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It is the day of Alithea’s wedding to Mr. Sparkish. Lucy, Alithea’s maid, is trying to convince her to call off the wedding because Mr. Sparkish is not the man for her. Mr. Sparkish has a friend, Mr. Harcourt, who is desperately in love with Alithea, and Lucy thinks they would be the perfect match. Alithea refuses to be persuaded to break off her wedding because she made a promise to Sparkish that she cannot break, and also because he seem to have no touch of jealousy, and that is hard to find
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Start: Lucy: Well—madam, now have I dressed you, and set you out with so many ornaments, and spent upon you ounces of essence and pulvillio; and all this for no other purpose but as people adorn and perfume a corpse for a stinking second-hand grave: such, or as bad, I think Master Sparkish's bed.
Alithea: Hold your peace.
Lucy: Nay, madam, I will ask you the
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