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Scene VIII.

Love for Love

by William Congreve





VALENTINE, SCANDAL.

SCANDAL
He begs pardon like a hangman at an execution.

VALENTINE
But I have got a reprieve.

SCANDAL
I am surprised; what, does your father relent?

VALENTINE
No; he has sent me the hardest conditions in the
world. You have heard of a booby brother of mine that was sent to
sea three years ago? This brother, my father hears, is landed;
whereupon he very affectionately sends me word; if I will make a deed
of conveyance of my right to his estate, after his death, to my
younger brother, he will immediately furnish me with four thousand
pounds to pay my debts and make my fortune. This was once proposed
before, and I refused it; but the present impatience of my creditors
for their money, and my own impatience of confinement, and absence
from Angelica, force me to consent.

SCANDAL
A very desperate demonstration of your love to
Angelica; and I think she has never given you any assurance of
hers.

VALENTINE
You know her temper; she never gave me any great
reason either for hope or despair.

SCANDAL
Women of her airy temper, as they seldom think
before they act, so they rarely give us any light to guess at what
they mean. But you have little reason to believe that a woman of this
age, who has had an indifference for you in your prosperity, will
fall in love with your ill-fortune; besides, Angelica has a great
fortune of her own; and great fortunes either expect another great
fortune, or a fool.







                                                                                    

 

 

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Love for Love

Prologue. Spoken, at the opening of the new house, by Mr Betterton.
Epilogue. Spoken, at the opening of the new house, by Mrs Bracegirdle.
Dramatis Personae.
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