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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 />

MANLY [after a pause]<br />

We are both unhappy; but it is your duty <strong>to</strong> obey your parent—mine <strong>to</strong> obey my<br />

honour. Let us, therefore, both follow the path <strong>of</strong> rectitude; and <strong>of</strong> this we may be<br />

assured, that if we are not happy, we shall, at least, deserve <strong>to</strong> be so. Adieu! I dare<br />

not trust myself longer with you. [Exeunt severally.<br />

END OF THE FOURTH ACT.<br />

ACT V. SCENE I.<br />

DIMPLE’S Lodgings.<br />

JESSAMY meeting JONATHAN.<br />

JESSAMY<br />

WELL, Mr. Jonathan, what success with the fair?<br />

JONATHAN<br />

Why, such a tarnal cross tike you never saw! You would have counted she had lived<br />

upon crab-apples and vinegar for a fortnight. But what the rattle makes you look<br />

so tarnation glum?<br />

JESSAMY<br />

I was thinking, Mr. Jonathan, what could be the reason <strong>of</strong> her carrying herself so<br />

coolly <strong>to</strong> you.<br />

JONATHAN<br />

Coolly, do you call it? Why, I vow, she was re-hot angry: may be it was because I<br />

buss’d her.<br />

JESSAMY<br />

No, no, Mr. Jonathan; there must be some other cause; I never yet knew a lady<br />

angry at being kissed.<br />

JONATHAN<br />

Well, if it is not the young woman’s bashfulness, I vow I can’t conceive why she<br />

shouldn’t like me.<br />

JESSAMY<br />

May be it is because you have not the Graces, Mr. Jonathan.<br />

JONATHAN<br />

Grace! Why, does the young woman expect I must be converted before I court her?<br />

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