Bramble
Ah, my dear Tuneless--
Tuneless
You begin to dissimulate--. You hide from me your fear that I might
reveal to your wife your passion for-- Don't worry, I am discreet, and
she herself cannot prove, even if she suspects, that you took her for
Arabella--for you spoke low and she fainted.
Bramble
I am furious when I think--
Tuneless
That she didn't faint?
Bramble
The liar.
Tuneless
It's with lying that you find the way to dissimulate.
Bramble
What! All the caresses that she gave me for ten years were only to
have my wealth.
Tuneless
While you permitted her to caress, so you could have hers.
Bramble
A woman who hopes to outlive her husband is very unnatural.
Tuneless
For a man to wish to live longer than is wife is very--natural.
Bramble
To have a criminal passion for my nephew.
Tuneless
While you have an innocent tenderness for her niece.
Bramble
Heaven will punish her and all those who wish the death of others.
Such people always die first.
Tuneless
Good. You will both predecease the other.
Bramble
Now, I must dissimulate to keep the peace at home, and to preserve my
honor before the world.
Tuneless
Very good.
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