Anna Cora Mowatt

Name: Fashion — Act V
Author: Anna Cora Mowatt

Fashion — Act V

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“Fashion — Act V”, is a work by Anna Cora Mowatt. It explores elements such as Adam Trueman, Snobson and Tiffany.

Quotes from Fashion — Act V (Anna Cora Mowatt)

Anna Cora Mowatt, Fashion — Act V

“ Tiffany
The Countess dee Jolimaitre, my dear, is at this moment on her way to--to Washington! Where after visiting all the fashionable curiosities of the day--including the President--she will return to grace her native city! Gertrude
I hope you are only jesting, Madam? Seraphina is not married? Mrs. Tiffany
Excuse me, my dear, my daughter had this morning the honor of being united to the Count dee Jolimaitre! Gertrude
Madam! He is an impostor! Mrs. Tiffany
Good gracious! Gertrude, how can you talk in that disrespectful way of a man of rank? An heiress, my dear, should have better manners! ”

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Anna Cora Mowatt, Fashion — Act V

“ I told you Fashion would the fashion be! Adam Trueman
Then both its point and moral I distrust. Count Jolimaitre
Sir, is that liberal? Colonel Howard
Or is it just? Adam Trueman
The guilty have escaped! Mr. Tiffany
Is, therefore, sin made charming? Ah! there's punishment within! Guilt ever carries his own scourge along. Gertrude
Virtue her own reward! Adam Trueman
You're right, I'm wrong. Mrs. Tiffany
How we have been deceived! Prudence
I told you so. Seraphina Tiffany
To lose at once a title and a beau! ”

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Anna Cora Mowatt, Fashion — Act V

“ Shame on you, Antony! Put a price on your own flesh and blood! Shame on such foul traffic! Mr. Tiffany
Save me--I conjure you--for my father's sake. Adam Trueman
For your father's son's sake I will not aid you in becoming a greater villain than you are! Gertrude
(C.) Mr. Trueman--Father, I should say--save him--do not embitter our happiness by permitting this calamity to fall upon another-- Adam Trueman
Enough--I did not need your voice, child. I am going to settle this matter my own way. (Goes up to Snobson--who has seated himself and fallen asleep--tilts him out of the chair.) ”

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Anna Cora Mowatt, Fashion — Act V

“ It's Tiffany's precious daughter that you're in love with. Colonel Howard
Miss Tiffany? Never! I never had the slightest pretension-- Adam Trueman
That lying old woman! But I'm glad of it! Oh! Ah! Um! (looking significantly at Gertrude and then at Howard) I see how it is. So you don't choose to marry Seraphina, eh? Well now, whom do you choose to marry? (glancing at Gertrude.) Colonel Howard
I shall not marry at all! Adam Trueman
You won't? (looking at them both again) Why you don't mean to say that you don't like-- (points with his thumb to Gertrude.) ”

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Anna Cora Mowatt, Fashion — Act V

“ But we have kings, princes, and nobles, in abundance--of Nature's stamp, if not of Fashion's,--we have honest men, warm hearted and brave, and we have women--gentle, fair, and true, to whom no title could add nobility. ”

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Anna Cora Mowatt, Fashion — Act V

“ You must pacify Pa, and put him in a good humour before I come back, though now I'm to be a countess I suppose I shouldn't care!" Undutiful hussy! "We are going to make a little excursion and will be back in a week--Your dutiful daughter--Seraphina." A man's curse is sure to spring up at his own hearth,--here is mine! The sole curb upon that villain gone, I am wholly in his power! Oh! the first downward step from honor--he who takes it cannot pause in his mad descent, and is sure to be hurried on to ruin! Mrs. Tiffany
Why, Mr. Tiffany, how you do take on! ”

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Anna Cora Mowatt, Fashion — Act V

“ But you will marry me? Count Jolimaitre
Give us your hand, MIllinette! Sir, command me for the most delicate pati--the daintiest croquette la royale--the most transcendent omelette soufflie that ever issued from a French pastry-cook's oven. ”

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Anna Cora Mowatt, Fashion — Act V

“ Snobson
Re--pea--ted--ly. Adam Trueman
Then you, Rattlesnake, if he goes to the States' Prison, you'll take up your quarters there too. You are an accomplice, an accessory! (Truemanwalks away and seats himself, R. Howard rejoins Gertrude. Snobsob stands for some, time bewildered.)
Snobson
The deuce, so I am! I never thought of that! I must make myself scarce. I'll be off! Tif, I say Tif! (going up to him and speaking confidentially) that drunken old rip has got us in his power. Let's give him the slip and be off. They want men of genius at the West,--we're sure to get on! ”

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Anna Cora Mowatt, Fashion — Act V

“ Tiffany
Then I suppose, my dear, it is quite as ungenteel to pay one's bills? Mrs. Tiffany
Certainly! I hear the ee-light never condescend to do anything of the kind. The honor of their invaluable patronage is sufficient for the persons they employ! Mr. Tiffany
Patronage then is a newly invented food upon which the working classes fatten? What convenient appetites poor people must have! Now listen, to what I am going to say. As soon as my daughter marries Mr. Snobson-- (Enter Prudence, R., a three-cornered note in her hand.) ”

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