Becoming America - An Exploration of American Literature from Precolonial to Post-Revolution, 2018a

BECOMING AMERICA
REVOLUTIONARY AND EARLY NATIONAL PERIOD LITERATURE
a friend, I warned her of the principles of that rake, I told her what would be the
consequence; I told her so, I told her so.”—Ha, ha, ha!
LETITIA
Ha, ha, ha! Well, but, Charlotte, you don’t tell me what you think of
Miss Bloomsbury’s match.
CHARLOTTE
Think! why I think it is probable she cried for a plaything, and they have given her
a husband. Well, well, well, the puling chit shall not be deprived of her plaything:
‘tis only exchanging London dolls for American babies.—Apropos, of babies, have
you heard what Mrs. Aable’s high-ying notions of delicacy have come to?
Who, she that was Miss Lovely?
LETITIA
CHARLOTTE
The same; she married Bob Aable of Schenectady. Don’t you remember?
Enter SERVANT.
Madam, the carriage is ready.
SERVANT
LETITIA
Shall we go to the stores rst, or visiting?
CHARLOTTE
I should think it rather too early to visit, especially Mrs. Prim; you know she is so
particular.
Well, but what of Mrs. Aable?
LETITIA
CHARLOTTE
Oh, I’ll tell you as we go; come, come, let us hasten. I hear Mrs. Catgut has some
of the prettiest caps arrived you ever saw. I shall die if I have not the rst sight of
them. [Exeunt.]
SCENE II.
A Room in VAN ROUGH’S House
MARIA sitting disconsolate at a Table, with Books, &c.
Page | 587