October 4, 2023 • 33 mins
Act III: Alliances and Confessions – Emotions rise and loyalties are tested. Don Julio starts to suspect something deeper is at play, as Victoria’s clever ruse starts to unravel the truth behind the men around her. Summary by Dream AudioBooks
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Act three of A Bold Stroke for a Husband by
Hannah Couli. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings
are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer,
please visit LibriVox dot org. Scene one a long street.
Julio enters from a garden gate in flat with precipitation.
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A servant within fastens the gate.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Yes, yes, bar the gate fast Cerberus, lest some other
curious traveler should stumble on your confines. If ever I
am so caught again.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Garcia enters left, going hastily across. Julio seizes him.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Don Garcia never make love to a woman in a vale?
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Why so? Prithee, veils and secrecy are the chief ingredients
of a Spanish armor. But in two years, Julia, thou
art grown absolutely French?
Speaker 2 (01:00):
May be? But if ever I trust to avail again,
may no lovely blooming beauty ever trust me? Why dost know?
I have been an hour at the feet of a
creature whose first birthday must have been kept the latter
end of the last century, and whose trembling, weak voice
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I mistook for the timid cadence of bashful fifteen.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
What a happiness to have seen thee in my raptures,
petitioning for half a glance only of the charms. The
envious veil concealed.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Yes, And when she unveiled her Gothic countenance to render
the thing completely ridiculous, she began moralizing and positively would
not let me out of the snare till I had
persuaded her she had worked a conversion, and that I'd
never make love but in an honest way again.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Oh, that honest way of love making is delightful, to
be sure. I had a dosed it this morning. But
happily the ladies have not yet learned to veil their tempers,
though they have their faces.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
And her don Vincentio, right, Hulio Garcia, congratulate me such
an escape? What have you escaped matrimony?
Speaker 5 (02:30):
Nay?
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Then our congratulations may be mutual. I've had a matrimonial
escape too, this very day. I was almost on the
brink of the ceremony with the veriest Xantippa.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
Oh that was not my case. Mine was a sweet creature,
all elegant, all life.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Then where's the cause of congratulation?
Speaker 4 (02:53):
Because why she's ignorant of music, prefers a jig to
a Cazanetta and a jew's hop to a pentachord.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Had my nymph no other fault. I would pardon that,
for she was lovely.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
And rich, Mine too was lovely and rich. And I'll
be sworn as ignorant of scolding, as of a gamba.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
But not to know music, gentle, lovely and rich, and
ignorant only of music.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
A venial crime. Indeed, if the sweet creature will marry me,
she shall carry a jew's harp always in her train,
as a Scotch lair does his bagpipes. I wish you'd
give me your interest.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
Oh, most willingly. If thou hast so gross an inclination,
I'll name thee as a dull, souled logo fellow to
her father, Don.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Caesar Cesar, What dont Cesar Daysonica impossible?
Speaker 4 (03:59):
Oh, I'll answer for her mother so much as don
zuniga her father that he does not know a semibreve
from a calron.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
The name of the lady Olivia. Well, you must be mad,
that's my termagant.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Termagant ha ha ha. Thou hast certainly some vixen of
a mistress who infects thy ears towards the whole sex
Olivia is timid and elegant.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
By Juno, there never exists is such a scold.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
By Orpheus, there never was a gayer tempered creature spirit
enough to be charming, that's all. If she loved harmony,
I'd marry her to morrow.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Ha ha, very ridiculous. Jangle tis evidence. You speak of
two different women.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
I speak of Donna Olivia, heiress to Don Sesar does Zuniga.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
I speak of the heiress of Don Caesar do Zuniga,
who is called Donna Olivia.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Sir. I perceive you mean to insult me.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
Your perceptions are very rapid, sir. But if you choose
to think so, I'll settle that point with you immediately.
But for fear of consequences, I'll fly home and add
the last bar to my concerto, and then meet you
where you please.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Uh. This is evidently misapprehension. To clear the matter up,
I'll visit the lady if you'll introduce me Vincenzio, but
you shall both promise to be governed in this dispute
by my decision.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
I'll introduce you with joy if you'll try to persuade
her of the necessity of music and the charms of harmony.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Yes, she needs that, you'll find her all jar and discord.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Come no more, Garcia, thou art but a sort of
male vixen thyself, Melodius Vincenzio. When shall I expect you
this evening? Not this evening? I have engaged to meet
a goldfinch in a grove. Then I shall have music.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
You rogue it won't sing at night.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Then I'll talk to it till the morning, and he
are to pour out its mattins to the rising sun.
Call on me tomorrow. I'll then attend you to Donna
Olivia and declare faithfully the impression her character makes on me. Come, Garcia,
I must not leave you together, lest his crochets and
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your minimus should fall into a crash of discords.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Exi and Vincentio left, Julio and Garcia right seem to
the produce. Enter Don Carlos right.
Speaker 6 (07:03):
All hail to the powers of Burgundy. Three flasks to
my own share What sorrows can stand against three flasks
of Burgundy. I was a damn melancholy fellow this morning,
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going to shoot myself to get rid of my troubles?
