Act four of The Conscious Lovers by Richard Steele. This is a LibriVox recording, or LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. Act the fourth. Scene one, Bevel Junior's Lodgings. Bevel Junior, with a letter in his hand, followed by Tom. Upon my life, sir, I know nothing of the matter. I never opened my lips to Master Myrtle about anything of your honour's letter to Madame Lucinda. What's the fool in such a frightful? I don't suppose you did. What I would know is whether Mr Myrtle shows any suspicion or asked you any questions to lead you to say casually that you had carried any such letter for me this morning. Why, sir, if he did ask me any questions, how could I help it? I don't say you could, Oaf. I'm not questioning you, but him. What did he say to you? Why, sir, when I came to his chambers to be dressed for the lawyer's part, your honour was pleased to put me upon, he asked me if I had been at Master Seelence this morning. So I told him, sir, I often went dither, because, sir, if I had not said that, he might have thought there was something more in my going now than at another time. Very well. Aside. The fellow's caution, I find, has given him this jealousy. Did he ask you no other questions? Yes, sir. Now I remember. As we came away in the hackney-coach from Master Seelence, Tom, says he, as I came into your master this morning, he bade you go for an answer to a letter he had sent. Pray did you bring him any, says he. Our, says I, sir, your honour is pleased to joke with me. You have a mind to know whether I can keep a secret or no.  Sir. What mean actions does jealousy may a command stoop to? How poorly has he used art with a servant to make him betray his master. Well, and when did he give you this letter for me? Sir, he ridded the thought he pulled off his lawyer's gown at his own chambers. Very well, and what did he say when you brought him my answer to it? He looked a little out of humour, sir, and said it was very well. I knew he would be grave a punt. Wait without. Good, I don't mind this. I'm afraid we're all in the wrong box here. Exit, Tom. I put on a serenity while my fellow was present, but I have never been more thoroughly disturbed. This hot man to write me a challenge on supposed artificial dealing when I professed myself his friend I can live contented without glory, but I cannot suffer shame. What's to be done? But first let me consider Lucinda's letter again. Read. Sir, I hope it is consistent with the laws a woman ought to impose upon herself to acknowledge that your manner of declining a treaty of marriage in our family and desiring the refusal may come from me has something more engaging in it than the courtship of him who, I fear, will fall to my lot, except your friend exerts himself for our common safety and happiness. I have reasons for desiring Mr. Myrtle may not know of this letter till hereafter, and I am your most obliged humble servant, Lucinda Seeland. Well, but the Post Script. Read. I won't upon second thoughts hide anything from you, but my reason for concealing this is that Mr. Myrtle has a jealousy in his temper, which gives me some terrors, but my esteem for him inclines me to hope that only an ill effect which sometimes accompanies a tender love and what may be cured by careful and unblameable conduct. Thus has this lady made me her friend and confident, and put herself in a kind under my protection. I cannot tell him immediately the purport of her letter, except I would cure him of the violent and untractable passion of jealousy, and so serve him and her by disobeying her in the article of secrecy, more than I should by complying with her directions. But then this dueling, which custom is imposed upon every man who would live with reputation and honour in the world, how must I preserve myself from imputations there? He'll, forsooth, call it or think it fear, if I explain without fighting. But his letter. I'll read it again. Read. Sir, you have used me basely in corresponding and carrying on a treaty where you told me you were indifferent. I have changed my sword since I saw you, which advertisement I thought proper to send you against the next meeting between you and the injured. Charles Myrtle. Enter Tom. Master Myrtle, sir, would your honour please to see him?  Show him up! Exit Tom. Well, I am resolved upon my carriage to him. He is in love, and in every circumstance of life a little distrustful, which I must allow for, but here he is. Enter Tom, introducing Myrtle. Sir, I am extremely obliged to you for this honour. To Tom. But sir, you, with your very discerning face, leave the room. Exit Tom. Well, Mr. Myrtle, your commands with me. The time, the place, our long acquaintance, and many other circumstances which affect me on this occasion, oblige me, without further ceremony or conference, to desire you would not only, as you already have, acknowledge the receipt of my leather, but also comply with the request in it. I must have farther notice taken of my message than these half-lines. I have yours. I shall be at home. Sir, I own, I have received a letter from you, in a very unusual style, but as I design everything in this matter shall be your own action, your own seeking. I shall understand nothing but what you are pleased to confirm face to face, and I have already forgot the contents of your epistle. This cool manner is very agreeable to the abuse you have already made of my simplicity and frankness, and I see your moderation tends to your advantage, and not mine, to your own safety, not consideration of your friend. My own safety, Mr. Myrtle. Your own safety, Mr. Bevel. Look you, Mr. Myrtle, there's no disguising that I understand what you would be at. But, sir, you know I have often dared to disapprove of the decisions a tyrant custom has introduced to the breach of all laws both divine and human. Mr. Bevel, Mr. Bevel, it would be a good first principle in those who have so tender a conscience that way to have as much abhorrence of doing injuries as— As what? As fear of answering for him. As fear of answering for him. But that apprehension is just or blamable according to the object of that fear. I have often told you, in confidence of heart, I abhorred the daring to offend the author of life and rushing into his presence. I say, by the very same act, to commit the crime against him, and immediately to urge on to his tribunal. Mr. Bevel, I must tell you this coolness, this gravity, this show of conscience, shall never cheat me of my mistress. You have, indeed, the best excuse for life. The hopes of possessing Lucinda. But, consider, sir, I have as much a reason to be weary of it, if I am to lose her, and my first attempt to recover her shall be to let her see the dauntless man, who is to be her guardian and protector. Sir, show me but the least glimpse of argument that I am authorized by my own hand to vindicate any lawless insult for this nature, and I will show thee, to chastise thee hardly deserves the name of courage, slight inconsiderate man. There is, Mr. Myrtle, no such terror in quick anger, and you shall, you know not why, be cool as you have, you know not why, been warm. Is the woman one loves so little an occasion for anger?  You know nothing of what it is to be alarmed, to be distracted with anxiety and tear of losing more than life.  You have touched me beyond the patience of a man, and I am excusable in the guard of innocence, or from the infirmity of human nature, which can bear no more, to accept your invitation and observe your letter. Sir, I'll attend you. Enter Tom. Did you call, sir? I thought you did. I heard you speak aloud. Yes, go call a coach. Sir, Master, Master Myrtle, friends, gentlemen, what do you mean? I am but a servant, or? Call a coach. Exit Tom. A long pause, walking sullenly by each other. Aside. Shall I, though provoked to the uttermost, recover myself at the entrance of a third person, and at my servant, too, and not have respect enough to all I have ever been receiving from infancy, the obligation to the best of fathers, to an unhappy virgin, too, whose life depends on mine. Shutting the door to Myrtle. I have, thank heaven, had time to recollect myself, and shall not, for fear of what such a rash man as you think of me, keep longer unexplained the false appearances under which your infirmity of temper makes you suffer, when perhaps too much regard to a false point of honour makes me prolong the suffering. I am sure Mr. Bevel cannot doubt, but I had rather have satisfaction from his innocence than his sword. Why, then, would you ask it first that way? Consider! You kept your temper yourself no longer till I spoke to the disadvantage of her you loved. True, but let me tell you, I have saved you from the most exquisite distress, even though you had succeeded in the dispute.  Read it. Aside. When he is thoroughly mortified, and shame has got the better of jealousy, when he has seen himself throughly, he will deserve to be assisted towards obtaining Lucinda. Myrtle, aside. With what a superiority he has turned the injury on me. As the aggressor I begin to fear I have been too far transported. A treaty in our family is not that saying too much. I shall relapse, but I find on the post-script something like jealousy. With what face can I see my benefactor, my advocate whom I have treated like a betrayer? Oh, Bethel, with what words shall I? There needs none to convince his much more than to conquer. But can you? You have all paid the inquiritude you gave me in the change I see in you toward me, alas, what machines are we? Thy face is altered to that of another man, to that of my companion, my friend. That I could be such a precipitant wretch. Pray no more. Let me reflect on how many friends have died by the hands of friends for want of temper. And you must give me leave to say again, and again, how much I am beholden to that superior spirit you have subdued me with. What had become of one of us, or perhaps both, had you been as weak as I was, and as incapable of reason? I congratulate to us both the escape from ourselves, and hope the memory of it will make us dearer friends than ever. Dear Bethel, your friendly conduct has convinced me that there is nothing manly but what is conducted by reason, and agreeable to the practice of virtue and justice. And yet how many have been sacrificed to that idol, the unreasonable opinion of men. Nay, they are so ridiculous in it that they often use their swords against each other with disassembled anger and real fear. Betrayed by honour and compelled by shame, they hazard being to preserve a name, nor dare inquire into the dread mistake till plunged in sad eternity they wake. Exceint. Scene two, St. James's Park. Enter Sir John Bethel and Mr. Seeland. Give me leave, however, Mr. Seeland, as we are upon a treaty for uniting our families, to mention only the business of an ancient house. Genealogy and descent are to be of some consideration in an affair of this sort. Genealogy and descent. So there has been in our family a very large one. There was Galfred, the father of Edwood, the father of Ptolemy, the father of Cressus, the father of Earl Richard, the father of Henry the Marquis, the father of Duke John. What! Do you rave, Mr. Seeland? All these great names in your family? These? Yes, sir. I've heard my father name them all, and more. Aye, sir. And did he say they were all in your family? Yes, sir. He kept them all. He was the greatest cocker in England. He said Duke John won him many battles, and never lost one.   