[The Works of Charles Lamb in Four Volumes, Volume 4 by Charles Lamb]@TWC D-Link bookThe Works of Charles Lamb in Four Volumes, Volume 4 PROLOGUE, SPOKEN BY MR 174/217
And I shall love the knave forever after. [_Aside_. _Mrs.F._ A friend with you! _Selby_.
My eldest sister, Lucy, Come to congratulate this returning morn .-- Sister, my wife's friend, Mistress Frampton. _Mrs.F._ Pray, Be seated; for your brother's sake, you are welcome. I had thought this day to have spent in homely fashion With the good couple, to whose hospitality I stand so far indebted.
But your coming Makes it a feast. _Lucy._ She does the honors naturally-- [_Aside._ _Selby._ As if she were the mistress of the house .-- [_Aside._ _Mrs.F._ I love to be at home with loving friends. To stand on ceremony with obligations, Is to restrain the obliger.
That old coach, though, Of yours jumbles one strangely. _Selby._ I shall order An equipage soon, more easy to you, madam-- _Lucy._ To drive her and her pride to Lucifer, I hope he means.
[_Aside._ _Mrs.F._ I must go trim myself; this humbled garb Would shame a wedding-feast.
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