(_Enter_ ST. LOUIS)
_St. Louis._ Jarnie, Monsieur, I was going up de hide in de garret, and
this stone come Pauf--here by my head.
_Roger._ I'll go and speak to un, they'll give over for an honest
Englishman, I warrant un. (_Exit_)
_Lady Betty._ What a pack of Savages!
_Jack._ They have no police; at Paris one of the Canaille dare not come
within the Atmosphere of a Man of Condition--there, for sending forty
Livres to the Lieutenant of the Police, a Man of Quality may run a
Scoundrel thro' the Body.
_Sir Robert._ Well, well, come let's in to dinner--Mr. Florid, and the
French Gentleman are waiting for us.
_Lady Betty._ Oh, I could not eat in this condition--I'll step upstairs
to M'am'selle Harriet. (_Exit_)
_Jack._ And I'll go up to my Toilette.
_Wildfire._ No, no, you shall come and dine.
_Sir Robert._ That's right, Lads, bring him along. (_Exeunt_)
(_Enter_ ROGER _with a Tankard in his hand_)
_Roger._ There, I gave un something to drink, and they've quiet.
_Sideboard._ Young Master's greatly chang'd Roger.
_Roger._ He is greatly chang'd indeed; here's my sarvice to you.
_Sideboard._ He must have spent a great deal of Money abroad.
_Roger._ Ay, ay, Sir Robert never stinted un for that.
_Sideboard._ We were all in a sad way about him at one time.
_Roger._ Ay, that was when the French Marquis run un thro' the Body;
Lord help ye, I was in a sad Pucker--as sure as you are there I thought
we had lost un--thoff he deserv'd it in part too. I'll tell you how it
was. He was got one day bragging of his Amorous, I think they call
it--and so some young thing was toasted--she was painted up to the Eyes,
I warrant her--they all paint there Master Sideboard, like so many
Dolls.
_Sideboard._ So I have heard.
_Roger._ Here's my sarvice to you--and so when the young woman was
toasted, odds my Heart, what does the Squire, but says he, what
signifies drinking she--I have had she; thoff he never had her atall
Master Sideboard, a had not indeed. I have had she, says the Squire,
give us a new face. Had she says the Marquis do you know she is my
Sister? I know that says the Squire, and I lov'd her the better for it.
And so the Marquis grew bloody angry and run un thro' the small Ribs--a
did indeed.
_Sideboard._ We were all afraid he would have died.
_Roger._ Here's my sarvice to you, a wish a had never set a foot in
their Country. I never had so much as a hearty meal while I was among
un, excepten a Month or two in the beginning, when the Squire liv'd with
some of his Country Folks in the Rue de Butchery--I think they call it.
_Sideboard._ No place like our Country, I believe Roger, let 'em say
what they will.
_Roger._ You have hit it Master Sideboard, you have indeed. Dear Heart,
they have such Laws there--why a poor Servant dare not give his Opinion
there of the Government.
_Sideboard._ No!
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