But I must tell you, sir. I never knew any one but he that wanted that advantage turned it into ridicule. And I never knew any one who had better advantages put that into his account. But, sir John, value yourself as you please upon your ancient house, and to talk freely of everything you are pleased to put into your bill of rates on this occasion. Yet, sir, I made no objections to your son's family. This is morals that I doubt. Sir, I can't help saying that what might injure a citizen's credit may be no stain to a gentleman's honour. Sir John, the honour of a gentleman is liable to be tainted by as small a matter as the credit of a trader. We are talking of a marriage, and in such a case the father of a young woman will not think it an addition to the honour or credit of her lover that he is a keeper. Mr. Seeland, don't take upon you to spoil my son's marriage with any woman else. Sir John, let him apply to any woman else and have as many mistresses as he pleases. My son, sir, is a discreet and sober gentleman. Sir, I never saw a man that wenched soberly and discreetly that ever left it off. The decency observed in the practice hides, even from the sinner, the iniquity of it. They pursue it. Not that their appetites hurry him away, but I warrant you, because it is their opinion they may do it. Were what you suspect a truth? Do you design to keep your daughter a virgin till you find a man unblemished that way? Sir, as much as it does you take me for, I know the town and the world. And give me leave to say that we merchants are a species of gentry that have grown into the world this last century, and are as honourable and almost as useful as you learned folks that have always thought yourselves so much above us.  You are pleasant people indeed, because you are generally bred up to be lazy. Therefore, I warrant you, industry is dishonourable. Be not offended, sir. Let us go back to our point. Oh, not at all offended, but I don't love to leave any part of the account enclosed. Look you, Sir John, comparisons are odious, and more particularly so on occasions of this kind when we are projecting races that are to be made out of both sides of the comparisons. But my son, sir, is, in the eye of the world, a gentleman of merit. I owned you, I think him so. But, Sir John, I am a man exercised and experienced in chances and disasters. I lost in my earlier years a very fine wife, and with her a poor little infant. This makes me perhaps over cautious to preserve the second bounty of prevalence to a me, and be as careful as I can of this child. You pardon me. My poor girl, sir, is as valuable to me as your boasted son to you. Why, that's one very good reason, Mr. Seeland, why I wish my son had her. There is nothing but this strange lady here, this incognita, that can be objected to him. Here and there a man falls in love with an artful creature, and gives up all the motives of life to that one passion. A man of my son's understanding cannot be supposed to be one of them. Very wise men have been so enslaved, and when a man marries with one of them upon his hands, whether moved from the demand of the world, or slighter reasons, such a husband soils with his wife for a month, perhaps, and then could be way, madam, the show's over. Ah, John Dryden points out such a husband to a hair when he says, and while abroad so prodigal the adult is, poor spouse at whom as ragged as a cult is. Now, in plain term, sir, I shall not care to have my poor girl turned a-greasing, and that must be the case when— But, pre-consider, sir, my son— Look, you, sir, I'll make the matter short. This unknown lady, as I told you, is all the objection I have to him. But, one way or other, he is, or has been, certainly engaged to her. I am therefore resolved this very afternoon to visit her. Now, from her behavior, or appearance, I shall soon be let into what I may fear or hope for. Sir, I am very confident there can be nothing inquired into relating to my son that will not, upon being understood, turn to his advantage. I hope that, as sincerely as you believe it, Sir John Bevel, when I am satisfied, in this great point, if your son's conduct answers the character you give him, I shall wish your alliance more than that of any gentleman in Great Britain. And so, your servant, exit. He is gone in a way but barely civil. But his great wealth and the merit of his only child, the heiress of it, are not to be lost for a little peevishness. Enter Humphrey. Ah, Humphrey, you are come in a seasonable minute. I want to talk to thee, and to tell thee that my head and heart are on the rack about my son. Sir, you may trust his discretion. I am sure you may. Why, I do believe I may, and yet I am in a thousand fears when I lay this vast wealth before me. When I consider his prepossessions, either generous to a folly in an honorable love, or abandoned past redemption in a vicious one, and from the one or the other, his insensibility to the fairest prospects towards doubling our estate, a father who knows how useful wealth is and how necessary even to those who despise it. I say a father, Humphrey. A father cannot bear it. Be not transported, sir. You will grow incapable of taking any resolution in your perplexity. Yet, as angry as I am with him, I would not have him surprised in anything. This mercantile rough man may go grossly into the examination of this matter, and talk to the gentlewoman so as to— No, I hope not in an abrupt manner. No, I hope not. Why, does thou know anything of her, or of him, or of anything of it, or all of it? Oh, my dear master, I know so much that I told him, this very day, you had reason to be secretly out of humor about her. Did you go so far? Well, what said he to that? His words were looking upon me steadfastly. Humphrey says he? That woman is a woman of honor. How? Do you think he is married to her? Or designs to marry her? I can say nothing to the latter, but he says he can marry no one without your consent while you are living. If he said so much, I know he scorns to break his word with me. I am sure of that. You are sure of that? Well, that's some comfort. Then I have nothing to do but to see the bottom of this matter during this present ruffle. Oh, Humphrey! You are not ill, I hope, sir. Yes, a man is very ill that's in a very ill humor. To be a father is to be in care for one whom you often are disablaged, then pleased by that very care. Oh, that sons could know the duty to a father before they themselves are fathers. But, perhaps, you'll say now that I am one of the happiest fathers in the world? But, I assure you, that how the very happiest is not a condition to be envied. Sir, your pain arises not from the thing itself, but your particular sense of it. You are over-fond. Nay, give me leave to say you are unjustly apprehensive from your fondness. My master Bevel never disablaged you, and he will, I know he will, do everything you ought to expect. He won't take all this money with the girl. For ought I know, he will, forsooth, has so much moderation as to think he ought not to force his liking for any consideration. He is to marry her, not you. He is to live with her, not you, sir. I know not what to think. But, I know, nothing can be more miserable than to be in this doubt. Follow me, I must come to some resolution. Exceint. Scene three. Bevel, Jr.'s lodgings. Enter Tom and Phyllis. Well, madam, if you must speak with Master Myrtle, you shall. He is now with my master in the library. But you must leave me alone with him. For he can't make me a present, nor I so handsomely take anything from him before you. It would not be decent. It will be very decent indeed for me to retire and leave my mistress with another man. He is a gentleman, and will treat one properly. I believe so. But, however, I won't be far off, and therefore will venture to trust you. I'll call him to you. Exceint. What a deal of pothor and sputter here is between my mistress and Mr. Myrtle, from mere punctilio. I could any hour of the day get her to her lover, and I would do it. But she, for Soothe, will allow no plot to get him. But if he can come to her, I know she would be glad of it. I must therefore do her an acceptable violence, and surprise her into his arms. I am sure I go by the best rule imaginable. If she were my maid, I should think her the best servant in the world for doing so by me. Enter Myrtle and Tom. Oh, sir, you and Mr. Bevel are fine, gentlemen, to let a lady remain under such difficulties as my poor mistress, and no attempt to set her at liberty, or release her from the danger of being instantly married to Simburton. Tom has been telling. But what is to be done? What is to be done when a man can't come at his mistress?  To make us run out and you take us? How, Mrs. Phillips? Aye, let me see that rogue deny to fire our house, make a riot, or any other little thing, when there were no other way to come at me. I am obliged here, madam. Why, don't we hear every day of people hanging themselves for love, and won't they venture the hazard of being hanged for love? Ah, were I a man. What manly thing would you have me undertake, according to your ladieship's notion of a man? Only be at once what, one time or other, you may be, and wish to be, or must be. Dear girl, talk plainly to me, and consider I, in my condition, can't be in very good humor. You say to be at once what I must be. Aye, aye, I mean no more than to be an old man. I saw you do it very well at the masquerade. In a word, old Sir Jeffrey Simburton is every hour expected in town, to join in the deeds and settlements for marrying Mr. Simburton.  He is as warm and ridiculous as winning the heat of youth. Come to the business, and don't keep the gentleman in suspense for the pleasure of being courted as you serve me. I saw you at the masquerade act such a one to perfection. Go and put on that very habit, and come to our house as Sir Jeffrey. There's not one there, but myself knows his person. I was born in the parish where he is lord of the manor. I have seen him often, and often at church in the country. Do not hesitate, but come hither.  Leave the rest to me. I leave this with you and expect—they don't, I told you, know you. They think you are out of town. Would you had as good be forever if you lose this opportunity? I must be gone. I know I am wanted at home. My dear Phyllis. Catches and kisses her, and gives her money. Ah, fly! My kisses are not my own. You have committed violence, but I'll carry them to the right owner. Tom kisses her, to Tom. Come see me downstairs, and leave the lover to think of his last game for the prize. Exeunt Tom and Phyllis. I think I will instantly attempt this wild expedient. The extravagance of it will make me less suspected, and it will give me opportunity to assert my own right to Lucinda, without whom I cannot live. But I am so mortified at this conduct of mine towards poor Bevel. He must think meanly of me. I know not how to reassume myself, and be in the spirit enough for such an adventure as this. Yet I must attempt it, if it be only to be near Lucinda under her present perplexities, and sure, the next delight to transport with the fair is to relieve her in her house of care. Exit. End of Act Four. Act Five of The Conscious Lovers by Richard Steele. