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Chitra by rabindranath tagore. A, this is a LibriVox recording
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librivox.org. The characters, God's Madonna.
Eros read my Thomas Peter for Santa liquor is read by Alan

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mapstone. Mortals chitra daughter of the
king of Manipur read by a by Arjuna, a prince of the House of
the chorus. He is one of the cafeteria or
Warrior caste and during the action is living as a Hermit
retired in the forest read by Todd.
Villagers from an outlying District of Manipur read by

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Sonia, stage directions. Read by phone Note, the dramatic
poem chitra has been performed in India without scenery the
actors being surrounded by the audience.
Proposals for its production here, having been made to him.
He went through this translationand provided stage directions,
but wish these emitted, if it were printed as a book, Scene 1

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art, thou the god with the five,darts, the god of love, I am.
He who was the first born in theheart of the Creator, I bind in
bonds of pain and Bliss, the lives of men and women.
I know I know what that pain is and those bonds and who art thou

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my Lord, I am, his friend was Center the king of the seasons.
Is death and decrepitude would wear the world to the Bone but
that I follow them and constantly attack them.
I am Eternal youth. I bow to thee.

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Lord, vasanta But what Stern vowis dying, there.
Stranger why Dost thou wither thy fresh youth with Penance and
mortification? Such a sacrifice is not fit for
the worship of Love who art thouand what is that?
I prayer. I am chitra the daughter of the

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king. The house of Manipur with God,
like Grace Lord, Shiva promised to my Royal grandsire and
unbroken line of male descent. Nevertheless study mine word,
proved powerless to change the spark of life in my mother's
womb. So Invincible was my nature
woman though? I be I know that is why thy

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father brings the up, as his son, he has topped the, the use
of the bowl and all the duties of a king.
Yes, that is why I am dressed ina man's a tire and have left the
seclusion of a woman's chamber. I know no.
Feminine Wilds for winning Hearts.
My hands are strong to bend the bow, but I have never learned

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Cupid's archery. The play of eyes that requires
no schooling. Fair one.
The eye does its work on taught and he knows how well with
struck in the heart. One day in search of game.
I roved alone to the forest on the bank of the poor.
Now, River tying my horse to a tree trunk, I entered a dense

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Thicket on the track of a deer. I found a narrow sinuous path
Meandering through the dusk of the entangled, boughs the
foliage, vibrated with the chirping of crickets.
When of a sudden I Came Upon A man lying on a bed of dried
leaves across my path. I asked him heartily to move a

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side but he did not then with the sharp end of my bow.
I pricked him in contempt. Instantly, he leaped up with
straight tall limbs like a sudden tongue of fire from a
heap of Ashes. An amused smile.
Flickered round two corners of his mouth perhaps at the sight

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of my boyish countenance. Then for the first time in my
life I felt myself a woman and know that a man was before me at
the auspicious hour. I teach the man and the woman,
this supreme lesson to know themselves, what happened after
that With fear and wonder, I asked him, who are you?

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I am Arjuna. He said of the great Kuru Clan.
I stood petrified like a statue and forgot to do him.
Obeisance was this indeed Arjunathe one great Idol of my dreams.
Yes, I had long ago heard how hehad vowed at 12 years celibacy

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many a day. My young ambition had spurred me
on to break my lands with him tochallenge him in, Disguise to
single combat and prove my skillin arms against him, Foolish
Heart with a fledged, a presumption, could I?
But exchange my youth with all its aspirations for the clod of
Earth under his feet, I should deem it a most precious Grace.

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I know not in what Whirlpool of thought I was lost when suddenly
I saw him vanish through the trees.
Oh foolish, woman either, didst,thou greet him nor speak a word
nor beg forgiveness, but stood as like a barbarian boar while
he contemptuously walked away. Next morning, I laid aside my

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man's clothing, I don't bracelets anklets waist chain
and the Gown of purple red silk.The unaccustomed dress clung
about my shrinking, shame that Ihastened on my quest and found
Arjuna in the Forest Temple of Shiva.
Tell me the story to the end. I am the heart, born God.

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And I understand the mystery of these impulses Only vaguely.
Can I remember what things I said?
And what answer I got. Do not ask me to tell you all.
Shame fell on me like a thunderbolt yet.
Could not break me to Pieces, soutterly hard.
So, like a man. Am I his last words as I walked

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home pricked, my ears, like red-hot needles.
I have taken the vow of celibacy.
I am not fit to be thy husband. Do the vows of a man.
Surely thou. Knowest thou god of love that
unnumbered Saints and sages havesurrendered.
The myriad's of their lifelong pennants at the feet of a woman.

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I broke my bow into and burned my arrows in the fire.
I hated my strong life arms scored by drawing the bow,
string, old, love, God, love thou Hast laid low in the dust
to Vain pride of my men, like strength and all my men.
Straining lies crushed under thyfeet.

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Now, teach me thy listens. Give me the power of the weak
and the weapon of the unarmed hand.
I will be thy friend. I will bring the world
conquering Arjuna a captive before thee to accept his
Rebellion sentence at thy hand. Had I bought the time needed.
I could win his heart by slow degrees and ask no help to the

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gods. I would stand by his side, as a
comrade drive to Fierce horses of his War Chariot.
Attend him in the pleasures of the chase, keep guard at night
at the entrance of his tent and help him in all the great duties
of a cafeteria rescuing the weekand meeting out Justice where it
is. Jus surely at last today, would

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have come for him. To look at me and wonder.
What boy is this? As one of my sleeves in a former
life, followed me. Like my good deeds into this.
I am not the woman who nourishesher despair in lonely, silence
feeding it with nightly tears, and covering it with the daily
patient smile, a widow from her birth.

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The flower of my desire, shall never drop into the dust before
it has ripened to fruit, but it is the labor of a lifetime to
make ones, true self known and honored.
Therefore, I have come to thy door, thou world, vanquishing
love, and thou vasanta youthful.Lord of the seasons.

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Take from my body, this Primal, Injustice, and unattractive.
Plainness, for a single day, make me superbly beautiful.
Even as beautiful as was, the sudden blooming of love in my
heart, give me. But one brief day of perfect
Beauty and I will answer for thedays that follow.

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Lady. I grant thy prayer not for the
short span of a day, but for one, whole year, the charm of
spring blossoms shall Nestle round I limbs Scene 2.
Was I dreaming or was what I sawby the lake truly there?

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Sitting on the mossy Turf, I'm used of a bygone years in the
sloping Shadows of the evening. When slowly there came out from
the folding darkness of foliage,an apparition of Beauty in the
perfect form of a woman and stood on a white slab of stone
at the water spring. It seemed that the heart of the

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earth must heave enjoy under herbare white feet.
We thought the vague veiling of her body should melt in ecstasy
into air as the golden mist of dawn melts.
Come off the snowy peak of the Eastern Hill, she bowed herself
Above The Shining mirror of the lake and saw the reflection of
her face. She started up in awe and Stood

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Still, and then smiled. And with a careless, sweep of
her left arm, a loose, your hair, and let it Trail on the
earth at her feet. She bared her bosom and looked
at her arms so flawlessly modeled and Instinct with an
Exquisite caress But in her head, she saw the sweet
blossoming of her Youth and the tender Bloom and blush of her

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skin. She beamed with a glad surprise.
So if the White Lotus Bud on opening, her eyes in the morning
were to Arch her neck and see her shadow in the water, which
you wonder at herself, the livelong day.
But a moment after the smile passed from her face, at a shade
of sadness crept into her eyes. She bound up her Tresses to her

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veil. Over her arms and sawing slowly
walked away, like a beauteous evening Fading Into the Night.
To Me, the Supreme fulfillment of Desire seem to have been
revealed in a Flash and then to a vanished But who is it that
pushes the door? Enter chitra dressed as a woman.

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Ah, you she quiet my heart. Fear me, not lady.
I am a kshatriya honored, sir, you are my guest.
I live in this Temple. I know not in what way I can
show you. Hospitality Fair Lady the very
sight of you is indeed the highest Hospitality.

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If you will not take it amiss. I would ask you a question.
You have permission. What's turn vow, keeps you a
mirrored in the solitary Temple depriving?
All Mortals of a vision of so much loveliness.
I Harbor is secret desire in my heart, for the Fulfillment of
which I offer daily prayers to Lord, Shiva alas.

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What can you desire? You who are the desire of the
whole world from the easternmostHill on Whose Summit.
The morning. Sun first prince, his fiery foot
to the end of the sunset land. Have I traveled I have seen
whatever is most precious beautiful and great on the Earth
by knowledge shall be yours. Only say for what or for whom

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you seek he whom I seek is knownto all indeed who made this
favorite of the Gods. Be whose Fame has captured your
heart. Sprung, from the highest of all
Royal houses, the greatest of all heroes is he lady offer?
Not such wealth of beauty, as isyours on the altar of Paul's

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reputation spurious Fame, spreads from tongue to tongue,
like the fog of the early Dawn. Before the sun rises tell me who
in the highest of kingly lines is the Supreme hero.
I made you a jealous of other men's Fame.
Do you not know that all over the world's the Royal House of
the kurus is the most famous forHouse of the corals and have you

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never heard of the greatest nameof that far-famed house from
your own lips. Let me hear it.
Arjuna the Conqueror of the world.
I have culled from the mouths ofthe multitude that imperishable
name and hidden it with care in my maiden heart.
Hermit, why do you look perturbed?

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Has that name only a deceitful. Glitter say so and I will not
hesitate to break this casket ofmy heart and throw the folds gem
to the Dust. Be his name and fame his bravery
and prowess false, or true for Mercy's sake.
Do not banish him from your heart or he kneels at your feet.

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Even now. You are do not.
Yes, I am. He the love hungered guest at
your door? Then is it not true?
That Arjuna has taken a vow of Chastity for 12 long years but
you have dissolved My Vow, even as the moon dissolves the night
of our of obscurity, I will shame upon you.

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What have you seen in me? That makes you false to yourself
whom do you seek in these dark eyes in these milk-white arms?
If you are ready to pay for her,the price of your property, not
my true self. I know, Surely this cannot be
love. This is not a man's highest
homage to woman alas that this frail disguised.

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Body should make one blind to the light of the deathless
spirit. Yes.
Now, indeed I know Arjuna the fame of your heroic manhood is
false. Ah, I feel how vain is Fame the
pride of prowess. Everything seems to me a dream

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you alone are perfect. You are the wealth of the world.
The end of all poverty, the goalof all efforts the one woman.
Others, there are who can be butslowly known while to see you
for a moment is to see the perfect completeness once and
forever alas. It is not I not I Arjuna.

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It is the deceit of a cold. Go go my hero.
Go. Woo.
Not falsehood often, not your great heart to an illusion go.
Seeing three. No impossible to face that
fervent gaze that almost grasps you like clutching hands of the

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hungry Spirit within to feel hisheart struggling to break its
bounds. Urging, its passionate cry
through the entire body and thento send him away like a beggar,
no impossible. Enter Madonna and for Santa.
Oh god of love. What fearful flame.

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Is this with which thou Hast enveloped me, I burn and I burn
whatever I touch, I desire to know what happened last night.
And evening I lay down on the ground seabed strewn with the
Petals of spring flowers and we collected the wonderful Praise
of my beauty. I had heard from Arjuna drinking

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drop by I dropped the honey thatI had stored during the long
day, the history of my past lifelike that of my, former
existence has was forgotten. I felt like a flower which has
but a few fleeting hours to listen to all the humming
flatteries and whispered murmursof the woodlands and then must

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lower its eyes from the sky. Bend its head into at a breath,
give itself up to the dust without a cry.
That's sending the short story of a perfect moment.
Ain't that has neither past nor future the Limitless life of
Glory can bloom and spend itselfin a morning like an endless

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meaning in the narrow span of a song.
The southern breeze. Caressed me to sleep from the
flowering malati Bauer overheard.
Silent kiss, has dropped over mybody on my hair, my breasts, my
feet. Each flower chose a bid to die
on. I slept, And suddenly in the

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depth of my sleep, I felt as if some intense eager look like
tapering fingers of flamed touched my slumbering buddy.
I started up and saw the hermit standing before me, the moon had
moved to the West peering through the leaves to Aspire.
This Wonder of divine art or wronged in a fragile human

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frame. The air was Heavy with perfume,
The Silence of the night was vocal with the chirping of
crickets. The reflections of the trees
hung Motionless in the lake and with his staff in his hands.
He stood tall and straight and still like a forest tree.
Three. It seemed to me that I had on

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opening my eyes tied, to all realities of life and undergone
a dream, both into a Shadowland shames.
Leaped to my feet, like loosenedclothes, I heard his call.
Beloved, my most beloved And allmy forgotten lives, United as
one and responded to it. I said, take me take all I am

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and I stretched out my arms, to him, the moon.
Set behind the trees. One curtain of Darkness covered
all Heaven and Earth, time, and space, Pleasure, and Pain,
death, and life merged together in an unbearable ecstasy.
With the first gleam of light, the first Twitter of birds, I

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rose up and said leaning on my left arm he lay asleep with a
vague smile about his lips like the crescent moon in the
morning. The rosy red glow of the Dawn
fell upon his Noble forehead. I sighed and stood up, I drew
together the leafy liana's to screened a streaming son from

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his face, I looked about me and saw the same old Earth.
I remembered what I used to be and ran and ran like a deer
afraid of her own shadow throughthe forest path strewn with ship
Ali flowers. I found a lonely Nook and
sitting down covered my face with both hands and tried to

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weep and cry, but no tears came to my eyes.
I last out daughter of Mortals. I stole from the Divine
Storehouse. The Fragrant wine of heaven,
filled with it, one Earthly night, to the brim, and placed
it in my hand to drink yet. Still, I hear this Cry of

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anguish. Chitra bitterly who drank it?
The rarest completion of life's desire.
The First Union of love was profit to me, but was arrested
from my grasp, this borrowed Beauty.
This falsehood that in wraps, mewill slip from me taking with
it. The only Monument of that sweet

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Union has two petals fall from an overblown flower and the
woman ashamed of her naked poverty will see it weeping day
and night. Lord love discursive appearance.
Companions me like a demon. Robbing me of all the prizes of
love all the kisses for which myheart is a thirst.

