Excerpt from The Will: A Comedy, in Five Acts
Scene I - the gate of Mandeville Castle, and view of surrounding country.
enter Mandeville and Robert.
Rob. Joy! I give you joy, sir! Once more welcome to Mandeville Castle! Look, sir, there stands the old pile, just as we left it fourteen years ago. Shall I knock at the gate?
Mand. Lose not a moment. (Robert knocks) I have travelled far to have the mystery unravelled; and till I know why I have been thus treated - why for three tedious years I have received no letter from my father - no tidings of my child - the interval is insupportable!
Rob. Pretty treatment, indeed, sir; - to bring two gentlemen from India - all the way from the shores of Bengal to the coast of Devonshire - only to get an answer to our letters!
Mand. Didn"t I write by every packet? - regularly remit half my pay for the support of my daughter? - and to receive no answer! - to hear nothing from my father, or Mrs. Rigid, the governess of my child! What, what can be the motive for their silence?
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