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. Act the Fifth. Scene One. Selen's House. Enter Phyllis with lights, before Myrtle disguised like old Sir Geoffrey, supported by Mrs. Selen, Lucinda, and Symboton. Now I have seen you thus far, Sir Geoffrey. Will you excuse me a moment, while I give my necessary orders for your accommodation? Exit, Mrs. Selen. I have not seen you, cousin Symboton, since you were ten years old, and as it is incumbent on you to keep up our name and family, I shall, upon very reasonable terms, join with you in a settlement to that purpose. Though I must tell you, cousin, this is the first merchant that has married into our house. Lucinda. Aside. Do Sonam. Am I a merchant because my father is?  There's no hiding the disgrace, Sir. He trades to all parts of the world. We never had one in our family before who descended from persons that did anything. Sir, since it is a girl that they have, I am, for the honour of my family, willing to take it in again and to sink her into our name, and no harm done. Disprudently and generously resolved. Is this the young thing? Yes, Sir. Phyllis to Lucinda. Good madam, don't be out of humour, but let them run there at most of their extravagance. Hear them out. Can't I see her nearer? My eyes are but weak. Phyllis to Lucinda. Beside, I am sure the uncle has something worth your notice. I'll take care to get off the young one and leave you to observe what may be wrought out of the old one for your good. Exit. Mum, this old gentleman, your great uncle, desires to be introduced to you and to see you nearer. Approach, Sir. By your leave, young lady. Puts on spectacles. Cousin Sembotin. She has exactly that sort of neck and possum for which my sister Gertrude was so admired in the year 61, before the French stressors first discovered anything in women below the chin. Lucinda. Beside. What a very odd situation I am in. Though I cannot but be diverted at the extravagance of their humours equally unsuitable to their age. Chin quota. I don't believe my passionate lover there knows whether I have one or not. Madam, I would not willingly offend, but I have a better glass. Pulls out a large one. Enter Phyllis. Phyllis, to Sembotin. Sir, my lady desires to show you the apartment that she intends for Sir Geoffrey. Well, sir, by that time you will have sufficiently gazed and sunned yourself in the beauties of my spouse there. I will wait on you again. Exit Sembotin and Phyllis. We're at night, madame, that I might be troublesome. There is something of importance, though we are alone, which I would say more safe from being heard. Lucinda. Beside. There is something in this old fellow me thinks that raises my curiosity. To be free, madame, I as heartedly condemn this kinsman of mine as you do, and I am sorry to see so much beauty and merit devoted by your parents to so insensible a possessor. Surprising. I hope then, sir, you will not contribute to the wrong you are so generous as to pity, whatever may be the interest of your family. This hand of mine shall never be employed to sign anything against your good and happiness. I am sorry, sir. It is not in my power to make you proper acknowledgments. But there is a gentleman in the world whose gratitude will, I am sure, be worthy of the favor. All the thanks I desire, madame, are in your power to give. Name them, and command them. Only, madame, that the first time you are alone with your lover, you will, with open arms, receive him. As willingly as his heart could wish it. Thus, then, he claims your promise. Oh, Lucinda. Oh, a cheat! A cheat! A cheat! Hush! Tis' I. Tis' I. Your lover. Myrtle himself, madame. Oh, bless me. What a rashness and folly to surprise me so. But hush, my mother! Enter, Mrs. Seeland, Simpeton, and Phyllis. How now? What's the matter? Oh, madam, as soon as you left the room, my uncle fell into a sudden fit, and so I cried out for help to support him and conduct him to his chamber. That was kindly done. Alas, sir, how do you find yourself? Never was taken in so odd away in my life. Pray, lead me. Oh, I was talking here. Pray, carry on, to my cousin Simpeton's young lady. Mrs. Seeland, aside. My cousin Simpeton's young lady. How zealous he is, even in his extremity for the match. A rightful man. Simpeton and the Cinder lead him, as one in pain. Pawks, uncle, will you pull my ear off? Pray, uncle, you will squeeze me to death. No matter, no matter. He knows not what he does. Come, sir, shall I help you out? By no means. I'll trouble nobody but my young cousin's here. They lead him off. But pray, madam. Does your ladyship intend that Mr. Simpeton shall really marry my young mistress at last? I don't think he likes her. That's not material. Men of his speculation are above desires. But be as it may. Now I have given old sir Jeffrey the trouble of coming up to sign and seal with what countenance can I be off? As well as with twenty others, madam. It is the glory and honour of a great fortune to live in continual treaties and still to break off. It looks great, madam. True, fillies, yet to return our blood again into the Simpetons is an honour not to be rejected. But were you not saying that Sir John Beville's creature, Humphrey, has been with Mr. Sealand? Yes, madam. I overheard them agree that Mr. Sealand should go himself and visit this unknown lady that Mr. Beville is so great with. And if he found nothing there to fright him, then Mr. Beville should still marry my young mistress. How? Nay, then he shall find she is my daughter as well as his. I'll follow him this instant and take the whole family along with me. The disputed power of disposing of my own daughter shall be at an end this very night. I'll live no longer in anxiety for a little hussy that hurts my appearance wherever I carry her. And for whose sake I seem to be at all regarded. And that in the best of my days. Indeed, madam. If she were married, your ladyship might very well be taken from Mr. Sealand's daughter. Nay, when the chit has not been with me, I have heard the man say as much. I'll no longer cut off the greatest pleasure of a woman's life, the shining in assemblies, by her forward anticipation of the respect that's due to her superior. She shall down to Simbotten Hall. She shall. She shall. I hope, madam, I shall stay with your ladyship. Thou shalt, Phyllis, and I'll place thee then more about me. But order chairs immediately. I'll be gone this minute. Excellent. Scene two, Charing Cross. Enter Mr. Sealand and Humphrey. I am very glad, Mr. Humphrey, that you agree with me that it is for our common good. I should look thoroughly into this matter. I am indeed of that opinion. For there is no art of us. Nothing can seal than our family which ought injustice to be known. I need not desire you, sir, to treat the lady with care and respect. Master Humphrey, I shall not be rude, though I desire to be a little abrupt, and come into the matter at once, to see how she will bear upon a surprise. That's the door, sir. I wish you success. While Humphrey speaks, Sealand consults his table-book. I am less concerned what happens there because I hear Mr. Myrtle is well lodged as old Sir Geoffrey, so I am willing to let this gentleman employ himself here to give them time at home. For I am sure it is necessary for the quiet of our family Lucinda were disposed of out of it, since Mr. Bevel's inclination is so much otherwise engaged. Exit. I think this is the door. Nooks. I'll carry this matter with an air authority to inquire into it. I'll carry this matter with an air authority to inquire, though I make an errand to begin discourse. Nooks again, and enter a foot-boy. So, young man, is your lady within? A laxer. I am but a country boy. I don't know whether she is or no, but you stay a bit. I'll go away and ask the gentlewoman that's with her. Why, sirrah, though you are a country boy, you can see, can't you? You know whether she is at home when you see her, don't you? Nay-nay, I'm not such a country lad neither, master, to think she's at home because I see her. I have been in town but a month, and I lost one place already for believing my own eyes. Why, sirrah, have you learnt to lie already? Ah, master, things that arise in the country are not lies at London. I begin to know my business a little better than so. But, um, you please to walk in. I'll call a gentlewoman to you that can tell you for certain. She can make bow to ask my lady herself. Oh, then she is within, I find, though you dare not say so. Nay-nay, that's neither here nor there. What's matter whether she is within or no, if she has not a mind to see anybody? I can't tell, sirrah, whether you are arch or simple. But, however, get me a direct answer, and here's a shilling for you. Will you please walk in? I'll see what I can do for you. I see you will be fit for your business in time, child. But I expect to meet with nothing but extraordinary in such a house. Such a house? Sir, you haven't seen it yet. Pray, walk in. Sir, I'll wait upon you. Excellent. Scene three, Indiana's house. Enter Isabella. What anxiety do I feel for this poor creature? What will be the end of her? Such a languishing, unreserved passion for a man that at last must certainly leave, or ruin her, and perhaps both. Then the aggravation of the distresses that she does not believe he will. Not but, I must own, if they are both what they would seem. They are made for one another, as much as Adam and Eve were, for there is no other of their kind but themselves. Enter Boy. So, Daniel, what news with you? Madam, there's a gentleman below who would speak with my lady. Sir, don't you know Mr. Bevel yet? Madam, this not the gentleman who comes every day and asks for you, and won't go in till he knows whether you are with her or no. Ha! That's a particular I did not know before. Well, be it who it will, let him come up to me. Exit Boy. Unreent is with Mr. Sealand. Isabella looks amazed. Madam, I can't blame your being a little surprised to see a perfect stranger make a visit and— I am indeed surprised. Aside. I see he does not know me. You are very prettily lodged here, madam. In truth it seems you have everything in plenty. Aside and looking about. A thousand a year I warrant you upon this pretty nest of rooms and the dainty one within them. Isabella apart. Twenty years, it seems, have less effect on the alteration of a man of thirty than of a girl of fourteen. He's almost still the same. But alas, I find, by other men, as well as himself, I am not what I was. As soon as he spoke, I was convinced to see, how shall I contain my surprise and satisfaction? He must not know me yet. Madam, I hope I don't give you any disturbance, but there is a young lady here with whom I have a particular business to discourse, and I hope she will admit me to that favour. Why, sir, have you had any notice concerning her? I wonder who could give it you. That, madam, is fit only to be communicated to herself. Well, sir, you shall see her. Aside. I find he knows nothing yet, no shall from me. I am resolved I will observe this interlude, this sport of nature and of fortune. You shall see her presently, sir, for now I am as a mother, and will trust her with you. Exit. As a mother? All right. That's the old phrase for one of these commode ladies, who lend out beauty for hire to young gentlemen that have pressing occasions. But here comes the precious lady herself. In truth a very sightly woman. Enter, Indiana. I am told, sir, you have some affair that requires your speaking with me. Yes, madam. They came to my hands a bill drawn by Mr. Bevel, which is payable tomorrow, and he, Indiana course of business, sent it to me, who have cash of his, and desired me to send a servant with it. But I have made bold to bring you the money myself. Sir, was that necessary? No, madam, but to be free with you, the fame of your beauty, and the regard which Mr. Bevel is a little too well known to have for you, excited my curiosity. Too well known to have for me? Your sober appearance, sir, which my friend described, made me expect no rudeness, or absurdity at least. Who's there? Sir, if you pay the money to a servant, it will be as well. Pray, madam, be not offended. I came hither on an innocent, nay, a virtuous design, and if you will have patience to hear me, it may be as useful to you as you are in a friendship with Mr. Bevel as to my early daughter, whom I was this day disposing of.  