope you have amused her with pretending love for your cousin and that you are willing to be reconciled at last our horses will be refreshed in a short time and we shall soon be ready to set off and it's something to bear your charges by the way your sweethearts jewels keep them and hang those I say that would rob you're one of them but how have you procure them from your mother ask me no questions and I'll tell you no fibs I procured them by the rule of thumb if I had not a key to every drawer in mother's burrow how could I go to the Ale House so often as I do an honest man may rob himself of his own at any time thousands do it every day but to be playing with you miss Neville is endeavoring to procure them from her art this very instant if she succeeds it will be the most delicate way at least of obtaining them well keep them till you know how it will be but I know it will be well enough she'd assume part with the MU sound to thin her head but I dread the effects of her resentment when she finds she has lost them never you liner resentment leave me to manage that I don't value our resentment the bounce of a cracker soon's they are Morris that's indeed Constance you amaze me such a girl as you want yours may be time enough Jules my dear 20 years hands when your beauty begins to want repairs but what will repair beauty at 40 will certainly improve it at 20 matter yours my dear can admit of MANET that natural blush is the under thousand animals besides child yours are quite out at present and don't you see half a ladies of our acquaintance my lady killed a lion and mrs. Crump and the rest of them carry their journals to town and bring nothing but paste and Marcus eats back but who knows madam but somebody that shall be nameless would like me best with all my little finery about me consult your glass my dear and then see F with those eyes you want any better sparklers what do you think Tony my dear does does your cousin Khan want jewels in your eyes to set off her beauty that's as there after maybe my dear aunt if you knew how it would oblige a parcel of all fashion roles and table cafes they would make you look like the cart of King Solomon a puppet show sir I believe I can't readily come on they may be missing for all I know to the contrary oh then why don't you tell us so at once a she so longing for them tell her they're lost it's the only way to quite a say they're lost call me to bear witness you know my dear i'm oniy Chipman and for you sir so if I say they're gone you'll bear me wet-nurse well yes never fear me he caught I'll say I saw them taken out with my own eyes I desire them but for a day madam just to be permitted to show them as relics and then they may be locked up again to be playing with you my dear Constance if I could find them you should have them they missin I assure you loss for I know but we must have patience wherever they are I'll not believe it this is but a shallow pretends to deny me I know that you valuable to be so slightly kept and as you are to answer for the love don't be alarmed Constance if they be lost I must restore an equivalent but my son knows they're missing and not be found I can bear witness to they are missing and not to be found I'll take my oath on you must learn resignation my dear for though we lose our far tune yet we should not lose our patience see ma'am how come hi hi people are generally calm the misfortunes of others no hey a girl of your good sense should waste a thought upon such trouble ready we shall soon find him and in the meantime you shall make use of my garnet still you Joss we found I detest garnets most becoming things in the world set off a clear complexion you've often seen how well they look upon me you shall album I just like them of all things you shan't stir was ever anything so provoking handsome is late my own jewels and force me to hurt robbery don't be a fool if she gives you the garnets take what you can get the jewel see her own already I've stole them from a burrow and she does not know it flood your spark he'll tell you more of a matter leave me to manage her vanish she's there and is missed them already how she figures and spits about like a Catherine Wheel [Music] oh what's the matter where's the madam of our hope nothing's happened to any of the good family well we're hot mago roles being broke all the jewels take now and I and I'm undone oh is that all sorry Lord I never saw it better acted in all my life he caught I thought he was ruining our history I am ruined and Ernest I've opened I'll take my stick the back stick to that I'll bear witness you know call me to bear witness he tell you told me by all this precious the jewels are gone and I shall be rowing forever sure I know they're gone I'm to say so dearest old you but here maybe they're gone I say the laws from are you make me fall in love I know who took them well enough was there ever such a blockhead I can't tell the difference between jest and earnest I tell you I am NOT in jest Bobe that's right that's right you must be in a bit of passion and then nobody will suspecting the robbers I'll bear witness to their go was there ever such a cross grain group that won't hear me can you bare witness that you're no better than a fool I'm so beset with holes on one end and sees another I can bear witness to that you bear witness again you blockhead you and I'll turn your other house directly my poor niece supposed to become a man do laugh you one feeling brute as if you enjoy my distress I bear witness to that you insult me monster treat your nap fetch your mother I will odin bear witness to that [Music] you [Music] what an unaccountable creature is that brother of mine descend into the houses in I don't wonder it is impedance but what's more madam the young gentleman as you pass by in your peasant dress asked me if you were the barmaid it was de you for a barmaid Madame duty then as I live I'm resolved to keep up the delusion tell me people how do you like my present dress do you think I look something like cherry in the bow stretch it's all the dress Madame that every lady wears in the country but when she visits or receives company and you're sure he does not remember my face or person certain of it I how I thought though for there we talked for some time together yet his fears were such she never once looked up during the interview indeed if he had my bonnet would have kept him from seeing me but what do you hope from keeping him in his mistake in the first place I shall be seen and that's no small advantage to a girl who brings her face to market there nice will perhaps make an acquaintance and that's no small victory gained over one who never dresses any but the wildest of her sex but my chief aim is to take my gentleman off his guard and like an invisible champion of romance examine the Giants force before I offer to combat and you're sure you can act your part and disguise your voice so that you make a steak bat as you've already mistaken your person never fear me I think I've got the true back home did you run a car attendant I in there pipes in the back of an angel now Miss B no way just pasting what a bawling in every part of the house I have scare some moments repose if I go to the best room there I find my host and his story if I fly to the gallery there we have my hostess with her curtsey down to the ground Kevin last got a moment to myself and now for recollection Carl sir did you wanna call as for miss Hardcastle she's too grave and sentimental for me did you run a car no child besides from the gimps I had of her I think she squints I'm sure sir ahead bell ring no no I have pleased my father however by coming down and I'll tomorrow please myself by returning perhaps here the gentleman called sir I tell you no I should be glad to know so we have such a pass on the servants no no I tell you yes child I I think I did call I wanted I wanted I've our child you are vastly handsome Lassa you make one ashamed I never saw a more sprightly malicious eye yes yes my dear I did call have you got any of your what do you call it in the house oh no sir even out that in these 10 days one may call in this house I find to very little purpose suppose I should call for a taste just by way of a trial of the nectar of your lips perhaps I might be disappointed in that too nectar nectar Lassa liquor there's no call for in these parts French I suppose we keep no French wine dear sir of true English growth I assure you but then it's hard I should not know her we brew all sorts of wines in this house and I have lived to these 18 years 18 years why one would think child who kept the bar before you were born how old are you sir I must not tell my age they say women and music should never be dated to guess at this distance you can't be much above 40 yet nearer I don't think so much by coming close to some women they look younger still but when we come very close indeed please sir keep your distance woman thing you wanted to know when's ages they do horses by Mercker mouth I protest child you use me extremely ill if you keep me at this distance how is it possible you and I can never be acquainted and who wants to be acquainted with you I want no such quaint ins no I I'm sure you did not treat miss Hardcastle that was here a while ago in this obstruct our at me before oh you look dashed and kept phone at the ground and tart for our worlds if he was before in justice of the peace good she's hit it sure enough in all of her child a mere awkward squinting thing no no I find you don't know me I laughed and rallied her a little but I was unwilling to be too severe no I could not be too severe curse me Oh then so you are a favorite I find among the ladies yes my dear a great favorite and yet hang me I can't see what they find in me to follow the ladies club in town I'm called their agreeable rattle-rattle child is not my real name but when I'm known by my name is Solomon's mr. Solomon's my dear justice Oates are you were introduced to meet you club not yourself and you're so great a favorite there you say yes my dear there's mrs. mantrap lady Betty black leg the Countess of Sligo mrs. Longhorns old biddy buckskin and your humble servant keep up the spirit of the place it's a very merry place I suppose yes as merry as cards suppers wine and old women can make us and their agreeable rattle God I don't quite like this chit she looks knowing think you love child I can't believe to think what time they all have reminded their work or the family as well she don't laugh at me do you ever work child are you sure there's not a quill or a screen in the whole house but what can bear witness to that Lord so then you must show me your embroidery I embroider and draw patterns myself a little if you want a judge of your work you must apply to me i but the colors don't look well by candlelight you shall see all in maan and why not now my angel such beauty fires beyond the power of resistance sure the father here my old luck I never need seven that I did not throw Emmys age three times following so madam so I find this is your modest lover miss your humble admirer that kept his eyes fixed on the ground and only adored at humble distance Kate Kate art thou not ashamed to deceive your father too dear Papa but he's still the modest man I first took people you only convinced today as well as my body I believe his impotence is infectious didn't I see him seize your hand did I see him hold you about like a milkmaid and you talk of his respect and His Majesty wishes but shortly convince you of his modesty that he has only faults that will pass off with time and the virtues that will improve with age I hope you'll