Mary Price; or, The Adventures of a Servant Girl — page 26: what you’re looking at

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SC. I.] MARY PRICE. 23 my life! Catch me doing a good turn to a fellow-creetur in distress—that’s all! Nick. But it won’t do to let him go off like that—he’ll tell Mary, and BILL. Yes, come along—we'll make him take a solemn oath to hold his tongue, or else—come along, Nick. Music—they run off, L. Enter LORD CLAVERING, R. Lorp C. Yes; I am determined, at all hazards, she shall be mine. A few miles from town I have a snug retreat, called the White Cottage, which has before served me on similar occasions—thither Mary Price shall be conveyed; but there will be some peril in its accomplishment, and I shall need a couple of sturdy, resolute fellows Re-enter BILu and NICK, L. Brut. He’s off—couldn’t see nothing of him. Nick. And are we to be balked of that job, when there’s such a lot of plate and Lorp C. Hem! hem! (they start) Biuu. Oh, lord—who’s that ? Nick. "Tain’t a peeler, is it ? Lorp C. I think I may say it will prove fortunate for all of us that we have met. BiLu. (aside to Nick) I knows him—he’s a lord. What’s he up to? Lorp C. Are you inclined to earn a few sovereigns ? Bit. Well, we’re not partickler. Nick. In a honest way, in course ? Lorp C. Precisely. Whose plate chest is it that you have a weakness for? Nick. Oh! Britt. When he says honest, he means what we calls honest. Lorp C. I understand. Brit. Many honest chaps of our sort gets a few years penal servitude, and so—— Lorp C. And so I'll come to the purpose, for I see you are the very men I needed. Listen! very near there dwells a young woman, named Mary Price ? Bitt. Why, she’s a townswoman of ours. She comes from Ashford. We knows her. Lorp C. (c.) That is fortunate. Carry her off to this address (gives a card) by any stratagem, and I’ll handsomely reward you. Nick. (L.) No easy job, your honour, Howsomever, we'll try it on—eh, Bill? cCoOnnicloooks (C@