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JUL. Let me look at him.

OR. Go in, I tell you.

JUL. I want to stay here, if you please.

OR. I do not please; if you do not go in immediately,

I..

JUL. Ah well! I will go.

OR. My daughter is a fool, she does not understand things.

M. DE P. How pleased she is with me!

OR. You will not go in?

JUL. When are you going to marry me to this gentleman?

OR. Never; you are not for him.

JUL. I wish to have him, since you promised him to

me.

OR. If I promised him to you, I withdraw my promise. M. DE P. She would dearly like to have me.

JUL. You can do what you like, we shall marry each other in spite of everybody.

OR. I will take care to hinder you both, I assure you. What has possessed her?

M. DE P. My good prospective father-in-law, do not put yourself out so much: no one wishes to carry off your daughter, your grimaces will not deceive any one.

OR. None of yours will have much effect.

M. DE P. You have it in your head that Leonard de Pourceaugnac will buy a pig in a poke? that he has not sufficient common sense to manage his own affairs, to inform himself of what goes on, and to see that, in marrying, his honour is well secured?

OR. I do not know what you mean; but have you it in your head that a man of sixty-three has so little in the way of brains, and considers his daughter of so slight account, as to marry her with a man who has you know what, and who was placed with a doctor to be cured?

M. DE P. That is a trick that was played me, I have nothing the matter with me.

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