Excerpt from The Steward, or Fashion and Feeling: A Comedy, in Five Acts; Altered and Adapted From Thos. Holcroft's "Deserted Daughter" Mar. Nay, nay, pray Speak lower. Recollect, my Wife is within hearing. The girl is safe, no doubt. You know I did not I could not abandon her. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from The Steward, or Fashion and Feeling: A Comedy, in Five Acts, (Founded Upon the Deserted Daughter) Such are the principal alterations that have been made in the play; and they have been made with a view of still pointing out the dangers of such errors as those of Mordent, and of holding up the villany of a perfidious confidential servant, like Item, to execration, both of which are the main objects of the original. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.