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Harpagon is a miserable old miser who has decided to take a new wife. He is an ugly, domineering tyrant, but he has set his sights on a young, beautiful, but impoverished young woman, Marianne. Frosine, the local matchmaker, is negotiating the marriage contract. She is cunning and wily, telling Harpagon what he wants to hear...which is far from the truth. She extols Marianne鈥檚 frugal nature and reassures Harpagon that Marianne is looking for an elderly, bespectacled man and detests young men
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Har. (aside). All is as it should be. (To Frosine) Well, what is it, Frosine?
Fro. Bless me, how well you look! You are the very picture of health.
Har. Who? I?
Fro. Never have I seen you looking more rosy, more hearty.
Har. Are you in earnest?
Fro. Why! you have never been so young in your life; and I know many a man of twenty-five who looks much older than you
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