Page:Crotchet Castle - Peacock (1831).djvu/99

From Wikisource
Jump to navigation Jump to search
This page has been proofread, but needs to be validated.
CHARACTERS.
87

CAPTAIN FITZCHROME.

I entreat you do.

LADY CLARINDA.

Well, I really have very little to say in his favor.

CAPTAIN FITZCHROME.

I do not wish to hear any thing in his favor; and I rejoice to hear you say so, because—

LADY CLARINDA.

Do not flatter yourself. If I take him, it will be to please my father, and to have a town and country-house, and plenty of servants, and a carriage and an opera-box, and make some of my acquaintance who have married for love, or for rank, or for any thing but money, die for envy of my jewels. You do not think I would take him for himself. Why he is very smooth and spruce, as far as his dress goes; but as to his face, he looks as