You may be a man of rank.

You may be one of the profligate and profane crew who haunt the court.

You may be the worst of them all, my Lord Rochester himself.

He is about your age, I have heard, and though a mere boy in years, is a veteran in libertinism.

But, whoever you are, and whatever your rank and station may be, unless your character will bear the strictest scrutiny, I am certain Stephen Bloundel will never consent to your union with his daughter." "Nay, mother," observed Amabel, "you judge the gentleman unjustly.