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Alas, how vain die single night,had been the bark of Joy came
inside but the waves would not let it touch the shore.
Heaven came. So close to my hand that I
forgot for a moment that it had not reached me.
But when I woke in the morning from my dream, I found that my
body had become my own rival. It is my hateful task to take

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her every day to send her to my beloved and see her career.
Sit by him. Oh God, take back thigh bone.
But if I take it from you, how can you stand before your lover?
The snatch away, the cap from his lips when he has scarcely
drained. His first draft of pleasure,
would not that be cruel with what resembles Sinful anger, he

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must regard the then that would be better far than this.
I will reveal my true self to him a nobler thing than this
disguise. If he rejects it, if he spurns
me and breaks my heart, I will bear even that in silence,
listen to my advice. When, with the Advent of autumn,

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the flowering season is over, then comes the Triumph of
fruitage. A time will come of itself when
the heat Cloyd Bloom of the bodywill droop.
And Arjuna will gladly accept the abiding.

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Fruitful truth in the oh child, go back to thy mad Festival.
Scene 4. Why do you watch me like that?
My warrior. I watch how you weave that
Garland skill and Grace the twinbrother and sister are dancing

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playfully on your fingertips. I am watching and thinking what
are you thinking, sir, I am thinking that you, with his same
lightness, of touch and sweetness.
Are we eating my days of Exile into an immortal wreaths to
Crown me when I return home? Home.
But his love is not for a home, not for a home.

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No, never talked of that. Take to your home with his
Abiding and Strong Lift. A little Wildflower where it was
born if it beautifully to die atthe day's end among all Fading
blossoms and decaying leaves. Do not take it to your Palace,
whole to fling, it on the Stony floor, which knows no, pity for

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things that fade and are forgotten.
It's ours, that kind of love. Yes, no other.
Why I regretted that which was meant for idle days.
Should never outlive them. Joy turns into pain when the
door by which you should depart is shut against it.
Take it and keep it as long as it lasts.

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Let not the satiety of your evening, claimed more than the
desire of your morning, could earn the day is done.
Put this Garland on. I am tired, take me in your
arms. My love.
They told vain bickerings of discontent died away at the
sweet meeting of our lips. Hush wasn't my beloved, the

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sound of prayer Bells from the distant Village Temple steals
upon the evening air across the silent trees.
Scene, 5, I cannot keep Pace with the my friend.
I am tired. It is a hard task to keep alive

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the fire though has kindled. Sleep overtakes.
Me, the fan droops from my hand and cold, ashes cover the glow
of the fire. I start up again from my Slumber
and with all my might rescue theweary flame, but this can go on

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no longer. I know that W is fickle as a
child ever Restless. Is that I play in heaven and on
Earth things that thou four days, build stuff with endless
detail. Thou Dost shatter in a moment
without regret but this work of house is nearly finished.
Pleasure, Wing Days, Fly Fast and the year almost at its end,

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swoons and Rapture is bliss. Scene 6.
I woke in the morning and found that my dreams had distilled a
gem. I have no casket to enclose it.
No king's crown were on to fix it.
No chain from, which to hang it.And yet have not the heart to
throw it away. Michael kshatriyas, right?

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Arm, idly occupied and holding it or get its duties.
Enter chitra. Tell me your thoughts sir.
My mind is busy with lots of hunting today.
See how the rain pours in torrents and fiercely Dietz.
Upon the hillside, the dark shadow of the cloud.

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Hangs heavily over the forest and the swollen stream like
Reckless Youth over leaps all barriers with barking laughter.
On such rainy days. We five brothers would go to the
Chautauqua Forest, to chase wildbeasts.
Those were glad times our heartsdance to the drumbeat of
rumbling clouds, the woods resounded with the screams of

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peacocks. Timid deer would not, here are
approaching steps for the patterof rain and the noise of
waterfalls. The leopard would leave their
tracks on the wet Earth. Betraying their layers are sport
over. We dared each other to swim
across turbulent streams, on ourway back home.
Home. The Restless spirit is on me, I
long to go hunting. First run down the Quarry.

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You are now following, are you quite certain that the
enchanted? Dear you pursue must needs be
caught. No, not yet.
Like a dream, the wild creature,eludes you, when it seems most
nearly yours, look how the wind is chased by The Mad rain.
That discharges a thousand arrows after it yet, it goes,

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free and unconquered. Our sport is like that.
My love, you give Chase to the fleet-footed spirit of beauty
aiming at her Every dart, you have in your hands.
Yet this magic deer runs ever free, and untouched.
My love. Have you no home where kind

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hearts are waiting for your return a home which you once
made sweet with your gentle service & whose light went out
when you left it for this Wilderness.
Why these questions? Are the hours of unthinking,
pleasure over. Do you not know that I am no
more than what you see before you For me, there is no Vista

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beyond the do that. Hangs on the tip of a king.
So Capital, his need a name nor destination it offers.
No answer to any question. She whom you love is like that.
Perfect Beat of do. Has she no tie with the world?
Can she be merely like a fragment of Heaven dropped on

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the earth, to the carelessness of a wanton?
God? Yes.
Ah, that is why I always seemed about to lose you.
My heart is unsatisfied. My mind knows no peace.
Come closer to me unattainable. One surrender yourself to the
bonds of name and home and parentage let my heart feel, you

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want, all sides and live with you in the peaceful security of
Of widest vain efforts to catch and keep the tints of the
clouds. The dance of the Waves, the
smell of the flowers mistress. Mine do not hope to pacify love
with every nothing's. Give me something to clasp
something that can last longer than pleasure, that can endure

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even through suffering hero. Mine, the year is not yet full
and you are tired already. Now, I know that it is Heavens
blessing that has made the Bauer's term of Life short.
Could this body of mine have drooped and died with the
flowers of last spring. It surely would have died with
honor yet. It's days, are numbered my love

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Spirit. Not press it.
Dry of honey for fear. Your biggest heart, come back to
it again. And again, with unsated desire,
like a thirsty. Be when summer blossoms lie,
dead in the dust. Seeing seven tonight is died.
Last night, the loveliness of your body will return tomorrow

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to the inexhaustible stores of the spring.
The Ruddy tint of thy lips freedfrom the memory of arjuna's,
kisses will Bud Anew as a pair of fresh, a Soaker leaves and
the soft white glow of A skin will be born again in 100

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fragrant. Jasmine, flowers.
Oh, Gods. Grant me this my prayer tonight
in its last hour. Let my beauty flash.
Its brightest like the final flicker of a Dying flame.
Thou shalt have that I wish Scene, 8, who will protect us

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know why by, what danger are youthreatened.
The rubbers are pouring from theNorthern Hills, like a mountain
flood to devastate our village. Have you in this Kingdom?
No, Warden. Princess chitra was the terror
of all evildoers. When she was in this Happy Land,
We feared natural death, but hadno other fears.

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Now, she has gone on a pilgrimage and none knows where
to find. Find her, is the warden of this
country a woman? Yes she is.
All father and mother. In one exeunt enter chitra why
are you sitting all alone? I'm trying to imagine what kind

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of woman brings us to try. Maybe I hear so many stories of
her from all sorts of men, but she's not beautiful.
She has no such lovely eyes as mine.
Dark his death, she can Pierce. He targets you will but not Our
Hero's heart. They say that in Valor, she is a
man and a woman in tenderness panting.

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Deed is her greatest Misfortune when a woman is merely a woman.
When she wins herself round and round men's hearts with her
smiles and sobs and services andcaressing endearments.
Then she is happy of what used to her I learning and great
achievements. Could you have seen her only

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yesterday in the court of the Lord shiva's Temple by the
forest path? He would have passed by without
deigning to look at her. But have you grown?
So weary of woman's beauty that you seek in her for a man's
strength With green leaves wet from the spray of a foaming
waterfall. I have made our Noonday bed in a

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cavern darkest night. They are the cool of the soft
green moss. Has thickened a plank and
dripping Stone? Kisses, your eyes to sleep.
Let me guide you through there. Not today, beloved, why not
today? I have heard that a horde of
robbers has neared. The planes needs.
Must I go and prepare my weaponsto protect the frightened

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villagers. You need have no fear for them
before she started on her. Pilgrimage princess chithra
headset. Strong guards at all.
The frontier passes yet. Permit me for a short while to
set about a kshatriya as work with New Glory, will I ennoble
this Idol arm and make of it a pillow more worthy of your head?

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But if I refuse to let you go, if I keep you entwined in my
arms, Would you rudely snatch yourself free and leave me?
Go then but you must know that the Liana once broken into never
joins again. Go, if your thirst is quenched,
but if not, then remember that the goddess of pleasure is

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fickle and waits for no man, sitfor a while.
My Lord tell me, what uneasy thoughts tease, you who occupied
your mind today is it chitra Yes, it is chitra.
I wonder in fulfillment of what foul.
She has gone on her. Pilgrimage of what could she

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stand in Need? Her Needs, why what has she ever
had? The unfortunate creature.
A very qualities are as Prison Walls.
Shutting her woman's heart in a Cell.
She's obscured. She's unfulfilled her womanly.
Love must content itself, dressed in rags.

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Beauty is denied her She's like to Spirit of a cheerless morning
sitting upon the Stony Mountain Peak, all her light blotted out
by dark clouds. Do not ask me of her life.
It will never sound sweet to man's ear.
I am eager to learn all about her.
I'm like a traveler. Come to a strange city at

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midnight, domes and towers and garden trees, look, vague, and
shadowy. And the doll moan of the Sea
comes fitfully through the Silence of sleep.
Wistfully, he waits for the morning to reveal to him, all
the strange wonders. Oh, tell me her story.
What? More is there to tell?
I seem to see her in my mind's eye riding, on a white horse,

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probably holding the reins in her left hand, and in her right
elbow. And like, the goddess of Victory
dispensing. Glad hope all around her, like a
watchful lioness. She protects the litter at her
dogs, with a fierce love woman'sarms though.
Adorned with not, but unfettered, strengths are
beautiful. My heart is restless.

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Fair one like a serpent Revivingfrom his long winter sleep.
Come. Let us both race on Swift horses
side-by-side like twin orbs of light sweeping through space out
from this lovers. Prison of green Gloom, this dank
dense cover of perfumed intoxication choking breath.
Arjuna, tell me true if now, at once, by some magic I could

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shake myself free from this world luxurious softness, this
timid Bloom of beauty shrinking from the root and Healthy Touch
of the world and fling it from my body like borrowed clothes,
would you be able to Bear it? If I stand up straight and
strong with the strength of a daring Hearts?
Burning the wilds and arts of Twining weakness.

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If I hold my head high like it. A tall, young Mountain, fur, no
longer trailing into dust like aliannah, shall I then appeal to
man's eye? No, no, you could not endure it.
It is better. That I should keep spread about
me all the dainty playthings of fugitive Youth, and wait for you
in patients. When it pleases you to return, I

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will smilingly. Pour out for you.
The wine of pleasure in the cup of this beauty as body when you
are tired and sated with this. This wine, you can go to work or
play and when I grow old, I willaccept humbly and gratefully
whatever corner is left for me. Would it please your heroic
Soul? If the playmate of the night

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aspired? To be the helpmeet of the day?
If the left arm learned to sharethe burden of The Proud right
arm, I never seem to know you are right?
You seem to me like a goddess hidden within a golden image.
I could not touch you. I cannot pay you.
My dues in return for your Priceless gifts.

