_Jenny._ [_Turning away and glowting._] I declare it, I won't bear it: she is always snubbing me before you, Sir!----I know why she does it well enough---- [_Aside to the Count._ Count _Bas._ Hush! hush, my dear! don't be uneasy at that! she'll suspect us. [_Aside._ _Jenny._ Let her suspect, what do I care----I don't know, but I have as much reason to suspect, as she--tho' perhaps I'm not so afraid of her. Count _Bas._ [_Aside._] I'gad, if I don't keep a tight hand on my tit here, she'll run away with my project before I can bring it to bear. Lady _Wrong._ [_Aside._] Perpetually hanging upon him! The young harlot is certainly in love with him; but I must not let them see I think so----and yet I can't bear it: Upon my life, Count, you'll spoil that forward girl----you should not encourage her so. Count _Bas._ Pardon me, Madam, I was only advising her to observe what your Ladyship said to her. _Man._ Yes, truly, her observations have been something particular. [_Aside._ Count _Bas._ In one word, Madam, she has a } jealousy of your Ladyship, and I am forc'd to } encourage her, to blind it; 'twill be better to } take no notice of her behaviour to me. } } Lady _Wrong._ You are right, I will be more } cautious. } _Apart._ } Count _Bas._ To-morrow at the masquerade, } we may lose her. } } Lady _Wrong._ We shall be observ'd. I'll send } you a note, and settle that affair----go on } with the girl, and don't mind me. } Count _Bas._ I have been taking your part, my little angel. Lady _Wrong._ _Jenny_! come hither, child----you must not be so hasty my dear----I only advise you for your good. _Jenny._ Yes, Mama; but when I am told of a thing before company it always makes me worse, you know. _Man._ If I have any skill in the fair sex; Miss, and her Mama, have only quarrel'd, because they are both of a mind. This facetious Count seems to have made a very genteel step into the family. [_Aside._ _Enter ~Myrtilla~._ [_~Manly~ talks apart with her._] Lady _Wrong._ Well, Sir _Francis_, and what news have you brought us from _Westminster_, to-day? Sir _Fran._ News, Madam? I'cod! I have some----and such as does not come every day, I can tell you----a word in your ear----I have got a promise of a place at Court of a thousand pawnd a year already.