forgive him the girl would actually make one run mad I tell you I'll not be convinced I am convinced he has scarcely been three hours in the house is already included on all my prerogative you may like his impudence and call it modesty but my son-in-law madam must have very different qualifications I ask but this night to convince you you shall not have half the time for I had thoughts of turning him out this very hour give me that hour then and I hope to satisfy you well an hour let it be then but I'll have no trifling with your father all fair and open do you mind me I hope sir that you have ever found that I considered your commands as my pride for your kindness is such that my duty as yet had been inclination [Music] you surprised me sir Charles Marlow expected here this night where have you had your information you may depend upon it I just thought his letter to mr. Hardcastle in which he tells him he intends setting out a few hours after his son then why constants all must be completed before he arrives he knows me and should he find me here would discover my name and perhaps my designs to the rest of the family the jewels I hope a safe yes yes I've sent them tomorrow who keeps the keys of our baggage in the meantime I'll go to prepare matters for our elopement I've had the Squires promise of a fresh pair of horses and if I should not see him again we'll write in further directions well success attending in the meantime I'll go muse my aunt for the old pretense of a violent passion for my cousin I wonder what Hastings could mean by sending me so valuable a thing as a casket to keep for him when he knows the only place I have is the seat of a post coach at an inn door have you deposited the casket with the landlady as I ordered you have you put it into her own hands yes your honor she said she'd keep it safe did she yes she said she keep it safe enough she asked me how I came by it and she said she had a great mind to make me give an account of myself there safe however what an unaccountable set of beings we have got amongst this little barmaid though runs in my head most strangely [Music] - father he is cocky - sister he is shy the man's a laughingstock he will find out my hand by my cars and corn his trinkets are safely with her spark I've let my mother think it's a damned amusing law she thought he was pathetic but not work HR learned that Marlo's point athletic wear barmaid Zarkon son wants an unaccountable set of beings we have got amongst this little barmaid though runs in my head most strangely and drives out the absurdities of all the rest of the family she's mine she must be mine or I'm greatly mistaken bless me I quite forgot to tell her that I intended to prepare at the bottom of the garden Marlo here and his spirits to give me joy George crown me shadow me with laurels well George after all we modest fellows don't want for success among the women song women you mean but what success is your honors modesty been crowned with now that it grows so insolent upon us didn't you see the tempting brisk lovely little thing that runs about the house with a bunch of keys to its girdle well and what then she's mine you rogue you such a fire such emotion such eyes lips but egad she would not let me kiss them though but are you sure so very sure of her why man she talked of showing me her work above stairs that I am to improve the pattern but how can you Charles go about to rob a woman of her honor a Sherpa sure we all know the honour of the bar made of an inn I don't intend to rob her take my word for it there's nothing in this house I shot honestly paid for I believe the girl has virtue and if she has I should be the last man in the world that would attempt to corrupt it you have taken care I hope of the casket I sent you to lockup it's in safety yes yes it's safe enough I have taken care of it but how could you think the seat of a post coach at an indoor a place of safety ah numbskull I have taken better precautions for you than you did for yourself I have what I have sent it to the landlady to keep for you to the landlady in the landlady you did I did she's to be answerable for its forthcoming you know yes she'll bring it forth with a witness wasn't i right I believe you'll allow that I acted prudently upon this occasion he must not see my uneasiness you seem a little disconcerted though methinks sure nothing has happened nothing never was I in better spirits in all my life so then you left it with the landlady who no doubt very readily undertook the chart rather too readily for she not only kept the casket but through her great precaution was going to keep the messenger to their safe however as a guinea in a Mises purse so now all hopes of fortune or at an end I'm gonna set off without it well Charles I'll leave you to your meditations on the pretty barmaid and may you be a successful for yourself as you have been for me thank you George I ask [Music] I no longer know my own house it's turned all topsy-turvy his servants have got drunk already I'll bear it no longer and yet for my respect for his father I'll become mr. Marlowe your servant you're very humble servant sir your humble servant wants to be the wonder now I believe sir you must be sensible sir that no man alive ought to be more welcome than your father's son sir I hope you think so I do from my soul sir I don't want much entreaty I generally make my father's son welcome wherever he goes I believe you do from myself but though I say nothing to your conduct that of your servants is insufferable their manner of drinking is setting a very bad example in this house I assure you I protest my very good sir that's no fault of mine if they don't drink as they ought they are to blame I ordered them not to spare the cellar I did I assure you yeah my selves ha my positive directions were that as I did not drink much myself they should make up for my deficiencies below then they had your orders for what they do I'm satisfied they had I assure you you shall hear from one of themselves you Jeremy come forward sir what were my orders were you not told to drink freely and call for what you thought fit for the good of the house into Luke's night patience please your honor Liberty in Fleet Street forever oh I'm but servant I was good as another man I'll drink for no man before supper sir then for good liquor will sit upon a good supper there's a good supper will not sit upon my conscience sir you see my old friend the fellow is as drunk as he could possibly be I don't know where you'd have more unless you'd have the poor devil south in a bear Merrill zooms he'll drive me distracted if I contain myself any longer mr. Marlowe sir I have submitted it to your insolence for more than four hours and I see no likelihood of it coming to an end I'm resolved to be master here sir and I desire that you and your drunken pack may leave my house directly leave your house sure you jest my good friend what what I'm doing all I can to please you I tell you sir you don't please me so I desire you to leave my house sure you cannot be serious at this time of night and such a night you only mean to banter media you sir I am serious and now that my passions are aroused I say this house is mine sir this house is mine and I command you to leave it directly a puddle in a storm I shan't stir a step I assure you this your house fellow it's my house this is my house mine while I choose to stay what right have you to bid me leave this house sir I never met with such impudence curse me never in my whole life before nor I confound me if ever I did to come to my house to call for what he likes to turn me out of my own chair to insult my family to order his servants to get drunk and then tell me this Hubbs is mine sir but all that's impudent it makes me laugh ha ha ha pray sir as you take the house what think you are taking the rest of the furniture there's a pair of silver candlesticks and there's a fire screen and here's a pair of brace on those bellows perhaps you take a fancy to them bring me your bill sir bring me your bill and let's make no more words about it oh there's a set of prints too what think you have rates for your own apartment bring me your bill I say and I'll leave you and your infernal house directly then days I'm a hobby table that you may see your own face my bill I say oh I had forgot the great chair for your own particular slumbers after a hearty meal zooms bring me my bill I say and let's hear no more odds young man young man from your father's letter to me I was taught to expect a well-bred modest man as a visitor here but now I find him no better than a coxcomb and a bully but he will be here presently and shall hear more of it [Music] how's this sure I've not mistaken the house everything looks like an inn the servants cry coming the attendance is awkward the barmaid too to attend us but she's here more further inform me whether so fast huh I'll work with you let me short then ham in a hurry I believe he begins to find out his mistake but it's too soon quite to undeceive him Rachael answer me one question what are you and what may your business in this house be a relation of the family sir what a poor relation yes sir a poor relation appointed to keep the keys and see the gas want nothing in my power to give them that is you act as the barmaid of this Inn in hola what brought that ahead one of the best families in the county keeping in Oh mr. Hardcastle's house any mr. Hardcastle's house is this house mr. Hardcastle's house child died so it was how should it bake so then all's out and I have been damnably imposed on Oh confound my stupid head I should be laughed at over the whole town I shall be stuck up in caricature in all the print shops but done this emo macaroni to mistake this house of all others friend in my father's old friend for an innkeeper what a swaggering puppy must he take me for what a silly puppy do I find myself there again may I be hanged My dear but I mistook you for the barmaid give me give me I'm sure there's nothing in my behavior put me on a level with one of us done nothing my dear nothing but I was in for a list of blunders and could not help making you a subscriber my stupidity saw everything the wrong way I mistook your assiduity for assurance your simplicity for Underland but it's over this house I no more show my facing I hope sir I've done nothing dis oblige you I'm sure I should be sorry to affront any gentleman who's been so polite and said so many several things to me I'm sure I should be sorry if he left the family of whom I came I'm sure I should be sorry people said anything amiss since I have no fortune but my character by heavens she weeps this is the first mark of tenderness I ever had from a modest woman and it touches excuse me my lovely girl you are the only part of the family I leave with reluctance but to be plain with you the difference of our birth or tune and education makes an honourable connection impossible and I can never harbour a thought of seducing simplicity that trusted in my honor or bringing ruin upon one whose only fault was being too lovely generous man I now begin to admire him but I'm sure my family is as good as miss Hardcastle's and though I'm poor that's no great misfortune to a contented mine and until this moment I never thought it was bad to want 14 why now my pretty simplicity because it puts me a distance from one if I had a thousand pound I would give it all to the simplicity bewitches me so that if I stay I'm undone I must make one bold effort and leave her your partiality in my favor my dear touches me most sensibly were I to live for myself alone I could easily fix my choice