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ACT IV, SCENE II
CHARACTERS: Mrs. Malaprop; Lydia; Captain Absolute known to Lydia
as "Beverley"; Sir Anthony; Servant.
_Enter_ MRS. MALAPROP _and_ LYDIA
MRS M. Why, thou perverse one!--tell me what you can object to in
him?--Isn't he a handsome man?--tell me that. A genteel man? a pretty
figure of a man?
LYD. She little thinks whom she is praising. [_Aside_.] So is Beverley,
ma'am.
MRS. M. No caparisons, miss, if you please. Caparisons don't become a
young woman. No! Captain Absolute is indeed a fine gentleman.
LYD. Ay, the Captain Absolute you have seen. [_Aside_.
MRS. M. Then he's so well bred;--so full of alacrity and adulation!--He
has so much to say for himself, in such good language, too. His
physiognomy so grammatical; then his presence so noble! I protest, when
I saw him, I thought of what Hamlet says in the play:--"Hesperian
curls--the front of Job himself! an eye, like March, to threaten at
command! a station, like Harry Mercury, new"--Something about
kissing--on a hill--however, the similitude struck me directly.
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