I am composed again. Be free. Say on. Aside. What I am afraid to hear. I feared indeed an unwarranted passion here, but I did not think it was inabuse of so worthy an object, so accomplished a lady as your sense and mean bespeak. For the youth of our age care not what merit or virtue they bring to shame, so they gratify. Sir, you are going into very great errors, but as you are pleased to say you see something in me that has changed at least the colour of your suspicions, so has your appearance altered mine, and made me earnestly attentive to what has anyway concerned you to inquire into my affairs and character. How sensibly and with what an air she talks! Good sir, be seated, and tell me tenderly, keep all your suspicions concerning me alive, that you may in a proper and prepared way acquaint me why the care of your daughter obliges a person of your seeming worth and fortune to be thus inquisitive about a wretched, helpless, friendless— Weeping.  I'll be composed, pray, go on, sir. How would Mr. Bevel be such a monster to injure such a woman? No, sir, you're wrong him. He has not injured me. My support is from his bounty. Bounty? When glottons give high prices for delicates, they are prodigious bountiful. Still, still you will persist in that error, but my own fears tell me all. You are the gentleman, I suppose, for whose happy daughter he is designed a husband by his good father, and he has perhaps consented to the overture. He was here this morning, dressed beyond his usual plainness, nay, more sumptuously, and he is to be perhaps this night a bridegroom. I own he was intended such. But, madam, on your account I have determined to defer my daughter's marriage, till I am satisfied, from your own mouth, of what nature are the obligations you are under to him. His action, sir.  The goodness and gentleness of his demeanor made me misinterpret all. Choose my own hope, my own passion that deluded me. He never made one amorous advance to me. His large heart and bestowing hand have only helped the miserable, nor know I why, but from his mere delight and virtue that I have been his care and the object on which to indulge and please himself with boring favors. Madam, I know not why it is, but I, as well as you, am me thinks afraid of entering into the matter I came about. But is the same thing as if we had talked never so distinctly. He know shall have a daughter of mine. If you say this from what you think of me, you wrong yourself and him. Let not me, miserable though I may be, do injury to my benefactor. No, sir, my treatment ought rather to reconcile you to his verges, if to bestow without a prospect of return. If to delight in supporting what might perhaps be thought an object of desire, with no other view than to be her guard against those who would not be so disinterested, if this action, sir, can in a careful parent's eye commend him to a daughter. Give your, sir, give her to my honest generous bevel. What have I to do but sigh and weep and rave, run wild, a lunatic in chains, or hid in darkness, mutter in destructed studs and broken accents my strange, strange story. Decomfort, madam. All my comfort must be to expostulate in mudness, to relieve with frenzy my despair and shrieking to demand of fate. Why, why was I born to such variety of sorrows? If I have been the least occasion. No, to a heaven's high will I should be such. To be plundered in my cradle, tossed on the seas, and even there an infant captive. To lose my mother, here but of my father. To be adopted, lose my adopter, then plunged again into worse calamities. An infant captive? Yet then to find the most charming of Mankind, once more to set me free from what I thought the last distress. To load me with his services, his bounties, and his favours, to support my very life in a way that stall, at the same time, my very soul itself from me. But has young Bevel been this worthy man? Yet then again, this very man to take another, without leaving me the right, the presence of easing my fond heart with tears. For, oh, I can't reproach him, though the same hand that raised me to this height now throws me down the precipice. Dear lady, oh, yet one moment's patience, my heart grows full with your affliction. But yet there's something in your story that... My portion here is bitterness and sorrow. Do not think so. Pray answer me, does Bevel know your name and family? Alas, too well! Could I be any other thing than what I am? I'll tear away all traces of my former self, my little ornaments, the remains of my first state, the hints of what I owed to have been. In her disorder she throws away a bracelet, which Thelon takes up and looks earnestly on it. Ah! What's this? My eyes are not deceived. It is, it is the same, the very bracelet which I bequeathed to my wife at her last mournful parting. What said you, sir? Your wife? Wither does my fancy carry me. What means this unfelt motion at my heart? And yet again my fortune but deludes me, for if I are not, sir, your name is Thelon, but my lost father's name was... Danvers, was it not? What new amazement? That is indeed my family. New then, when my misfortunes drew me to the Indies, for reasons too tedious now to mention, I changed my name of Danvers into Sealand. Enter Isabella. If yet there wants an explanation of your wonder, examine well this face. Your, sir, I well remember. Gaze on and read in me your sister, Isabella. My sister? But here is a claim more tender yet. Your Indiana, sir. Your long-lost daughter. Oh, my child! My child! O gracious heaven! Is it possible? Do I embrace my father? And I do hold thee. These passions are too strong for utterance. Rise, rise, my child, and give my tears their way. Oh, my sister! Embracing her. Now, dearest niece, my groundless fears, my painful cares no more shall vex thee.  Oh, make him then the fuller men's and be yourself the messenger of joy. Fly, this instant, tell him all these wondrous turns of providence in his favour. Tell him I have now a daughter to bestow, which she no longer will decline. That this day he still shall be a bridegroom, nor shall a fortune the merit which his father seeks be wanting. Tell him the reward of all his virtues waits on his acceptance. Exit, Isabella. My dearest Indiana! Turnes and embraces her. Have I then at last a father's sanction on my love, his banjo's hand to give, and make my heart a present worthy of bevel's generosity? Oh, my child! How are our sorrows past or paid by such a meeting? Though I have lost so many years of soft paternal delights with thee, yet in one day to find thee thus, thus bestow thee in such perfect happiness is ample, ample reparation, and yet again the merit of thy lover. Oh, how thy spirits left to tell you of his actions! How strongly filial duty has suppressed his love, and how concealment still has doubled all his obligations! The pride, the joy of his alliance, sir, would warm your heart as he has conquered mine. How lordable his love when born of that shoe! I burn to embrace him! See, sir, my aunt already has succeeded and brought him to your wishes. Enter Isabella, with Sir John Bevel, Bevel Jr., Mrs. Seeland, Symboton, Myrtle, and Lucinda. Sir John Bevel, entering. Where? Where is this scene of wonder? Mr. Seeland, I congratulate you on this occasion, our mutual happiness.  Now all exceptions are removed. My son has now avowed his love and turned all former jealousies in doubts to approbation, and, I am told, your goodness has consented to reward him. If, sir, a fortune equal to his father's hopes would make this object worthy his acceptance. I hear your mention, sir, of fortune, with pleasure only as it may prove the means to reconcile the best of fathers to my love. Let him be provident, but let me be happy. My ever-dastened, my acknowledged wife. Embracing Indiana. Wife! Oh, my ever loved! My lord, my master! I congratulate myself, as well as you, for I had a son who could, under such disadvantages, discover your great merit. Oh, sir John! How vain! How weak his human prudence! What care! What foresight! What imagination could contrive such blessed events to make our children happy, as providence, in one short hour, has laid before us! Simburton to Mrs. Sealand I am afraid, ma'am, Mr. Sealand is a little too busy for our affair. If you please, we'll take another opportunity. Let us have patience, sir. But we make, sir, Jeffrey wait, ma'am. Oh, sir, I am not in haste. During this, Bevel Jr. presents Lysinda to Indiana. But here, here's our general benefactor, excellent young man, that could at once be a lover to her beauty and a parent to her virtue. If you think that an obligation, sir, give me leave to overpay myself in the only instance that can now add to my felicity by begging you now to bestow this lady on Mr. Myrtle. She is his, without reserve. I beg you may be sent for. Mr. Simburton, notwithstanding you never had my consent, yet there is, since I last saw you, another objection to your marriage with my daughter. I hope, sir, your lady has concealed nothing from me. Truths are nothing but what was concealed from myself. Another daughter who has an undoubted title to half my estate. How, Mr. Sealand? Why, then, if half Mrs. Lysinda's fortune is gone, you can't say that any of my estate is settled upon her. I was in treaty for the whole. But if that is not to be come at, to be sure there can be no bargain. Sir, I have nothing to do but take my leave of your good lady, my cousin, and beg pardon for the trouble I have given this old gentleman. That you have, Mr. Simburton, with all my heart. Myrtle, discovers himself. Mr. Myrtle. Mr. Myrtle. Mr. Myrtle. And I beg pardon of the whole company that I assume the person of Sir Jeffrey, only to be present at the danger that this lady being disposed of and in her utmost exigence to assert my rights to her, which, if her parents will ratify as they once favored my pretensions, no abatement of fortune shall lessen her value to me. Generous man. If, sir, you can overlook the injury of being in treaty with one who has meanly left her, as you have generously asserted your right in her, she is yours. Mr. Myrtle, though you have ever had my heart, now I find I love you more because I bring you less. We have much more than we want, and I am glad any event has contributed to the discovery of our real inclinations to each other. Mrs. Seeland, aside. Well, however, I am glad the girls disposed of anyway. Myrtle, no longer rivals now, but brothers. Dear Bevel, you are born to triumph over me, and now our competition ceases. I rejoice in the preeminence of your virtue, and your alliance adds charms to Lucinda. Now, ladies and gentlemen, you have set the world a fair example. Your happiness is owing to your constancy and merit, and the several difficulties you have struggled with evidently show what ere the generous mind itself denies the secret care of Providence supplies. Excellent. Epilogue Our author, whom in treatise cannot move, spite of the dear cockatry that you love, swears he'll not frustrate so he plainly means by a loose epilogue his decent scenes. Is it not, sir, as hard fate I meet today, to keep me rigid still beyond the play, and yet I'm saved a world of pains that way? I now can look, I now can move at ease, nor need I torture these poor limbs to please, nor with a hand or foot attempt surprise, nor rest my features, nor fatigue my eyes. Bless me, what freakish gumballs have I played? What motions tried and wanton looks betrayed? Out of pure kindness all, to overrule, the threatened hiss and screams I'm scribbling for. With more respect I'm entertained tonight? Our author thinks I can, with ease, delight. My artless looks, while modest grace his arm, he says, I need but to appear in charm. A wife so formed by these examples bred, pours joy in gladness round the marriage-bed, soft source of comfort, kind relief from care, and is her least perfection to be fair, the nymph with Indiana's worth of eyes, her passion will be hauled with bevel's eyes.