but I owe too much to the opinion of the world too much to the authority of a father so that I can scarcely speak it it affects me farewell I never knew half is married till now he shall not go if I have power or art to detain him I'll still preserve the character in which I stooped to conquer but will undeceive my papa who perhaps maybe laugh him out of his resolution right you may steal to yourself the next time I've done my duty who's got the jewels again that's a short thing that she believes it was all a mistake in the service public I'm sure you won't forsake us in this distress if she in the least suspects that I'm going off I shall certainly be locked up or sent to my own pit agrees which is ten times worse should I to be sure hands of all kinds are damn bad things for what can I do oh you've got you a pair of horses that will fly light whistle jacket and I'm sure you can't say but I have caught you nicely before her face she knows miss caught a bit of tuna for fear she should suspect us I was greatly flattered to be sure but my son tells me it was all a mistake of the servants I shall be easy however until they are fairly married then let my keep our own fall tune but what do I say you fondling again as I'm involved they never saw Tommy so sprightly before [Music] [Applause] I've caught you my pretty doves what billon exchanging stolen glances and broken murmurs there as for murmurs mother we made grumble a little now and then to be sure but there's no love lost between us there sprinkling Tony upon the flame need to make it burn brighter cousin Tony promises to give us more of his company at home indeed he shan't leave us anymore it won't leave us cousin Tony will it hmm oh it's a pretty creature now I'd sooner leave my horse and a pound and leave you and you smile upon one slow your laugh makes you so becoming agreeable cousin who can help admiring that natural humour that Pleasant broad red thoughtless uh it's a full pretty in the sauce oh I'm sure I've always loved cousin Khan's hazel eyes and those long pretty fingers which she twists this worthy and that way is she plays the hospital's like a parcel a bobbin he would charm the bird from the tree I was never so happy before my boy takes after his father poor mr. Lumpkin exactly the jewels my dear Khan is she happy Yas incontinently you shall have him isn't he a sweet boy indeed you shall be married tomorrow and we'll put off the rest of his education like doctored roses sermons to a fitter opportunity where's the squire I've got a letter for your worship give it a my mama she reads all my letters first I had orders to deliver it into your own hands who does it come from well you to wish him and ask that of the matter itself I wish to know though one and done a letter to him from Hastings I know the hand if my aunt sees it we are ruined forever I'll keep her employed a little if I can I have not told you Madeline love my cousin smart answered your dad mr. Marlowe only so locked this way little for you have a damn cramp piece of penmanship as ever I saw in my life I can read your print and very well but here there are such handles and shanks and dashes walking scarce tell the head from the tail to Antony Lumpkin Esquire very hot I can read the outside of my letters when my own name is well enough but when I come to open it so oh that's hard very hard for the inside of the letters often the cream of the correspondence well very work my boy was too hard for the philosopher yes madam you must hear the rest madam a little bit he may hear us no hear how he puzzled him again he looks strangely puzzled himself methinks a damned up-and-down hand as if it was disguised in liquor dear Squire I that's the nap but there's an eminent tea and an S weather the next being is our during our confound me I cannot tell what's that lady could I give you any assistance Brown let me read it mmm nobody reads a cramped hand better than I do you know who it is from can't tell set from dick ginger the feeder so it is mm-hmm dear Squire hoping that you're in health as I am at this present a gentleman of the shake bag club has got the gentlemen of goose green quite out of feather the odds and odd battle long fighting oh yeah it's all about and fighting it's of no consequence yeah put-put I tell you miss its of all the consequence in the world I'd not lose the rest of it for a Guinea your mother can you make this out of no consequence how's this yes quiet I am now waiting for Miss novel with a post-chaise and pear at the bottom of the garden but I find my horse is yet unable to perform the journey I expect you'll assist us with a pair of fresh horses as you promised dispatch is necessary as the hag now the hag your mother will otherwise suspect us yours Hastings pictures I shall run this he shocks me I hope madam will suspend your resentment for a few moments and not impute to me any impertinence or sinister design that may belong to another Fame spookin madam you are most miraculously polite and engaging and quoits the very pink of courtesy and circumspection madam and you your great ill fashion off we scarce sense enough to keep your mouth shut were you to join against me but I'll defeat all your plots in a moment that's for you madam since you've got a pair of fresh horses ready it will be cruel disappointment so if you please instead of running away with your SPAC prepare this very moment to run off with me your old aunt pedigree will keep you secure wanted me and you to Sam a mug your horse and God has upon the way here Thomas Reiter they are a how so you I wish you better than you do yourselves so now I'm completely ruined right that's a sure thing what better could be expected from being connected with such a stupid for and not signs I made him by the laws missus your own cleverness not my stupidity that did your business you were so nice and busy with your shape bags and goo screens that I thought you could never be making belief so sir I find by a survey that you have shown my letter and betrayed us was this well done young gentleman here's another ask miss there who betrayed you we caught it was her doing not mine sir I have been finally used here among you rendered contemptible driven into ill manners despised insulted laughed at here's another we shall have old bed and broke loose presently and there sir it's the gentleman to whom we all owe every obligation what can I say to him Amy a boy an idiot those earrings and age are a protection a poor contemptible booby that would but this greatest correction yet with cunning and malice enough to make himself merry with all our embarrassment an insensible cub replete with tricks and mischief Oh Danny I'll fight you both one after the other we're baskets as for him he's below resentment but your conduct mr. Hastings requires an explanation you knew of my mistakes yet would not undeceive me tortured as I am with my own disappointments is this a time for explanations it is not friend mr. Marlowe sir mr. Marlowe we never kept on your mistake till it was too late to undeceive you be pacified my mistress desires you get ready immediately madam the horses have put tow you had things as in the next room we are go sending miles before morning well I'll come presently was it well done sir to assist in rendering me ridiculous to hang me out for the scorn of all my acquaintances depend upon it sir I shall expect an explanation was it well done sir if you're upon that subject to deliver what I entrusted to yourself to the care of another sir mr. Hastings mr. Marlowe why will you increase my distress by this groundless dispute I implore I entreat your cloak madam my mistress is impatient I come pray be pacified if I leave you the special dolly with apprehension your fan knot and gloves madam the horses are waiting Oh mr. Marlowe if you knew what a seam of constraint and ill-nature lies before me I'm sure it would convert your resentment into pity I am so distracted with a variety of passions that I don't know what I do forgive me madam George forgive me you know my hasty temper and should not exasperate it the torture of my situation is my only excuse my dear Hastings if you have that esteemed me that I think that I'm sure you have your constancy for three years will but increase the happiness of our future connection if never process why Carson I'm coming Constance remember constancy my heart how can I support this to be so near happiness such happiness you see now young gentlemen the effects of your folly what might be amusement to you is here disappointment and even distress econ I have hit it it's here give me your hands yours and yours my poor sake my Birds ha meet me to our tents at the bottom of the garden and if you don't find Tony Lumpkin a more good-natured better than you thoughtful I'll give you leave to take my best horse and bet bouncer into the bargain my boats [Music] you saw the old lady drivers yes your honor they went off in a pulse coach young squire went on ass back there's 30 miles off by this time my hopes are over yes sir old Sir Charles is arrived you're the old gentlemen of the house have been laughing at mr. Marlowe's mistake this half-hour they're coming this way and I must not be seen so now it's my fruitless appointment at the bottom of the garden this is about the time [Music] you you the peremptory tone in which he sent forth his sublime commands and the reserve with which I suppose he treated all your advances and yet he might have seen something in me above a common innkeeper - yeah stick that he'd mistook you for uncommon innkeeper well I mean - good spirits to think of anything but joy yes my dear friend this union of our family and we'll make our personal friendships hereditary [Music] haha [Music] the jewels that lately vanish my mother has read read cars and karna Spanish and Marlowe much to see the in-laws and illusion he found out for too late to add to his confusion his sweet home sister came to tasting sees dejected and morose father hair not quite what was expected but resolutions made this union of our family will make our personal friendships hereditary and though my daughter's fortune is but small why did Willie talk of fortune to me my son is possessed a more than a competence already and come on nothing but a good and virtuous girl to share this happiness increasing if they like each other as you say they do if man won't I tell you they do like each other my daughter as good as told me so yes but girls are apt to flatter those earlier I saw him grasp her hand at the warmest manner myself and here he comes to put you out of your f sorority I come sir once more to ask pardon for my strange conduct I can scarce reflect on my incidents without confusion top boy a trifle you'll take it too gravely an hour or two laughing with my daughter will set all to rights again she'll never like you the worse for it sir I shall always be proud of her approbation approbation is but a cold word mr. Marlowe if I'm not deceived you am something more than approbation there abouts you take me really sir I have not that happiness come come I'm an old fellow and knows what's what as well as you that are younger I know what has passed between you but mum was er nothing has passed between us but the most profound respect on my side and the most distant reserve on hers you don't think so that my impudence has been passed upon all the rest of the family impedance no I don't say that not quite impedance though girls like to be played with then run put a little to sometimes but she's told no tales I assure you I never gave her the slightest cause well well I like modesty in its place well enough but this