This Question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer. Hardcastle: And I love every thing that's old old friends, old times, old manners, old b...

This Question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer.

Hardcastle:

And I love every thing that's old old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines; and I believe, Dorothy (taking her hand) you'll own I have been pretty fond of an old wife.

Mrs. Hardcastle,

You're forever at your Dorothy's, and your old wife's. You may be a Darby, but l'll be no Joan, I promise you I am not so old as you'd make me, by more than one good year.

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