At the core of their work is the simple belief that you cannot hope to build a better world while subjugating half the world's populations. Seems obvious to me. Too often, new mothers are not supported by social programs or maternity help. Too often, young girls are withheld basic access to education and advancement that could spark a brighter future for all of us. They believe, as I do, that gender equality is the best chance we have to combat the most pressing challenges of our time. That women are not only more affected by these problems, they possess the resources and leadership to solve them.


Well, you're right. This hardly looks like a highway work zone. But let me tell you, it's gonna be, and somebody has to start the job. Field engineers and surveyors begin the process of road building way before anybody even knows where the work zone will be. And right from the beginning, they have to be concerned about safety.  Just finding an existing reference marker can spoil your whole day. And probably the most dangerous critter out there is you. During the next few minutes, we're gonna be talking about surveying. Not how to survey, but how to survey safely. Like most safety concerns, both in and out of the work zone, surveying safety is a matter of attitude, your attitude, and the way your fellow crew members think about safety. You got to look out for one another. When your eyeballs are locked onto that instrument, they sure can't see the traffic. The surveyor's work zone can be just about anywhere. And while there will be beautiful summer days like this one, where it all seems like a stroll in the country, more often than not, you'll be out in the hot sun, or slogging through the snow in slush, or stomping in the mud. And on many of the locations, you'll need to be looking out for the traffic that's fast and up close, or the really big and nasty ones. The high up and treacherous, and the down deep and dangerous. But again, whenever you go out to survey, don't get caught just thinking about the numbers, or daydreaming, because sometimes the work can be repetitious. You've got to stay focused. Let's start with the basics. Your gear. Your personal protection gear. It goes without saying, when you're in and around the traffic, it's time for the high vis vests. Always. Don't forget them. And don't neglect your traffic control. There are times when surveyors have to go in harm's way right out there on the center line, where your most important personal protection is your thinking cap. Surveyors spend most of their time outdoors. You've got to keep track of the weather and dress for the environment. In summertime, that means loose clothing. Nothing wrong with short pants on a hot day, but sometimes the weeds and brush or that barb wire fence may change your mind. Hats and eye protection are good ideas, although it can be tough to focus your instrument through sunglasses and under the bill of your cap. Sturdy boots or shoes are a must. This is no place for your nikes. And don't neglect the fluids. And of course, surveying frequently has to continue in winter. The secret to winter wear is layers. The temperature can drop. The wind come up and your environment can change rapidly. Although the wind is blowing pretty good on this job, it's not too cold.  But notice they've got those hooded sweatshirts just in case things change. And check out these. Hunter's Mittens. Helps prevent frostbite finger. The real danger out here is hypothermia, where your body's core temperature goes down. It can sneak up on you and you can become a little punchy and disoriented. Not a good situation when you need to stay sharp. Keep your eye on your buddies. Out here, teamwork is important. Heavy duty coveralls, leggings, and of course, warm and waterproof foot gear is very important. Once your feet are cold, you're going to find it hard to concentrate on your work. Talk it over. Take a break for some hot coffee and a little warm up in the truck. Earlier, we met this guy swinging the brush hook. A very effective tool when handled properly, but also a potential hazard to yourself and those around you. So let's take a look at some of the hand tools surveyors work with. This trusty little hatchet, for example, it can put a point on your stake and drive it as well. Two for the price of one. Probably gets used as a hammer more often than a chopper, but don't treat it casually. That blade is sharp and you got to think about where you're swinging it. Talk about driving stakes. Surveyors get to drive lots of stakes and sometimes a pretty heavy duty sledge is required. Running a long series of markers can get pretty repetitious, but you got to keep in mind the potential hazard that sledge represents. Not only because your partner is close by, but think about the care and maintenance of your hand tools. A loose handle on this baby is an accident waiting to happen. This heavy duty post pounder is the answer for putting in those re-rod markers or driving posts. This is a two-person operation and teamwork and good communication are most important. Surveyors use all kinds of hand tools, everything from pickaxes and machetes to chainsaws. They all can be important to getting the job done and they all can be hazardous to your health. So treat them with the respect they demand. We said that the surveyors work zone could be most anywhere. Well, let's visit some of those locations with an eye out for the kinds of hazards they present. We watched these two go up this embankment earlier. Footing on these slopes can be pretty nasty, especially when the grass is wet. Sometimes the marker you need is just across the barbed wire. Fence climbing is always tricky. Notice how he sets the pole by the marker but they go to the next post for the climbing. And he's not just being a proper gentleman here. He's practicing good teamwork and giving his partner a steadying hand. Moving dirt along the haul road and that means the surveyors need to be there checking locations and elevations. Whenever you're out in this situation, you gotta do what your mama told you. That's right. Look both ways before you cross the road. Visibility can be a real problem out here. Dust gets in your eyes and also clouds you from seeing those big and nasty scrapers. Your bright vest helps but the rule of these haul roads is to stay out of their way. The drivers are up high, bouncing along, mostly concerned about where the next rig is. They can't see you down there. The noise can make it difficult to concentrate. The wind is blowing and they're coming at you from both directions. If you don't much enjoy the haul road, the borrow pit can be even worse because here there's no defined roadway. It just keeps changing. And to add to the comings and goings of these big scrapers, you'll often see other gear like this big dozer. It can be muddy, noisy and confusing. So again, you got to keep looking. Some pits will be working big dumpers. They follow a little better defined route than the scrapers but they're just as big. The driver's way up there above you and he's frequently going a whole lot faster.  Obviously there was some heavy equipment on this pipeline site although they're not working today. Looks like it's been a little wet. The hazards of working around these deep cut ditches are legend in the utilities business. Cave-ins and mudslides are your nightmares here. Once the basic route has been marked out, survey party's not going to be back through here much. But even when this operation is done and finished, it's good to think about why those signs are posted. In the urban and suburban environment, surveyors frequently need to mark out a job that requires crossing the existing underground utilities. You need to be sure the area you're working is fully tagged and flagged for what's under there. You sure don't want to be driving markers down into somebody's communication cables or worse yet, a power cable or gas line. Construction sites can be a real challenge. Like locating piers and checking bridge decks. The bridge crew gets used to working out here, but you need to review your situation carefully and just take it slow. Frequently, that deck is loaded with stuff to trip you up, especially when you're moving without looking first. Seems like a pretty nice day out here today, but remember, the wind can get the whipping around when you're up high like this and no day is a good day for a fall. Day in and day out. The most dangerous place to be doing surveying is out here on the center line. Let me remind you again how important your personal protection is out here and how you need to rely on each other. Talk to each other, watch out for each other, and don't forget, the job isn't done when you take the last reading. The job is done when you get back off the center line. So have a good day, but more important, have a safe work.  So let's go out with good ol' boys from Close and Nuff surveying. This is Marty Nuff, junior partner in the firm. He's a former rock musician who believes in on-the-job surveyor training. And believe me, he needs it. He's real proud of his new tool time belt. Says, there's nothing like a belt from the belt. And here's the principle of the firm, Lindy Close. Got his surveyor training in the Corps of Engineers and still likes to wear his military gear in the field. Doesn't hold with these new fangled digital instruments. Says his good ol' reliable meets the company's motto, Close enough for government work. On cool fall days, Marty likes to leave the Jeep running. A little warmer when you get back from the field. But a hot muffler in the dry grass is not a good situation. The secret to safe surveying is looking after one another and planning ahead. An extra-tall range pole and overhead power lines? No thanks. Meanwhile, back at the Jeep.  Earlier, we mentioned that it's advisable to be a little cautious when proceeding into terrain that may belong to the natives.  Finally, across the fence, our dynamic duo heads off across the field. Good luck and stay safe.