is overacting young gentlemen you may be open your father and I were like you the better for it may I die sir if I ever I tell you she don't dislike you and as I'm sure you like her yes sir I see no reason why you can't be joined as fast as the parson can tie you but hear me your father approves the match I admire it every moment's delay we'll be doing a mischief so why won't you hear me by all that's just and true I never gave miss Hardcastle the slightest mark of my attachment for even the most distant hint to suspect me of affection we had but one interview and that was formal modest and uninteresting this fellow's formal modest impedance is beyond bearing and you never grasped a hand or made any prata state as heaven is my witness I came down in obedience to your commands I saw the lady without emotion and parted without reluctance I hope you'll exact no further proofs of my duty nor prevent me from leaving a house in which I suffer so many mortifications but I'm astonished of the air of sincerity with which apartment I'm astonished at the deliberate intrepidity of his assurance the idea pledge my life and all her upon his truth here comes my daughter I'll stake my happiness upon her veracity gate come here the child answer us sincerely and without reserve has mr. Marlowe made any professions of love and affection so the question is very abrupt sir but since you require unreserved sincerity I think he has you same and pray Madame have you and my son had more than one interview uh yes sir several you say but did he profess any attachment a lasting one did he talk of love much sir amazing and all this formerly formally now my friend I hope you are satisfied yeah but how did he behave as most professed admirers do said some civil things of my face talk much of his want of merit and the greatness of mine mentioned his heart gave a short tragedy speech and ended with pretended rapture now I'm perfectly convinced indeed I know his conversation among women to be modest and submissive and this forward kenting ranting manner by no means describes him an incumbent he never sat for the picture what's that if I should convince you to your face of my sincerity if you and my papa in about half an hour well place yourselves behind that door you shall hear him declare his passion to me in person agreed and if I find him what you describe what my happiness in him must have an end and if you don't find him what I described fear my happiness must never have a beginning [Music] what an idiot am I to wait here for a fellow who probably takes a delight in mortifying he never intended to be punctual and I'll wait no longer what do I see is he and perhaps the news of my constant eye on his squire I now find you a man of your word this looks like friendship hi I'm your friend and the best friend you have in the world of U numeral this riding by night by the boys curse that Lea Tyson shut me worse than the basket of a stagecoach but how where did you leave your fellow travelers are they in safety are they housed I even twenty miles in two hours and a half is no such bad driving the poor beasts have smoked for him rabbit me I'd rather ride 40 miles after a fox than ten with such vermin well but where have you left the ladies I die with impatience left them why where should I leave them that where I found them this is a riddle riddle me this then once that goes round the house and round the house I never touches the house I'm still a stray let's see a man I've led them astray by jingo there's not a pond or Slough within five miles of the place but they can tell the taste-off ha I understand you took them in a round while they suppose themselves going forward and so you have at last brought them home again you shall hear I first took them down featherbed Lane where we stuck fast in the mud I then wrapped them crack over the stones and up and down hill I then introduced them to the jib it on heavy tree Heath and from that with the circum been dippers i fairly lodged them in the horse pond at the bottom of the garden but no accident I heard no no only mother is confoundedly frightened she thinks herself 40 miles off she's sick of a journey in the cattle can scarce crawl so of your own horses be reading you may whip off with cousin and hardly bound no soul here can budget to follow you my dear friend how can I be grateful hi now it's dear friend noble Scott just now it was all idiot come and run me through the guts damn your way of fighting I see after we take a knock in this part of the country with Kissin be friends have you run me through the guts then I'd be dead you might go kiss the hangman the rebuke is just but I must hasten to relieve miss never if you keep the old lady employed I promise to take care of the young one never fear me here she comes vanish she's got from the pond and dragged up with the waist like a mermaid ha ha ok I'm killed shook but a death I shall never survive it is that last jolt that laters by the quick-set hedge is done my business Oh black mama is all your own fault oh you would be for running away by night without knowing one inch of the way I wish we were at home again I never met so many accidents and social journey drenched in the mud overturned in a ditch stuck fast and slow jolly to a jelly and at lasts to lose our way we're about shipping we are told me by my guess who should be upon cracks Kolkata note forty mile smoke Oh the most notorious Spartan all the country we only need a a robbery to make a complete night on don't be afraid mama don't be afraid two of the five that kept here hanged and the other three main often - don't be afraid that man that's galloping behind Sonia tree don't be afraid the tribal certainly kill mater you see anything like a black hat moving behind the photo - nope Sophia cow don't be afraid my MA who don't be afraid oh I'm alive told me I feel mom come Laurence's hey hey I'm sure hunt if he perceives as we're undone Oh father-in-law by all that's unlucky come to take one of his many walks it's a highwayman with pistols as long as my arms are down there looking don't hug her good having defenders he approaches who you are yourself to be the battleship would there be any danger oh come and cry when I cough be sure to keep close [Music] I'm mistaken I heard voices of people who wanted help Oh Tony is that you I did not expect you so soon back are your mother on a charge in safety very safe sir my that pedigree spare my fingers danger forty miles in three hours sure that's too much my youngster stare horses and willing minds make short journeys as they say sure he'll do the dear boy no harm but I heard a voice here I should be glad to know from whence it came it was i sir I was talking to myself so I was saying 40 miles in four hours was very good dealing hmm has to be sure it was I've got a sort of cold by being out in the air and we'll go in if you please but if you were talked to yourself you did not answer yourself I'm certain I heard two voices and unresolved to find the other out oh he's gonna find me Oh what need you go if I tell you sir I'll lay down my life for the truth we tell you or you will not be detained I insist on seeing it in vain to expect I believe you lord he'll murder my poor boy eat my god ah ah here good gentlemen what's your rage upon me take my money my life would spare that young gentleman spare my child if you have any mercy my wife is I'm a Christian but from whence does she come or what does she mean okay compassion on this good mister I went mad take our money our watches all we have and spare our lives we will never bring you to justice indeed we want good mr. highwayman I believe the woman's after the census what Dorothy don't you know me mr. Hardcastle others I'm alive but my fears blood it may it necklace but but but who My dear what of expect let's meet you here and and this frightful place so far from all what's brought you two polymers sure Dorothy have not lost your wits so far from home when you are within 40 yards of your own front door this is one of your old tricks you graceless rogue you don't you know the gate and the mulberry tree don't you remember the horse pond my dear hmm yes I shall remember the house pond as long as I live I've caught my death in it and it's to you you graceless eyelet that I owe all this I'll teach you to abuse your mother I will all the parish says you have spoilt me and so you may take the fruits on who else are you i well there's morality however in his reply my dear constance why would you deliberate thus if we delay a moment all is lost forever pluck up a little resolution and we shall soon be out of reach of her malignity i find it impossible my spirits are so sunk with the agitations I have suffered that I am unable to face any new danger two or three years patience will it glass kronas have happiness such a tedious delay is worse than inconstancy let us fly my charm let us date our happiness from this very moment perish fortune love and content will increase when we possess beyond demonics revving let me prevail no mr. Hastings no Prudence once more comes to my relief and I will obey its dictates in the moment of passion fortune may be despised but it ever produces a lasting repentance I'm resolved to apply to mr. Hardcastle's compassion and justice for a dress but though he had the will he has not the power to relieve you but he has influence and upon that I am resolved to rely I have no hopes but since you persist I must reductant leav au [Music] what a situation am I in if what you say appears I shall invite a guilty son in what he says be true I shall lose one that of all others I must wish for a daughter I'm proud of your approbation sir and to show I merit it if you place yourselves as I directed you shall hear his explicit declaration but he comes [Music] I'll to your father give to the appointment [Music] though prepared for setting out I come once more to take leave nor did i till this moment know the pain I feel in the separation I believe these sufferings cannot be very great sir which you can so easily remove a day or two longer perhaps might lessen your uneasiness by showing a little value of what you think proper to regret this girl every moment improves upon me it must not be madam I've already trifled too long with my heart my very pride begins to submit to my passion the disparity of education and fortune the anger of a parent and the contempt of my equals begin to lose their weight and nothing can restore me to myself but this painful effort of resolution then go sir I learned nothing more to detain you though my family be as good as Harwich came down to visit and my education I hope not inferior who are these advantages with our equal affluence I must remain contented with the slight approbation ad imputed merit I must however I will neither mockery your addresses I'll you're serious able to fix on forth you yeah but I missed all I made no noise I'll engage my gate covers him with confusion at last by heavens madam fortune was ever my smallest consideration your beauty at first caught my eye for who could see that without emotion but every moment I converse with you steals in some new grace heightens the picture and gives it stronger expression what at first seemed rustic plainness now appears refined simplicity what seemed forward assurance now strikes me as the result of courageous innocence and conscious virtue what could it be amazes me told you how it would be hush I'm now determined to stay madam and I have too good an opinion of my father's discerned when he sees you to doubt his approbation not mr. Marlowe I will not cannot detain you do you think I could