That I—I—his Lordship does me the honour to say that I have given expression to his thoughts; graciously insinuating, that the poor ideas I have just delivered are akin to those which he himself entertains.
LADY WORRYMORE (contemptuously, and in a low voice toBlount).
Which are always akin to whatever he happens to hear last.
BLOUNT.
And must, in this bright metropolis, find a goodly clan of relations.
LADY WORRYMORE.
And, my dear Mr. O'Honikin! what alternations of humility and generous confidence! The humble individual, who feels it to be his duty to rouse to action, to warm with—— How did it go?
BLOUNT.
O, dear Lady, you make me blush!—To rouse to duty—warm to feeling—loosen from the trammels of prejudice my enlightened, intelligent, and intellectual compatriots. All that a humble individual like myself could possibly hope to achieve.
