[_Exit._

_Ennui._ [_Without._] Stand by! no ceremony, damme!--

_Louisa._ Heaven!--is this diffidence?

_Enter ENNUI and SERVANT._

_Ennui._ Get down stairs, you dog--get down,--[_Exit SERVANT._] Here I
am, ma'am:--ease is every thing--I'll seat myself--now for
business!--yaw--aw!-- [_Yawns aside._

_Louisa._ Sir!

_Ennui._ In one word, I'll tell you my character,--I'm a lad of
fashion!--I love gaming--I hate thinking--I like racing--I despise
reading--I patronize boxing--I detest reasoning--I pay debts of
honour,--not honourable debts--in short, I'll kick your servants--cheat
your family, and fight your guardian--and so if you like me, take
me--heh, damme!--I'm tired already!--yaw--aw. [_Yawns aside._

_Louisa._ Astonishing!--Mr Ennui--

_Ennui._ Ma'am? yaw--aw! [_Aside._

_Louisa._ Mr Ennui, can you be in your senses?

_Ennui._ In fact--I don't comprehend [_Forgetting
himself._]--Oh--ay--senses! [_Recollecting himself._] a lad of fashion
in his senses!--that's a very good joke!--if one of us had any sense,
the rest would shut him up in a cabinet of curiosities, or show him as a
wonderful animal:--they would, damme!--I can't support it!--yaw--aw!
[_Yawns aside._

_Louisa._ So, you glory in your ignorance?

_Ennui._ Ma'am--yaw! aw! [_Aside._

_Louisa._ So, you glory in your ignorance--in your vices?

_Ennui._ I've an idea--I can't understand--[_Forgetting
himself._]--vices! Oh:--ay, damme, to be sure; [_Recollecting himself._]
you must be wicked, or you can't be visited--singularity is every
thing,--every man must get a character, and I'll tell you how I first
got mine:--I pretended to intrigue with my friend's wife,--paragraph'd
myself in the newspapers,--got caricatured in the print-shops--made the
story believed,--was abused by every body,--noticed for my gallantry by
every body--and at length visited by every body--I was, damme!--I'm
curst sleepy,--yaw--aw! [_Yawns aside._

_Louisa._ Incredible!--but if singularity is your system, perhaps being
virtuous would make you as particular as any thing.

_Ennui._ Vastly well!--'gad, you're like me, a wit, and don't know it.
[_Taking out his Watch._] How goes the enemy?--more than half the day
over!--tol de rol lol! [_Humming a tune._] I'm as