ever suffer a connection in which there is the smallest room for repentance do you think I would take the mean advantage of a transient passion to load you with confusion do you think I could ever relish that happiness which was acquired by lessening yours by all that's good I can have no happiness but what's in your power to grant me nor shall I ever feel repentance but in not having seen your merits before I will stay even contrary to your wishes and though you should persist to shun me I will make my respectful assiduity tone for the levity of my past conduct sir I must entreat your desist as our acquaintance began so let it end in indifference I might have given an hour or two to levity but seriously mr. Marlowe do you think I could ever submit to a connection where I must appear mercenary and you imprudent do you think I could ever capture the confident addresses of a secured admirer does this look like security does this look like confidence no madam every moment that chosen your merit only serves to increase my dividends and confusion here let me continue I can only no longer Charles Charles why is how deceive me is this showing difference you're an interesting conversation your cold contempt your formal interview what have you to say now that I'm all amazement what can it mean it means you can say a nun say things a pleasure that you can address a lady in private and deny it in public that you have one story for us and another for my daughter daughter this lady your daughter yes sir my only daughter my Kate who's out should she be oh the devil's yes sir that very identical tall squinting lady you please to take me for she that you addressed as the mild modest sentimental man of gravity and the bold forward agreeable rattle of the ladies club Zulus there's no barring this it's worse than death in which of you characters sir will you give us leave to address you as the faltering gentleman with looks on the ground that speaks just to be heard and hates hypocrisy all the loud confident creature that keeps it up with mrs. mantrap and old miss Biddy buckskin till 3:00 in the morning Oh curse my noisy head I never attempted to be impudent yet I was not taken down I must be gone by the hand of my body and you shall not I see it was all a mistake and I'm rejoiced to find it so you shall not sir I tell you I know she'll forgive you won't you forgive him Kate we'll all forgive you take courage man [Music] [Applause] [Music] so they've gone off no I cannot who got my dutifulness and they're gentle understand he's dead either came down with our modest visitor here who my honest George Hastings as worthy of fellow's lives and the girl could not have made a more prudent choice then by the hand of my body I'm proud of the connection oh oh if he's taken away the lady he's not taken her fortune that remains in this family a consolers photo laughs sure Dorothy you would not be so Merson real huh that's my affair not yes but you know if your son when of age refuses to marry his cousin her whole fortune is then at her own disposal aye but he is not of age and she has not thought proper to refuse him [Music] haha return so soon I begin not unlike it for my late attempts to fly off with your niece let my present confusion be my punishment but we are now come back to appeal from your justice to your humanity by her father's consent I first paid her my addresses and our passions were first founded in duty since his death I have been obliged to stoop to dissimulation to avoid oppression in an hour of levity I was ready even to give up my fortune to secure my choice I'm now recovered from the delusion and hope from your tenderness what is denied me from a narrow connection this is but the waning end of modern novel be it what it will I'm glad there come back to reclaim their due come here that Tony boy do you refuse this lady's hand whom I now offer you what signifies my refusal you know I can't refuse her till I'm of age father whilst I thought conceiving your age boy it was likely to confuse to your improvement i concurred with your mother's desire to keep it secret but since I find she turns it to a wrong use I must now declare that you've been of age these three months of age am i of age father above three months and you'll see the first use I make of my liberties witness all men by these presents that I and Madeline can ask why a women in place refuse you Constantia never 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 own man again Oh brave Squire my my friend undutiful offspring joy my dear George I give you joy sincerely and could i prevail upon my little tyrant here to be less arbitrary I should be the happiest man alive if you would return me the favor come madam you are now driven to the last scene of all your contrivance ease I know you like him I'm sure he loves you and you must and shall have him and I say so too and mr. Marlowe if she makes you as good a wife she has a daughter I don't think you'll ever repent your bargain and so now to supper tomorrow we shall gather all the poor or the punished about us and the mistakes of the night shall be crowned with a merry morning so boy take her and as you have been mistaken in the mistress my wish is you may never be mistaken in the wife [Music] you [Music] [Applause] [Music] in grandfather's time in days gone boy they leave an old Fox who is calling and sly he robbed all the hen-roost he laughed and the he laughed at the beat of the cage and the dogs he laughed at the squad and he looked at the homes left every day to the Parsons groans such a carnie old robe was the sly old Fox so these two men are on their way to have dinner at the painter Sir Joshua Reynolds his London house sometime in the 1760s and they come across Oliver Goldsmith standing across the street from a crowd which has gathered to go at some girls who are displaying themselves in an upper window foreign girls were told because English 18th century girls would never be so immodest and Oliver Goldsmith is shouting at the crowd yes stupid beasts gaping at painted Jezebel's when a man of my talents passes by unnoticed when he turned up at dinner one of the two men who'd seen this repeated what Goldsmith had shouted and asked him why he'd been so rude but Goldsmith was absolutely adamant I may have thought it but I never uttered it this story tells us so much about Goldsmith he always had to be the center of attention however ridiculous it made him look you always said exactly what was in his head even though that got him into a lot of hot water but he also had a deadpan way of making a joke which was often misunderstood and taken at face value in that age of reason where the literal was King and the lateral was Irish James Boswell tells that story as though Goldsmith really didn't know he'd shouted at the crowd but even Goldsmith wouldn't actually have believed that his friend could read his mind verbatim it's all the wittiest plays in the English language were written by Irishmen Congreve Sheridan Wilde Shaw but another probably much bigger audience laughs at the quintessential Irish joke in which Irish logic is depicted in a shall we say eccentric light and in a sense Oliver Goldsmith was that Irish joke there's a story of him going with dr. Johnson to see some famously lifelike italian puppets and in the tavern afterwards Johnson is enthusing about how the little fellow brandished his spontoon ah there's not minute said Goldsmith give me a spawn tool and I can do it as well in itself well it seems so obvious that Goldsmith was making a joke of course he could do it as well as a puppet but so prevailing was the view that any anybody could do goldsmith felt he could do better sir Joshua Reynolds the great painter wrote it must be confessed that whoever excelled in any art or science however different from his own was sure to be considered by him as a rival the great actor manager David garrix view was that goldsmith would never allow a superior in any art from writing poetry down to dancing a hornpipe that this rivalry with puppets was reported po-faced by at least three contemporary sources as an example of Goldsmith's competitive nature misunderstood ridicule even by his friends goldsmith went with the flow set himself up as a buffoon if that was what it would take to be accepted allowed himself to be the whipping boy of the literary establishment the critics were frequently damning and she Stoops to conquer got its fair share of brickbats but if they're huffing and puffing about the plays in morality or its offenses against the rules laid down by the Greeks and Romans seemed irrelevant to us now they did also point out that it is clumsily constructed and contrived and inconsistent and to this day critics remind us that it's neither witty nor profound and that it shamelessly plagiarized plots and dramatic devices from numerous other plays it's interesting that it remains one of the most popular plays in the English language well Goldsmith had strong and surprisingly modern views on the theatre and acting he'd gloomily predicted that we will have no good plays now the taste of the audience has been spoiled by the Panther mime of Shakespeare named but you will allow that Shakespeare has great merit no I know Shakespeare very well so even if he was quite happy to plagiarize for more recent successes for she Stoops to conquer and his debt to Farkas the bow stratagem was so blatant even he felt the need to acknowledge it tangible how'd you like my present dress do you think I looked something like cherry in the bow strategy certainly wasn't going to let Shakespeare and the classics car him his debt to his friend Isaac Bickerstaff opera love in a village was even greater but since that intern had been lifted straight out of marry vow and which Chile perhaps Goldsmith didn't feel the need to acknowledge the dead besides Bickerstaff taste for Guardsman had meant he'd had to flee the country in a hurry and for good so he wasn't around to object Goldsmith's main aim with she Stoops to conquer apart from trying yet another medium in an attempt to make some money out of his writing was to explode current theatrical fashion Restoration comedy had glittered with wit and naughtiness after Cromwell's Protectorate had forbidden theater altogether but by the mid 18th century the tables had turned in favor of a much blonder type of sentimental comedy as it came to be known in which everyone was nice and as Sharon was to point out there is no possibility of being witty without a little ill nature these sentimental comedies grew out of a sort of dreary political correctness which no longer allowed the fabulous larger-than-life characters we find in Congreve and Van bura such characters no longer exist wrote one smug faced critic and some of our writers have very judiciously chosen what is called sentimental comedy as better suited to the principles and manners of our age well Goldsmith was having none of it they laughed at his broad accent and he'd survived now he'd make them laugh on the other side of their faces at his broad comedy market well we must not snap the poor boy now before I believe we shot having llama mamas anybody that looks in his face may see is consumptive I am going to fat me one of the symptoms he carves sometimes yes when his liquor goes the wrong way I'm actually afraid of his lung and truly so am i free sometimes whoops like a speaking triage oh here he comes a very consumptive figure - why are you going my charmer won't you get the part and I a little if you come near lovey I mean hey smother I cannot stay you son venture out this raw afternoon my dear you look most shockingly I