JENNY
I must say, Mr. Jessamy, if he copies after me, he
will be vastly, monstrously polite.
JESSAMY
Stay here one moment, and I will call him.--Jona-
than!--Mr. Jonathan!--[Calls.]
JONATHAN [within]
Holla! there.--[Enters.] You promise to stand
by me--six bows you say. [Bows.]
JESSAMY
Mrs. Jenny, I have the honour of presenting Mr.
Jonathan, Colonel Manly's waiter, to you. I am ex-
tremely happy that I have it in my power to make
two worthy people acquainted with each other's merits.
JENNY
So, Mr. Jonathan, I hear you were at the play last
night.
JONATHAN
At the play! why, did you think I went to the
devil's drawing-room?
JENNY
The devil's drawing-room!
JONATHAN
Yes; why an't cards and dice the devil's device,
and the play-house the shop where the devil hangs
out the vanities of the world upon the tenter-hooks of
temptation? I believe you have not heard how they
were acting the old boy one night, and the wicked one
came among them sure enough, and went right off
in a storm, and carried one quarter of the play-house
with him. Oh! no, no, no! you won't catch me at a
play-house, I warrant you.
JENNY
Well, Mr. Jonathan, though I don't scruple your
veracity, I have some reasons for believing you were
there: pray, where were you about six o'clock?
JONATHAN
Why, I went to see one Mr.
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