So, this was your penitence, your duty, and obedience! Ah! you
dissembling villain! Come, we must leave them together, Mrs. Malaprop;
they long to fly into each other's arms. I warrant! Come, Mrs. Malaprop,
we'll not disturb their tenderness; theirs is the time of life for
happiness! [_Sings_.] _Youth's the season made for joy_--hey! odds life!
I'm in such spirits! Permit me, ma'am.
[_Gives his hand to_ MRS. MALAPROP. _Exit singing, and handing her off.
Exit_ CAPTAIN ABSOLUTE _with_ LYDIA _in the opposite direction._
BEAU BRUMMELL
BLANCHARD JERROLD
ACT I, SCENE I
CHARACTERS: Beau Brummell, a fastidious aristocrat with luxurious
tastes and a depleted fortune; Isidore, his valet; Mr. Fotherby,
his aspiring young protege.
SCENE: A handsome apartment in Brummell's house, Calais, France.
Isidore discovered, in chair, looking over his master's toilette
table.
ISIDORE. Twenty shirts a week, twenty-four pocket-handkerchiefs, to say
nothing of thirty cravats and twelve waistcoats--indeed, for people that
cannot pay their servants! Well, he owes me just six thousand three
hundred and thirty-seven francs, ten sous.
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