Where are my troubles? Now? Gone to the moon to
look for my wits, and there I hope they'll remain
together if one cannot come back without the other. But
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where is this indolent dog, Yulio? He fit to receive
appointments from ladies? Sure I have not missed the hour?
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Looking at his watch, No.
Speaker 6 (08:06):
But seven, Yet seven's the hour, by all the joys
of Burgundy. The rogue must be here.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Let's Recognoiter retires right and her Victoria and Olivia veiled
left upper entrance.
Speaker 7 (08:29):
Positively, mine's a pretty spark to let me be first
at the place of appointment. I have half resolved to
go home again to punish him.
Speaker 5 (08:38):
I'll answer for its being. But half a resolution to
make it entire would be to punish yourself. There's a
solitary man, Is not that he?
Speaker 7 (08:49):
I think?
Speaker 4 (08:49):
Not?
Speaker 7 (08:50):
If he'd please to turn his face this way?
Speaker 5 (08:54):
That's impossible. Why the loadstone is the other way? He
is looking at the woman in the next world. Can't
you disturb him?
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Olivia screams, oh, a frightful frog. Carlos turns on right.
Speaker 5 (09:09):
Heavens, this is my husband.
Speaker 7 (09:12):
Your husband? Is that, don Carlos?
Speaker 5 (09:16):
It is? Indeed?
Speaker 7 (09:18):
Why really? Now I see the man? I don't wonder
that you are in no hurry for your weeds. He
is moving towards us.
Speaker 5 (09:27):
I cannot speak to him, and yet my soul flies
to meet him.
Speaker 6 (09:32):
Pray, lady, what occasion that pretty scream? I shrewdly suspect
it was a.
Speaker 7 (09:42):
Trap, A trap, A trap for you?
Speaker 6 (09:48):
Why not, madam sounds a man near six feet high
and three floss of burgandy in his head. It's worth
laying a.
Speaker 7 (10:01):
Trap for yes, unless he happens to be trapped before.
Tis about two years since you was caught, I take it.
Do keep farther off? Odious a married man?
Speaker 6 (10:15):
The devil is he posted under every saint in the
street that I am a married man.
Speaker 7 (10:25):
No, you carry the marks about you That rueful fizz
could never belong to a bachelor. Besides, there's an odd
appearance on your temples. Does your hat sit easily by.
Speaker 6 (10:39):
All the thorns of matrum money?
Speaker 1 (10:42):
If poor man?
Speaker 7 (10:44):
How natural to swear by what one feels? But why
were you in such haste to gather the thorns of matrimony?
Bless us had you but looked about you a little?
What a market might have been made of that fine, proper,
promising person of.
Speaker 6 (11:00):
Yours, confoundly, confoundly. If thou art a wife, may thy
husband plague thee with jealousies and thou never be able
to give him calls for them? And if thou art
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a maid, mayst thou be an old.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
One going right? Meets don Julio.
Speaker 6 (11:30):
Oh Julio, look not that way. There's a tongue. Will
stun thee?
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Heaven be praised? I love female prattle. A woman's tongue
can never scare me. Which of these two goldfinches makes
the music?
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Carlos crosses to Victoria.
Speaker 6 (11:55):
Oh, this is as silent as a turtle.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Taking Victoria's hand only coops now and then? Perhaps you
don't hate a married man, sweet one.
Speaker 7 (12:12):
You guess right.
Speaker 5 (12:13):
I love a married man.
Speaker 6 (12:16):
Ah, sayst thou? So wilt thou love me? Will you
let me let thee my charmer? How all cherish thee forts?
What would I not give for thy heart?
Speaker 5 (12:36):
I demand a price that perhaps you cannot give. I
ask unbounded love.
Speaker 7 (12:42):
But you have a.
Speaker 6 (12:43):
Wife, and therefore the readier to love every other woman
tis in your favorite child.
Speaker 5 (12:54):
Will you love me ever?
Speaker 6 (12:57):
Ever? Yes, ever, until we find each other dull company
and yawn and talk of our neighbors for amusements.
Speaker 7 (13:10):
Farewell.
Speaker 5 (13:12):
I suspected you to be a bad chapman, and that
you would not reach my terms.
Speaker 6 (13:16):
Going nay, I'll come to your terms if I can
but move this way cross us left. I am fearful
of that woodpecker at your elbow. Should she begin again,
her noise will scare all the pretty loves that are
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playing about my heart. Don't turn your head towards them.
If you like to listen to love tales, you'll meet
fond pairs enough in this.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Walk, forcing her gently off.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
I really believe, though you deny it, that you are
my destiny. That is, you fated me hither see is
not this your mandate?
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Taking a letter from his pocket?
Speaker 7 (14:15):
Oh, delightful, the scrawl of some chambermaid, or perhaps of
your valet, to give you an air?
Speaker 2 (14:23):
What is it?
Speaker 7 (14:24):
Signed Maria Tornayes Tomasa sancha Nay.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Now, I am convinced the letter is yours, since you
abuse it, so you may as well confess.
