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??re, 1622-1673

"The Countess of Escarbagnas"

Yes.
CRI. I don't know.
COUN. (_to_ ANDREE). Will you move, or will you not?
AND. We don't either of us know what a salver is.
COUN. Know, then, that it is a plate on which you put the glass.

SCENE IX.--THE COUNTESS, JULIA.
COUN. Long live Paris! It is only there that one is well waited upon;
there a glance is enough.

SCENE X.--THE COUNTESS, JULIA, ANDREE (_who brings a glass of water,
with a plate on the top of it_), CRIQUET.
COUN. Is that what I asked you for, dunderhead? It is under that you
must put the plate.
AND. That is easy to do. (_She breaks the glass in trying to put it
on the plate_.)
COUN. You stupid girl! You shall really pay for the glass; you shall,
I promise you!
AND. Very well, Ma'am, I will pay you for it.
COUN. But did you ever see such an awkward loutish girl? such a....
AND. I say, Ma'am, if I am to pay for the glass, I won't be scolded
into the bargain.
COUN. Get out of my sight.

SCENE XI.--THE COUNTESS, JULIA.
COUN. Really, Madam, small towns are strange places. In them there is
no respect of persons, and I have just been making a few calls at
houses where they drove me almost to despair; so little regard did
they pay to my rank.
JU. Where could you expect them to have learnt manners? They have
never been to Paris.


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