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Angélique is in love with Cléante, and expects him to approach her father, Argan, to ask for her hand in marriage any day now. When Argan tells her that she is to be wed, she happily assumes that she will be marrying Cléante--unfortunately, this isn’t so. Argan has betrothed her Thomas Diafoirus, a medical student and the nephew of his doctor. The hypochondriac Argan is pleased with his scheme--he has now secured a doctor into the family, to be available at his beck and call--but Angélique is
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Argan: I say, Angélique, I have a piece of news for you which, perhaps, you did not expect. You have been asked of me in marriage. Halloa! How is that? You are smiling. It is pleasant, is it not, that word marriage? There is nothing so funny to young girls. Ah! Nature! Nature! So, from what I see, daughter, there is no need of my asking you if you are willing to marry.
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