_Eger_. [_With great warmth._] Madam, it is with extreme regret I tell you, that I can no longer be a slave to his temper, his politics, and his scheme of marrying me to this woman,--therefore you had better consent at once to my going out of the kingdom, and my taking Constantia with me, for without her I never can be happy.
_Lady Mac_. As you regard my peace, or your own character, I beg you will not be guilty of so rash a step.--You promised me you never would marry her without my consent.--I will open it to your father.--Pray, dear Charles, be ruled:--let me prevail.
_Sir_ PERTINAX. [_Without, in great anger._]
_Sir Per_. Sir, wull ye do as ye are bid--and haud your gab, you rascal.-- You are so full of gab, you scoundrel.--Take the chesnut gelding, I say, and return to town directly, and see what is become of my Lord Lumbercourt.
_Lady Mac_. Here he comes.--I will get out of his way.--But I beg, Charles, while he is in this ill humour that you will not oppose him, let him say what he will--when his passion is a little cool, I will return, and try to bring him to reason: but do not thwart him.
_Eger_. Madam, I will not. [_Exit_ Lady Mac.
_Sir Per_. [_Witbout._] Here, you Tomlins, where is my son Egerton?
_Sir Per_. [_Without._] As soon as the lawyers come, be sure bring me word, [_Enters with great haughtiness, and in anger_. EGERTON _bows two or three times most submissively low._] Weel, sir!--vary weel!--vary weel!-- are nat ye a fine spark? are nat ye a fine spark, I say?--ah! you are a-- so you wou'd not come up till the levee?
_Eger_. Sir, I beg your pardon--but--I was not very well; besides I did not think my presence there was necessary.
_Sir Per_. [_Snapping him up._] Sir, it was necessary--I tauld you it was necessary--and, sir, I must now tell you, that the whole tenor of your conduct is most offensive.
_Eger_. I am sorry you think so, sir; I am sure I do not intend to offend you.
_Sir Per_. I care not what you intend.--Sir, I tell you, you do offend. What is the meaning of this conduct, sir? neglect the levee!--'sdeath, sir, you--what is your reason, I say, for thus neglecting the levee, and disobeying my commands?
_Eger_. [_With a stifled, filial resentment._] Sir, I am not used to levees: nor do I know how to dispose of myself,--nor what to say, or do, in such a situation.