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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1808 Excerpt:... himself the jest of the town, and marry a handsome beggar, for love. Ind. The town! I must tell you, madam, the fools, that laugh at Mr. Bevil, will but make themselves more ridiculous; his actions are the result of thinking, and he has sense enough to make even virtue fashionable. Isa. Come, come; if he were the honest fool you take him for, why has he kept you here these three weeks, without sending you to Bristol, in search of your father, your family, and your relations? Ind. I am convinced he still designs it; besides, has he not writ to Bristol? and has not he advice that my father has not been heard of there almost these twenty years? Isa. All sham, mere evasion; he is afraid, if he should carry you thither, your honest relations may take you out of his hands, and so blow up all his wicked hopes at once. Ind. Wicked hopes! did I ever give him any such? Isa. Has he ever given you any honest ones? Can you say in your conscience he has ever once offered to marry you? Ind. No; but by his behaviour I am convinced he will offer it the moment'tis in his power, or consistent with his honour, to make such a promise good to me. Isa. His honour! Ind. I will rely upon it; therefore desire you will not make my life uneasy by these ungrateful jealousies of one, to whom I am, and wish to be, obliged; for from his integrity alone I have resolved to hope for, happiness. Isa. Nay, I have done my duty; if you won't see, at your peril be it. Exit. Ind. Let it be.--This is his hour of visiting me. All the rest of my life is but waiting till he comes; I live only while I'm with him. Enter Servant. Serv. Madam, Mr. Bevil. Ind. Let him walk in.--Design! impossible! a base designing mind could never think of what he hourly puts in practice--and yet, since the late rumour of...