Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1808 edition. Excerpt: ... SCENE II. Sir Stephen's Bertram's House. Enter Sir Stephen Bertram and Saunders. Sir S. Well, Saunders, what news have you been able to collect of my undutiful son? Saun. I have not seen Mr. Bertram, but I am told he has settled himself in very handsome lodgings, and is gone to remove his lady to them. Sir S. His lady, do you call her? Can you find no fitter term? Where should he get the means to settle? He was not furnished with them by me; who else will do it? If he attempts to raise money upon expectancies, be it at their peril who are fools enough to trust him: No prudent man will be his bubble.--If I were sure that was his practice, I should hold it a matter of conscience to advertise against his debts. Saun. Perhaps there may be some persons in the world, who think you will not always hold out against an only son. Sir S. Then let those persons smart for their opinion: --they little know the feelings of an injured father;--they cannot calculate my hopes, my disappointments, my regret. He might have had a lady with an ample fortune: --A wife without a shilling is but what avails complaint?--Could you learn nothing further, who supplies him, who holds him up? Saun. I hear that he had money of your broker, Sheva. Sir S. That must be false intelligence. He will as soon make gold by transmutation as wring it from the gripe of that old usurer: No, no, Sheva is too wary, too much a jew, to help him with a shilling. Saun. Yet I was so informed by his own servant, Jabal. Sir S. It mocks all belief; it only proves, that Sheva, the most inveterate miser in existence, has a fellow jew for his servant, one of the completes! liars in creation. Saun. I am apt to give him credit for the fact, notwithstanding. Sir S. Then give me leave to say, you.