a version of very basic features of OTP and how can you use it to connect between different nodes in your network. So this is an extremely basic application that what it does it just starts a GenServer. GenServer is basically a process that keeps some state. So it goes in the loop and every next loop it goes you can update the state. So here if I do something like this message, it will add this message that I sent to the list of all messages, right? So it means that it will not provide any reply, I will not get any reply, but the next loop will be run with this state. And when I indeed it, it gives my, it gives, okay, and the first state that it starts is an empty list. And then if I handle a code with the text get messages, it will return all messages, like this is reply, this is the content of the reply, and this is the last one is the state that it will go with in the next loop, so you can do it. Okay, so I need to start this server, stock server, start link. Now this is the PID of this server, and I need to pass this PID. So right now let me assign it to some variable, so now this PID is all 0.15.0, and now I can do server send message, I provide the PID and I do server get messages, I need to provide this PID. And I got this message, right, so 2 and now 3, and I've got all these messages here. So that's extremely basic version, but it's also very convenient, right, because you have to provide this PID, you have to get it and pass it around. So now the next version that we will do is, let's get the second code. And now what we have is that, you see there is a difference here, I provide the name, so I provide the name of this process, it will be called TOG, and now when I send message, I provide this TOG here, so let's see how it will work. So once again I need to start server and I got the PID, but I do not need it anymore, because whatever we do, it will be just a send message. Okay, so this is good, so we already got rid of this PID that we need to pass around, but now the problem that we have is what happens in this process dies. So I can do the process where it's, the name of the process is TOG, I've got this process here, and now what I do, I will do the process kill, exit kill, and now it's process died. So now if I do good messages, I don't have it because that process died. So now the next thing that we can do is, is we can add the supervisor. So this, the change to go now, this find it in change, but what we added here is a supervisor. And the supervisor where we started it, it starts a process that will be called top master, and this process will have one worker that will be the server, and it will supervise it with strategy called one for one. Which means that whenever a single process dies, the supervisor will restart that very same process. So let's see how it works here. So now instead of the gen server, we will start the supervisor, and we got it, it has the PID here, now what we will do is stock server, some messages, it works, now we will do the messages, it works, now we will kill the process, it killed it, and now when we send message, we can send it again, because that process, because we started by the supervisor. The only problem here is that it contains only one message, because when we lost that previous process, we lost everything that it contained, we lost it's state. So the solution to that is to use the ETS that called showdice, that can be, when the process that holds the ETS is killed, the ETS, the content can be passed to the supervisor and the supervisor can give it back to the next process it starts. Okay, a few more things that show is, okay, so I'm going to add the archive module to show you another strategy. So this archive, Joe, what it will do, it will be containing all the messages, it will contain all the messages that our server contains. So server, when it gets a message, it will just pass it to archive. So the server dies, server is restarted, but the archive still contains all these messages, right? So right now our supervisor has both server and archive. Yeah, sure. It's basically the same as the server. It's like a copy, the only difference is that server passes the message to archive. So the archive, it's pretty useless, right? It's just another process that keeps the same information. They just want to use it to show you this other strategy. So we start supervisor, so I've got this message and archive gets the same message as server. And now if we kill the process where is talk, so the server died. So server has no messages, archive gets messages because archive survived. And now we will change the strategy to one for all. The only difference that I introduced here is the strategy. It was one for one, now it's one for all. One for all is that if one process dies, all the processes are restarted. So let's talk supervisor start. We've got this message, archive gets this message, now process. And now we killed both of these processes. So if you check now, archive doesn't get any message because it was restarted as well. So if you have situation where the processes depend on each other and one of them dies and changes its state, you need to restart all the other process as well, then you will use this strategy. In my case obviously it was completely useless because I just removed the archive that is supposed to survive when my process dies. There are two more strategies but I didn't dig deep into them, so we need to check in the documentation. One is called simple one for one and the other one rest for one or something like this. I do not really remember. Simple one for one. Exactly. They are going to introduce them dynamically. And that's basically going to represent the simple one for one strategy. And dynamic supervisors are there just to allow you to dynamically create new workers within a supervisor. And that's what a simple one for one actually represents. Okay, so it's not really simplified version of what we're talking about. Okay, so it's just the wrong timing. Workers as in they are all the same module. It's one for one when they are different. Kind of like full of workers, right? Yes, exactly. Okay, what I did now in this next comment is I introduced the application. So when I created the project I had this application, let's talk this module and it was like this. And now I extend it so that I start this module. And whenever I start the application, whenever I enter it, it will just create the supervisor automatically for me. And to do it I also needed to add it here to the mix file. So this mod says what is the module of my application. So I said that the module of my application is let's talk. Which means that whenever I start, I do the command to run mix run. This module will be invoked and it will call the method start. So right now if I do mix, it already started. So I can just do let's talk, server, send message. And it already works. I don't need to create the supervisor. It's done automatically for me. So now what I want to show you, let's see if something else changed here. No, everything here stays the same. So now what I'm going to do is I'm going to connect two different nodes with each other. And to that I will need my last commit. Should use global process name. So just to make it clear. So this process here, it's a local process. I cannot find it on another nodes. Even if I connect my nodes in a network, this process it's only available to this single machine. Because I log, I register it in like a local registry. So now we will use the feature that allows us to use the process, the same single process from various nodes in network. What? What is this git platform you're using? Or is this one? G. Ah yes, so it's git. Yes. Because I call it so often that I just single it. Okay, now. So I'm going to use a global process name. So what I do here is when I start my gen server, I have this PID. And now I say that using this global module that also showed us before, I register this process ID under the name talk. And I'm registering it globally, which means that any node that connects to my node will have access to that. And then when I send messages, what I do is I find this PID and then I pass it to the gen server. And also what I did is that I do not start my application anymore. And I will show you, I will explain in a moment why.  I will use the name of cookie. Start. Does it work? Yeah, okay. So what I did is I'm calling these, I'm running this application with two parameters. S name means short name, which means that it's the name of my node, short name of my node. And cookie is like, it's kind of like a message that if a few nodes use the same message, they will be able to discover each other. You can think of it as a password, but it's very insecure password because it's passed around in a plain text. So don't think about it as a security. It's most like, if you want to have a few networks, then you just use different identifier, right? And here I'm going to do the same. S name and two. Okay. So here you see I am node n1 at G is the name of my computer. So this is the name of the node and this is the name of the host. And now these nodes are not connected to each other. So I've got node.list and it's empty and the same here. Now I need to connect these nodes together. So what I do is node connect. And I pass an atom that will be the name of my computer and it returns true. Now we are connected. And now this process will start this node will start the supervisor. So let's supervisor start link. And now this process can get messages. It's empty. It can send message. And this process can do the same. It can get messages from the other node. This is just because I'm using this global name space here in my server. That's why they can communicate and they can easily find the process in the network. And now let's say that I'm, what? I'm not really sure if it's UDP or TCP. To be honest I have no idea. What's cool is that you don't need. Exactly. Okay. And now if I do, if I use different cookie here. And I call 175 and three. Okay. I started the application. And now I try to connect to node, connect. Once again it will be N2 and G. And it returns false. So this node, this is N2. It sees that someone tried to connect, but it couldn't because it didn't provide the correct identifier, right? So now I can't, obviously, I can't find that process. So let's get messages. I can't find it because I don't have access to that global process. So that global name space is available to the whole network, but to join the network you need to know the name. Know the name of the host that you want to connect with and the name of this identifier. And yeah, I think that's it. Just wanted to show that it's extremely easy to connect a few nodes. And you can do the same over the, over multiple computers. If you've got the local network, then you can do the same just by using either some host name or IP. Yeah, I think that's it. Thanks. Some more questions? No.


