LOVEYET. My time of life, indeed.--Provoking profligate!--I'll give Miss Airy all I'm worth, if she'll consent to have him;--the graceless fellow has us'd me so ill, that he shall be punish'd for it. [_Exit._ _End of the Fourth Act._ ACT V. SCENE I. _A Street._ _Enter YOUNG LOVEYET, HUMPHRY, and a NEGRO with a trunk on his head._ LOVEYET. Did you hear him say so? HUMPHRY. Yes; he said how he was intend you should have Miss Mary Airy, or Airy Mary, or some such a name. LOVEYET. Say you so, father?--I believe I shall do myself the pleasure to baulk you. I want you to go a little way with my man; but you will be sure to make no mistake. HUMPHRY. No, no, never fear me; I an't so apt for to make blunders as you. LOVEYET. [_Looking at his watch._] 'Sdeath! I should have been with her half an hour ago.--I know I can depend on you. Here, Cuffy, go with this gentleman. HUMPHRY. Why, if I _am_ a gentleman, Mr. Cuffy needn't give himself the trouble;--I can carry it myself. CUFFY. Tankee, massa buckaraw; you gi me lilly lif, me bery glad;--disa ting damma heby. [_Puts down the trunk._]--An de debelis crooka tone in a treet more worsa naw pricka pear for poor son a bitch foot; an de cole pinch um so too!-- LOVEYET. No, no, you shall carry it;--your head is harder than his. HUMPHRY. To be sure, my head _is_ a little soft. LOVEYET. You must let him take it to number two hundred and twenty-one, Broadway;--will you remember the direction? HUMPHRY. Yes, number two hundred and twenty-one, Broadway. LOVEYET. Right;--and enquire for Mr. Frankton, and tell him who it is from. HUMPHRY. Aye, aye, let me alone for that. [_Exit, with NEGRO._ LOVEYET [_manet_]. I think I am even with the old gentleman now;--but I lament the necessity of this conduct; and, if a man could eat and digest matrimony, without a little matter of money, I would forgive my unreasonable father, with all my heart; and he might eat his gold himself; though, by the bye, this sum of money, in equity and good conscience, is mine.--Now he wants to cross my inclination, by making me the rival of my friend;--what a strange whim! But if I don't trick him out of his project and his money too, it shall not be my fault. [_Exit._ SCENE II. _MR. FRIENDLY'S House._ HARRIET [_solus_]. Notwithstanding the arrival of Charles, and the happy result of the interview with my father, my mind is not at ease;--these strange rumours must have some foundation;--one says he is married to Maria; another says, he is discovered to be illegitimate; a third reports, he was found in company with a woman of ill fame; and to conclude the catalogue of evil tidings, a fourth says, that old Mr. Loveyet is going to disinherit him, in consequence of his having made him a grandfather, since his arrival.--But here he comes.