can't stay I tell you it will be allowed Goldsmith had written that sentimental pieces do often amuses but the question is whether the true comedy would not amuse us more pray my dear disappoint them for one night at least as for disappointing them should not much mine but I can't abide to disappoint myself but you shan't go Oh will I tell you say you sharp will see which is the strongest you were high there goes a pair that only spoil each other and preparing an audience now used to a diet of sentimental comedy for the laughing comedy he's about to give them goldsmith warns humor at present seems to be departing from the stage and the audience it at the players gloomy as at the Tabernacle to most refinement will banish humour and character from ours as it has already done from the French theater it is not easy to recover an art when once lost and it would be just punishment that when by being too fastidious we have banished humour from the stage we should ourselves be deprived at the art of laughing [Music] she's tipster Conger is not witty in the restoration sense because it focuses on a more boisterous less artificial humor that invites real robustness in the playing long before he'd even written a play Goldsmith noticed that too often we see our fine gentlemen do nothing throughout a whole part but strut and open their snuff box he points out that though it would be inexcusable in a comedian to add anything of his own to the poet's dialogue yet as to action he is entirely at liberty by this he may show the fertility of his genius the poignancy of his humour and the exactness of his judgment we scarcely a fool or a coxcomb in common life who is not some peculiar oddity in his action these actions it is not in the power of words to represent and depend solely upon the actor he'd noticed on his travels that the inhabitants of the continent are less reserved than here the English used very little gesture in ordinary conversation he wrote and so there is something in the deportment of all our players infinitely more stiff and formal than among the actors of other nations Goldsmith is an actors writer in that he relies on inventive energetic playing to bring his characters to life he relished the detailed performance of Ned shooter who was later to create the role of mr. Hardcastle for him and also played the equivalent role in love in a village in Fielding's adaptation of Molly as the miser but gob garden in the midst of one of his most violent passions while he appears in a nun governor burrell rage fears the demon of avarice still upon him stops to pick up a pin which equates into the flap of his coat pocket with great assiduity two cameras are lighted off for his wedding he flies and turns one of them in the socket it is however lighted up again he then steals to it and privately crammed into his pocket but the evening posts review of the production complains that mr. shooter very frequently and indeed very needlessly takes to great freedom too much latitude in the representation especially if he finds any opportunity for descending into the veil of grimace or buffoonery so we see what goldsmith was up against in his crusade to broaden comedy and let actors take inventive liberties but he clearly liked downright slapstick too because he goes to another fielding Moliere adaptation at Drury Lane the mock doctor and is beside himself with glee when mr. Yates sits in a chair with an high back and then begins to show away by talking nonsense which he would have believed latin by those whom he knows do not understand a syllable of the matter at last he grows enthusiastic enjoys the admiration of the company tosses his legs and arms about I think a mist of his raptures and bus operations he and the chair fall back together well this appears Dolan often the recited but the gravity of Cato himself could not stand it in the representation if this was a sort of thing he had in mind the Tony Lumpkin he was clearly going to offend the critics but long ago he'd written to this happy few who have the leisure to polish what they write and the Liberty to choose their own subjects I would direct this advice which consists in a few words right what you'd think regardless of the critics goldsmith trained as a doctor called himself a poet but mostly he was a journalist so he was used to drawing on his own experiences and it's no surprise then that his fictional work is quite closely autobiographical she stoops opens in the well-worn territory of town versus country but what the play is actually about is our inability to see who people really are Tony Lumpkin drives the play and the plot depends on his seeming to be a country bumpkin and not recognizable as the school that he is goldsmith the Irish boy from the country who never had a penny to his name was painfully aware that the image he projected was inaccurate and not what he'd wish he never forgot the incident of a pupil at the school where he taught briefly as a young man saying to him but surely you don't consider yourself a gentleman when dr. Johnson was dressing to meet Goldsmith for the first time a friend came to collect him and commented on how well-dressed Johnson was why sir replied dr. Johnson I hear that Goldsmith who is a very great Slaven justifies his disregard of cleanliness and decency by quoting my practice and I am desirous this night to show him a better example but the roots of Tony Lumpkin go back further in Goldsmith's life he was brought up in a chaotic country rectory in deepest rural Ireland not unlike that in his novel The Vicar of Wakefield and his sister Catherine tells a story of the seven-year-old Oliver being asked to pass the kettle at a tea party the handle was hot so he lifted up his skirt to hold it with and the parish ladies present Catherine tells us perceived something which made them laugh immoderately whether from the awkwardness of the turn or anything that might be seen there I can't say but Oliver immediately perceived the cause of their laughter he told his father who gave him the valuable advice that art can triumph over embarrassment if not adversity and offered him the reward of a piece of gingerbread if he could write a poem about what had happened well this is what the seven-year-old Oliver Goldsmith came up with Theseus did see as poets a dark hell and its abyss ease but had not half so sharp and I as our young charming missus for they could through boys breeches peep and view what air he had there it seemed to blush and they all laughed because the face was all bare they laughed at that which sometimes else might give them greatest pleasure how quickly they could see the thing which was there darling treasure well I hope he got his piece of gingerbread Tony Lumpkin for all that he's an awkward booby also has a poetic bent the song that he writes in the play interestingly dismisses two of the professions which Oliver was encouraged to pursue and he concludes with Goldsmith that being merry and clever now the stuff of life then I'll sing you gentlemen a song I made upon this alehouse the three pigeon let's go masters puzzle their brain with Reverend knocks it's and learning gorilla can I stab we maintain give Janis a better discerning let them drive the heathenish God's their lethal mystics and estrogens their Queens and their quite and the quads the robot parcel of pigeons though like ultimate he may seem to be allowed he has a healthy repertoire of classical references Oh one Methodist breeches come down a preach in the drinking is sinful I'll wager the rascals are crown they'll always preach mess with a skinful but when you come down with your pence for us Lysa desk of irreligion I'll leave it to all men of sense but you my good friend are the pigeon to Ronald a rod of the rod he's shrewd enough to realize the hypocrisy of religion Goldsmith when asked which was the best biblical commentary replied common sense every species of flattery should be carefully avoided wrote the adult Goldsmith perhaps regretting the indulgence of his parents a boy who happens to say a sprightly thing is generally applauded so much that he continues a Cox from all his life after he is reputed a wit at 14 and becomes a blockhead at 20 the mother herself should stifle her pleasure or her vanity when little master happens to say a good or a smart thing well mrs. Hardcastle clearly hadn't read the article and Tony reared up and spoiled at his mother's apron string is allowed to become a blockhead [Music] bless your heart for a sweet Pleasant damn mischievous son of a ho but back in real life young Oliver caught smallpox which disfigured him quite severely and this knocked back his confidence he cut a really ugly figure his sister said and there's a painful scene in The Vicar of Wakefield when the biggest bright young son Moses a dinner tries to engage the squire in intelligent debate and the squire cruelly and unfairly humiliates him it's an odd little scene in which the reader feels genuinely letdown that the debate fizzles out Goldsmith was perhaps trying to emulate Stern's tristram shandy which was currently dazzling and confusing the literary world but the adults ganging up on a well-meaning child is written with real pain and compassion which suggests it was drawn from experience at school Oliver is described as being a short thick pale faced pockmarked boy who was awkward in manner backward and diffident but he learned to conceal his insecurities with bluster and when attacked as relative said to him why not you're become a fright when do you mean to get handsome again he replied tartly I mean to get better sir when you do he got into the habit of being defensive and couldn't shake it off even though he was well aware how unattractive it could be years later he wrote there is not perhaps a more whimsical a dismal figure in nature than a man of real modesty who assumes an air of impudence who all his heart beats with anxiety studies ease and effects good humour so though Goldsmith like Tony Lumpkin is the gentleman who looks like a bumpkin equally he is Marlow an impedance fellow may counterfeit modesty but I'll be hanged if a modest man can ever counterfeit impedance let's see your list of the larder then I ask it as a favour I always match my appetite to my bill affair so he's very right and it's my way to goldsmith was quite at home with those who might have been considered his inferiors but felt the need to be in the arrogant to those who he wanted to accept him as an equal Marlow is socially inept with his equals and insufferably arrogant to those whom he considers his inferiors his bashfulness with Kate renders him literally incapable of playing sentimental comedy miss Hardcastle mr. Malla I am proud of bringing two persons of such merit together that only want to know to esteem each other well his rudeness to Hardcastle wrongly believing him to be an over familiar landlord is sustained over a perilously long scene this your house fellow it's my house this is my house mine while I choose to stay what right have you to bid me leave this house sir I never met with such impudence curse me never in my whole life before nor I confound me if ever I did but Goldsmith had plenty of material to draw on his sister tells us that while still at school Goldsmith was given a guinea and characteristically wanted to spend it in style rather than save it so he rode into our da and asked a passerby to direct him to the best house in the place meaning the best in well the passerby whose name was Cornelius Kelley if you want corroborative detail either took him literally or add a sense of humor and directed him to the best house mr. Featherstone's