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ENTHUSIASM: A COMEDY.

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BLOUNT.

Has your Ladyship any commands for Herefordshire?

LADY SHREWDLY.

Are you going so soon?

BLOUNT.

In a few days, I believe.

LADY SHREWDLY.

What takes you there so soon? Your native place is changed since you left it; scarcely a family remains of the old set.

BLOUNT.

Nay; my good aunt Hammond still holds her state in the old mansion-house, and Squire Gozling, with his pretty daughter, I suppose, is there still.

(Lady Shrewdly frowns to him significantly.)

LORD WORRYMORE (smiling).

You will find your bird flown from that nest, I believe.

BLOUNT.

Is little Kate married?

LADY SHREWDLY.

No, she is not; but Arabella——

BLOUNT.

O, as to her, she is welcome to marry for me,