Speaker 7 (14:39):
Suppose I should. You can't be sure that I do
not deceive you.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
True, But there is one point which I have made
a vow not to be deceived. Therefore the preliminary is
that you throw off your veil, my veil positive. If
you reject this article, our negotiation ends.
Speaker 7 (15:05):
You have no right to offer articles unless you own
yourself conquered.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
I own myself willing to be conquered, and have therefore
a right to make the best terms I can do.
You accede to the demand.
Speaker 7 (15:23):
Certainly not, you had better, I protest.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
I will not bu leo aside.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
My life upon I make you. Why, madam, how absurd
this is? Yet tis of no consequence, For I know
your features as well as though I saw them.
Speaker 7 (15:45):
How can that be?
Speaker 2 (15:47):
I judge of what you hide? By what I see?
I could draw your.
Speaker 7 (15:53):
Picture charming pray begin the portrait in primus.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
A broad, high forehead, rounded at the top like an
old fashioned gateway. Oh horrid, little gray eyes, a sharp nose,
and hair the color of rusty prunella, odious, pale cheeks,
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thin lips.
Speaker 7 (16:22):
And hold hold, how villa fire.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Throws off her veil. He sinks on one knee.
Speaker 7 (16:30):
There, yes, kneel in contrition for your malicious libel, say rather.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
In adoration, what a charming creature?
Speaker 7 (16:41):
So now forlies on the other side.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
A forehead formed by the graces hair which Cupid would
steal for his bowstrings, were he not engaged in shooting
through those sparkling hazel circlets which nature has given you
for eyes, lips that were a sin to call so
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they are fresh gathered rose leaves, with the fragrant morning
dew still hanging on their rounded surface.
Speaker 7 (17:16):
Is that extemporaneous or ready cut for every woman who
takes off her veil to you?
Speaker 2 (17:23):
I believe tis not extemporaneous. For nature, when she finished
you formed the sentiment in my heart, and there it
has been hid till you, for whom it was formed,
called it into words.
Speaker 7 (17:42):
Suppose I should understand from all this that you have
a mind to be in love with me? Would not
you be finely.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Caught, charmingly caught? If you'll let me understand at the
same time that you have a mind to be in
love with.
Speaker 7 (17:59):
Me, in love with a man, heavens, I never loved
anything but a squirrel.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Make me your squirrel. I'll put on your chain and
gamble and play forever at your side.
Speaker 7 (18:16):
But suppose you should have a mind to break the chain.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Then loosen it, for if once that humor seizes me,
restraint won't cure it, let me spring and bound at liberty.
And when I returned to my lovely mistress, tired of
all but her, fasten me again to your girdle and
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kiss me while you.
Speaker 7 (18:42):
Chied your servant to encourage you to leave me again.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
No, to make returning to you the strongest attraction to
my life. Why are you silent?
Speaker 7 (18:57):
I am debating whether to be pleased or displeased at
what you have said. Well, you shall know when I
have determined my friend and yours are approaching this way
and they must not be interrupted.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Twould be barbarous. We'll retire as far off as you please.
Speaker 7 (19:19):
But we retire separately. Sir, That lady is a woman
of honor, and this moment of the greatest importance to her.
You may, however, conduct me to the gate on condition
that you will leave me instantly, leave her instantly.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Oh then I know my cue.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Exit together right upper entrance and her Carlos left, followed
by Victoria, unveiled Carlos looking back on her, my wife.
Speaker 5 (19:52):
Oh, heavens, I will veil myself again. I will hide
my face forever from you if you will still feace
my ears with those soft vows which a moment, since
you poured forth so eagerly.
Speaker 6 (20:05):
My wife making love to my own wife.
Speaker 5 (20:11):
Why should one of the dearest moments of my life
be to you so displeasing?
Speaker 6 (20:17):
So I am caught in this snare by way of
agreeable surprise, I suppose.
Speaker 5 (20:27):
Would you could think it so?
Speaker 6 (20:29):
No, Madam, by heaven, tis a surprise fatal to every
hope with which you may have flattered yourself. What am
I to be followed? Haunted? Watched?
Speaker 5 (20:49):
Not to upbraid you. I followed you because my castle
without you seemed a dreary desert. Indeed, I will never
upbraid you.
Speaker 6 (21:00):
Generous assurance, never upbraid me. No, my heemns, I'll take care.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
You never shall Aside.
Speaker 6 (21:13):
She has touched my soul, but I dare not yield
to the impression her softness is worse than death to me.
Speaker 5 (21:25):
Would I could find words to please you?
Speaker 6 (21:29):
You cannot therefore leave me or suffer me to go
without attempting to follow me.
Speaker 5 (21:40):
Is it possible you can be so barbarous?
Speaker 6 (21:43):
Do not expostulate your first vow duty is obedience? That
word so grating to your sex.
Speaker 5 (21:56):
To me, it was never grating to obey you it
has been my joy. Even now I will not dispute
your will, though I feel for the first time obedience.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
Hateful, going and then turning back.
