Bon Ton: Or, High Life Above Stairs. A Farce. With Prefatory Remarks ... Faithfully Marked with the Stage Business, and Stage Directions, as it is Performed at the Theatres RoyalPub. for the Proprietors, 1822 - 27 pages |
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Page 6 - More shame for you: - live here for ever! - what, among thieves and pick-pockets! - what a revolution since my time! The more I see, the more I've cause for lamentation; what a dreadful change has time brought about in twenty years! I should not have known the place again, nor the people; all the signs that made so noble an appearance, are all taken down - not a bob or tie-wig to be seen!
Page 20 - I know the law better than to be frightened with moonshine : I wish that I was to live here all my days, — this is life indeed ! a servant lives up to his eyes in clover; they have wages, and board wages, and nothing to do, but to grow fat and saucy — they are as happy as their...
Page 18 - Well, well, be that as it will, I must be upon my guard; what a dreadful place this is! But 'tis all owing to the corruption of the times; the great folks game, and the poor folks rob; no wonder that murder ensues; sad, sad, sad! — well, let me but get over...
Page 13 - Sir John Sir John. I don't care what he'll have, nor I don't care what he is, nor who my niece marries ; she is a fine lady, and let her have a fine gentleman; I sha'n't hinder her...
Page 21 - Trotley has a light in his room; the accident this morning will certainly keep him upon the watch. Pray, my lord, let us defer our meetings till he goes into the country. I find that my English heart, though it has ventured so far, grows fearful and awkward to practise the freedoms of warmer climates.
Page 15 - I'll e'en go and comfort her directly, endeavour to draw her from the wickedness of this town into the country, where she shall have reading, fowling, and fishing, to keep up her spirits, and when I die, I will leave her that part of my fortune, with which I intended to reward the virtues of Miss Lucretia Tittup, with a plague to her. [Exit.
Page 9 - Trolley, should know of our affairs, he is so old-fashioned, prudish, and out of the way, he would either strike me out of his will, or insist upon my quitting the house.
Page 15 - The world's at an end ! — here's fine work ! here are precious doings ! This lord is a pillar of the state, too ! no wonder that the building is in danger with such rotten supporters ! — heigh ho ! — And then my poor lady Minikin what a friend and husband she is blessed with let me consider ! — Should I tell the...
Page 1 - New discoveries ! why, I saw him myself yesterday morning in a hackney-coach, with a minx in a pink cardinal; you shall absolutely burn yours, Tittup, for I shall never bear to see one of that colour again. Miss T.
Page 12 - Did you ever hear the like! I am not surprised, my Lord, that you think so lightly, and talk so vainly, who are so polite a husband; your lady, my cousin, is a fine woman, and brought you a fine fortune, and deserves better usage. Lord Min.