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Thus my love is incomplete. Sometimes in the ending Matic,
depth of your sad, look in your playful words, mocking at their
own meaning, I gained glimpses of a being trying to rent
asunder, the languorous grace ofher body to emerge in a chaste
fire of pain through a vaporous veil of smiles.
Illusion is the first appearanceof Truth.

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She advances towards her lover in Disguise, but a time comes
when she throws off her ornaments and veils and stands
clothed in naked dignity. I grope for that.
Ultimate you that bear Simplicity of Truth.
Why these tears my love, why cover your face with your hands?
Have I pained you my darling. Forget what I said, I will be

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content with the present. Let each separate moment of
beauty. Come to me like a bird of
mystery from its unseen nest in the dark bearing.
A message of Music. Let me forever sit with my Hope
on the brink of its realization and the send my days.
Scene, 9 chitra and Arjuna chitra cloaked.

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My Lord, has the cup been drained to the last drop is
this. Indeed the end know when all
this done, something Still Remains and that is my last
sacrifice at your feet. I brought from the garden of
Heaven, flowers of incomparable Beauty with which to worship

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you. God of my heart.
If the rights are over, if the flowers have faded, let me throw
them out of the temple and failing in her original male
attire. Now, look at your worshiper with
gracious eyes I am not beautifully perfect as the
flowers with which I worshipped.I have many flaws and blemishes.

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I am a traveler in the great world path.
My garments are dirty and my feet are bleeding with thorns.
Where should I achieve Flower Beauty?
The unsullied loveliness of a moment's life.
The gift that I proudly bring you is the heart of a woman
here, have all pains and joys gathered to hopes and fears and

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Teams of a daughter of the Dust here, love springs up
struggling, toward Immortal Life.
Here in lies, in imperfection, which yet is noble and ground.
If the flower service is finished, my master accepted
this as your servant, for the days to come.

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I am chitra the King's Daughter,perhaps you will remember the
day when a woman came to you in the temple of Shiva, her body
loaded with ornaments, and finery, that Shameless woman
came to court. You as though she were a man,
you rejected her. You did well.

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My Lord. I am that woman.
She was my disguise. Then by the Boon of God's, I
obtained for a year, the most radiant, form that Immortal ever
wore, and we read my Hero's heart was the burden of that
deceit. Most truly, I am not that woman.
I am chitra know. God is to be worshipped, nor yet

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the object of common pity to be brushed aside like a moth with
indifference. If you deign to keep me by your
side, in the path of danger and daring, if you allow me to share
the great duties of your life, then you will know my true self.
If you're babe, who I am nourishing in my womb, be born a

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son, I shall myself. Teach him to be a second Arjuna
and send him to you when the time comes.
And then at last, you will trulyknow me.
Today, I can only offer you chithra.
The daughter of a king beloved. My life is full.

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End of chitra. The vampire cat by Gerard Van
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A play in one act from the Japanese legend of the nabeshima
cat, by Jared Van Etten Cast of characters, Prince haizen Lord
of nabeshima, read by Thomas, Peter boozing, his chief
counselor read by, Todd re 10, apriest read by TJ Burns Ito,

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soda a common Soldier, read by Chuck Williamson.
Kashi. KU a made read by Sonia Auto,
yo, wife of the Prince read by a, by the writer read by Ian
King. Time Medieval Japan, seen the

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room of Toyo in the palace time of action between 10:00 and
12:00 p.m. note. According to the old, Japanese
Legend, the soul of a cat can enter a human being The vampire
cat scene at? Right?
Is a dressing table upon it. A steel mirror toilet articles,

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and two lighted. Candles with ornate Shades,
right? Upstage a section of a sha Chi
leads to another room. This section is now closed at
right center. A large section of Surety, is
opened giving a view of the garden to the right of this.
Entrance is a small Shrine and butter.

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At left of the room is a sleeping mat and headrest by the
headrest a lantern. Now, unlighted down left is an
open section of Shoji, leading to the princes Apartments, just
above it. Stands a screen as the curtain
Rises. The prince is standing right
center. Looking out into the garden.

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Ruby. 10 is downright and boozing.
Slightly above him, boozing crosses left.
Prince comes down between routine and boozing.
Settle for me tonight, my sickness in my fears to prison
settle them for me sir, boozing counselor, crafty to retain

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settle them, for me, for Easter,attend the prayerful.
So we are trying and always thigh pain to relieve yet not
seems availing. Racked.
His my body with torches unending.
Born of the dreams that are surging forever, backward, and

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forward through my brain. We re boozing indicating door
left around. I bet each night have I placed
my samurai in number 102 guard, thy sleep.
Zealously, have I prayed in the temple called me?
Oh, in. And during the night hours have

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That thy house tried praying to Buddha the lord of the world
yet. Have I not slept in tireli and
Orchard. Slow are thy prayers and
fruit-bearing slow because contending with evil approach
his prints with evil inform strange and settle over this

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house. Hangs a spirit Never resting and
ready, always for dire Deeds, such a spirit, there must be,
but what evil takes many forms. But the form of a cat is favored

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by many Devils Prince startled. The others watch him closely a
cat. I truly end of a cat stopped
here. Evil thing.
Must we kill? Yes yet.
Such as their power malignant that they take other forms than

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the forms of cats. Even human forms ha and the
spirit that visits me, my habit only twice had failed of its
visit and those lost visits whenthe last two nights present

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swell I'm with pride, then au Prince The Cure may be found
better than prayers is the cure.Ian grew, attend for prayers.
Have not ears, have not eyes, have not weapons, better than
prayers, is it? Tell me this cure.

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Is it grudged. So priest root n bowing.
A cure for my Lord could not be grudged.
Well-spoken, say on said, who's on?
First, I must beg clemency for thy, 100 Samurai for faithful.
They are to the Bone yet. Get why.

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Clemency for what en garde they slept?
Slept, I soundly as though deep in sake and none roused, they
were as dead from shortly, afterthe Our of ten until Dawning
Awakening. They knew they had slept yet

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knew not when the poppy was thrown in their eyes, even as
one man, nanu and were deeply amazed and full of Shame each
night, it was the same prints angrily.
So they slept rely on my couch through the hours writhed ride

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and twisted, weakening ever. / not sleep, you're dreaming.
Horrible dreams. What were these?
Horrible dreams? What was their substance Prince
mystified at the memory? There would come a soft stealing

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as of draperies hushed and lifted for silence and walking
like soft. Silken draperies wrapped about
stealthy limbs. Then a shape clothes for sleep,
as women are clothed sinuous andvague and movement, then taking
form slowly. The form a lie, the LIE covers

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his face and goes upstage the form.
Prince turns are Toya, Riverton and boozing.
Rubbing their hands. Ah, Prince comes down right
through it. And present our together a
little left Kim. She to me, Linda or me.

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Caressed me yet. Sue's not Her lips to mine, her
lips, but not sweet. Then here on my throat, which
she placed them and all my life seem to smother.
Out of me flowed, the lifeblood in a deep stream, like a tide
forced by the gods, against its will to flow far away, and yet

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farther. So does a vampire sucking her
victim draw from him, his blood and his marrow guard, thy words
as my strength ebbed, she Drew back red-lipped and smiling,
smiling and laughing, that were laughter was silent.

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Then with a final Shimmer of Silent silks, she vanished.
So was it done? So always the dream if dream, it
were the dream. I think yet it was a dream.
So was it always thought the last two nights Kim, she's usual

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flowing over the floor, like a speck term robed and beautiful.
She been told me she paused as if startled and slowly gazing
about turned and was gone last night.
She paused as if speaking just someone though, I could see no

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one but the cause of her turningturn, she she startled turn, she
slowly turn she wonderingly. Slowly, as if she felt a strange
presence feared, she she left me, but trembling or calm.

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Calmly is from a thing, hated, and more powerful than she whom
she would not Rouse to action. Brazilian rubbing his hands
good. What is good that which thou
speakest of how? So boozing comes forward,
towards the prince, Ed prove. Is that I have humbly succeeded

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grudgingly through the help of another tis true.
But yet succeeded in, bringing my Lord, honorable help indeed.
It is so say on very wise, counselor bruising puffing up
without more words that are fit.This then is the way of a cure.

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When long headline illness ravaged and warranty, and many
nights had you tossed by weird Visions enthralled, no cures
affecting no prayers availing thee glances at root n, then
Council die. With I wise ones, and to, with
priests who attend, I, you should name first for without my

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prayers. Your wisdom was not to continue
briefly all our heads Is together brought no solution.
True, true, present, bowing, humbly.
I acknowledge my head empty and brainless yet even from idiot
lips, wisdom oft Falls, unexpected and therefore more

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wonderful. Now, it is told in Old Tales of
how yasu met short abrupt is thyTale, the Cure sobhuza the hour
passes, Prison bowing, I crave honorable leniency to be brief.
I briefed discourage and sick atheart, at the sufferings of my

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great Lord. I was retiring to my room by way
of the garden, and the hour was the hour of the fox.
I heard a splashing in the pool and drawing near saw a young
Soldier washing, I spoke to him asking who art.
Thou Retainer to my Lord nagashima Prince of his own.

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He answered. And then I talked with him of
thy sickness, we talked and he was ashamed of I Samurai
sleeping, he begged to be allowed to guard thy sleep, also
for being a common Soldier. It was not permitted, so
earnestly, talked, he that I promised to consult with the

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other counselors and see what could be done.
So tell me your name. Young sir.
I said, Ito soda is my name honorable sir and for your kind
words, I thank you. So I consulted and the result
was, we granted his request and he too has washed than two

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nights past. I and he slept not though.
The samurai were heavy with sleep fumes.
I will tell Ruby 10 elbows boozing out of the way and comes
forward. You are honorably horse.
He slept not as I say how kept you awake since many sub

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Spellbound. How broke he the spell with him.
He brought oiled paper and laid it down on the matting sitting
up on. It went over his eyes, sleep
stole and wearily, waited them. He drew out his sharp Dyrdek and
in his thigh, thrust it by pain.Driving, the puppy fumes off.

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Ever. And again he twisted the Dirac
In The Raw wound and the thick blood drops soiled, not the
medine because of the oiled paper indeed, this is no common
Soldier, this Ito soda. Indeed not to continue retires.

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Upstage disgruntled boozing pushing forward as I was saying,
O Prince His eyes never closed during the reign of the Rat.
He heard in this room all Toyo passing and moaning.
As if in great fear of something, she could not escape
from. Even at the same moment as the

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beginnings of her, moanings camea cat call from the garden, then
nearer, then ghostly padding's as a padded claws on matting and
an evil presence seemed hoveringand lurking near in the
Darkness. Oh, Toyo gave a little scream,
then all was silence soon. She came stealthily through the
Sochi, Catholic, her step glassy, her eyes claw, like her

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hands, then she over you with curl at lips, then she turned,
even as you have said and seeingawaking Watcher left.
As she came root n comes down, the second night of Ito sodas
watching, she threatened him in low work.
Words, but he made as to stab her and she melted before him

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laughing a little and he heard the rustle of her garments as
she regained. This room though, he saw not her
passage hither. It could with each word.
The horror about me, turns away to write, doubts, to beliefs
beliefs to actions love under hate turns to them.

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Almost pleadingly. Tell me it is not O'Doyle I
questioned her maid Kashi coup and found that o'doyle's couch
was empty. Even at the time of the weird,
visit to the prince overwhelmed.So it was O'Doyle in the soul of
a flower. A demon on the sweet lips

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poison. There is only one course the one
road and I take it boozing. Moves toward door left.
The samurai are gathered summon Ito, soda present exits left it
is the fate of man here on this dark Earth.

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Many the shapes and the Shadows stocking abroad.
Yet ever the gentle Buddha from the Lotus Fields watches and
guards every life that lives. Prince puts one hand.
On Route, any shoulder priests have not many them Powers

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bleeding them and dream. It is another thing.
The soul is often vampire to thebody and that evil thing must we
kill. Little Soldier enters left
kneels before the Prince Rupert.End takes up, right?
A little and boozing re-enteringafter it or solder goes up

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Center. Honorable, Prince humbly, I
answer a thigh. Summons rise, itõs, soda,
faithful beyond words out. Now this know, I is all hath.
Been told me no longer called a self, a common Soldier, but a,
samurai of the prince Of Hoisin and the two swords.

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Will I give the on the morrow, on my knees?
I humbly thank the Rises. Now, time, presses, or toyou
will be coming in from the garden.
As usual. Shall the hundred sleepy Samurai
guard. My coach Letty tostada remain
here hidden and watchful an old toy arises to enter my chamber.