Speaker 5 (22:11):
Oh, Carlos, my dear Carlos, I go, but my soul
remains with.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
You except left.
Speaker 6 (22:19):
Oh horrible. Had I not taken this harsh measure, I
must have killed myself. For how could I tell her
that I have made her a beggar? Better she should
hate detest me, than that my tenderness should give her
a prospect of felicity, which now she can never taste. Oh,
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Win created spirit, Where art thou? Now? Madness returned to
me again? For reason presents me with nothing but despair?
Speaker 1 (23:01):
And Julio from the top right upper entrance.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Carlos, Who the devil? Can they be? My charming little
witch was inflexible. I hope yours has been more communicative.
Speaker 6 (23:15):
Fully nonsense, folly.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Nonsense, What a pretty woman's smile. But you married fellows
of neither taste nor joy.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Huh crosses and exit right.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Pshaw, that's a husband. Suppose my fair one should want
to debase me into such an animal? She can't have
so much villainy in her disposition. And yet if she should, Oh,
it won't bear thinking about if I do so mad
a thing. It must be as cowards fight without daring
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to reflect on the danger.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Exit right Scene three an apartment in the house of
Don Vasquez, Marcellen's father, and who don Caesar and Don
Vasquez left.
Speaker 8 (24:09):
Well, don Vasquez and a you then I say, you
have a mind that I should marry your daughter?
Speaker 9 (24:20):
It is sufficient signor that you have signified to us
your intention. My daughter shall prove her gratitude in her
attention to your felicity.
Speaker 8 (24:30):
Caesar aside, bigat Now it comes to the bush m m.
But just ninety you.
Speaker 9 (24:41):
Say, exactly the eleventh of last month.
Speaker 8 (24:46):
Pity it was not twenty.
Speaker 9 (24:49):
Why a year can make no difference? I should think, Oh.
Speaker 8 (24:54):
Yes it does. Year is a great deal. They are
so oh skittish at nineteen.
Speaker 9 (25:03):
Those who are skittish at nineteen, I fear you won't
find much mended at twenty. Marcella is very grave and
a pretty little plump fair.
Speaker 8 (25:15):
Aye fair again, Pity she isn't brown olive. I like
your olives.
Speaker 9 (25:25):
Brown and olive. You are very whimsical, my old friend.
Speaker 8 (25:29):
Why these fair girls are so stared at by the
men and the young fellows nowadays have a damned impudent
stare with them tis very abashing to woman, very distressing.
Speaker 9 (25:46):
Yes, so it is. But happily their distress is of
that nature that it generally goes off in a simper.
But come, I'll send Marcella to you, and she will no.
Speaker 8 (25:59):
No, stay, my good friend, gasping, you are in a
violent hurry.
Speaker 9 (26:07):
Why truly, signor at our time of life, when we
determine to marry, we have no time to lose.
Speaker 8 (26:14):
Why that's very true? And so asie, oh Saint Antony.
Now it comes to the point. But there can be
no harm in looking at her. A look won't bind
us for better for worse. Well, then, if you have
a mind, I say, you may let me see her exit.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Vasque's right, Caesar puts on his spectacles.
Speaker 8 (26:44):
I here she comes. I hear her trip, trip trip.
I don't like that step. A woman should always tread
steadily with dignity. It owes the men.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Enter Vaska's leading Marcella.
Speaker 9 (27:05):
Right there, Marcella, behold your future husband, and remember that
your kindness to him will be the standard of your
duty to me.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Except right, Marcella, aside.
Speaker 10 (27:19):
Oh, heavens.
Speaker 8 (27:21):
Somehow I am afraid to look around.
Speaker 10 (27:28):
Surely he does not know that I am here?
Speaker 8 (27:33):
So she knows how to give an item.
Speaker 10 (27:36):
My find praising your Have you any commands for me?
Speaker 8 (27:41):
Hummm? Not none plussed at all?
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Looks around?
Speaker 8 (27:47):
Oh that I I don't like that eye?
Speaker 10 (27:54):
My father commanded me.
Speaker 8 (27:56):
Yes, I know, I know, aside, why now I look again?
There is a sort of a modest Oh that smile.
That smile will never do.
Speaker 10 (28:15):
I understand, senor, that you have demanded my hand in marriage, Caesar.
Speaker 8 (28:21):
Aside upon my word plumped to the point, Yes, I
did a sort of I can't say but that I did.
Speaker 10 (28:33):
I am not insensible of the honor you do me, sir.
Speaker 8 (28:36):
But but but what don't you like the thoughts of
the match?
Speaker 3 (28:44):
Oh?
Speaker 10 (28:44):
Yes, sir, yes, exceedingly. Aside, I dare not say, no.
Speaker 8 (28:50):
Oh, you do exceedingly what I suppose? Child? Your head
is full of jewels and finery and equipage.
Speaker 10 (29:01):
No, indeed, sir No.
Speaker 8 (29:04):
What's then? What sort of a life do you expect
to lead when you are my wife? What pleasures do
you look forward to?
