_Lord._ Egad, I believe I do call to my remembrance--[_Gravely considering._]--Not, I assure you, Sir, that I perceive any great resemblance--or, if it was so--I dare say it is merely in the dress----which I must own strikes me as most ridiculous--very ridiculous indeed.---- _Twi._ My Lord! _Lord._ I beg pardon, if I have said any thing that----Lady Tremor, what did I say?----make my apology, if I have said any thing improper--you know my unhappy failing. [_Goes up the stage._ _Lady._ [_to Twineall._] Sir, his Lordship has made a mistake in the word "ridiculous," which I am sure he did not mean to say--but he is apt to make use of one word for another--his Lordship has been so long out of England, that he may be said in some measure to have forgotten his native language. [_His Lordship all this time appears consequentially absent._ _Twi._ And you have perfectly explained, Madam--indeed I ought to have been convinced, without your explanation, that if his Lordship made use of the word _ridiculous_ (even intentionally) that the word had now changed its former sense, and was become a mode to express satisfaction--or his Lordship wou'd not have made use of it in the very forcible manner he did, to a perfect stranger. _Sir Luke._ What, Mr. Twineall, have you new modes, new fashions for _words_ too in England, as well as for dresses?--and are you equally extravagant in their adoption? _Lady._ I never heard, Sir Luke, but that the fashion of words varied, as well as the fashion of every thing else. _Twi._ But what is most extraordinary--we have now a fashion in England, of speaking without any words at all. _Lady._ Pray, Sir, how is that? _Sir Luke._ Ay, do, Mr. Twineall, teach my wife, and I shall be very much obliged to you--it will be a great accomplishment. Even you, my Lord, ought to be attentive to this fashion. _Twi._ Why, Madam, for instance, when a gentleman is asked a question which is either troublesome or improper to answer, you don't say you _won't_ answer it, even though you speak to an inferior----but you say----"really it appears to me e-e-e-e-e--[_mutters and shrugs_]--that is--mo-mo-mo-mo-mo--[_mutters_]--if you see the thing--for my part ----te-te-te-te----and that's all I can tell about it at _present_." _Sir Luke._ And you have told nothing! _Twi._ Nothing upon earth. _Lady._ But mayn't one guess what you mean? _Twi._ O, yes--perfectly at liberty to guess. _Sir Luke._ Well, I'll be shot if I _could_ guess. _Twi._ And again--when an impertinent pedant asks you a question that you know nothing about, and it may not be convenient to say so--you answer _boldly_, "why really, Sir, my opinion _is_, that the Greek poet--he-he-he-he--[_mutters_]--we-we-we-we--you see--if his idea was--and if the Latin translator--mis-mis-mis-mis--[_shrugs_]----that I shou'd think--in my humble opinion--but the Doctor _may_ know better than I."---- _Sir Luke._ The Doctor must know very little else.