The School for Scandal • Paragraph 1
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Sir Peter Teazle. — Well, Charles, I must to-night expostulate with my wife; we shall never have any peace in the family if she go on in this way. I am for letting her have her own way, — but then she will have it in such a manner! I have a great mind to be severe; I have a great mind to oppose her; I could be angry with her, — but how many charms would I lose! — Rage would make her twenty years older in a night; — and yet I cannot help laughing at her, for she is always so happy. — Oh! here she comes.