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

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BECOMING AMERICA<br />

REVOLUTIONARY AND EARLY NATIONAL PERIOD LITERATURE<br />

Are you aronted?<br />

JONATHAN<br />

JENNY<br />

Aronted! with what looks shall I express my anger?<br />

JONATHAN<br />

Looks! why as <strong>to</strong> the matter <strong>of</strong> looks, you look as cross as a witch.<br />

JENNY<br />

Have you no feeling for the delicacy <strong>of</strong> my sex?<br />

JONATHAN<br />

Feeling! Gor, I—I feel the delicacy <strong>of</strong> your sex pretty smartly [rubbing his cheek],<br />

though, I vow, I thought when you city ladies courted and married, and all that, you<br />

put feeling out <strong>of</strong> the question. But I want <strong>to</strong> know whether you are really aronted,<br />

or only pretend <strong>to</strong> be so? ‘Cause, if you are certainly right down aronted, I am at<br />

the end <strong>of</strong> my tether; Jessamy didn’t tell me what <strong>to</strong> say <strong>to</strong> you.<br />

Pretend <strong>to</strong> be aronted!<br />

JENNY<br />

JONATHAN<br />

Aye, aye, if you only pretend, you shall hear how I’ll go <strong>to</strong> work <strong>to</strong> make cherubim<br />

consequences. [Runs up <strong>to</strong> her.]<br />

Begone, you brute!<br />

JENNY<br />

JONATHAN<br />

That looks like mad; but I won’t lose my speech. My dearest Jenny—your name is<br />

Jenny, I think?—My dearest Jenny, though I have the highest esteem for the sweet<br />

favours you have just now granted me—Gor, that’s a b, though; but Jessamy says<br />

it is not wicked <strong>to</strong> tell lies <strong>to</strong> the women. [Aside.] I say, though I have the highest<br />

esteem for the favours you have just now granted me, yet you will consider that, as<br />

soon as the dissolvable knot is tied, they will no longer be favours, but only matters<br />

<strong>of</strong> duty and matters <strong>of</strong> course.<br />

JENNY<br />

Marry you! you audacious monster! get out <strong>of</strong> my sight, or, rather, let me y <strong>from</strong><br />

you. [Exit hastily.]<br />

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