not the inn well Oliver with all the confidence of a schoolboy with a guinea to spend grandly ordered dinner generously allowed what he took to be the landlord and his daughters to dine with him went up to bed ordering breakfast in bed in the morning it was only when he came to ask for the bill that he realised his mistake with the memory of that excruciating embarrassment and the knowledge that fact is at least as improbable as fiction girls with Riaan Vince himself as Marlowe and to punish himself makes the character deeply unattractive what is your philosophy got in the house for supper for supper sir was ever such a request made to a man in his own house yes sir supper sir I begin to feel an appetite I shall make devilish work tonight in the larder I promise you such a brazen dog Shawn ever my eyes beheld well really sir eyes for supper I can't well tell about my Dorothea and the cook made settled these things between them I leave these kind of things entirely to them you do do you entirely by the by I believe they are an actual consultation upon what's for supper this very moment in the kitchen then I beg they'll admit me as one of their Privy Council it's a way I have got when I travel I always choose to regulate my own supper let the cook be called no offense I hope sir oh no sir give none in the least however sexy the actor playing Marlowe is the character remains deeply if comically unattractive until to his confusion he realizes he is actually in love with what he thought was the barmaid he's been flirting with well almost raping actually by all that's good I can have no happiness but what's in your power to ground me nor shall I ever feel repentance but in not having seen your merits before I will stay even contrary to your wishes and though you should persist to show me I will need my respectful acitivities atone for the levity of my past conduct Goldsmith has been accused of reverting to sentimental comedy here but in the context of Marlowe's character and the robustness of the play this is a moment of absolute and disarming honesty does this look like security does this look like confidence no madam every moment that shows me your merit only serves to increase my diffidence and confusion this moment of vulnerability is Marlow saving grace and Goldsmiths to Goldsmith had a directness an honesty and integrity that make up for all his bluster and which counteract acres of dodgy dramaturgy we forgive Marlow everything since goldsmith seems to have been at his best when writing from his own experience his women are on the whole less well written than the men on paper Kate can seem rather unlike Abul and little more than a means of manipulating the plot and goldsmith relies on his actress to bring her to life perhaps determined not to be in a sentimental comedy kate is ultimately unmoved by Marlowe's capitulation which she has contrived and laughs at his vulnerability in which a few characters sir will you give us leave to address you as the faltering gentleman with looks on the ground that speaks just to be heard and hates hypocrisy all the loud confident creature that keeps it up with mrs. mantrap and old miss Biddy buckskin till 3:00 in the morning Oh curse my noisy head and Hastings significantly defines the difference in their feelings I know you like him I'm sure he loves you and you must and shall have him well this is a laughing comedy after all and mustn't have a sentimental ending though the rest of the Dyneema pretty much ensures that but it may also reflect Goldsmiths experience of women painfully aware that he was unattractive a mrs. Chumley once toasted dr. Goldsmith the ugliest man I know he never married there's no evidence of any romantic entanglements only a couple of vague rumours which may have left him feeling rejected he certainly preferred the mail company of dr. Johnson's literary club so that when he finally made enough money from his first attempt at Houston sentimental comedy the good-natured man to allow him realistically to afford to get married he decided instead to move up market from his lodgings years previously he borrowed some money to have a suit made for an interview for a job but it had to pawn that suit immediately to pay some debts on his way to his creditor he met a woman total stranger whose husband had just been arrested for debt were characteristically he gave her all the money he just raised from the pawnbroker then so that she could afford to pay the rent he went to launch with this mrs. Martin at the rather squalid green a quart little old Bailey and though he'd graduated to marginally better rums in wine off his court or Fleet Street he now moved to bachelor quarters at a much smarter address here at brick court temple it was a short walk from here to meetings at dr. Johnson's literary Club and he took a cottage in the country as well with his neighbor here it would bot the actual house where he lived number two brick court was destroyed in the war while he still had money he gave lots of parties here with all-embracing guest lists he particularly enjoyed entertaining children George Coleman's young son pointed out that Garrick played with children to amuse himself but Goldsmith played with children to amuse them and apparently he always made sure there was enough food to give to the needy women of the neighborhood and regularly sent food parcels back to his old landlady at Green Arbor Court [Music] understandably nervous of young marriage' bulimic Kate he had great compassion for older and Nydia women he paints a ludicrous woman in mrs. Hardcastle pursuing humour well sometimes lead us into the recesses of the meme hear me can you bare witness that you're no better than a fool must never poor woman so be sad with falls on one hand and sees another you laugh you unfeeling brute and though it's not a great role in the lady wish furred mould he momentarily has her reveal real love and vulnerability as he does with Marlo and goldsmith dares to do this at the comic climax of the play actual set upon she thinks by high women mrs. Hardcastle's first instinct is to save her appalling son not am a poor boy eat my dad hey ha ha here good gentlemen what's your rage upon me take my money my life would spare that young gentleman spare my child if you have any mercy my wife as I'm a Christian blind to her appalling son's faults as mothers tend to be blind to their sons false we know that supposed high women is her husband and that she's not 40 miles away from home but in her own back garden and with any luck we're laughing but we also can't fail to be moved by this brave selfless declaration of love born this time possibly out of Goldsmith's own acknowledgement of his mother's sacrifices for his education which like Tony he continually put off but once installed in brick court he decided to go back to practicing the medicine he'd so imperfectly studied but but prescribed poison by mistake to his to patient and thought better on it whenever you undertake to kill let it be only your enemies critics have dismissed she Stoops to conquer as a farce as though that pinnacle of technical achievement was something to be dismissed but then comedy of every kind has always been seen as the easy option once reminded of the English Hollywood actor Edmund Gwenn apparently saying on his deathbed Oh dying is easy now comedy that's difficult but actually she Stoops to conquer isn't a farce it's a comedy of errors and the only sustained farcical sequence the subplot about Constance is Jules which is tied into the main plot in that it relies on Marlow still believing that mrs. Hardcastle is the landlady is brilliantly handled would you thank him that would take miss Neville and leave you to happiness and your dear Betsy high but where is your such a friend for who would take her I am he I have often told you that though ready to a baby I yet should leave my little fortune behind with reluctance if your but assists me I'm engaged to whip her after France and you shall never hear more assist you ECAR I will to the last drop of my bill be called on who they are my cousin Kahn's necklace is Bobtown my mother shout cheat the poor souls out of their for tipping the instant they're put into my possession you shall find me ready to make them and myself fuels new sweethearts Jules keep them and hang those I say they look Rob you're one of the prepared you procure them from your mother ask me no questions and I'll tell you no fuse and a card stud Sue amaze me such a girl as you won yours there'll be time enough Jules my dear 20 years hands when your beauty begins to aren't prepares tell her they're lost it's the only way to quite a say they're lost call me to bear witness you know my dear I'm only keeping it for you so if we say they're gonna do barely wetness we'll never fear me whoever robbed my Burroughs beat broke over the jewels take now and I and I'm undone oh is that all by the laws I never saw it better acted in all my life because I thought you was ruined in earnest I am ruined in earnest I've always been broke open it all taken away stick to that stick to that I'll bear witness you know called me to bear witness I tell you told me by others precious the jewels are gone and I shall be ruined forever the jewels I hope a thief yes yes I've sent them tomorrow keeps the keys of our baggage you have taken care I hope with the casket I sent in to lock up its and safely yes yes it's safe enough I have taken care of it but how could you think the seat of a post coach at an indoor a place of safety ah numbskull I have taken better precautions for you than you did for yourself I have what I have sent it to the landlady to keep fool to the landlady and the landlady you did I did fast needs to be played with relentlessly high stakes and in absolute earnest and on this Goldsmith in an age when actors played on the four stage and winked at the audience gives very modern advice I would particularly recommend never to take notice of the audience upon any occasion whatsoever let the spectators applaud never so much their praises should pass except at the end of the epilogue with seeming inattention in the same essay a study of the French actress Claire home Valdez muse he also gives the still very pertinent technical advice that practicing in front of a mirror will make an actor stiff and affected people will seldom improve he pointed out when they have no model but themselves to copy after it was a huge effort for goldsmith to get she Stoops to conquer produced Coleman at Covent Garden was sitting on it he'd produced Goldsmith's only previous play the good-natured man which after being withdrawn and revised had managed a respectable ten performances but in spite of dr. Johnson loyally saying it was the best piece since van bura it wasn't a very satisfactory play none other characters really lived and in its contrived ending and heavy-handed moralizing it was too similar to the sentimental comedies it was trying to oust but now Goldsmith had written much more daring play and was desperate to make some money for God's sake take the play and let us make the best of it he wrote to Coleman then in desperation took it away offered it to Garrick at Drury Lane by which time dr. Johnson had bullied Coleman to put it on and finally he agreed both Garrick and Coleman were nervous that an audience who enjoyed sentimental comedies would be offended by so boisterous a play particularly as Goldsmith's satirizes those very people attributing their genteel views to the very characters they were most likely to object to the lowlife of the tavern sky got spunk in every loves to hear him sing cuz he never