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The Comedies of Oliver Goldsmith, With Intr. by J. Jacobs
The Comedies of Oliver Goldsmith With Intr by J Jacobs Author:Oliver Goldsmith General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1896 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: " / must disclaim his friendship, who ceases to be a friend to himself." Enter CROAKER, with the Letter in his Hand, and Mrs. Croaker. Mrs. Croaker. Ha, ha, ha! And so, my dear, it's your supreme wish that I should be quite wretched upon this occasion ? Ha, ha ! Croaker (mimicking). Ha, ha, ha! and so, my dear, it's your supreme pleasure to give me no better consolation ? Mrs. Croaker. Positively, my dear, what is this incendiary stuff and trumpery to me ? Our house may travel through the air like the house of Loretto, for aught I care, if I'm to be miserable in it. Croaker. Would to Heaven it were converted into a house of correction for your benefit! Have we not everything to alarm us ? Perhaps, this very moment, the tragedy is beginning. Mrs. Croaker. Then let us reserve our distress till the rising of the curtain, or give them the money they want, and have done with them. Croaker. Give them my money ! -- And pray, what right have they to my money ? Mrs. Croaker. And pray, what right then have you to my good-humour ? Croaker. And so your good-humour advises me to part with my money ? Why, then, to tellyour good-humour a piece of my mind, I'd sooner part with my wife ! Here's Mr. Honeywood, see what he'll say to it. My dear Honeywood, look at this incendiary letter dropped at my door. It will freeze you with terror ; and yet lovey here can read it -- can read it, and laugh ! Mrs. Croaker. Yes, and so will Mr. Honey- wood. Croaker. If he does, I'll suffer to be hanged the next minute in the rogue's place, that's all ! Mrs. Croaker. Speak, Mr. Honeywood! is there anything more foolish th...« less