[_Turning again to RIGHTLY, as to dissuade him._ _Rightly._ [_Coolly._] If the thoughts of the wedding-day make any part of the young lady's impatience, you take a bad way, Mr. Alscrip, to satisfy it; for I tell you plainly our business cannot be completed till I see these writings. _Alscrip._ [_Aside._] Confound the old hound--how he sticks to his scent! [_MISS ALSCRIP still at the Door._ _Alscrip._ I am coming, I tell you. [_Opens a Bureau in a confused hurry, shuffles Papers about, puts one into RIGHTLY's Hand._] There, if this whim must be indulged, step into the next room--You, who know the material parts of a parchment lie in a nutshell, will look it over in ten minutes. [_Puts him into another Room._ _Miss Als._ I won't wait another instant, whatever you are about--Let me in---- _Alscrip._ [_Opening the Door._] Sex and vehemence! What is the matter now? _Enter MISS ALSCRIP in the most violent emotion._ _Miss Als._ So, sir; yes, sir; you have done finely by me indeed, you are a pattern for fathers--a precious match you had provided! [_Walking about._ _Alscrip._ What the devil's the matter? _Miss Als._ [_Running on._] I, that with 50,000 independent pounds, left myself in a father's hands--a thing unheard of, and waited for a husband with unparalleled patience till I was of age---- _Alscrip._ What the devil's the matter? _Miss Als._ [_Following him about._] I, that at fourteen might have married a French Marquis, my governess told me he was--for all he was her brother---- _Alscrip._ 'Gad a mercy, governess---- _Miss Als._ And as for commoners, had not I the choice of the market? And the handsome Irish Colonel at Bath, that had carried off six heiresses before, for himself and friends, and would have found his way to Gretna-green blindfold! _Alscrip._ [_Aside._] 'Gad I wish you were there now, with all my heart--What the devil is at the bottom of all this? _Miss Als._ Why, Lord Gayville is at the bottom--And your hussy, that you was so sweet upon this rooming, is at the bottom; a treacherous minx!--I sent her only for a little innocent diversion, as my double---- _Alscrip._ Your what? _Miss Als._ Why, my double, to vex him. _Alscrip._ Double! this is the most useless attendant you have had yet.--'Gad I'll start you single handed in the art of vexation against any ten women in England! _Miss Als._ I caught them, just as I did you, with your---- _Alscrip._ Is that all? 'Gad I don't see much in that. _Miss Als._ Not much? what, a woman of my fortune and accomplishments turned off--rejected--renounced---- _Alscrip._ How! renounced?--has he broke the contract?----Will you prove he has broke the contract?