gives us nothing that's love ah damn anything that's low I cannot bear it genteel thing there's a genteel thing at any time if so be that a gentle and decent concatenation accordingly I like the maximum that mas'r muggins what don't obligate you to dance a bear a man may be a gentleman for all of that may this be my poison if my beer ever dances to put the gentlest attunes yesterday water party or the minuet Ariadne casting was tricky two actors turned down roles because they sense that Coleman didn't have faith in the play in the case of wouldwould who was offered the role of Tony Lumpkin it's probably just as well he was 56 but Goldsmith was bullish I should sooner my play were damned by bad players than merely saved by good acting he said well they got Ned shooter for Hardcastle and John quick who finally was cast as Tony Lumpkin delighted Goldsmith the play was eventually thrown on and was a great popular success and immediately started making shockwaves across the world in America John Mitchell's play he Stoops to conquer gives us an idea of how Goldsmith's play was perceived on the one hand as very low comedy but on the other as political satire he Stoops is very broad very low comedy indeed driven by Tony know as plump as a partridge and as brown as his feathers and his female counterpart who speak almost entirely an absolutely filthy innuendo but the play also picks up on Goldsmith's use of the word Liberty an Italian says to an Irishman in your country your Liberty is played with like a shuttlecock and at best but a toy now Goldsmith would hot give denied that he was a political writer so then you have no turn for politics I find not in the least there was a time indeed when I fretted myself about the mistakes of government like other people but finding myself every day grow more angry and the government growing no better I left it to mend itself but Goldsmith fiercely championed the poor and the underdog he gave His only blanket to a poor woman and her children while he was at Trinity Dublin because he could keep warm by cutting a hole in his mattress and climbing inside and his long poem the deserted village takes the part of the dispossessed fiercely criticizes the enclosure of common land by rich landlords he friends to truce he statesmen who survey the rich man's joys increase the pores decay tis yours to judge how wide the limit stand between a splendid and unhappy lad it can't our games this wealth is but a name that leaves our useful products still the same not so the loss the man of wealth and pride takes up a space that many pores of line space for his lake his parks extended barns space for his horse it were posh and hounds the robe that wraps his limbs in silken sleuth has robbed the neighboring fields of half their growth you his seat where solitary sports are seen indignant spurns the cottage from the green around the world each needful product flies for all the luxuries the world supplies while thus the land adorned for pleasure all in barren splendor feebly waits the fall here while the courtier glitters in brocade there the pale artist plies the sickly trade here while the proud their long drawn pumps display there the black gibbet blooms beside the way you [Music] his insistence sometimes ironic use of the word Liberty in she stoops to conquer at a time when Wilkes and Liberty was the cry of rioters in London and things were getting ugly across the Atlantic and the channel was dangerous and new beaumarchais hadn't yet written his overtly political Figaro plays a word or two on the late farce called high life below stairs the poor affecting the manners of the rich my lord Duke and Sahari two footmen who assumed these characters have not nest to do but to talk like their masters all the satire is well intended if we regard it as masters ourselves but probably philosophers would rejoice at the Liberty Englishmen give their domestics the Athenians the Politis and best natured people on earth were the kindest to their slaves and if a person may judge who's seen the world English servants are the best treated because the generality of English gentlemen are the polloi 'test under the song when goldsmith finally went to Trinity College Dublin there was no money left because his father had taken a characteristic and ruinously generous view of the elopement of two of his other children don't ask and so Oliver had to go was a size R which meant that he had to be a servant in view of paying fees used to feeling inadequate and appearing as less than the gentleman he actually was he made himself popular by overcompensating in his usual voice to persuade and when he was awarded a small exhibition he blew the lot on a party and then disappeared before being sent down but he did write some years later of the irony that those learning the liberal arts should at the same time be treated like slaves Hardcastle's servants are so much part of the family that he really has his work cut out trying to make them pretend to be what they're emphatically not in an attempt to impress the smart city boys he's expecting well I hope you're perfect in the table exercises I have been teaching you these three days you all know your posts in your places I can show that you've been used a good company without ever stirring from home I when company comes you're not to pop out and stare and then running again like frightened rabbits in a Warren no ho no you're Diggory whom I have taken from the bar not to make a show at the side table and you Roger whom I've advanced from the plow to place yourself behind my chair but you're not to stand so with your hands in your pockets take your hands from your pockets Roger and from your head you blockhead you see how Diggory carries his hands they're a little too stiff indeed but that's no great matter I know I old him I learned too old my hands like this when I was a pound drill for the militia I'm Sol being a pounder area you must not be so talkative you must be all attention to the guests you must hear us talk and not think of talking immerseus drink or not think of drinking you must see Izzy to not think of eating either large your worship that's perfectly unpossible whenever Diggory sees you eatin going forward Accardi is always wishing for a mouthful himself blockhead is not a bellyful in the kitchen as good as a bellyful in the parlor stay your stomach with that reflection thank you worship I'll make a shift to stay my stomach with the slice of cold beef in the pan dickory you are too talkative then if I happen to say a good thing or tell a good story at table you're not all to burst out a laughing as you who made part of the company card your worship must not tell the story of old gross in the gun room so lovey we've laughed at at least 20 years well the story is a good one well honest Diggory you may laugh at that but still remember to be attentive suppose one of the company suppose one of the company should call for a glass of wine how will you behave a glass of wine sir if you please hey why don't you move it cause you worship I never have the courage till I see the eatables and drinkables brought upon the table and then I'm as bold as a lion well nobody move I'm not leave this place I'm sure it's no place that mind you don't know Martha sir lose I'm sure it cannot be mine oh you numbskulls and so well like your betters you are quarreling for places the guests must be starved oh you dances I find I must begin all over again so the servants are the only people in the play who aren't dying or pretending or seeming to be something other than they are even Marlow servants drunken battle cry please your honor libertine Fleet Street forever he's looked on with indulgence by his master so no need for revolution in England then and girls with knew what he was talking about as early as 1760 he'd predicted the French Revolution he died almost exactly a year after she Stoops to conquer opened he'd been closely questioning his friends at the club about suicide and had written at length about the death of Socrates the feverish he'd been furious that his doctor hadn't given him the fever powders he wanted but being a doctor himself he got hold of someone took them anyway and in a final irony to prove his point he took too many and died is your mind at ease he was asked at the end no it is not he replied he was angry that he'd never been taken seriously enough he'd not been awarded a pension he was very generous with his money but he never made enough he was a mass of unresolved contradictions really he both pursued and despised wealth with equal vigor he was not sounding about the countryside that he couldn't wait to escape from parts of his novel and some of his poems were written with sprawling sentimentality that looked forward to the 19th century at the same time as trying to explode the sentimentality of 18th century theater with his muscular comedy Boswell who had resisted his charms for years but was all over him like a rash the moment she Stoops to conquer was a success called him a thoughtless scatterbrain but pointed out to his detractors that Goldsmith had not more envy than other people but only talked of it freely quite apart from his advanced views on theatre Goldsmith had powerful champions in the immortality stakes one of the many times he was unable to pay his rent dr. Johnson took control ransacked Goldsmith's papers and went out to sell the rights to the manuscript of a novel The Vicar of Wakefield the novel which Goethe claimed influenced his whole style of writing Fanny Burney on the other hand was disappointed by it but as it gained in reputation went back to rewrite that diary entry with a more favorable judgment the deserted village influenced Wordsworth and triggered the whole Romantic movement and she Stoops to conquer was turned into a highly successful opera by Sir George McFerrin in the mid 19th century [Music] Oh Constance do all things were it for seek those stone it is not vasco who burn let's forget Steve be true too steal me too wouldwould hmm well ironically he turned it into a sentimental piece which significantly has disappeared into obscurity the play survives because it's fun and where it touches base with humanity it's honest they're all pretending to be what they're not but that's what actors do after all and Goldsmith unfashionably recommended truthful acting he asked North Curt what he thought of she Stoops to conquer and North Curt said he wouldn't presume to judge but did it make you laugh North Curt said yes it did then that's all I require his last publication was a poem called retaliation in which he posthumously got back at to all the friends who'd attacked him but it has none of the venom of Alexander Pope whom Goldsmith so much admired its gentle in tone and as a menu in which all his friends are described as dishes brought to a feast if our landlord supplies us with beef and with fish let each guest bring himself and he brings the best dish our garrix a salad for in him we see oil vinegar sugar and salt nurse agree to make out the dinner full certain I am that Ridge is anchovy and Reynolds is lamb that hick is a cape on and by the same rule magnanimous goldsmith a gooseberry fool at a dinner so various at such a repast who would not be a glutton and stick to the last here waiter more wine let me sit while I'm able till all my companions sink under the table then with chaos and blunders inserting my head let me ponder and tell what I think of the dead [Music] we hate that man [Music] watch harness [Music] ha rush for all [Music] together abandoned Andrey is [Music] you you

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