The Gamester (1753). Edward Moore
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Название: The Gamester (1753)
Автор: Edward Moore
Издательство: Bookwire
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isbn: 4064066242695
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Lucy. Mr. Stukely, Madam.
[Exit.
Stu. Good morning to you, Ladies. Mr. Jarvis, your servant. Where's my friend, madam?
[To Mrs. Beverley.
Mrs. Bev. I should have asked that question of You. Have not you seen him to-day?
Stu. No, madam.
Char. Nor last night?
Stu. Last night! Did not he come home then?
Mrs. Bev. No. Were not you together?
Stu. At the beginning of the evening; but not since. Where can he have staid?
Char. You call yourself his friend, Sir; why do you encourage him in this madness of gaming?
Stu. You have asked me that question before, madam; and I told you my concern was that I could not save him. Mr. Beverley is a man, madam; and if the most friendly entreaties have no effect upon him, I have no other means. My purse has been his, even to the injury of my fortune. If That has been encouragement, I deserve censure; but I meant it to retrieve him.
Mrs. Bev. I don't doubt it, Sir; and I thank you. But where did you leave him last night?
Stu. At Wilson's, madam, if I ought to tell; in company I did not like. Possibly he may be there still. Mr. Jarvis knows the house, I believe.
Jar. Shall I go, madam?
Mrs. Bev. No; he may take it ill.
Char. He may go as from himself.
Stu. And if he pleases, madam, without naming Me. I am faulty myself, and should conceal the errors of a friend. But I can refuse nothing here.
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