![]() Hastings replies: “But in the company of women of reputation I never saw such an idiot, such a trembler you look for all the world as if you wanted an opportunity of stealing out of the room.” When Mr. Around women of the lower classes, he is a nonstop talker, a wag completely at ease. Marlow reminds him that he is shy only around young ladies of culture and bearing. ![]() Hastings comments that Marlow has traveled widely, staying at many inns, but wonders why such a man of the world is so shy around young women. When Marlow and Hastings arrive there, they note that the inn is old but commendable in its own way. The “inn” is, of course, the Hardcastle home. Then, deciding to work a mischief, he tells them the Hardcastle home is too far to reach by nightfall but that there is a nice inn just up the road. Hardcastle’s treatment of him lately, sees a way to get even: He tells Marlow and Hastings that Hardcastle is an ugly, cantankerous fellow and that his daughter is a “tall, trapesing, trolloping, talkative maypole.” But, he says, Hardcastle’s son (meaning himself) is a “pretty, well-bred youth that everybody is fond of.” Marlow says he has been told otherwise, namely, that the daughter is “well-bred and beautiful the son, an awkward booby, reared up and spoiled at his mother’s apron-string.” Having just arrived in the area from London after a wearisome trip, they have lost their way. Tony Plays Trick Meanwhile, at the alehouse, Tony is having a ripping good time singing and drinking when Hastings and young Marlow come in asking for directions to the Hardcastle home. Miss Neville welcomes the attentions of Hastings but laments Mrs Hardcastle’s attempts to pair her with her “pretty monster,” Tony, in an effort to keep Miss Neville’s jewels in the family. Marlow, Constance tells her that her own admirer, Mr. Kate welcomes the opportunity to meet the young man, although she is wary about her father’s description of him as extremely shy around young ladies.īy and by, Constance Neville comes in for a visit. Young Marlow is the son of Hardcastle’s friend, Sir Charles Marlow. Charles Marlow, a scholar with many good qualities who “is designed for employment in the service of the country.” Marlow is to arrive for a visit that very evening with a friend, Mr. Even his darling Kate is becoming infected, for now she has become fond of “French frippery.” When she enters the room, he tells her he has arranged for her to meet an eligible young man, Mr. Hardcastle laments the follies of the age. Hardcastle chases out the door after him, saying he should find something better to do than associate with riffraff. Hardcastle discuss the London trip that is not to take place, Tony passes between them and sets off for the alehouse, The Three Pigeons. Hardcastle holds the jewels under lock and key against the day when Constance can take legal possession of them. Hardcastle wants to match Tony with her niece and ward, Constance Neville, who has inherited a casket of jewels from her uncle. Soon he will come of age, making him eligible for an inheritance of 1500 pounds a year with which tobfeed his fancies. Frizzle’s face.” Now as a young man, Tony has become a fat slob who spends most of his time at the local alehouse. And, Hardcastle says, “It was but yesterday he fastened my wig to the back of my chair, and when I went to make a bow, I popt my bald head in Mrs. Hardcastle, with every variety of mischief, burning a servant’s shoes, scaring the maids, and vexing the kittens. As a boy, Tony bedeviled his stepfather, Mr. Hardcastle’s son by her first husband, Mr. Living in their home with them is their daughter, Kate, a pretty miss of marriageable age, and Tony, Mrs. But Hardcastle says he likes everything old-friends, times, manners, books, wine,band, of course, his wife. Hardcastle’s old stories about sieges and battles. What’s more, their only entertainment is Mr. Oddfish, the wife of the local minister, and Mr. Hardcastle, eager for fresh faces and conversations, says their only visitors are Mrs. Once upon a time, he says, London’s affectations and fopperies took a long time to reach the country now they come swiftly and regularly by the coach-load. But old Hardcastle, content with his humdrum rural existence, says people who visit the great city only bring back its silly fashions and vanities. Grigsby, spend a month in London every winter. Their neighbors, the Hoggs sisters and Mrs. In a downstairs room of their old mansion, Dorothy Hardcastle tells her husband that they need a little diversion-namely, a trip to London, a city she has never visited. She Stoops to ConquerShe Stoops to Conquer (Play) production archive for QTIX code T01915614384.Plot of of She Stoops to Counquer by Oliver Goldsmith
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