So before I get started, I would encourage you to visit the DATSY stand. They have a stand outside Linda and Emma and the team get involved in the DATSYs. It's great that we have a community now that we can actually share the projects, what we're doing and go up against our peers. It's the third year of the DATSYs this year and highly recommend people get involved in it. So I'm going to talk about something less exciting than the DATSYs. I give my own perspective on the application of lean technologies applied to data science in supply chain. Manufacturing in Ireland is a big deal. It's over a third of our GDP, which the European average is 15%. We employ 10% of the workforce directly in manufacturing. 20% when you take in indirect manufacturing of the workforce of Ireland is employed in manufacturing. 70% of those are in indigenous companies, only 30% in multinationals. We spend over 771 million every year on R&D. Over 8 billion on materials and services. And we contribute over one third of the country's gross added value way above our European counterparts. So manufacturing is a big deal in this country. But manufacturing is changing. Digitalization and digitalization is changing the face of manufacturing. And if we don't get on board, we will suffer because of it. The World Economic Forum states that over the next 10 years, over $100 trillion will be generated through social and industrial impacts. But they also estimate that anywhere from 2 million to 2 billion jobs can be lost in the next 12 years due to automation, digitalization, and a lot of technologies that we've heard here today. So digitalization, whether we like it or not, is going to have a massive impact on our manufacturing and our wider supply chains over the next 15 years. The European Union estimates that $110 billion of revenue will be generated in the next two and a half years out of digitalization. So digitalization is a big deal. And it's going to impact on our supply chains and our supply chains have to adapt. They're going to have to do things differently. The same way as when we look at companies like Google and Facebook that have their European headquarters here in Dublin, they're offering jobs to graduates that didn't exist 10 years ago. We're going to have to do the same in supply chain. Kids finishing secondary school now and students coming out of college would be looking for jobs in five years' time in the supply chain that we don't have today because we didn't need to have them, but we will need to have them in five years' time or less due to the impact of digitalization and analytics. So traditionally in Ireland, when we think of manufacturing, we think of a single node in the supply chain, but you've got materials coming from somewhere, you've got to deliver it somewhere, you've got all that returns policies, and you've got a plan to have that, and that's just you. And the amount of data that you're creating is massive, but you're just one node in the supply chain.  They're incredibly complex organizations, and I would contend that supply chains are so complex that they are a rich breeding ground for the application of data science because there are so many problems that need to be solved and now that we're moving from brownfield sites into digitalization, we now have data on tap to go and solve those problems. But I would also say that data is tricky in supply chains. We have lots of data. We confuse collecting data with doing big data. Data can be good and data can be a waste of time. Are you collecting the right data and what quality is it? If anyone saw Martin Perry from Microsoft this morning, he talked about data fluency, and he talked about what's the question. I often hear about we did a predictive maintenance project and we collect with 26 sensors on 10 magic grinders, and we're going to collect terabytes of data. That's great. Why does 26? What question are you trying to answer? Maybe you are collecting the right data, but just collecting data for data sake is a fool's earned. You may collect it all over time. But what we also see in supply chains is data starts in an ERP system or an MES system, but it's then twisted and turned into pivot tables and hundreds of Excel files that are now seen as data sources, but they're not. So we have lots of data in supply chains and sometimes it's about winding it back and say, where did that data originate from? Because there's only a limited number of data sources coming out of a supply chain.  It's only money. It's only technology. It's not that difficult, but is that what you really want? Do you really want me to go and put a team in place to track these five metrics? Are these even the five metrics that you want to know? Because I've got to put a full operation there to stabilize that flow of data. What are you going to do with it? I'll give you some insights. What are you going to do with the insights that we have gotten from the project we did to collect data and stabilize that flow of data and make it flow? And maybe I can dip in and out of that flow of data now and I can do some maybe anomaly detection or some advanced analytics, but right now we're still only talking about descriptive diagnostic analytics here. But what insights are you going to derive from that? And then more importantly, and this was talked about again, this is a current, a common theme I'm seeing today, with that insight, what action are you going to take? Because if you're not going to take any action, why did you look for the insights and why bother collecting the data?  And it all comes back to what's the question you're trying to ask? We see commonly in manufacturing the onset of digitalization is scaring people because the wall is getting bigger and bigger and all they're hearing about is this sexy AI stuff and machine learning and neural nets and they think, oh, we're so far off that and they are so far off that because they have to look at the basics, the digitalization, getting the data, stabilizing it. What happened in my manufacturing process yesterday? Talked about control towers earlier on. Do I have end-to-end visibility of what's happening with my suppliers? What my plan is telling me to do? How did I manufacture? Did I manufacture what my customer wants to order? Am I an agile supply chain? Am I a responsive supply chain? Do not have those types of supply chains. This is one that really gets on my wake, I have to say. A company goes into a VP in the US and says, I've got a big red button. It's going to do everything for you. It's AI in a box, you plug it in, it's going to do the Divlin Alt for you, 10 million bucks. VP goes, I'll have two of them because, you know, I just don't have the time, it's very complex. Give me two of those buttons and it's going to fix all our problems, third-party solution, plug it in, plug it in and away you go. That sounds brilliant. Go into my manufacturing site there and plug it in. Then they rock up at the front door and this is what they see. Where's your data? There's no electricity in this place. There's no data flow. Hang on a second now, we're going to need to bring in the SMEs and we're going to need to bring in half of your company just to stabilize the flow of data so we can plug in the big red button. Somewhere in the middle, it's just about having an honest conversation and saying, we want the big red button, but it's going to be a journey before we can plug it into the wall and press the big red button and that's okay. That's perfectly fine. It is a journey. Analytics in supply chains is a journey and you've got to get on board sometime because digitalization is steam-rolling ahead and if you're not on board, it was mentioned earlier on, you will perish. You will not survive the next wave of the technical revolution. So one of the concepts we talked about, we are a shingo in Depew Sinti's in Cork, we are one of the shingo award-winning companies. You get a shingo award for lean excellence. So trying to sell analytics in a supply chain is a tricky one because culturally it's like now we don't have to worry about that, but now all of a sudden we do have to worry about it. So we say, okay, these are your lean processes. You've got all these beautiful lean processes and that's great. But the data flowing through your lean processes is anything but lean and if you're filling data lakes, you're filling data sewers because you have data everywhere. You have hundreds and thousands of files. You haven't ever looked at the data flowing through your processes. You've just looked at the process. So if we take the concept of lean and I'm not a lean expert and I wouldn't disparage anyone in the lean community by trying to say I am, but if you take some of the concepts of lean and applying to the underlying data flowing through your processes, you could be much more effective. Lean and analytics. This was one thing we found. How do you adopt analytics into an organization that's culturally resistant to it? Well, most of those organizations have process centers of excellence. They went on a mad blast a couple of years ago sending everyone off to do lean six sigma courses, masters in lean process, all of that. So they get lean. They're probably leaned out at this stage of wanting to invest money in some other courses. So if you think there's a lot of similarities between the rollout of analytics in a supply chain and the rollout of lean in a supply chain. Lean is a toolkit. It's a set of tools and techniques to improve your business process. Data science is also a set of tools and techniques. It's like the plumber calling to the house. You ask him to fix the sink and say, by the way, the shower is broken. He goes, I'm sorry, I can't fix showers. I can only fix the sink. And it's the application of that toolkit across data flows in your supply chain. And even the journey on data science. So you might start off, this is your typical journey on a lean process improvement. So maybe you say, Joe, we want to move from Excel to click or Tableau or Power BI or some other BI tool. So we're going to upskill on BI tools. And then our green belts are going to become citizen data scientists. So these are not data scientists. These are people that work in the business sector, but want to upskill on some of the data science tools, maybe Python or some ETL tool or whatever it is to get more out of their data. Then your black belt might be your data scientist and your master black belt might be someone who specializes in machine learning or deep neural networks. But you don't need too many of those in an organization. Or maybe you don't need them at all. So there's a lot of similarities with how you would embed data science and analytics into a supply chain if you follow the lean trajectory. So this is a very simple app, a suite of apps that we created for one manufacturing site in Depew Cinti's. And again, it was using that concept of applying lean tools and techniques to the data working with process owners to say, what are your biggest pain points? And instead of building one big over arching software application that's out of date, what we would do is we would build it very small. And these small releases, small types of apps and embed them in the business because they were being led by the process owner. So the suite of apps would consist of capacity planning optimization tool and MES, the work orders that are flowing through my manufacturing process. Where are they at? Are they overdue? What stage are they at? And the scheduling application. The key thing here was we didn't integrate into any systems because when you're in a validated environment this can kill off a project saying it's not a problem. So all of the files that they used today in our manufacturing processes, they were our data source. Whatever files you use today, we will map to them. Then each one of those apps had a different modeling component, so it might be a mixed integer programming component for optimizing your capacity plan. It might have been a probability rule-based tree because you had a non-linear manufacturing process. And at this point you were able to show put all your data then into a file and send it out to your BI tool. And this was all very seamless. And they controlled it because what they would do is they go onto the website, download the files that they were already using today, put them into a folder, press a button and wait for it to process. So they controlled the flow of it. If the system went down, the system was down, and I don't mean this system, but if their MES system was down, they couldn't generate a flow of information down because they controlled the flow of information through the system because everything was on through the files they were already using today. And then if they're getting benefit out of that, then you can up-rev it and take it on to integration into validated systems because that's a different animal altogether and we want to stay away from that. Benefits, reduction in processing hours, processing loads and loads of Excel files, but the real benefits is what work orders are overdue. What work orders do I predict will go overdue in the next two days? What should I be working on? Because it was mentioned again today, what's managed, what's measured gets managed. And then capacity planning, being able to have a conversation across the supply chain, a data driven conversation to say you can't take that machine offline for two days because if you take that machine offline, that means I have to run my manufacturing process and the customers are currently looking for. So it becomes a much more fact-based discussion. And finally, with 10 seconds to go, I will leave you with a famous line from a famous management consultant culture is a strategy for breakfast. All of the analytics in the world isn't going to help if your organization isn't ready to adapt to digitalization, doesn't see it coming down the line and doesn't have the right culture in place. is a maturity mindset to say, this is happening, how am I going to embrace it? I might not be ready for deep learning or neural networks or any of that sexy stuff, but I do need to know what's happening in my manufacturing process, and I do need to see in my control tower what's happening across my supply chain. Thank you very much.