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Your dog is Sharpedo. Soda.
It also door draws. Dirk as a Moonbeam on a cold
night and you know how to use it.
I will place this screen thus goes to screen left and opens
it. So, as to form a hiding place
between the sleeping mat and thedoor left, so will I wait the

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moment? So be it, it is a good plan.
And on the one road, let us about it.
Exits, left followed by boozing,Andrew, attend.
It all sorta goes behind the screen, or toil is heard singing
in the garden. Oh, Toyo.
Outside flute. Convolve us through the night

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hours when I their faces ghostly, sweet richer by
daylight drinking of sunshine asthirsty.
Souls drink at a shrine. Fear are the faces glassed in
the quiet pools maidens, low bending, beIN ones the singing

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stops abruptly. Kashi coup is not that a cat
stealing stealthily there. She snouts, quick.
Auto enters right-center quicklyand very frightened turns.
And looks back her is cashew coup in Kashi crew follows much
less Disturbed at any fear of a cat than over her mistress's,

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fright kashuk, who shuts, the shorty right center and comes to
Auto. Yo, you are all atremble, quick.
Let me be safe in slumber. Crosses to dressing-table cash
uku, follows her and attends to her hair while of Toyo kneels
before the glass several nights lately.

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Have I heard my lady moaning. There's still even in sleep.
Was she troubled the worry over your honorable Lord hath
Disturbed, the your ears are over Keen.
I am happy when I sleep. How can I Moon being happy?
You are dull. Perhaps it was the wind or the

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echo of my lords moaning moaningor was it singing?
I would. It was singing for singing is
sweeter on the lips of those dying dying.
When Those whom we love our passing, even under our hands
are passing and our love wins them from life and our kisses,

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suck out the blood life. Then would we touch them?
No more. Would be kissed him no more but
a power greater than we. And the power that we fear
forces us own in our love killing, there is a new voice of
vibration as even the winds in the Pinetops, when in the Autumn

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they echoed is Sommers death song.
There Is In Your Eyes. A strange light as if the soul
of another looked out from your curtain english's and dimmed the
sweet light, their abiding. Oh mistress.
Surely you are different and what you once were.
Oh Toyo crosses Center slowly, even now comes the hour and a

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struggle and I do the bidding ofthat which is in me, how I hate
the feel of his flesh, quivering, under my lips, and a
loathsome Taste of the blood drops, thick on my lips, that
would soothe him and cannot Can anything soothe more than thy

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lips more than the lips that love him?
I cannot understand the words ofyou're saying, you are happy and
tearful all in a moment. He is soul, seems A Sky Full of
Sunshine and clouds coming to her even now as my hand touches,
you, you are trembling, is it the cat that crept Upon Us whose

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shape still a frights. You now has said, My soul is as
thou sayest. My dreams are sweet.
And again, bitter once came a dream horrible above all dreams.
What dream? My lady the night?
When you found me, they are on the floor.
Do you remember? Well, you were all distraught

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and the bosom of your gown was torn open and you clutched your
throat as if you were wounded there, but there was no Mark and
you Let wild words fall from your lips and none knew their
meaning, The Prince and I walkedin the garden and they are at
the Shoji. I left him as I entered there

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entered with me, as spirit and its breath fell upon me.
Damn, my tongue in my mouth and Frozen my marrow.
Suddenly, it leapt upon me. And as I fell down, word,
flashed the spirit into mine eyes.
Cat two-tailed and Harry and itsteeth sank in my throat here.

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Can you see a mark exposes her throat to Kashi coup?
De skin is as smooth as setting and perfect then came Darkness
upon me. And so you found me so strong is
the Dream Within Me. I wonder if it'd be a dream or
no. You had walked that evening in

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the garden. I had rather dreamed.
I walked say I dreamed it. The prince was with yet, it was
a dream question, did not, I would go to rest peacefully.
He told shall rest peacefully, Ishall not kiss.
My Lord. Tonight crosses left, not kiss

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him. I think not, I shall kiss him.
I would not pay. In his Slumbers, he has paled.
So and his face is so thin in the night, he lies like a strong
flour and a strange flower bladeof its life.
Like a strong flour weekend and added site.

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My dreams are bitter but as i gaze, a change, comes over all
things. And I hold in my hands a
beautiful flower which I kiss with my lips holding my lips
long to it. Straining.
Its sweetness and the cloud passes over and on my lips are
clots of blood. Such dreamings are not good.

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I find a silken coverlets tossedin the morning twisted and
thrown about. As if you slept ill, it is not
all toyou, who tosses them? It is a dream or toil two nights
lately. Have I imagined you called to me
but entering you were not here but There with your lord.

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Soothing his sufferings drinking, it strange fountains
and unknown Springs, drinking ofsacred Waters, sacred to unknown
gods. And as I drink another life
becomes my life and he is mine at Ali.
Mine At Last. You frightened me?

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Be not frightened, you have no need now I shall sleep.
He too is sleeping, perhaps, perhaps he is suffering.
Shall I touch him with my hands?Perhaps he's hungry for my
kisses, shall I kiss him? It were a fitting thing to kiss.

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Thy Lord, you know, not what yousay.
Cuz she cool. My lady.
You have not heard me say strange things cuz she cool I
have heard nothing. Nothing my Lady, put out the
lamps. Cash.
Yuku blows out. Candles.
On Dressing Table. Go.
Now because she cool. And do you sleep deeply?

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Breathing poppies. My lady Go.
Kashi coup opens shorty right and goes out.
Shutting it after her autocross has to and lies on the sleeping
mat. The room is almost in total
darkness. I shall kiss him and shall kiss
him. Him the lantern at the head of

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the sleeping, mat glows more andmore brightly until a cat's head
appears on it at this moment. A cat called comes from the
garden, with the increase of light of Toyo has begun to moan
and toss and at the moment of the cat call she Rises as in a
trance and goes towards the doorleft, as she passes the screen

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it or solder steps out from behind it and plunges his Dirk
into her back. Back.
She falls with a little stifled cry instantly in utter Darkness.
The curtain Falls. End of the play.
End off the vampire. Cat by Gerard Van Etten.

(01:08:10):
The Countess of ask Albania by Moliere, translated by Charles
Herman wall. This is a LibriVox recording all
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librivox.org persons representedthe count, son to the Countess,

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read by Philip Gould, The by count in love with Julia, read
by Todd mr. Tivity a counselor in love with
the Countess. Read by Thomas Peter.
Mr. Hartman receiver of taxes. Also in love with the Countess

(01:08:55):
read by Nima. Mr. Boban a tutor to the count.
Read by Eva Davis. Juno servant to mr.
Thibault DEA read by Alan mapstone.
Cricket servant to the Countess read by Jasmine Salma.

(01:09:18):
The Countess of s, Cabanas read by TJ Burns.
Julia in love with of I can't read by Leon.
Yeah. Andre maid to the Countess read
by Sonia. Stage directions.
Read by Sandra Schmidt. The scene is at own Golem.

(01:09:41):
The counters of ask Albania seenone Julia.
The? Why ConEd what you are here
already? Yes and you ought to be ashamed
of yourself. Cleared it is not right.
For a lover to be the last to come to the Rendezvous.
I should have been here long ago.
If there were no important people in the world, I was

(01:10:02):
stopped on my way here by an oldbore of rank.
Who asked me news of the Court merely to be able himself to
detail to me the most absurd things.
It can Well Be Imagined about it.
You know that those great news mongers are the curse of
provincial towns and that they have no greater anxiety than to
spread everywhere abroad, all the tittle-tattle, they pick up

(01:10:24):
this one, showed me to begin with two large sheets of paper,
full to the very brim with the greatest imaginable amount of
rubbish. Which he says come from the
safest quarters, then as if it were a wonderful thing, he read
full length and width, great mystery, all the stupid jokes in
the Dutch, Z which he takes for gospel, he thinks that France is

(01:10:45):
being brought to ruin by the pain of that writer whose fine
wit. According to him is sufficient
to defeat armies. After that he raved about the
ministry spoke of all its faultsand I thought he would never
have done. If one is to believe him, he
knows the secrets of the cabinet, better than those who
compose it. The policy of the state is an

(01:11:06):
open book to him and no step is taken without his seeing through
it. He shows.
Shows you the secret, machination of all that takes
place, whether the wisdom of ourneighbors, tens and controls at
his will and pleasure all the Affairs of Europe.
His knowledge of what goes on extends, as far as Africa and
Asia and he is informed of all that is discussed in the privy

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Council of prester. John you make the best excuse,
you can answer arrange it and itmay pass off well and be easily
received. I assure you dear Julia that
this is the real reason of my being late, but if I wanted to
Say anything Gallant. I could tell you that the
Rendezvous to which you bring mehere might well, excuse the
sluggishness of which you complain to compel me to pay my

(01:11:50):
addresses. To the lady of this house is
certainly reason enough for me to fear being here.
The first, I ought not to have to bear the misery of it, except
when she who made him uses his present, I avoid finding myself
alone with that ridiculous. Countess with whom you shackle,
me in short, as I come only for your sake.
I have every reason to stay A away until you are here.

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Oh you will never lack the powerof giving a bright color to your
faults. However, if you had come half an
hour sooner, we should have enjoyed those few moments for
when I came, I found that the Countess was out and I have no
doubt that she is gone all over the town to claim for herself
the honor of the comedy. You gave me under her name.

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But Pray, when were you put an end to this and make me buy less
dearly? The happiness of seeing you when
I Parents agree which are scarcely dare hopeful you know
as well as I do that dissensionswhich exists between our two
families deprive us but the possibility of seeing each other
anywhere else. And that's neither my brothers
nor my father oh likely to approve of our engagement.

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Yes, but why not profit better by the opportunity which their
emnity gives us and why obliged me to waste under a ridiculous
deception. But moments, I passed near you,
it's just the better to hide ourlove.
And besides to tell you the truth, this deception you speak
of is to me a very amusing comedy and I hardly think that

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the one you gave me today will amuse me as much, our Countess
of Azkaban has with her Perpetual infatuation for
quality is as good a personage as can be put on the stage, the
short Journey she has made to Paris has brought her back to
Angela more crazy than ever, theair of the court has given a new

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child, her extraordinary, Against and hopefully grows and
increases every day. Yes.
But do you not take into consideration that?
What amuses you drives me to Despair and that one cannot
disseminate law when one is under the sway of Love is true.
Is that which I feel for you? It is cruel to think dear Julia

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that this Amusement of yours should deprive me of the few
moments during which I could speak to you of my love.
And last night, I wrote on the subject, some verses that I
cannot help. Help repeating to you.
So true. Is it that the Mania of reciting
ones versus is inseparable from the title of a poet?
Iris too long. Thou keepest on tortures rack

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one who obeys thy laws. Yet Whispering chives in that
thou biddest me boosted, Joy, lilac and hush.
The sorrow that my bosom hides must ID rise to which I yield my
arms from my sad sighs. Draw wanton.
Pleasure still is not enough to suffer for thy charms that I
must grieve at thy capricious. Will this double martyrdom, a

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pain affords too Keen to Bear AtOnce by deed.
The words work on my wasting heart.
Accrual Doom, love midget burn, constraint it's life.
Thus chill. If pity soften not thy, Wayward
will love faint and real will lead me to the tomb.
I see that you make yourself outmuch more ill yeast than you

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need, but it is the way with youpoet, stole falsehoods and Cold
Blood. And to pretend that those you
love are much more cruel than they are in order to make them
correspond to the fancies you made.
Taken to your heads yet. I should like you if you will to
give me those verses in writing,no, it is enough that I have

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repeated them to you and I oughtto stop there.
A man may be foolish enough to make versus but that is
different from giving them to others.
It is in vain for you to affect a false, modesty your weight as
well. Known and I do not see why you
should hide what he right? Ah we must tread here whether
greatest circumspection, it is adangerous thing.

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Set up for a wit. There is inherent to it, a
certain Touch of absurdity, which is catching and we should
be warned by the example of someof our friends nonsense.
Clear. And I see that in spite of all
you say you are longing to give me your verses and I've you sure
that you would be very unhappy if I pretended not to care for

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them I unhappy. Oh dear.
No I am not so much of a poet for you to think that I but here
is the counters of s Cabanas. I'll go by the store.
So as not to meet her and we'll see that everything is got ready
for the play. I have promised you scene 2 the
Countess Julia only and Creek a in the background.

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What madam are you alone? What is shame, all alone.
I thought my people had told me that the Viscount was here.
It is true that he came but it was sufficient for him to know
that you are not at home. He would not stop after that.
What did he see you? Yes.

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And did he not stop to talk withyou?
No matter, he wished to show youhow very much.
She has struck by your charms, still, I shall call him to
account for that. However, much anyone may be in
love with me, I wish them to payto our sexy.
Homage that is due to it. I'm not one of those unjust

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women who approve of the rudeness, their love is
displayed towards other Fair ones.
You must in no way. Be surprised at his conduct the
love, he has for you, shows itself in all his actions.
And and prevents him from caringfor anybody, but you I know that
I can give rise to a strong passion.
I have for that enough, Beauty, Youth and rank, thank heaven.

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But it is no reason why those who love me should not keep
within the bounds of propriety towards others seeing Cricket.
What are you doing there? A little page, is there not an
anti room for you to be in untilyou're cold?
It is a strange thing that in the provinces.
We cannot meet with a servant who knows his place to whom?