Speaker 10 (29:14):
None? Hey, I shall obey my father, sir, I shall
marry you, but I shall be most wretched.
Speaker 8 (29:24):
Indeed, there is.
Speaker 10 (29:26):
Not a fate I would not prefer. But pardon me, go.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
On, go on.
Speaker 8 (29:34):
I never was better pleased.
Speaker 10 (29:36):
Pleased at my reluctance, never.
Speaker 8 (29:40):
Never better pleased in my life. So you had really, now, you,
young baggage, rather have me for a grandfather than a husband.
Speaker 10 (29:52):
Forgive my frankness, sir a thousand.
Speaker 8 (29:54):
Times, my dear girl, let me kiss your hand. Begad
you've let me off charmingly. I was frightened out of
my wits lest you should have taken as violent an
inclination to the match as your father has.
Speaker 10 (30:14):
Dear Sir, you charm me.
Speaker 8 (30:16):
But hark ye, you'll certainly incur your father's anger if
I don't take the refusal entirely on myself, which I
will do, if you'll only assist me in a little
business I have in.
Speaker 10 (30:31):
Hand, anything to show my gratitude.
Speaker 8 (30:35):
You must know I can't get my daughter to marry,
as nothing on earth will drive her to it, but
the dread of a mother in law. Now, if you
will let it appear to her that you and I
are driving to the goal of matrimony, I believe it
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will do what say you, shall we be lovers in
play if.
Speaker 10 (31:04):
You are sure it will be only in play?
Speaker 8 (31:07):
Oh, my life for pont. But we must be very fond,
you know, to.
Speaker 10 (31:15):
Be sure exceedingly tender, ha.
Speaker 8 (31:19):
You must smile upon me now, and then rogueishly and
slide your hand into mine when you are sure she
sees you, and let me pat your cheek, and.
Speaker 10 (31:40):
Oh, no farther pray that will be quite sufficient.
Speaker 8 (31:45):
God, I begin to take a fancy to your rogue's face. Now,
I'm in no danger. Mayn't we mayn't we salute? Sometimes
it will seem infinitely more natural.
Speaker 10 (32:03):
Never such an attempt would make me fly off at once.
Speaker 8 (32:08):
Well, you must be lady governess in this business. I'll
go home now and fret madam about her young mother
in law. Bye, sweeting, bye charmer. Oh, bless it's pretty eyes.
Speaker 10 (32:31):
Exit left, bless it's pretty spectacles.
Speaker 4 (32:35):
Ha ha.
Speaker 10 (32:36):
Enter into a league with a cross old father against
a daughter. Why how could he suspect me capable of
so much treachery? I could not answer it to my conscience. No, no,
I'll acquaint Donna Olivia with the plot, and as in
duty bound, we'll turn our arms against Don Caesar
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Exit right end of Act three,
Act three of A Bold Stroke for a Husband by
Hannah Couli. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings
are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer,
please visit LibriVox dot org. Scene one a long street.
Julio enters from a garden gate in flat with precipitation.
(00:22):
A servant within fastens the gate.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Yes, yes, bar the gate fast Cerberus, lest some other
curious traveler should stumble on your confines. If ever I
am so caught again.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Garcia enters left, going hastily across. Julio seizes him.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Don Garcia never make love to a woman in a vale?
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Why so? Prithee, veils and secrecy are the chief ingredients
of a Spanish armor. But in two years, Julia, thou
art grown absolutely French?
Speaker 2 (01:00):
May be? But if ever I trust to avail again,
may no lovely blooming beauty ever trust me? Why dost know?
I have been an hour at the feet of a
creature whose first birthday must have been kept the latter
end of the last century, and whose trembling, weak voice
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I mistook for the timid cadence of bashful fifteen.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
What a happiness to have seen thee in my raptures,
petitioning for half a glance only of the charms. The
envious veil concealed.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Yes, And when she unveiled her Gothic countenance to render
the thing completely ridiculous, she began moralizing and positively would
not let me out of the snare till I had
persuaded her she had worked a conversion, and that I'd
never make love but in an honest way again.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Oh, that honest way of love making is delightful, to
be sure. I had a dosed it this morning. But
happily the ladies have not yet learned to veil their tempers,
though they have their faces.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
And her don Vincentio, right, Hulio Garcia, congratulate me such
an escape? What have you escaped matrimony?
Speaker 5 (02:30):
Nay?
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Then our congratulations may be mutual. I've had a matrimonial
escape too, this very day. I was almost on the
brink of the ceremony with the veriest Xantippa.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
Oh that was not my case. Mine was a sweet creature,
all elegant, all life.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Then where's the cause of congratulation?
Speaker 4 (02:53):
Because why she's ignorant of music, prefers a jig to
a Cazanetta and a jew's hop to a pentachord.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Had my nymph no other fault. I would pardon that,
for she was lovely.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
And rich, Mine too was lovely and rich. And I'll
be sworn as ignorant of scolding, as of a gamba.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
But not to know music, gentle, lovely and rich, and
ignorant only of music.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
A venial crime. Indeed, if the sweet creature will marry me,
she shall carry a jew's harp always in her train,
as a Scotch lair does his bagpipes. I wish you'd
give me your interest.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
Oh, most willingly. If thou hast so gross an inclination,
I'll name thee as a dull, souled logo fellow to
her father, Don.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Caesar Cesar, What dont Cesar Daysonica impossible?