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All right, thank you, thank you all for attending. And yeah, so here's a project. Yeah, we did on implementing client-side security for the climate special interest group fabric application. So my name is Bertrand Rue. I come from actually the research background at a think tank based in Saudi Arabia. And this is work was done for the blockchain carbon accounting, which is a hyperledger lab project. Yeah, so essentially what we were trying that chief in this project was being able to assign fabric transactions. So, you know, private blockchain network using private keys that are stored externally. So that's not on the say the peers, the peer servers that are within the fabric network. So really providing client-side security. The technologies we use, so obviously fabric, building on the utility emissions channel, I'm built in no jays and type typescript for the BCA project. We also were considering working with a technology called trust ID, which is basically fabric, hyperledger fabric chain code, but I'll talk about later why we abandoned that. We also integrated our final solution into hyperledger cactus. Now this wasn't a requirement. It could have been implemented separately, but hyperledger cactus is a useful integration tool for cross-block chain or DLT compatibility. So we actually had a PR and implemented our final solution, which was a fabric, a new identity provider for fabric to manage these external client, on client key signing. We developed to manage this new identity provider. We developed a WebSocket server, which is basically just a node.js for both typescript for handling WebSocket upgrades, the identity. Finally, we had a client wallet. Originally again, we were going to find a way to use MetaMask and this is where the trust ID came in or MetaMask would be connected to fabric through trust ID for managing different DIDs, like those that are held in one's wallet. I'll explain again later why that was abandoned. And we ended up just building a node.js server-side WebSocket client. And finally, we used Docker to containerize some of the assistant components for testing and deployment. So yeah, the project objectives, as Yase stated, were to enable external signing of fabric transactions. This figure on the right of the screen just basically runs their decision tree for why you would want to use this kind of technology or why or why not? Do you need to store cheese on or off your peer network? Can you manage a central solution? Actually, one of my peer mentees per time who presented two days ago developed a similar solution to this, but using Vault, which is a central server-based solution for managing keys and key signing. Or do you really want to take your keys offline, which was the solution we were trying to develop here? And finally, if you want additional security, perhaps using an HSM so that your keys that are held by the client can never be exposed. They're sort of contained within this hardware device. So that was our objectives. The second objective for the project was really, how do we implement these custom X509 certificates? So the keys are the certificate is stored without the keys for use in the network. And finally, integrating this into the Blockchain Carbon Accounting application. So yeah, the first deliverable that we set out for this project was really to integrate trust ID with the Fabric Utility Missing Channel to access like an external client wallet, like MetaMask. Now we drop this and I'll explain in a bit why that was the case, but let me just get on to the other deliverable. So what we moved on to was building this identity server slash provider for Fabric using WebSocket and was packages the cactus feature. The third deliverable was, I'm not doing integration, this WSX509 credential type or provider, identity provider credential type that we created into the project. And finally, getting this WS wallet, so this server-side Node.js wallet set up to handle the external key storage, so secure storage of the private, the client's keys and the signing interacting with these Fabric transactions and of course, documentations with the justification and this decision trees for why would you such a system that I showed earlier. So yeah, getting back to this sort of abandoning the first deliverable of using trust ID. So the first phase of the internship, so the first couple of weeks or month, quickly realized that this solution was not ideal fit for our actual objective. So the reason was trust ID did not directly solve the problem that we had, which was using Fabric with offline private keys. It actually just sort of how it was a workaround because you were actually still the trust ID chain code still required these on peer keys. You're just adding additional key layer, for example, with a wallet like MetaMask that was bridged using trust ID. The other thing is MetaMask itself, this was just a side point, uses a type of digital signature algorithm that's not recognized by Fabric because it's not NIST approved. That's the SECP256K1 algorithm. So I learned how to develop and implement a custom identity provider as a full-scale solution for this problem of taking the keys and putting the keys into the hands of the external client. Built a solution that, in my opinion, can improve security for permission blockchain like Fabric for these permissioned entities that are using it. And I personally developed a deeper appreciation for test-driven deployment and creating nice TS code, TypeScript code. I'm not a computer science background. I do a lot of programming, but this experience was really enriching. I learned a lot. So the output was, finally, was this WDS identity, so no digestive server that creates these new identity sessions for the external client, that is the WS wallet, which is the crypto key store. We also dockerized the servers so that could be integrated with the beast that could be set up to run with the blockchain carbon accounting app. And of course, there was a PR that we had approved to Cactus to set up this connector for Fabric with the WSX509 credential identity type. So just final recommendations for future work, possibly extending features of the WS wallet. The certificates themselves that are created when you're enrolled with Fabric are stored in either with Fabric or in a third party. For example, Vault, which is a secure cloud-based storage. One could actually just store the certificates with the external client's wallet itself. That's just an option. Adding additional security features like approval for multiple transaction requests when you open a new WebSocket session and potentially using other frameworks, HSM integration and potentially using other frameworks apart from a Node.js server for WS wallet. For example, implementing it as a browser extension, similar to how MetaMask is set up or with a desktop app or even a mobile app. My mentee's decision on this project has actually taken the tools we've built and implemented it into this OpenTap's implementation of the BCI project. So I can just show you quickly. This is showing someone enrolling as an admin and this screen here is basically showing the WS wallet I set up, which is asking the client, this is the external client to input a password to unlock the key they have stored so they can interact with this blockchain carbon accounting application expressed here in this OpenTap's implementation using the BCI API, the blockchain carbon accounting API. Yeah, something else, this is just a side point is you don't really have to use Cactus to set up a WSX519 provider. We just did that because it's a great package. It's really useful, but some projects don't use Cactus. So it'd be cool to have these identity provider type accessible for those types of projects. Finally, some major insight gain, and I think this is a great quote that sums up a lot of the insights that some of the different mentees have mentioned was don't spend too much time on the solution, think a lot about the problem. And this is relevant in a lot of domains, but what I've realized in the open source community can be incredibly important to think this way because there are so many solutions to a given problem and you want to avoid settling on one before the problem and outcome is well-defined. This wasn't necessarily a huge issue for this project. Yes, we did have the challenge of figuring out of trust ID and MetaMask were really suitable tools. Fortunately, some of the mentors, particularly Khamash Nagar, really helped point that out and point me in the right direction to look for a better solution. And also one of the mentees, my peer mentees, Pritam who presented two days ago was also really helpful in this project. So the number one skill I would take away from this experience for the future is really exhaust the challenges to a solution before you start implementation. So yeah, thank you to Sai Kamlesh, also Peter from Cactus who really helped give some detailed review of the WS identity system that I set up on that PR. And of course, Pritam, I don't think you're on the call, but A.K. Zakhar, thanks for your help. And last but not least, Linux Foundation for making this happen. Thank you. Thank you very much, Bertrand, for presenting on your work and your journey of, you know, deciding, you know, really, yeah, spending a lot of time thinking about the problems rather than the solutions. So that's really, really, really insightful feedback. Thank you. And I do see, Si, can you come off of mute? Do you have anything to add? Or I also see, yes. Hi. Yes, I can hear you. Okay, yeah, no, I think this was a really great solution that in the end Bertrand came up with. We tried a lot of different options. And I think at some point, maybe we should separate this out into its own hyperledger labs project, because I think a lot of the other people working with Fabric could use this for client-side authentication and signing. So. Great. Any other mentors we'd like to add? Yeah, I mean, so actually I want to, because in the Fabric, this client-side identity is very challenging and this is a really challenging project where Bertrand actually really put lots of effort and other mentee like Pritham Singh, really did a very well job. And kind of integrating the hyperledger cactus and then adding this web socket layer for the identity layer. I think this is really interesting. Vaz comes out of this mentorship project. Thank you.