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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: CRABTREE. Too true indeed Ma'am, and Sir Peter Dangerously
wounded----
SIR BENJAMIN. By a thrust in second--quite thro' his left side
CRABTREE. By a Bullet lodged in the Thorax----
MRS. CANDOUR. Mercy--on me[!] Poor Sir Peter----
CRABTREE. Yes, ma'am tho' Charles would have avoided the matter
if he could----
MRS. CANDOUR. I knew Charles was the Person----
SIR BENJAMIN. O my Unkle I see knows nothing of the matter----
CRABTREE. But Sir Peter tax'd him with the basest ingratitude----
SIR BENJAMIN. That I told you, you know----
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