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A COMEDY.

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ness. I will strive to please you more: but do give up the present pursuit, I beseech you.

LADY GOODBODY.

No, no, my dear! I love you too well for that. But I am unfit to say any thing to you at present.

(Exit.

MISS MARTIN (looking after her).

My dear, kind, perverse aunt! you will be the death of me. (To Hannah.) Come, my dear, we'll retire to our rooms too. What have you been thinking of all this time?

HANNAH.

I have just been wondering whether my grandmother was christened Hannah or Hanabella.

MISS MARTIN.

What puts that into your head?

HANNAH.

Because Mr. Worshipton said at dinner, when my aunt call'd me Hannah, that she should have call'd me Hanabella, which is a prettier name.

MISS MARTIN.

Mr. Worshipton has been amusing himself.—Oh heigh ho! I wish we were at home again, in our old mansion in the north.