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SSTC - Finish that quote Flashcards

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“Is there a creature in the whole country, but ourselves…”

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“that does not take a trip to town now and then, to rub off the rust a little?”
- Mrs Hardcastle, Act 1

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“Ay and bring back…”

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“vanity and affectation to last them the whole year. I wonder why London cannot keep its own fools at home.”
- Mr Hardcastle, Act 1

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“Here we live in this old rambling mansion…”

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“That looks for all the world like an inn, but that we never see company.”
-Mrs Hardcastle Act 1

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“I hate such…”

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“old fashioned trumpery”
-Mrs Hardcastle Act 1

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“Add twenty to twenty and make money of that.” Mrs Hardcastle

Mr Hardcastle “…

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“Let me see; twenty to twenty, makes just fifty and seven.”
-Mr Hardcastle Act 1

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“Goodness! What a quantity of…”

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“Superfluous silk hast thou got about thee girl!”
- Mr Hardcastle Act 1

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“And in the evening…”

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“I put on my housewife’s dress to please you.”
- Kate Act 1

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“It’s a thousand to one that I shan’t like him;…”

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“our meeting will be so formal, and so like a thing of business, that I shall find no room for friendship or esteem.”
- Kate Act 1

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“Yet can’t he be cured of his timidity…”

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“by being taught to be proud of his wife?…But I vow I’m disposing of the husband, before I have secured the lover.”
- Kate Act 1

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“Among women of reputation and virtue, he is the modestest man alive ; but…”

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“his acquaintances give him a very different character among creatures of another stamp.”
- Constance Act 1

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“Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain…”

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“with grammar, and nonsense and learning; good liquor I stoutly maintain / gives genus a better discerning.”
- Tony Act 1

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“The daughter, a tall, traspesing, trolloping, talkative, maypole - “

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“the son, a pretty, well-bred, agreeable youth that everybody is fond of.”
- Tony Act 1

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“The landlord is rich, and going to leave off business; …”

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“so he wants to be thought a gentlemen, saving your presence.”
- Tony Act 1

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Enter Hardcastle followed by…

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three of four awkward servants.
Act 2

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“you must not be so talkative, Diggory…”

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“You must be all attention to guests.”
-Mr Hardcaslte

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“My life has been chiefly spent in a college, or an inn…”

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“in seclusion from that lovely part of creation that chiefly teach men confidence.”
-Marlow Act 2

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“But in the company of women of reputation I never saw such…”

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“an idiot, such a trembler ; you look for all the world as if you wanted an opportunity of stealing out the room.”
- Hastings Act 2

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“An impudent fellow may counterfeit modesty…”

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“but I’ll be hanged if a modest man counterfeit impudence.”
- Marlow Act 2

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“Why, George, I can’t say fine things to them…”

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“They freeze, they petrify me.”
- Marlow Act 2

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“Mr Marlow - Mr Hastings - gentlemen pray be under no constraint in this house…”

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“this is Liberty Hall, gentlemen, you may do just as you please.”
- Mr Hardcaslte Act 2

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“I see this fellow wants to give us his company, and forgets that he’s an innkeeper…”

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“before he has learned to be a gentlemen.”
- Hastings Act 2

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“The devil, sir, do you think we have brough down the whole joiner’s company, or the corporation of Redford…”

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“to eat up such a supper? Two or three little things, clean and comfortable will do.”
- Marlow Act 2

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23
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“Their impudence…”

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“confounds me!”
- Mr Hardcaslte Act 2

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“I shall be as much at a loss in this house as at a green and yellow dinner at the French ambassador’s table…”

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“I’m for plain eating.”
- Hastings Act 2

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“I have often told you, that though ready to obey you…”

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“I yet should leave my little fortune behind with reluctance.”