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Do you think I am speaking? Why do you not move?
But you go outside, little knavethat you are Scene, 3, the
Countess Julia, Andre come hither girl.
What do you wish me to do, man, to take off my headdress gently?

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You awkward girl, how roughly you touch my head with your
heavy hands. I do it as gently as I can
ma'am. No doubt.
But what you call gently? As very rough treatment for my
head, you've almost put my neck out of joint now.
Now take also this month go and put it with the rest into the

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closet. Don't leave anything about well,
where is she going? Now what is this stupid girl
doing? I am going to take this into the
closet, as you told me. Mom.
Oh, heavens to Julia. Pray.
Excuse for rudeness Madam to Andre.

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I told you my closet great ass that Is the place where I keep
my dresses. Please.
Ma'am is a cupboard, called a closet at court.
Yes, dunce. It is thus, that a place where
clothes are kept as called will remember it, man, as well as the

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word Furniture Warehouse for your attic, Scene for the
Countess Julia, what trouble? It gives me to have to teach
such simpletons. I think the very fortunate to be
under your discipline Madam. She is my nurses daughter whom I
have made. Ladies made the post is quite

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new to her as yet. It shows a generous Soul Madam
and his glorious thoughts to form people.
Come some seats. I say, Here little page.
Little page little page boy, truly, this is too bad.
Not ever page to give us chairs.My Maids, my page, my page.

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My Maids. Oh somebody.
I really think that they must beall dead and that we shall have
to find seats. For ourselves.
Scene 5 the Countess Julia Andrewhat is it?
You want ma'am. You do make people scream after

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you use servants, I was putting your muffin headdress away in
the cup and the closet. I mean calling that Rascal of a
page, I say cricket sees that Cricket of your stupid and call
out page page then and not Cricket come.

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And speak to mrs. I think he must be deaf Creek
page page. Since 62 counters Julia Andre
Cricket. What is it?
You want? Where were you?
You rascal in the street, man, why in the street?

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You told me to go outside, oh, you are a rude little fellow and
you ought to know that outside among people of quality means,
the anteroom, Andre mind, you ask my equerry to flog, this
little rogue He is an incorrigible little wretch.

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Whom do you mean by your egg, Curry?
Ma'am? Is it mr.
Charles, you called, by that name be silent you impertinent
girl, you can hardly open your mouth without making some rude.
Remark to click a quick, some seats to Andre, and you light to

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wax. Candles in my silver,
candlesticks, it's getting late.What is it now?
Why do you look so scared, man? Well, ma'am.
What is the matter? It?
Is that what? I have?

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No X cancels, but only dips, thesimpleton.
And where are the wax candles? I brought a few days ago, I have
seen. None.
Since I have been here, get out of my presence.
Rude, girl, I will send you backto your home again.

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Bring me a glass of water. Scene 7, the Countess and Julia
making much ceremony. Before they sit down Madam
Madam. Madam Madam Madam.
I beg of you madam. I beg of you.

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Oh, Madam. I'm Adam Braverman.
Madam, pray Madam. Now really Madam.
Now really madam. I am in my own house Madam.
We are agreed as to that. Do you take me for a provincial
Madame? Oh, heaven forbid.

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Madam Scene 8, the Countess Julia, Andre who brings a glass
of water Cricket the Countess toAndre get along with you.
You hussy. I drink with a salver.
I tell you that you must go and fetch me, a salver cricket.

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What's a salver? A salver?
Yes, I don't know. The Countess to only.
Will you move or will you not? We don't either of us know what
the Salva is know. Then that it is a plate on which
you put the glass C9, the Countess, Julia Long Live Paris.

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It is only there. That one is well waited upon
their a glance is enough. Scene, 10 to Countess Julia,
Andre who brings a glass of water with a plate on the top of
it Cricket. Is that what I asked you for
you? Dunderhead.
It is under that. You must put the plate.

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That is easy to do. She breaks the glass in trying
to put it on the plate. You stupid girl, you should
really pay for the glass. You shall I promise you very
well ma'am. Mom, I will pay you for it.
But did you ever see such an awkward layout is girl?

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Such a? I say ma'am if I am to pay for
the glass, I won't be scolded into the bar game.
Get out of my sight. Scene 11, the Countess Julia.
Really. Madam small towns are strange
places in them. There is no respect of persons

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and I've just been making a few calls at houses, where they
drove me almost to despair. So little regard.
Did they pay to my rank? What could you expect them to
have learned manners? They have never been to Paris
still They might learn, if they would only listen to one.

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But what I think is too bad, is that they will persist in saying
that they know as much as I do. I who have spent two months in
Paris and have seen the whole Court.
What's absurd, people, they are unbearable in the in pertinent
equality with which they treat people for insured.

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Their art to be a certain subordination.
In and things. And what gets me out of all
patience. Is that a town up stat weather
with two days gentility to boastof or with 200 years should have
impudence enough to say that he is as much of a gentleman.
As my late husband who lived in the country, kept a pack of

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hounds and took the title of count in all the Deeds that he
signed, they know better how to live in Paris in those large
hotels you must remember. Such pleasure, the hotel of
Mushi. Madam, that hotel of the Ian
that hotel, the whole end, what?Charming places to live in.
It is true that those places arevery different from what we have

(01:26:59):
here. You see their people of quality
who did not hesitate to show youall the respect and
consideration which you look forone is not under the obligation
of rising from one seat and if one wants to see a review or the
great ballet of psyche your wishes are At once attended to,
I should think about him that during your stay in Paris, you

(01:27:22):
made many a conquest among the people of quality.
You can rarely, believe Madam. That of all the famous Court
calanques, not one failed to come to my door and pay his
respects to me. I keep in my casket, some of the
letters sent me. I can prove by them what offers
I have refused. There's no need for me to tell

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you their names. You know what is Is meant by
Court Gallants. I wonder Madam how after all
those great names, which I can easily, guess you can descend to
mr. Thibault da, a counselor and mr.
Help. All a collector of taxes.
The fall is great. I must say for your bike out,

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although nothing but a country by counters.
Still have I count and can take a journey to Paris.
If he has not been there alreadybutter counselor and
tax-gatherer but Paula As for great Countess like you, they
are men. Um, one treats kindly in the
country in order to make use of when the need arises, they serve

(01:28:27):
to fill up the gaps of gallantryand to swell the ranks of one's
lovers. It is a good thing, not to leave
a lover. The sole Master one's heart lest
for want of Rivals, his love, goto sleep through overconfidence,
I confessed Madam that no one can help put Hurting
wonderfully, by all you say, your conversation is a school

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to, which I do not fail to come every day in order to learn
something new. Scene 12, the Countess Julia,
Andre cricket cricket to the Countess.
Here's Janelle, mr. T, bad years, man.
Who wants to see you, ma'am? Ah, you little wretch, this is
another of your stupidities, a well-bred lack.

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You would have spoken in a whisper to agenda woman in
attendance. The latter would have come to
her mistress and have whispered in her.
Ear here is the footmen of mr. So-and-so, who wants to speak to
you madam to which the mistress would have answered his show him
in. Seen 13, the Countess Julia

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Andre Cricket jaanu. Come along engine.
Oh another blunder to Janu. What do you want page?
What have you there he is mr. Thor body.
A man who wishes you? Good morning.
And before he comes, send you some pears out of his garden

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with this small note. Scene 14, the Countess click a
jean. Oh, the Countess giving some
money to Janu. Here, my boy, here's something
for your trouble. Oh no.
Thank you, mom, take it. I say my master told me not to

(01:30:22):
take anything from you. Mom never mind, take it all the
same, excuse me, my ticket to know.
If you don't want it, you can give it to me.
Tell your master that I think him click ok to Janu.
Who is going? Give it to me?
The no. Yeah, you catch me.

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It was I who made you? Take it.
I should have taken it without your help.
What? Pleases me in this mr.
T body. Yeah.
Is that he knows how to behave with people of my quality and
that he is very respectful. Scene. 15 the why can't the
Countess Julia Cricket. I come to tell you madam that

(01:31:09):
the theatricals will soon be ready and that we can go into
the Hall in a quarter of an hourmind.
I will have new crowd after me to click it.
Tell the porter. Not to let anybody come in, we
have so Madam I give up our theatricals.
I could take no interest in them.
Unless the spectators are numerous Leave me.

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If you want to enjoy it thoroughly.
Tell your people to let the whole town in page, a seat to
divide count. After he seated, you have come
just in time to accept a self sacrifice.
I am willing to make to you look, I have here a note from
mr. T body are, who sends me some

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pears? I give you leave to read it
aloud. I've not opened it yet the
Vikings. And after he has read the note,
To himself. This note is written in the most
fashionable style Madam and is worthy of all your attention
reads aloud Madam. I could not have made you the
present. I send you if my garden did not

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bring me more fruit than my love.
You see clearly by this that nothing has taken place between
us. The pears are not quite ripe yet
but they will all the better match the hardness of your
heart. The continued to stay in a which
promises mean nothing. Soft and sweet.
Eat allow me Madam without risking an enumeration of your
charms which would be endless toconclude with begging.

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You to consider that. I am as good a Christian as the
pairs, which I send you for, I render, good for evil, which is
to say to explain myself more plainly that I present you with
good. Christian pairs in return for
the choke pairs, which your cruelty makes me swallow every
day. You're unworthy slave to ball

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DIA. Madam this letter is worth
keeping. There may be a few words in it
to that. I'm not of the academy but I
observe it in a certain respect which pleases me greatly?
You are right? Madam?
And even if the viscountess wereto take it amiss, I should love

(01:33:19):
a man who would write. So to me, Seen 16, mr.
Thibault G the, why can't the Countess?
Julia Cricket. Come here, mr.
Thibault. Dear, do not be afraid of coming
in your note was, well, receivedand so were your pears, and

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there is a lady here who takes your part against your rival.
I am much obliged to Madam and if ever she has a lawsuit in our
court, she may be sure that I shall not forget that.
The honor, she does me in makingherself the advocate of my
flame, your beauty. You have no need of an advocate

(01:34:01):
sir and you'll cause has Justiceon its side.
This nevertheless Madam, the right has need of help and I
have reason to apprehend of the being supplanted by such a rival
and the beguiling of the lady bythe rank of I count.
I had hopes before your note came sir.

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Now I confess fears from I love.Yeah, likewise a few little
couplets which I have composed your honor and Glory Madam.
Ah, I had no idea, the mr. Garibaldi.
I was a poet. These few little couplets will
be my ruin. He means to strophes to click a
page, give a seat mr. Thiba, dheer aside to click a

(01:34:47):
who brings a chair, a folding chair little animal.
Mr. Thiba dheer sit down there and read your Strokes to us.
Mr. Thibault G reads a person ofquality is my third Dame.
She is God's Beauty. Fierce is my flame yet.

(01:35:12):
I must blame her pride and cruelty.
I am lost after that. The first line is is excellent.
A person of quality. I think it is a little too long,
but to Liberty may be taken to express a noble.
Thought the Countess to mr. Twee.

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Let us have the other mr. Thibault J reads.
I know not. If you doubt that my love be
sincere yet this I know that my heart every moment longs to
leave its sorry apartment to visit you With fund respect and
fear. After all this, having my love

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and hand and my honor of superfine brand.
You ought in turn I say content to be a countess gay to cast
that Tigress. Skin away which hides your
charms both night and day. I am undone by mr.

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Degaul da I did not make fun of it.
For the verses are good, although they are country versus
I Madam. Make fun of it though.
He is my rival, I think is versus admirable, I do not call
them like you two strokes merrily but to epigrams as good

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as any of Marshalls, what does Marshall make versus?
I thought he only made gloves. It is not that much madam.
But an author who lived 30 or 40years ago, mr.
Tebaldi has read the author's asyou see but Madam we shall see
if my comedy with its interludesand dances will counteract in

(01:37:03):
your mind, the progress, which the two strokes have made my
son, the count. Must be one of the spectators
for he came this morning from mycountry seat with his tutor.
Who am I see here? Scene 17.
The Countess Julia / conned mr. Thibault gee mr.
Bob in a creek, a Mr. Benét. I say mr.

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Boffin, a come forward, I give the good evening to all this
honorable company, or what does Madden the Countess of Escobar
Nia's want of her. Humble servant.
And bobbing a what time. Mr. Benét.
Did you leave as Cabanas with the count?
My son. And to 8:45 Milady according to

(01:37:50):
your orders, how are my two other Sons?
The Marquis and the commander and they are haven't be thanked
in perfect health. Where is the count in your
beautiful room? With a recess in it madam.
What is he doing? Mr. Bowman, a Madam.