Speaker 4 (03:59):
Oh, I'll answer for her mother so much as don
zuniga her father that he does not know a semibreve
from a calron.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
The name of the lady Olivia. Well, you must be mad,
that's my termagant.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Termagant ha ha ha. Thou hast certainly some vixen of
a mistress who infects thy ears towards the whole sex
Olivia is timid and elegant.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
By Juno, there never exists is such a scold.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
By Orpheus, there never was a gayer tempered creature spirit
enough to be charming, that's all. If she loved harmony,
I'd marry her to morrow.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Ha ha, very ridiculous. Jangle tis evidence. You speak of
two different women.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
I speak of Donna Olivia, heiress to Don Sesar does Zuniga.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
I speak of the heiress of Don Caesar do Zuniga,
who is called Donna Olivia.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Sir. I perceive you mean to insult me.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
Your perceptions are very rapid, sir. But if you choose
to think so, I'll settle that point with you immediately.
But for fear of consequences, I'll fly home and add
the last bar to my concerto, and then meet you
where you please.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Uh. This is evidently misapprehension. To clear the matter up,
I'll visit the lady if you'll introduce me Vincenzio, but
you shall both promise to be governed in this dispute
by my decision.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
I'll introduce you with joy if you'll try to persuade
her of the necessity of music and the charms of harmony.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Yes, she needs that, you'll find her all jar and discord.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Come no more, Garcia, thou art but a sort of
male vixen thyself, Melodius Vincenzio. When shall I expect you
this evening? Not this evening? I have engaged to meet
a goldfinch in a grove. Then I shall have music.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
You rogue it won't sing at night.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Then I'll talk to it till the morning, and he
are to pour out its mattins to the rising sun.
Call on me tomorrow. I'll then attend you to Donna
Olivia and declare faithfully the impression her character makes on me. Come, Garcia,
I must not leave you together, lest his crochets and
(06:49):
your minimus should fall into a crash of discords.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Exi and Vincentio left, Julio and Garcia right seem to
the produce. Enter Don Carlos right.
Speaker 6 (07:03):
All hail to the powers of Burgundy. Three flasks to
my own share What sorrows can stand against three flasks
of Burgundy. I was a damn melancholy fellow this morning,
(07:25):
going to shoot myself to get rid of my troubles?
Where are my troubles? Now? Gone to the moon to
look for my wits, and there I hope they'll remain
together if one cannot come back without the other. But
(07:50):
where is this indolent dog, Yulio? He fit to receive
appointments from ladies? Sure I have not missed the hour?
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Looking at his watch, No.
Speaker 6 (08:06):
But seven, Yet seven's the hour, by all the joys
of Burgundy. The rogue must be here.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Let's Recognoiter retires right and her Victoria and Olivia veiled
left upper entrance.
Speaker 7 (08:29):
Positively, mine's a pretty spark to let me be first
at the place of appointment. I have half resolved to
go home again to punish him.
Speaker 5 (08:38):
I'll answer for its being. But half a resolution to
make it entire would be to punish yourself. There's a
solitary man, Is not that he?
Speaker 7 (08:49):
I think?
Speaker 4 (08:49):
Not?
Speaker 7 (08:50):
If he'd please to turn his face this way?
Speaker 5 (08:54):
That's impossible. Why the loadstone is the other way? He
is looking at the woman in the next world. Can't
you disturb him?
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Olivia screams, oh, a frightful frog. Carlos turns on right.
Speaker 5 (09:09):
Heavens, this is my husband.
Speaker 7 (09:12):
Your husband? Is that, don Carlos?
Speaker 5 (09:16):
It is? Indeed?
Speaker 7 (09:18):
Why really? Now I see the man? I don't wonder
that you are in no hurry for your weeds. He
is moving towards us.
Speaker 5 (09:27):
I cannot speak to him, and yet my soul flies
to meet him.
Speaker 6 (09:32):
Pray, lady, what occasion that pretty scream? I shrewdly suspect
it was a.
Speaker 7 (09:42):
Trap, A trap, A trap for you?
Speaker 6 (09:48):
Why not, madam sounds a man near six feet high
and three floss of burgandy in his head. It's worth
laying a.
Speaker 7 (10:01):
Trap for yes, unless he happens to be trapped before.
Tis about two years since you was caught, I take it.
Do keep farther off? Odious a married man?
Speaker 6 (10:15):
The devil is he posted under every saint in the
street that I am a married man.
Speaker 7 (10:25):
No, you carry the marks about you That rueful fizz
could never belong to a bachelor. Besides, there's an odd
appearance on your temples. Does your hat sit easily by.
Speaker 6 (10:39):
All the thorns of matrum money?
Speaker 1 (10:42):
If poor man?
