My
father wants me to marry him and I tell you I am delighted.
Edward:
Oh! I give up. No more explanations. I am going to find your mother.
Angelica:
Go, sir, go, you can tell her that I want no part of you.
Edward: (seeing Mrs. Townly)
Have you heard, Madam? I am betrayed, Madam. For it is no longer time
to hide from you my love for this ingrate--you see she has betrayed
me.
Mrs. Townly:
I feel sorry for you, sir. You see father and daughter plotted against
you and me, too. I enter into your feelings because I always
sympathize with the feelings of others.
Edward:
No. After what she's done, I never wish to speak of her again.
Mrs. Townly:
I swear to you I have no objection to your proposing to my daughter.
Edward:
You propose her to me in vain.
Mrs. Townly:
But to prove to you, a reasonable man, that reason alone guides me in
all I do--I wish to offer you--
Edward:
I refuse your offers, Madam. I am not a man to force her inclinations.
Mrs. Townly:
So that I may have the pleasure of avenging you on my husband, on my
daughter--on all those who conspire to contradict me--I beg you, sir.
Edward:
Can't do it.
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