Part 18 (1/2)

_Lady Teaz_ Yes, I know she almost lives on acids and small whey; laces herself by pulleys; and often, in the hottest noon in summer, you may see her on a little squat pony, with her hair plaited up behind like a dru on a full trot

_Mrs Can_ I thank you, Lady Teazle, for defending her

_Sir Pet_ Yes, a good defence, truly

_Mrs Can_ Truly, Lady Teazle is as censorious as Miss Sallow

_Crab_ Yes, and she is a curious being to pretend to be censorious--an aard thing, without any one good point under the sun

_Mrs Can_ Positively you shall not be so very severe Miss Sallow is a near relation of reat allowance is to be made; for, let es who tries to pass for a girl of six-and-thirty

_Lady Sneer_ Though, surely, she is handso how ht, it is not to be wondered at

_Mrs Can_ True, and then as to her raceful, considering she never had the least education; for you know her ar-baker at Bristol

_Sir Ben_ Ah! you are both of you too good-natured!

_Sir Pet_ Yes, distressingly good-natured! This their own relation!

Mercy on me! [_Aside_

_Mrs Can_ For my part, I own I cannot bear to hear a friend ill-spoken of

_Sir Pet_ No, to be sure!

_Sir Ben_ Oh! you are of a moral turn Mrs Candour and I can sit for an hour and hear Lady Stucco talk sentiment

_Lady Teas_ Nay, I vow Lady Stucco is very ith the dessert after dinner; for she's just like the French fruit one cracks for mottoes--made up of paint and proverb

_Mrs Can_ Well, I will never join in ridiculing a friend; and so I constantly tell le, and you all knohat pretensions she has to be critical on beauty

_Crab_ Oh, to be sure! she has herself the oddest countenance that ever was seen; 'tis a collection of features frolobe

_Sir Ben_ So she has, indeed--an Irish front----

_Crab_ Caledonian locks----

_Sir Ben_ Dutch nose----

_Crab_ Austrian lips----

_Sir Ben_ Complexion of a Spaniard----

_Crab_ And teeth _a la Chinoise_

_Sir Ben_ In short, her face reseuests are of a nation----

_Crab_ Or a congress at the close of a general herein all the members, even to her eyes, appear to have a different interest, and her nose and chin are the only parties likely to join issue

_Mrs Can_ Ha! ha! ha!