General Discussion

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LADY SMART: Well, Ladies, now let us have a Cup of Discourse to our selves.
LADY ANSWERALL: What do you think of your Friend, Sir John Spendall?
LADY SMART: Why, Madam, ’tis happy for him that his Father was born before him.
MISS NOTABLE: They say, he makes a very ill Husband to my Lady.
LADY ANSWERALL: Well, but he must be allowed to be the fondest Father in the World.
LADY SMART: Ay, Madam, that’s true; for they say, the Devil is kind to his own.
MISS NOTABLE: l am told, my Lady manages him to Admiration.
LADY SMART: That I believe, for she’s as cunning as a dead Pig; but root half so honest.
LADY ANSWERALL: They say, she’s quite a Stranger to all his Gallantries.
LADY SMART: Not at all; but you know, there’s none so blind, as they that won’t See.
MISS NOTABLE: Oh, Madam, I am told, she watches him as a Cat would watch a Mouse.


It essentially means that his wealth and all that he is only exists because his father set him up.
If Donald was born first, he would never achieve any prominence--just floundering through life.

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