Gossip
Mirabell
Aye, I have been engaged in matter of some sort of laughter, which is not yet ripe for discovering. I am glad this is not a cabal - night. I wonder, Fainall that you who are married, and of consequence should be descreet, will suffer your wife to be of such a party.
cabal is a group of people who are united to promote their private views or interests
discreet - careful & prudent in one's speech or action s, especially in order to keep in something confidential or to avoid embarrassment
'such party' do you mean Mrs F is cheating
Fainall
Faith, I am not jealous. Besides, most who are engaged are women and relations; and for the men, they are of a kind too despicable to give scandal.
Mirabell
I am of another opinion. The greater the coxcomb, always the more the scandal; for a woman who is not a fool can have but one reason for associating with a man that is.
coxcomb - a vain and conceited man , fancy dan # pakhandi in hindi
Fainall
Are you jealous as often as you see Witwoud entertaining Millamant?
Mirabell
Of her understanding I am, if not of her person.
Fainall
You do her wrong; for, to give her her due, she has wit.
Mirabell
She has beauty enough to make any man think so, and complaisance enough not to contradict him who shall tell her so.
complaisance - disposition to please or comply
Fainall
For a passionate lover, me thinks you are a man somewhat too discerning in the failings of your mistress.
discerning - having or showing good judgement ,to recognize or find out
Mirabell
And for a discerning man, somewhat too passionate a lover for I like her with all her faults, no I like her for her faults.
Mirabell
I used to think she is opposite to me, my expectation because of her faults but they are not disturbing to me now It became habitual to me to remember them without being displeased.They have become familiar to me as my own weakness and in a little time longer I shall like them as well.
Fainall
marry her, be half as well acquainted with her charms as you are with her defects, and my life on it , you are your own man again.
Fainall
Aye aye I have experience, I have a wife haha
Bet: Yes , what's your business?
mess : I have a letter for him, from his brother Sir Wilfully, which I charged to deliver into his own hands.
Bet : He's in the next room, friend; that way.
Zera
what was in the letter?
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