Speaker 7 (10:44):
How natural to swear by what one feels? But why
were you in such haste to gather the thorns of matrimony?
Bless us had you but looked about you a little?
What a market might have been made of that fine, proper,
promising person of.
Speaker 6 (11:00):
Yours, confoundly, confoundly. If thou art a wife, may thy
husband plague thee with jealousies and thou never be able
to give him calls for them? And if thou art
(11:22):
a maid, mayst thou be an old.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
One going right? Meets don Julio.
Speaker 6 (11:30):
Oh Julio, look not that way. There's a tongue. Will
stun thee?
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Heaven be praised? I love female prattle. A woman's tongue
can never scare me. Which of these two goldfinches makes
the music?
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Carlos crosses to Victoria.
Speaker 6 (11:55):
Oh, this is as silent as a turtle.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Taking Victoria's hand only coops now and then? Perhaps you
don't hate a married man, sweet one.
Speaker 7 (12:12):
You guess right.
Speaker 5 (12:13):
I love a married man.
Speaker 6 (12:16):
Ah, sayst thou? So wilt thou love me? Will you
let me let thee my charmer? How all cherish thee forts?
What would I not give for thy heart?
Speaker 5 (12:36):
I demand a price that perhaps you cannot give. I
ask unbounded love.
Speaker 7 (12:42):
But you have a.
Speaker 6 (12:43):
Wife, and therefore the readier to love every other woman
tis in your favorite child.
Speaker 5 (12:54):
Will you love me ever?
Speaker 6 (12:57):
Ever? Yes, ever, until we find each other dull company
and yawn and talk of our neighbors for amusements.
Speaker 7 (13:10):
Farewell.
Speaker 5 (13:12):
I suspected you to be a bad chapman, and that
you would not reach my terms.
Speaker 6 (13:16):
Going nay, I'll come to your terms if I can
but move this way cross us left. I am fearful
of that woodpecker at your elbow. Should she begin again,
her noise will scare all the pretty loves that are
(13:39):
playing about my heart. Don't turn your head towards them.
If you like to listen to love tales, you'll meet
fond pairs enough in this.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Walk, forcing her gently off.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
I really believe, though you deny it, that you are
my destiny. That is, you fated me hither see is
not this your mandate?
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Taking a letter from his pocket?
Speaker 7 (14:15):
Oh, delightful, the scrawl of some chambermaid, or perhaps of
your valet, to give you an air?
Speaker 2 (14:23):
What is it?
Speaker 7 (14:24):
Signed Maria Tornayes Tomasa sancha Nay.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Now, I am convinced the letter is yours, since you
abuse it, so you may as well confess.
Speaker 7 (14:39):
Suppose I should. You can't be sure that I do
not deceive you.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
True, But there is one point which I have made
a vow not to be deceived. Therefore the preliminary is
that you throw off your veil, my veil positive. If
you reject this article, our negotiation ends.
Speaker 7 (15:05):
You have no right to offer articles unless you own
yourself conquered.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
I own myself willing to be conquered, and have therefore
a right to make the best terms I can do.
You accede to the demand.
Speaker 7 (15:23):
Certainly not, you had better, I protest.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
I will not bu leo aside.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
My life upon I make you. Why, madam, how absurd
this is? Yet tis of no consequence, For I know
your features as well as though I saw them.
Speaker 7 (15:45):
How can that be?
Speaker 2 (15:47):
I judge of what you hide? By what I see?
I could draw your.
Speaker 7 (15:53):
Picture charming pray begin the portrait in primus.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
A broad, high forehead, rounded at the top like an
old fashioned gateway. Oh horrid, little gray eyes, a sharp nose,
and hair the color of rusty prunella, odious, pale cheeks,
(16:21):
thin lips.
Speaker 7 (16:22):
And hold hold, how villa fire.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Throws off her veil. He sinks on one knee.
Speaker 7 (16:30):
There, yes, kneel in contrition for your malicious libel, say rather.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
In adoration, what a charming creature?
Speaker 7 (16:41):
So now forlies on the other side.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
A forehead formed by the graces hair which Cupid would
steal for his bowstrings, were he not engaged in shooting
through those sparkling hazel circlets which nature has given you
for eyes, lips that were a sin to call so
(17:06):
they are fresh gathered rose leaves, with the fragrant morning
dew still hanging on their rounded surface.
Speaker 7 (17:16):
Is that extemporaneous or ready cut for every woman who
takes off her veil to you?
Speaker 2 (17:23):
I believe tis not extemporaneous. For nature, when she finished
you formed the sentiment in my heart, and there it
has been hid till you, for whom it was formed,
called it into words.
Speaker 7 (17:42):
Suppose I should understand from all this that you have
a mind to be in love with me? Would not
you be finely.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Caught, charmingly caught? If you'll let me understand at the
same time that you have a mind to be in
love with.
Speaker 7 (17:59):
Me, in love with a man, heavens, I never loved
anything but a squirrel.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Make me your squirrel. I'll put on your chain and
gamble and play forever at your side.