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“Perish the baubles!…”

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“your person is all I desire.”
- Hastings Act 2

27
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“I have lived, indeed, in the world, madam; but I have kept very little company…”

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“I have been but an observer upon life, madam, whilst others were enjoying it.”
- Marlow Act 2

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“You mean that in this hypocritical age there are few…”

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“that do not condemn in public which they practice in private.”
- Kate Act 2

29
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“Was there ever such a…”

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“sober, sentimental interview? I’m certain he scarce looked in my face the whole time.”
- Kate Act 2

30
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“There is nothing in the world I love to talk so much as…”

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“London, and the fashions, though I was never there myself.”
- Mrs Hardcastle Act 2

31
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“I’m in love with the town…”

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“and that serves to raise me above some of our neighbourimng rustics.”
- Mrs Hardcastle Act 2

32
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“If I am a man…”

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“let me have my fortin [fortune]”
- Tony Act 2

33
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“I never saw such a…”

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“bouncering, swaggering puppy since I was born!”
-Mr Hardcastle Act 3

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“Ask me no questions…”

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“and I’ll tell you no fibs.”
- Tony Act 3

35
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“If I had not a key to every drawer in my mother’s bereau…”

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“how could I go to the ale-house so often as I do.”
- Tony Act 3

36
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“We are robbed, my bureau has been broken open, the jewels taken out, I am undone!” - Mrs Hardcastle Act 3
“Oh! Is that all?…”

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“I never saw it acted better in my life.”
- Tony Act 3

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38
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“I can bear…”

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“witness to that!”
- tony Act 3, continuing to pretend that he doesn’t know the jewels are gone

39
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“Then as I live…”

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“I’m resolved to keep up the delusion.”
- Kate Act 3

40
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“And like an invisible champion of romance…”

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“examine the giant’s force before I offer to combat.”
- Kate Act 3

41
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“Suppose I should call for a taste; just by way of trial,…”

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“of the nectar of your lips.”
- Marlow Act 3

42
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“At the Ladies’ Club in town I am called their…”

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“agreeable rattle.”
- Marlow Act 3

43
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“Sir, I ask but this…”

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“night to convince you.”
- Kate Act 3

44
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“This little barmaid though runs in my head most strangely…”

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“… She’s mine, she must be mine, or I’m greatly mistaken.”
- Marlow Act 4

45
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“we all know the honour of a barmaid of an inn…”

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“[…] there’s nothing in this house I shan’t honestly pay for.”
- Marlow Act 4

46
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“From your father’s letter to me, I was taught to expecy a well-bred modest man…”

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“[…] but now I find him no better than a coxcomb and a bully.”
- Mr Hardcastle Act 4

47
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“By heaven, she weeps. This is…”

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“the first mark of tenderness I ever had from a modest woman, and it touches me.”
- Marlow Act 4

48
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“But I owe too much to the opinion of the world…”

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“too much to the authority of a father.”
- Marlow Act 4

49
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Reading the letter
“Dispatch is necessary, as the…”

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“hag, - ay the hag - your mother will suspect us.”
- Mrs Hardcaslte Act 4

50
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“If you and my papa, in about half-an-hour…”

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“will place yourselves behind that screen, you shall hear him declare his passion to me in person.”
- Kate Act 5

51
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“My guess, we should be upon…”

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“Crackskull common, about fourty miles from home.”
- Tony Act 5

52
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“Ecod, mother, all the parish says you have spoiled me…”

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“and so you may take the fruits on’t.”
- Tony Act 5

53
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“What at first seemed rustic plainness, now appears…”

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“refined simplicity.”
- Marlow Act 5

54
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(kneeling) “Does this look like security?…”

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“Does this look like confidence?”
- Marlow Act 5

55
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“In which of your…”

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“characters sir, will you give us leave to address you?”
- Kate Act 5

56
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“I must now declare…”

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“you have been of age these three months.”
- Mr Hardcastle Act 5

57
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“Pshaw Pshaw, this is all but…”

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“the whining end of a modern novel.”
- Mrs Hardcastle Act 5

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