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CROTCHET CASTLE.
no evening party is endurable. I dare say, love in a cottage is very pleasant; but then it positively must be a cottage ornée: but would not the same love be a great deal safer in a castle, even if Mammon furnished the fortification?
CAPTAIN FITZCHROME.
Oh, Lady Clarinda! there is a heartlessness in that language that chills me to the soul.
LADY CLARINDA.
Heartlessness! No: my heart is on my lips. I speak just what I think. You used to like it, and say it was as delightful as it was rare.
CAPTAIN FITZCHROME.
True, but you did not then talk as you do now, of love in a castle.
LADY CLARINDA.
Well, but only consider: a dun is a hor-