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He is composing an essay upon one of the Epistles of Cicero
which I have just given him as asubject, call him in a mr.
Bomani, be it. According to your command Madam
exit, scene 18, the Countess Julia device account, mr.
Thibault D, mr. Thibault G to the Countess that

(01:38:34):
mr. Baba named.
Adam looks very wise and I thinkthat he is a man of his family.
C19 the Countess. Julia.
The, why can't the count Mr? Benét.
Mr. To Boogie. Come my Lord show.
What progress you make under thegood precepts that are given you

(01:38:55):
bow to the honorable company to count is showing Julia, come
count, salute, this lady Bow Lowto the Viscount salute.
The counselor I am delighted Madam that you should grant me.
The Favor of embracing his lordship.
One cannot love the trunk without loving the branches,

(01:39:17):
goodness gracious. Mr. T-bird year.
What a comparison to use really Madam his lordship, the count
has perfect manners. This is a young gentleman who is
thriving, well, who could have believed that your ladyship had?
So big a child alas, when he wasborn.
I was so young that I still played with dolls.

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He is Brother and not your son be very careful of his
education. Mr. Benét.
I shall never Madam neglect anything towards the cultivation
of the young plant, which your goodness has entrusted to my
care. And I will try to inculcate in
him, the seeds of all the virtues Mr. Benét, just make him

(01:40:04):
recite some choice piece from what you teach him.
Will your lordship repeat your lesson of yesterday morning?
I'm they fear of solely quad common interests over relay.
I'm the very first Mr. Benét. What silly stuff is that?
You teach him? It is a Latin Madam and the

(01:40:28):
first rule of Jean de Port are truly.
The Joe dispatch here is an impudent fellow and I beg you to
teach my Son more honest Latin that this in the future if you
will allow him to say it all through Madame the gloss will
explain the meaning. There is no need it explains

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itself sufficiently. Seen 20, the Countess Julia
divided count. Mr. Thibault.
J. The count.
Mr. Benét Creek, a the actress sent me to tell you that they
are ready. Let us take a seats showing
Judea mr. Thiba dheer, take this lady

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under your care Cricket, places all the chairs, on one side of
the stage, the counters Julia and the viscountess, sit down
and mr. T body sits down at the
countess's feet. It is important.
For you to observe that this comedy was made only to unite
the different pieces of music and dancing which compose the
entertainment and that never mind.

(01:41:33):
Let us see it. We have enough good sense to
understand things begin that at once and see that.
No Troublesome Intruder comes todisturb our pleasure the
violence. Begin an overture Seen 21.
The count is Julia device. Count the count, mr.
APA mr. T, bujji, Mr. Benét Creek a by

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George. This is fine and I Rejoice to
see what? I see.
How Mr. Receiver, what do you mean by this behavior?
Is it right to come and interrupt a comedy in that
fashion by jove Madam? I am delighted at this adventure
and it shows me what I ought to think of you.

(01:42:18):
What I ought to believe of the assurances.
You gave me of the gift of your heart and likewise of all your
Oaths of fidelity bed. Really one should not come thus
in the middle of a play in this.Sterben actor, who is speaking
ha Zounds? The real comedy, here's the one

(01:42:39):
you were playing and I cared little.
If I disturb you really you do not know what you are saying.
Yes, damn it I know perfectly well and mr.
Bodine a frightened takes up thecount and runs away.
Click a follows him. Why sir?

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How wrong it is to swear in thatfashion.
Siddharth Thursday. Anything bad here is not my
swearing, but your actions and it would be much better for you
to swear by Heaven and Hell, then to do what you do with of I
count. I don't know, sir of what you
have to complain, and if I have nothing to say to you, sir, you

(01:43:22):
do right to push your fortune. That is quite natural.
I see nothing strange in it and I beg your pardon, for
interrupting your play. But neither, can you find it
strange, but I complain of her proceedings.
We both have a right to do what we are doing.
I have nothing to say to that and I do not know what cause of
complaint if you can have against her.

(01:43:44):
Ladyship the Countess of best Cabanas.
When one suffers from jealousy, what does not give way to such
outbursts? But one comes peaceably to
complain to the person. Beloved, I complain peaceably.
Yes, one does not come. Come and Shout on the stage.

(01:44:04):
What should be said in private? I came purposely to complain on
this stage said. Ah, it is the place that suits
me best. I should be glad If This Were a
real theater so that I might expose you more publicly.
Is their need for such an uproar, because the Viscount
gives a play in my honor, just look at mr.

(01:44:26):
T, body are. Who loves me?
He acts more respectfully than you do.
Mr. T Bo J does as he pleases. I don't know how far mr.
T, Bo J is got with you but Mr. T boj's.
No example. For me, I don't like to pay the
piper for other people to dance.But Mr. Receiver, you don't

(01:44:48):
consider what you are saying. We will have rank or not treated
this. And those who hear you might
believe that something strange has taken place between us,
confound it all Madam, let us cast.
His side, all this Foolery. What do you mean by Foolery?
I mean that I do not think it strange that you should yield to

(01:45:11):
the viscountess Merit. You're not the first woman in
the world who plays such a part in who has a receiver of taxes
but whom the love and purse are betrayed for the first newcomer
who takes her fancy, but do not think it extraordinary but I do
not care to be the dupe of an infidelity.
So calm To coquettes of the period.

(01:45:34):
But I come before good company to say that I break with you and
that I the receiver of taxes will no more be taxed on your
account. It is really wonderful, how
angry lovers have become the fashion.
We see nothing else anywhere. Come-come is to receiver cast
aside, your anger and calm and take a seat to see the play.

(01:45:57):
I sit down xerath, not I showingmr.
Dirty Birdie look for a fool at your feet.
My lady. Countess I give you up to my
Lord, the VY count and is to himthat I will send the letters
I've received from you. My scene is ended.

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My part is played good, night toall, we shall meet somewhere
else, and I will show you that Ihave a man of the sword, as well
as of the pain, right? My good, mr.
T, Bo J exit, such insolence confounds.
Me the jealous madam are like those who lose their cause they

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have lived to say anything. Let us listen to the play now,
Seen 22. The Countess de Vie count,
Julia, mr. Thibault GE GE new Jean Eudes of
account. Sure, here is a note, which I've
been asked to give to you immediately the bike and reads,

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as you may have some measures totake.
I sent you notice that once thatthe quarrel between your family
and that of Julia's has just been settled and that the
condition of this agreement is your marriage with Julia good
night. Right.
To Julia. Truly Madam.
Our part is also played the vicomte the Countess and mr.
Twee All Rise, the whole Glee hunt.

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What happiness, is this? All of could scarcely hope for
such a happy end. What is it?
You mean, it means Madam that I married Julia and if you will
believe me in order to make the play complete at all points, you
will marry mr. Tebaldi, a and give Andre to his
footman. Whom he will make his valet de

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chambre. What you deceived us, a person
of my rank. No offense to you madam, but
plays require such things yes mr.
Thibault. Dear.
I will marry you to Vex everybody.
You do me too much. Honor, Madam.

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Allow us Madam in spite of our vexation.
To see the end of the play. The end end of the, counters of
s cabaña by Moliere translated by Charles Heron wall.
Play goers a domestic Episode byArthur Wing Pinero.

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This is a LibriVox recording allLibriVox recordings are in the
public domain for more information or to volunteer,
please visit librivox.org. The person's of the play, The
Master read by Todd, the mistress read by Sonia.

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The cook read by Linda Olsen, vitac the kitchen maid read by
Jasmine. Selma for Paula made read by son
of the Exiles, the housemaid read by TJ burns.
The useful made read by devorah Alan.

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The old man red Point Alan mapstone.
Stage directions read by Thomas Peter.
The scene is the morning room ina house in London, originally
decorated and furnished Facing The Spectator.
There is a broad window through which the sunlight enters from a

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street and in the right-hand wall, a double door, opens into
the room from the hall on the left opposite, the door there is
the fireplace. No fire is burning and the
greatest hidden by ferns growingin pots.
On the right, there is a city. The further end of the city is a
small table with books and newspapers upon it.

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No, no left at the table. There is an armchair, a writing
table stands near the window with a chair before it on the
left of the room, there is a breakfast table upon which are
the remains of a breakfast laid for two persons.
There is a chair at the further side of this table, another on
its left and at the nearest side, some little distance from

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the table is a felt a Struve an armchair stands at the further
side of the fireplace and another chair of a lighter, sort
of the near side of the door, other articles of Furniture,
bookcases Corner, cupboards a cabinet etcetera.
Argue by spaces against the walls, note throughout, right?

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And left are the spectators. Right?
And left, not the actors. The master and the mistress, a
good-looking, young couple are seated at the breakfast-table.
He is reading a newspaper. She is sipping her tea and
softly trilling a song. The master at the further side

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of the table lowering his paper,very merry, this morning, was he
the mistress on the left of the table?
I always am dearest on Stock Exchange holidays when you are
mine for whole day. The master indulgently.
Yes, me the mistress rising and putting her lips to his brow.

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Besides I have a reason for feeling happy just now every
day. Reason the servants.
Have you noticed them? I've noticed there are new lat
scowling rodders, a brand-new lat, and please don't call them
rotters. Moving to the right darling.

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I am convinced that at last our miseries are ended and that we
are in for a run of luck. The master lighting, a cigarette
good business, if that's the case.
At the present moment. Ernest ear.
We have a staff of domestics which in my opinion, is as near
Perfection as is humanly possible.

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Rah, the mistress sinking into the armchair on the left at the
small table. Put.
Oh, my gracious. Yes, it has been a devil of a
time. I couldn't have gone on much
longer as we have been going on.Clenching a hands.
Oh the torture of the past eightmonths, the first eight months

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of our married life when everything should have been
Rosie and ideal the master rising and approaching her.
My poor dear Mama ring the bell old boy the master going to the
fireplace, right? Oh what do you think?
I am going to do the master ringing the bell.

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Ask me an easier one. I worked it out in my brain last
night, I am going to give them atreat, your portrait, the
Servants, of course, how Tosh when did this new gang come in
how an observant you are a week ago and you better wait a bit

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the mistress jumping up. No I intend to act on a
different system with this againas you Mate and to begin early
joining him in the middle of theroom.
I mean to show all these cheerful willing people that we
are their friends as well as theemployers and that we consider

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it. Our duty to provide them with
food for their minds as well as for their, you know, dear the
master nodding, the mistress slipping her arm through his
Earnest. Perhaps we have been a Little
remiss in this respect up to. Now the master withdrawing his

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arm, Hush The Parlor. Maid enters carrying a tray.
She is a great deal more ladylike than any lady was ever.
Breathed. The mistress sweetly.
Thank you, I didn't drink for you to clear Beechcroft.
I wish to see the servants. The parlormaid elevating her

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eyebrows, see the solvents. You hear the parlormaid was a
shade of hot teacher, really nothing wrong.
I trust the mistress smiling. Nothing quite the contrary.

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I'll bring them up as soon as we've finished our lunches do I
am sorry to have Disturbed. You I won't hire them.
Although I'll be eating their Prawns without removing the
Skins she retires. The mistress glowingly, isn't

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she? A refined girl extremely but I
say pussy, is it absolutely necessary to hold this
confounded parade? Not absolutely.
But I want to study the expression of their faces while
you are making the announcement walking about.
Oh Ernest. Is there anything in this world

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equal to the joy of giving pleasure to others?
Oh, Make the announcement. Do I sit in lie but I haven't
heard yet. What form of the Blessed treat
is to take this? See it theater.
Yes, we are going to send them to the play darling.
My dear Norma, there are no Petamoms at this time of year

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pantomimes, these are grown up intelligent women, not a person
of children, the master grumbling lie, well anyhow,
It'll be deucedly inconvenient for us, the mistress halting.
Why pray who was the cook and serve our dinner?

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Do we never dine at a restaurantoften?
But we're not in the habit of marching out of the house and
leaving it. Totally unprotected the mistress
coming to him and speaking very incisive lie, my dear husband
will you have the common fairness to tell me whether I
have said? They are all to go to the

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theater on the same night. Oh, I beg.
Pardon I have plenty Affair in my head down to the smallest
detail. As a matter of fact, they are to
go in botches, I felt so you mean badges Don't be so fond of

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catching me up batches some one night, some another melting.
Oh Ernest, I am so excited aboutit.
Dum Dai Dum Dai. She sees him and they do a Glide
around the room, the door opens again and the parlormaid returns

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followed by The Cook, The usefulmade the housemaid and the
kitchen maid or with the A mouthful, the master and the
mistress Stop Dancing In some confusion.
The master under his breath Dash, the parlormaid to the
mistress. Yeah, they are.
I thought that rather get a dateeither delighted to the Cook.

