Quality street : a comedy in four acts . here is my hand on it. PHOEBE What will you do now? VALENTINE I also must work. I will become a physicianagain, with some drab old housekeeper toneglect me and the house. Do you foreseethe cobwebs gathering and gathering, MissPhoebe ? PHOEBE Oh, sir! VALENTINE You shall yet see me in Quality Street, wear-ing my stock all awry. PHOEBE Oh, oh ! 167 Quality Street [act VALENTINE And with snuff upon my sleeve. PHOEBE Sir, sir 1 VALENTINE No skulker, maam, I hope, but graduallyturning into a grumpy, crusty, bottle-nosedold bachelor. PHOEBE Oh, Mr. Brown 1 VA
Quality street : a comedy in four acts . here is my hand on it. PHOEBE What will you do now? VALENTINE I also must work. I will become a physicianagain, with some drab old housekeeper toneglect me and the house. Do you foreseethe cobwebs gathering and gathering, MissPhoebe ? PHOEBE Oh, sir! VALENTINE You shall yet see me in Quality Street, wear-ing my stock all awry. PHOEBE Oh, oh ! 167 Quality Street [act VALENTINE And with snuff upon my sleeve. PHOEBE Sir, sir 1 VALENTINE No skulker, maam, I hope, but graduallyturning into a grumpy, crusty, bottle-nosedold bachelor. PHOEBE Oh, Mr. Brown 1 VALENTINE And all because you will not walk across thestreet with me. PHOEBE Indeed, sir, you must marry—and I hope itmay be some one who is really like a garden. VALENTINE I know but one. That reminds me, MissPhoebe, of something I had forgot. {He pro-duces a paper from his pocket.) Tis a trifle Ihave wrote about you. But I fear to trouble you.(phoebes hands go out longingly for it.) PHOEBE {Reading) Lines to a Certain Lady, who is168. Miss Henrietta and Miss Fanny^ encouraged by his sympathy, draw nearer the door of the interesting bed-chamber 1 il
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