Jean-François Regnard

“ Roger: Yes, yes, we've had a real white sale during his absence haven't we?
Edward: It's a little nourishment that we must take sometimes; and we will work together on more nourishment in the future.
Roger: Work by yourself because I have a bad conscience about being the instrument of your ruin. It's with my help you've been able to dissipate 10,000 pounds, not to mention another ten thousand you owe here and there to usurers and money lenders, who are just waiting to fall on us and gobble everything up when the day comes to pay them back. ”

“ Roger: Well do you want me to speak openly? I don't like this alliance at all. And I forsee that it won't benefit anyone. Mr. Edward spends his money because he is in love and love makes a man open handed: marriage ruins love. If my master becomes a miser where will we be?
Lucy: He's of too prodigal a nature ever to turn miser. ”

“ My house hasn't been sold, and it's not for sale.
Richly: There! There! Don't upset yourself, I promise you you will always have your apartment—just as if you still owned it—and as if you were in good mental health. ”

“ I will sell myself to the devil if I know what! Tell him not to worry, and as for you, begin by getting drunk and go to bed.
Jeremy:
I will obey your orders exactly, don't fret.
(Exit Jeremy into the house)
Roger: Come, Roger, pull yourself together my boy: courage! Here we have a violent father returning impromptu from a long trip; a son in the midst of an orgy; the house in disorder full of cooks and caterers in preparation for an impending wedding—and all we have to do is prevent this from being discovered. Ah, here comes the old man. ”

“ What do you mean as if I was still in good mental health! Go away,
you're an old madman, an old madman who shouldn't be allowed out of
Bedlam—of Bedlam, my friend.
Roger: (To Mrs. Prim)
Are you wise to fight with a wacko?
Richly: Oh, if that's your attitude, you can get out. The house belongs to me, and I'll put my luggage there in spite of you. Just look at this crazy old woman.
Roger: (To Richly)
What are you getting in a rage for with a woman who has lost her mind? ”

“ It is true this little bourgeois hasn't an equal, and that I treat him like family, introduce him into society, teach him to gamble, educate his taste in manners, furniture, and horses. I lead him a little astray—but these little gentlemen are not very happy unless one inspires them with the manners of the court and they learn to ruin themselves in two or three years. ”

“ If you are happy, the whole world will be happy. Besides, it's not your fault. And you can't do anything about it but kick up a fuss. If you are patient no one will laugh at you.
Richly: Go to the devil with your sophistries. But what do I see. They're running off with my fifty thousand pounds.
Mrs. Prim:
It's that bitch of a Lucy and my niece.
Richly:
And my swindler son.
(Enter Edward and the others)
Edward: Daddy, it's no longer necessary to abuse your credulity. All this has been due to the zeal of Roger to keep you out of the house while I married Belinda. ”

“ After he's dead he won't be in a position to straighten things out.
Edward;
You're right, Roger.
Roger: Sir, you're not so bad that you can't, at least, speak well. Your father will have made a huge profit from his trip—and you will have made a huge expenditure in his absence. Of what can he complain when he returns? It will be as if he had never gone, and at worst it will be his fault for having been so foolish as to make the trip. ”

“ Lucy: You two are made for each other. When you're not around she's bored to death. She won't delay I promise you.
(Exit Lucy)
Roger: Well, sir! You're really going to get married? Very soon you will have finished your love affair and your money. Not the best way to finish the business. But if you are going to do it so be it. What will we tell your father when he returns from his business trip to Spain?
Edward: You always have inopportune thoughts. Look my friend: frolic in the present, have no regret for the past ”

“ I renounce her as my niece, and I will not aid her to deceive anyone; goodbye.
Lucy:
Don't trouble yourself—we know our business better than you.
Mrs. Prim:
I believe this will be some grand alliance!
(Exit Mrs. Prim in a huff)
Lucy: This will be a fine marriage and when it is consummated you will be honored to receive her and be her aunt. (shouting after Mrs. Prim) You just wait and see! (Lucy is annoyed, stung by Mrs. Prim's remarks. She would like to say more but cannot.)
Roger: (entering)
Good day, child. Who was that old lady you were talking with? ”

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