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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The School For Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan: SIR OLIVER. Your ever grateful and perpetual humble Servant----
SURFACE. Sir--yours as sincerely----
SIR OLIVER. Charles!--you are my Heir.
[Exit.]
SURFACE, solus
Soh!--This is one bad effect of a good Character--it invites
applications from the unfortunate and there needs no small degree
of address to gain the reputation of Benevolence without incurring
the expence.--The silver ore of pure Charity is an expensive article
in the catalogue of a man's good Qualities--whereas the sentimental
French Plate I use instead of it makes just as good a shew--and pays
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