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Mrs Edging, a maidservant to Lady Easy, has been engaged in an affair with her master, Sir Charles Easy. Mrs Edging is fiercely jealous, and confronts Sir Charles’ wife with a letter she’s found from another of his mistresses - Lady Graveairs - but Lady Easy appears unconcerned. Indignant about her treatment by Lady Easy, Mrs Edging confronts Sir Charles about the letter, and receives a violent rebuke from Sir Charles, accompanied by threats of death should she forget her place again. The tone
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ENTER Sir Charles Easy.
Sir Char. So! The day is come again -- life but rises to another stage, and the same dull journey is before us. How like children do we judge of happiness! When I was stinted in my fortune, almost everything was a pleasure to me, because most things then being out of my reach, I always had the pleasure of hoping for ‘em; now fortune’s in my
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