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Good morning, mrs. Hecate the cook a stolid
ponderous woman. Good morning, Mom.
The mistress in the middle of the room where you sit down,
please will everybody sit down, mr.
Torrington has something to communicate to you, sit on the
city, some of you to the housemaid, pointing to the chair

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against the right-hand wall whirring hem.
Bring that share forward. That's right.
I want you all to be comfortable, obviously oppressed
by the mystery shrouding, the proceedings.
To cook the kitchen. Maid in The useful made, see
themselves upon the city, the parlormaid and Thrones yourself
in the chair on the left of the small table or the housemaid

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fetches. The chair, from the right as
directed and sits in it at the near end of the city.
The mistress to the master in a whisper, gently pushing him
towards the middle of the room. No darling!
She sits upon the thoat, a stooland eagerly watches.
His servants faces, the master addressing the servants.

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I should like you to understand that this is an idea of mrs.
During tain's her idea entirely.Mrs. Durrington desires me to
say, To the cook with steadily munching irritably.
I'm afraid you're not nearly through with your lunch, the
cook moving her, Jaws regularly,regards him with dull, eyes and

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offers no reply. The mistress reprovingly Ernest.
The master with an effort, I repeat I am desired by mrs.
Torrington to say, the odd, man,and his quietly, closes a door,
and advances to the back of the seat.
He very takes up an attitude of deep attention.

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Here's a gene. You'll be re looking individual
and a linen jacket. And Bay's apron, and with the
dirty leather in his hand, who'sthis?
The odd, man? Dear, my hat.
Do you wish to include him? The mistress vaguely know I
hadn't thought of doing? So, the master to the odd man,

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what do you want? Aunt.
The odd man pointing to the parlormaid on here and obedience
to a message brought by this young lady while I was having a
snack in the all to the mistressturning away.
Oh, you take this on Norma the mistress, Rising look here, I

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forgot your name. Gage, Gail, mum GA Ellie.
Gail think of wind. Thank you.
There is no need for me to thinkof wind look here.
Gail, my message was to the servants.
Exactly, man. Don't interrupt me, I meant the

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regular servants, those who sleep in the house of dropped
off to sleep in the ass, more than once to the Cook.
I mean, I miss is accurate. Then you ought to have done.
So However, I can't discuss the point now.
Be good enough to remain downstairs in case the
tradesmen's or the visitors Bell.

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Rings, the odd man lingering whoyou are, man.
It's been a misunderstanding on my part that's all it's been.
The best of us is liable to mistakes the master rejoining,
the mistress to the odd man, go away.
Go away the unmanned, Touching his forehead.

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First time I've had the pleasureof seeing you sir, for losses,
been Mutual, there is to have a conversation, so to speak.
Yes, yes. Go away the odd, man producing
the soil and torn paper from hispocket.
Where's my list to do is you've got it run along the old man

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whistling for luckily, I'm not required here.
More busy morning, he departs. The mistress to the master
receding herself upon the felt astool start afresh, darling, the
master resuming his address. As I have already informed you.

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I am desired by mrs. Torrington to, to the Cook who
is still munching For Heaven's Sake, mrs.
Thingummy swallow and have done with it and iced the Cook gulps
painfully. Oh Ernest sorry, sorry.

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Oh dear to the master once more,the master to the servants.
I am desired by mrs. Durrington to say that in
consideration of your long and valued services and he, hey,
only a week II. Know, I know to the servants in

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consideration of the long and valuable Services, which we have
every reason to Hope and to expect the mistress prompting
him, you will. Render us the master to the
servants. Every reason to Hope and expect
that you will render us. It is her wish our joint wish.

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In fact, to give you occasionally a little, how shall
I describe it? Treat distraction wholesome
amusement, and this being Our intention, we propose to begin
by sending you all to the play. The see it.
Mm, the theater, and And to the mistress.

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That's all I believe Norma. Thank you dearest beaming upon
the servants. Well, well, there is silence.
The parlormaid tide, is there hair fastidious Lee, the house
made a solemn visits young woman, looks down her nose and
tightly compressed. His her lips, The Cook's Ace

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remains a blank, the useful madea thin anemic girl stares into
space. With watery eyes, the kitchen
maid crushed into the further corner of the city.
By the cook is almost completelyhidden.
Well, the useful made suddenly breaking into sobs and searching

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for a handkerchief The master tothe mistress, what the the
mistress to the master to the useful made soothingly.
No trinder trinder, do try to control yourself.

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These were made wiping her eyes It's a Wonderful kindness.
I've never experienced an any situation.
I've been in the master to, the mistress in a whisper is she
always the mistress in the same tone nodding inclined to be a

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little hysterical, a, huh? The useful made to the mistress.
You're the nicest lady. I've Heaven, the mistress.
Gently trinder trinder mr. Darlington 20.

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There are gentlemen. The master to the mistress the
useful made. Isn't she?
The mistress nodding again? Yes ha ha ha Ernest.
The useful made to the master. Excuse me, sir.
I'm a trifle. And the truth.

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With to the mistress, isn't it Madam?
The mistress accenting lie below, par, I've been talking
about taking a tunicc for ever so long, mr.
So it's me, well, under the insurance act any The mistress

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to the useful made. Dare dare.
Pull yourself together. I am glad you appreciate what we
are doing for you to the Cook brightly now.
Mrs. Hackett, it's your turn. Let us hear what you have to
say. The cook heavily me, mum to

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treat the visit to the theater. Wake up, mrs.
Hacket apologizing for the question.
Um, I presume this ply going, I ain't intended to interfere with
our usual out, the mistress blankly interfere with your

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because I don't think that it'd be appreciated by the girls, by
any manner. I means the master, looking at
the mistress upon my soul, the mistress Rising stiffly
extraordinary, the master, and the mistress.
Change places. Of course, your usual nights out

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will not be interfered with Emilio last really mrs.
Hackett no, offense, mom, the mistress tapping her foot upon
the floor, not released, then itwould be best on a Monday night.
If it's to be at all, if it's tobe odd, man, reappears closing

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the Door as before. There's that fellow again, the
mistress to the odd, man, what is it gauge?
The odd man advancing, Gail mom,think of wind the mistress
Hartley. I shall not think of wind.

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Does anybody want to mrs. Hacket the Iron Man leaning upon
the back of the city, not that I'm aware man, the master of
changing places. As with the mistress then
confound you, it's like this sir.
I've been turning the ladies remark over in my mind as to, my

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not being a regular servant. Oh, pickles.
And a conclusion, I have arrivedat.
You will arrive at a still speedier conclusion.
So far as this establishment is concerned, if you're not
careful, most assuredly, The unmanned argumentative lie, you

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see, sir, my point is your pint.It looks as if you're a pint had
been a gallon. The Iron Man, ignoring the
suggestion more point is that, if the employer takes out Inland
Revenue, license for a handyman,how dare you attempt to argue

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with me that constitutes in a regular servant.
Therefore, go away. Keep in the basement outrageous.
What next, the odd man producinghis paper again, resignedly?
Where's my list to do is you've already referred to it?

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It's getting worn out. The odd.
Man, moving slowly to the door. I'm getting warrant fairly, oh,
be off the old man, at the door.Or reading his paper, hello for
winders, he withdraws. The mistress walking away to the

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fireplace. Pacing up and down Terry by
person the master pacing up and down the middle of the room.
Dreadful creature gradually calming himself a law wiping.
His brow stupid to allow oneselfto be upset by Trifles to the

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parlormaid. Well, my good girl, who, What
observations have you to favor us with a the parlormaid
languidly? Oops, affiliations with regard
to the theater precisely with regard to the theater.
Oh, I'm quite agreeable. I'm sure.

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Agreeable agreeable, provided anextra seat.
Next to mine is booked for my friend.
You're the mistress coming to The Breakfast Table friend who
my fiance, I never Ten places ofamusement unaccompanied by my

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friend, the master at a loss, indeed, to the mistress.
Perhaps, you had better deal with this Norma, the mistress
advances in the master seats himself upon the thoat, a stool
and glares at nothing in particular.
The mistress to the parlormaid, this is the first I've heard of

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a young man, Beechcroft, how long have you and He been
walking out the parlormaid raising her eyebrows higher than
ever walking out. Keeping company, keeping
company. Keeping company, don't, I speak
plainly the parlormaid loftily, I've known him for years but our

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engagement wasn't announced to our respectful families.
Do February Respective, not respectful.
If you wouldn't try to use wordsthat are Beyond you, the
telephone bell rings in the whole, telephone, the parlormaid
Rises and Sandra's to the door. Look, sharp Beechcraft to the

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master as the parlormaid disappears.
Hi, hi. I suppose there's no objection
the master between his teeth extra ticket and in Final
ticket. The master, grating lie, I
suppose not the useful made indulging in another fit of

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weeping. What?
Kindness the master groaning. Oh, the mistress stamping.
Her foot, silenced render, compose yourself.

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The pilot made Returns the mistress to the parlourmaid.
Who is it? The parlormaid going back to a
chair. Mamba.
Well, Beechcroft mr. Torrington, and I have wait,
your application carefully and we have decided to accede to it.

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The parlormaid, resuming her seat, an extra four total for my
friend, the mistress graciously an additional seat for your
friend, the parlormaid arrangingher, apron, thanks all flare.
To the mistress to the master surprised tool, two extra seats

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one for himself and the other for his hat, the parlormaid to
the mistress resentfully, rarelyMadden the mistress to the
master in a tone of a warning Ernest.
The useful made stuffing her handkerchief into her mouth,

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Great Scott. Be quiet to endure liberality.
The cook in a deep voice apologizing for the
interruption, what now? Mrs. Hackett apologizing for the

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interruption. If Beechcroft is given
permission to bring our friend. I shall expect our ticket to For
my nephew, your nephew, the master Rises grimly and
silently. You're my favorite, my view, the

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mistress to the master falteringly Ernest, the master
changing places with the mistress restraining himself
with difficulty. Forgive me for reminding you
mrs. Hatchet Hecate.
The master with a wave of the hand.
Forgive me for Reminding you that your favorite nephew is not
my favorite. Nephew Norm is darrington's.

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Neither I'd Beechcroft friend your friend come to that.
The master his fingers, twitching true, the mistress to
the Cook. What is he?
This nephew either dog. Exerciser dog exerciser dog.
A exercises pet dogs for ladies in the out.

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Mi drag their animals around thepark.
He's got quite a big connection,I'll buy dies, I reckon he's
heard of his profession, the mistress to the master weekly.
Any Albert, I'll end by having his portrait in the Daily
Mirror. It is prophesied.

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The mistress to the master I supposed to There's no objection
extra ticket and another ticket,the master gutturally, I suppose
not the useful made unable to repress her tears.

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Train de what generosity such treatment.
I've never met with the years I've been in service, the
mistress again, piecing, the room on the left, this is
maddening, the telephone Bell isagain, heard the parlormaid

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rising telephone, the master furiously.
Damn the telephone the house made with a sudden jerk and a
Never. Oh, oh my the parlormaid goes
out, the mistress, rejoining themaster and addressing the house
made with asperity. Oh, I'm forgetting you worrying

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him. We haven't heard from you yet.
How many young men do you wish us to take tickets for the
housemaid severely? None, ma'am.
The mistress ironically none. Astonishing the master to the
housemaid. Oh Come our favorite cousin.
The housemaid shaking. Her head have been brought up

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much more strict than what most girls are.
My station of Life have been brought up being a dissenter.
I have no use for men, young or old the master with Mark
concern. You are Paul me, not them in a
wholly unnecessary. Mark, you.

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I don't go so far as to maintainthat.
That what a relief, even thoughtpartial concession, the
parlormaid re-enters, who is it?Wrong number, the master angrily
fish. The parlormaid returning to her
chair. Where are we?

(02:18:15):
Where are we? The parlormaid stitching again?
Well, I have, we got We have gotto the desolating disclosure
that are worrying him that whirring ham has a strong
antipathy to the male sex. The parlormaid disdainfully.
Huh? The housemaid to the parlormaid.

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Yes you may laugh. Miss Beechcraft.
Drawing herself up. Neither have I I must have our
it neither have. I the slightest use of theaters
or theater going. Oh, that's like Cinema now and
again perhaps but theaters no tothe mistress and if I may be

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pardoned, the Liberty ma'am. I do think it would have been
more considerate to have consulted.
Each of us, as to our particulartastes and lichens before
seeking, to drive us all to the playhouse.
As though, we're flak a sheep, the mistress dropping on the
photos a stool. Well, I never Jove this caps,

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everything, the telephone Bell Rings.
Again, the part of the maid Rising telephone, the mistress
starting up. Hmm.
Damned a telephone Norma. The housemaid horrified?
Oh, oh, dear. The parlormaid goes out the

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master to the mistress in her ear.
Don't lose your dignity. Keep your dignity, keep your
dignity, the mistress passing him, and go into the city.
Where's Evelyn? Evelyn the master pacing the
room on the left. Who's Evelyn the kitchen maid

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stamping, her foot, Evelyn the kitchen maid struggling to the
surface coming mom. The mistress shaking her finger,
the kitchen maid as a girl succeeds in making herself
visible. Now listen to me Evelyn, I won't
stand any nonsense from you. Are you a plague or the kitchen

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made a poor? Little object with a rough head
of are. I'm willing to be Mom.
I'm game for anything. The master excitingly, ha ha
Evelyn is game for anything. The mistress on steadily.
That's a comfort to the kitchen maid.

