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In 1811 he took a house for her in Gloucester Street, Queen's Square, with her mother as duenna, and arranged for the completion of her education. As a light on her character hardly too much can be made of this stage in her development.
'I should never dare to go home and tell my honoured parents that Mat had run away with a man as handsome as Jove, and as poor as Job. Amanda's indignant relatives would rise up and stone me if I let her canter into matrimony with the fascinating Colonel, who may have a wife and ten children in Turin, for all we know. They must be torn away at once, or my character as duenna is lost for ever.
In 1775 his comedy, The Rivals, was produced at Covent Garden Theatre; his farce, St. Patrick's Day, or the Scheming Lieutenant, and his comic opera, The Duenna, were staged in the same year. His greatest comedy, The School for Scandal, was acted at Drury Lane Theatre in 1777, and it was followed in 1779 by The Critic. His last dramatic composition was the tragedy, Pizarro, produced in 1799.
"We must pick it up quickly, that it may not be seen," said Blanche, hastily stooping to seize the letter; "the people who take interest in us might otherwise be exposed to great danger." "But how could this letter come to us?" "How did the others come to be placed right under our hand, and always in the absence of our duenna?" "It is true. Why seek to explain the mystery?
Her aunts, too, having been great flirts and coquettes in their younger days, were admirably calculated to be vigilant guardians and strict censors of the conduct of their niece; for there is no duenna so rigidly prudent and inexorably decorous as a superannuated coquette.
But the Spanish duenna still survives in the family the more awful because invisible. It's a mysterious fact that as soon as a fellow becomes particularly attached to any one except Maruja he receives some intimation from Pereo." "What! the butler? That Indian-looking fellow? A servant?" "Pardon me the mayordomo. The old confidential servitor who stands in loco parentis. No one knows what he says.
Edmund had little to hope, but he was still urging the subject when Henry Crawford entered the room, fresh from the Parsonage, calling out, "No want of hands in our theatre, Miss Bertram. No want of understrappers: my sister desires her love, and hopes to be admitted into the company, and will be happy to take the part of any old duenna or tame confidante, that you may not like to do yourselves."
On hearing which, the venerable Montesinos fell on his knees before the unhappy knight, and with tearful eyes exclaimed, 'Long since, Senor Durandarte, my beloved cousin, long since have I done what you bade me on that sad day when I lost you; I took out your heart as well as I could, not leaving an atom of it in your breast, I wiped it with a lace handkerchief, and I took the road to France with it, having first laid you in the bosom of the earth with tears enough to wash and cleanse my hands of the blood that covered them after wandering among your bowels; and more by token, O cousin of my soul, at the first village I came to after leaving Roncesvalles, I sprinkled a little salt upon your heart to keep it sweet, and bring it, if not fresh, at least pickled, into the presence of the lady Belerma, whom, together with you, myself, Guadiana your squire, the duenna Ruidera and her seven daughters and two nieces, and many more of your friends and acquaintances, the sage Merlin has been keeping enchanted here these many years; and although more than five hundred have gone by, not one of us has died; Ruidera and her daughters and nieces alone are missing, and these, because of the tears they shed, Merlin, out of the compassion he seems to have felt for them, changed into so many lakes, which to this day in the world of the living, and in the province of La Mancha, are called the Lakes of Ruidera.
"This is the proper moment to retire!" said the duenna, rising from the table. "Are you coming, Fanny?" "I beg you, let us go now," murmured Mademoiselle Dorville in the ear of her lover. Her voice was caressing and full of tender promise. The young man hesitated an instant.
The scene in the second act, where Carlos is introduced by Isaac to the Duenna, stood, in its original state, as follows: "Isaac. Moses, sweet coz, I thrive, I prosper. "Moses. Where is your mistress? "Isaac. There, you booby, there she stands. "Moses. Why she's damn'd ugly. "Isaac. Hush! "Duenna. What is your friend saying, Don? "Isaac.
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