Quality street : a comedy in four acts . Patty ushers in the sisters Wilhughhy and Miss Henrietta. Miss Henrietta is zvearing the new veil., which opens or closes like curtains tvhen she pulls a string. ii II.] Quality Street MISS SUSAN You who are so much older than Miss Phoebe. PATTY Yes, maam, I ha the advantage of her byten years. MISS SUSAN It would be idle to pretend that you arespecially comely. PATTY That may be, but my face is my own, andthe more I see it in the glass the more itpleases me. I never look at it but I say tomyself, Who is to be the lucky man ? MISS SUSAN Tis wonderful. P
Quality street : a comedy in four acts . Patty ushers in the sisters Wilhughhy and Miss Henrietta. Miss Henrietta is zvearing the new veil., which opens or closes like curtains tvhen she pulls a string. ii II.] Quality Street MISS SUSAN You who are so much older than Miss Phoebe. PATTY Yes, maam, I ha the advantage of her byten years. MISS SUSAN It would be idle to pretend that you arespecially comely. PATTY That may be, but my face is my own, andthe more I see it in the glass the more itpleases me. I never look at it but I say tomyself, Who is to be the lucky man ? MISS SUSAN Tis wonderful. PATTY This will be a great year for females, how many of the men that marchedaway strutting to the wars have come backlimping. Who is to take off their wooden legsof an evening. Miss Susan ? You, maam,or me? MISS SUSAN Patty ! L 81 Quality Street [act PATTY {Doggedly) Or Miss Phoebe? {IVitli feeling)The pretty thing that she was, Miss Susan. MISS SUSAN Do you remember, Patty ? I think thereis no other person who remembers unless itbe the Misses Willoughby and Miss Henrietta. PATTY [Eagerly] Give her a chance, maam, andtake her to the balls. There be three of themthis week, and the last
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