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And do you demand an extra ticket child for a friend or
relation now? Mom.
Thank you. I got no relations or
acquaintances whatsoever. The cook to the kitchen.
Maid smothering her again. Yeah.
Don't you be so talkative the parlormaid returns the mistress

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to the parlourmaid, who is it rum number, the mistress, going
to the fireplace and clinging tothe mantelpiece, The master
coming to the middle of the roomcurse that exchange of ours, the
parlormaid coldly I have just done.

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So The housemaid shattering. Oh, the parlormaid receding
herself, where are we the masterhis hand to his brow.
Where are we? Well I have we got to the master
wearily to the discovery of the pleasing circumstance that

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Evelyn looking at the city who was here a minute ago that
Evelyn is potentially a Of the drama, the door reopens in the,
on man appears again. He is carrying a pail of water,
some dusters and his leather, hecloses the door softly and goes

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towards the window, the master reuse Against The Breakfast
Table Norma, the mistress. Churning Mercy for Powers the
master intercepting, the odd manand bringing him forward
blizzard. Gail, sir, they could wind I do.

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But mayor wind seems to express the situation in adequately
pointing to the pale. What's this?
The odd man. Depositing the pale upon the
floor and producing his paper. Where's my list to do is the
mistress sitting in the chair, on the left of the breakfast
table, and clasping, her templesthe odd, man.

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Indicating with the dirty forefinger and instruction in
his paper. She here the master blinking at
the paper. The words swim before me.
The odd man reading, Thursday. Most today Thursday, Thursday

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pointed to instructions on paperclean morning-room.
Winders. He replaces the paper in his
pocket and is about to pick up the pale.
The master, touching the odd, man's arm with terrible
calmness, know you have conquered by the aid of fate and
a superior intelligence, sit down.

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You are a regular servant displaying great alacrity the
odd, man takes a chair from before the writing-table and
seats himself by the parlormaid.The master sits in the chair of
the further side of the breakfast table.
And rests his head upon his hands.
The useful made her bosom heaving.

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The mistress. Stopping her ears.
Don't. Trina do useful.
Made her sobs subsiding, the mistress singing back in a chair
exhausted. Oh, Dion, man.

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After a look around, coughing toattract the Masters attention,
Many all Adventure for two r's. The master volume Lee, don't my

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mother keep a small shopping Crawford Street marylebone and
eight. She continually receiving orders
for exhibit in the Theo bills. Indeed.
Yes indeed and the worst, the failures at the theater, the
quicker, the orders Flows In doubtless, why?

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Lord bless you sir. We literally play for Fiasco's.
His mother and me enough, I am satisfied that you are in the
fullest sense, a patron of the drama to the mistress, whose
eyes are closed. My darling, all that is left to
do. It seems to me is to complete

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the arrangements for the approaching festivity Beyond
man, joyously, whoa, slapping his thigh.
Do you? Oh yes, right.
Is there a peanut The master to the odd, man, you are correct in
your surmise. There is a be no on to the

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mistress Norma, the cook. As the mistress opens, our eyes
apologizing for the interruption.
The mistress, shutting her eyes again feebly.
Apologizing for the interruptionas whirring.
Mmm, I need to be one of the party.

(02:26:33):
She will be able to mine the ouster in our absences and warm.
Our suppers the Iron Man following the proceedings with
the keenest interest here here the housemaid to the Cook
bridling. Oh no, she won't.
Sadly. Not the mistress.
Again, opening her eyes that is for me to decide.

(02:26:55):
I'd the housemaid to the mistress Beggin, your pardon
ma'am. But I never said I wasn't ready
to sacrifice my private feelingsand beliefs and to go to the
theater to oblige the mistress rallying to oblige oblige.
Yes, sir for the sake of my fellow servants, as well as for

(02:27:19):
yours and mrs. Torrey intense for the sake of
your day of the party and Respectability.
As it were respectability. Respectability.
The cook to the parlormaid, I dive, you know, Miss gryce
whirring. Mmm.
Insulting cat dog, man. Softly order order.

(02:27:45):
Diesel made weeping. Dissensions the kitchen maid
endeavoring to bring herself Interview.
Let me say something the cook tothe kitchen maid.
Yes. Shut up.
Evelyn clutch the parlormaid derisively, huh?

(02:28:07):
Huh? Huh.
The mistress struggling to a feet.
Stop stop the telephone Bell Rings.
Again. Telephone the pilot made Rising
dime. The phone.
Beechcraft. The housemaid clapping her hand
to her heart. Hello.

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Oh my goodness, the parlormaid stocks out.
The mistress leaning upon The Breakfast Table panting, you,
you are drive me into a lunatic asylum, amongst you the master
rising in approaching the mistress.
My darling. You must not agitate.

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Yourself marking his shin against the pale.
Oh the mistress. Sympathetically.
Oh The master in great pain. Ah picking up the pale.
This is the unmanned to the master, not stirring.
No. You see sir?

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How easy accidents happen to us.Domestics Only Yesterday, the
master to the mistress, you mustnot agitate yourself in this
way. Pussy wincing, your original
plan, tell them, the mistress advancing to the servants.
It's my plan is not to send you all to the theater on the same

(02:29:31):
night, but in botches badges, the mistress to the master on
the verge of tears. Don't catch me up.
So, just servants, mrs. Hackett and her nephew Evelyn
and trinder are to go first. Whirring hem Beechcraft and her
friend. And and, and To the master,

(02:29:56):
what's his name? The master savagely typhoon.
The mistress to the servants typhoon darting a glance, our
Approach at the master. No, it isn't pointing to the
Iron Man. And him the second night, the
master to the mistress. He the second night, the

(02:30:18):
mistress to the master. Dad, owns the odd man to the
mistress. Oh, gobo.
Both nights man. If it will, promote Harmony the
mistress to the odd, man, you shall do nothing of the sort,
the useful made weeping copiously.
I'd say it home and hot up the suppers with Glee.

(02:30:42):
The mistress frenzied. Oh apologizing for the
interruption. Now what apologizing for the
interruption in all good? I was is whenever there's a
special out, the cook goes with the butler, we don't keep a
butler and 10 Butler is kept. She goes with the parlormaid,

(02:31:08):
The master to the mistress. In a whisper rearrange.
It rearrange it. The mistress to the master.
I won't to the cock fiercely. Mrs. Hackett I'm merely stated
what is customary in good O's. Has the odd man to the mistress,

(02:31:30):
count me as the butter man, if it'll help her out of your mess.
I won't to the parliament Made Who reappears at this juncture
and returns to a chair. Who was it?
The parlormaid, distantly, my friend, the mistress to the
master? What telephone, the master

(02:31:52):
changing places with the mistress to the parlormaid
impudent, the parlormaid to the master race, the mistress
discovering that the master is unthinkingly carrying the pale
about with, Him under her breath.
Oh, Ernest. The parlormaid, seating herself.

(02:32:13):
Where are we? The master to the parlormaid?
Ha ha. We can't keep on going back for
you. You know, any the master to the
mistress over his shoulder. Hey, the parlormaid deeply
injured and I should lose the thread of it.

(02:32:34):
The master to the parlormaid, all right, then you've got to
lose a threat of it. Inest the master turning to the
mistress. What is it?
The mistress looking at him. Significantly pain the master,
self-pitying lie. Hey, L, am I passing his hand
across his face? I don't wonder.

(02:32:57):
No, no, taking the payoff from him, give it to me.
Oh, the mistress in his ear. Here you are losing your
dignity. She moves away with the payer
and Stan sit upon the floor between the fireplace and The
Breakfast Table, The Yard Man, 2, the master highly tickled, by
his strange Behavior, fell? She you sir walking about with a

(02:33:23):
pale for Choice? Oh, that beats me master
lightheartedly. Ha ha ha.
I apologize. In for the interruption don't
mention it apologizing for the interruption appears to me.
There is only one more little matter to be disposed of one

(02:33:47):
more. What Theta and what play are
y'all to be packed off to quite so quite.
So, I am the mistress, who, witha look of let in apathy, has
sent down upon the thoat, a stool Dearest.
And I'm for real hearty laugh. I am I am the odd, man.

(02:34:10):
Slapping his leg again. So Moy.
So where am I? I was always celebrated from my
gaiety to my teeth failed. Me as for laughter, nobody can
laugh louder than what I can. When provoked straightening her
back, the Play, I Will Not consent to witness is the play

(02:34:35):
containing love and passion. The kitchen maid coming to the
surface again, I've no such abjection the cook to the
kitchen. Maid you held your tongue?
Evelyn the odd man to the housemaid.
Go on. Don't be so simple.

(02:34:57):
They only pretend pretend I've heard lips glued to lips the
parlormaid icily, If I may pass a remark, you met, the proper
thing to do is to wait and consult my friend, the housemaid

(02:35:22):
witheringly your friend, why not?
Mrs. Heck is nephew while you'reabout it.
The cook to housemaid? Yes.
In why not the parlormaid curling her lip at the house?
Made cheek the cook to the housemaid.

(02:35:43):
Utter a syllable against my nephew.
The odd man pacifically. Cookie.
Cookie cookie dissension on dissension.
The mistress rousing herself silence, The master to the

(02:36:04):
mistress, helplessly Norma the mistress starting up in
advancing to the servants. Now, understand me clearly once
and for all you servants will goexactly where Mr. Durrington,
and I choose to send you the oddman to the mistress.

(02:36:25):
I haven't been to one of the oldlately, mom silence to the
female servants, and that will be too.
You know entertainment of a trivial and frivolous character?
The on man, urgently mother don't get no paper for the all's
be quiet to the female servants.What you will see is a play of

(02:36:49):
ideas, something to stimulate your imaginations and to make
you think ideas, the power of the made with a sickly
expression, make us think. The Iron Man gloomily Crow.
He is slice cut clean out of life.
Infect you follow me. Sounds horribly cruel.

(02:37:16):
The kitchen maid awestruck. Does that mean that knives is
freely used mum not necessarily except by the sensor?
The cook after a pause during which the servants look at each
other inquiringly. Well, Annie L girls is strikes

(02:37:36):
me, we're in for a precious dollevening, the mistress throwing
up her arms, the master who has been fuming at the back of the
room. Oh, coming to grief over the
pale again. As he hurries to the mistress,
dashing blow, the mistress, turning to him Hennis.

(02:37:57):
First, the master limping towards her dish, shaking his
fist at the cook. You, you, you will condition 20
years old woman? Odious the mistress to the Cook
LGS out, the mistress to the Cook.

(02:38:18):
You told me, you are 40 40, the master rubbing his leg 50.
If she's a day. The cook to the mistress.
I was 40 a week ago before I ended your service.
This is the last straw I leave at the end of my month.

(02:38:39):
Do do. And what's more?
I take my kitchen maid with me. Certainly I leave also and me
and me, I really couldn't remainin a place.
It changes are so frequently made most disadvantageous know

(02:39:04):
ah, were such languages. Spoke as has been spoke this
morning in my hearing to be thrown with a strange set of
girls after being prepared perfectly happy with this
Saturday bit more than I could bear, the mistress hysterically.

(02:39:29):
to the master and this, This is the result of fine you system.
Led by the cook, all the female servants rise, the cook
clutching, the kitchen made the Cook to the mistress new system.

(02:39:50):
You call it a nice new system. I hope it'll be a lesson to you
both not to treat first class servants patronizingly and
condescendingly the master advancing.
Oh, go to the devil The cook to the master, I didn't even write

(02:40:11):
with him. I shouldn't have the constant
complaints. I've had in his house but there
being no order for the baths, the mistress to the master, Ledo
ourselves. Open to wrap party.
T the cook to the servants come along and let's resume our

(02:40:32):
lunches. The female servants make for the
door murmuring as they go the kitchen maid still in the grip
of the cook sullenly. I don't know where I am.
I had a foreboding I got with this lit people from the first
Shouldn't be surprised if this exhilarates my marriage ideas

(02:40:59):
and I will, they take the departure and the door is closed
with a slam. The mistress clinging to the
master and breaking down, never mind, pussy, never mind pluck
up, the mistress crying upon hisshoulder.

(02:41:21):
The ground to go over again, o over again, they become
conscious that they are not alone, and that the odd man is
standing by the city and regarding them benevolently, the
master to the mistress hoarsely.No, not all the mistress in a

(02:41:45):
whisper, The odd, man, very quietly.
She fetches the peel and hands it to the master, the master,
presenting it to the yard man with an ingratiating smile.
I love me. The end.
End of play, goers, a domestic Episode by Arthur Wing Pinero.
End of play, goers, a domestic Episode by Arthur Wing Pinero.

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