Speaker 7 (18:16):
But suppose you should have a mind to break the chain.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Then loosen it, for if once that humor seizes me,
restraint won't cure it, let me spring and bound at liberty.
And when I returned to my lovely mistress, tired of
all but her, fasten me again to your girdle and
(18:40):
kiss me while you.
Speaker 7 (18:42):
Chied your servant to encourage you to leave me again.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
No, to make returning to you the strongest attraction to
my life. Why are you silent?
Speaker 7 (18:57):
I am debating whether to be pleased or displeased at
what you have said. Well, you shall know when I
have determined my friend and yours are approaching this way
and they must not be interrupted.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Twould be barbarous. We'll retire as far off as you please.
Speaker 7 (19:19):
But we retire separately. Sir, That lady is a woman
of honor, and this moment of the greatest importance to her.
You may, however, conduct me to the gate on condition
that you will leave me instantly, leave her instantly.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Oh then I know my cue.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Exit together right upper entrance and her Carlos left, followed
by Victoria, unveiled Carlos looking back on her, my wife.
Speaker 5 (19:52):
Oh, heavens, I will veil myself again. I will hide
my face forever from you if you will still feace
my ears with those soft vows which a moment, since
you poured forth so eagerly.
Speaker 6 (20:05):
My wife making love to my own wife.
Speaker 5 (20:11):
Why should one of the dearest moments of my life
be to you so displeasing?
Speaker 6 (20:17):
So I am caught in this snare by way of
agreeable surprise, I suppose.
Speaker 5 (20:27):
Would you could think it so?
Speaker 6 (20:29):
No, Madam, by heaven, tis a surprise fatal to every
hope with which you may have flattered yourself. What am
I to be followed? Haunted? Watched?
Speaker 5 (20:49):
Not to upbraid you. I followed you because my castle
without you seemed a dreary desert. Indeed, I will never
upbraid you.
Speaker 6 (21:00):
Generous assurance, never upbraid me. No, my heemns, I'll take care.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
You never shall Aside.
Speaker 6 (21:13):
She has touched my soul, but I dare not yield
to the impression her softness is worse than death to me.
Speaker 5 (21:25):
Would I could find words to please you?
Speaker 6 (21:29):
You cannot therefore leave me or suffer me to go
without attempting to follow me.
Speaker 5 (21:40):
Is it possible you can be so barbarous?
Speaker 6 (21:43):
Do not expostulate your first vow duty is obedience? That
word so grating to your sex.
Speaker 5 (21:56):
To me, it was never grating to obey you it
has been my joy. Even now I will not dispute
your will, though I feel for the first time obedience.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
Hateful, going and then turning back.
Speaker 5 (22:11):
Oh, Carlos, my dear Carlos, I go, but my soul
remains with.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
You except left.
Speaker 6 (22:19):
Oh horrible. Had I not taken this harsh measure, I
must have killed myself. For how could I tell her
that I have made her a beggar? Better she should
hate detest me, than that my tenderness should give her
a prospect of felicity, which now she can never taste. Oh,
(22:46):
Win created spirit, Where art thou? Now? Madness returned to
me again? For reason presents me with nothing but despair?
Speaker 1 (23:01):
And Julio from the top right upper entrance.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Carlos, Who the devil? Can they be? My charming little
witch was inflexible. I hope yours has been more communicative.
Speaker 6 (23:15):
Fully nonsense, folly.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Nonsense, What a pretty woman's smile. But you married fellows
of neither taste nor joy.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Huh crosses and exit right.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Pshaw, that's a husband. Suppose my fair one should want
to debase me into such an animal? She can't have
so much villainy in her disposition. And yet if she should, Oh,
it won't bear thinking about if I do so mad
a thing. It must be as cowards fight without daring
(23:55):
to reflect on the danger.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Exit right Scene three an apartment in the house of
Don Vasquez, Marcellen's father, and who don Caesar and Don
Vasquez left.
Speaker 8 (24:09):
Well, don Vasquez and a you then I say, you
have a mind that I should marry your daughter?
Speaker 9 (24:20):
It is sufficient signor that you have signified to us
your intention. My daughter shall prove her gratitude in her
attention to your felicity.
Speaker 8 (24:30):
Caesar aside, bigat Now it comes to the bush m m.
But just ninety you.
Speaker 9 (24:41):
Say, exactly the eleventh of last month.
Speaker 8 (24:46):
Pity it was not twenty.
Speaker 9 (24:49):
Why a year can make no difference? I should think, Oh.
Speaker 8 (24:54):
Yes it does. Year is a great deal. They are
so oh skittish at nineteen.
Speaker 9 (25:03):
Those who are skittish at nineteen, I fear you won't
find much mended at twenty. Marcella is very grave and
a pretty little plump fair.
Speaker 8 (25:15):
Aye fair again, Pity she isn't brown olive. I like
your olives.
Speaker 9 (25:25):
Brown and olive. You are very whimsical, my old friend.
Speaker 8 (25:29):
Why these fair girls are so stared at by the
men and the young fellows nowadays have a damned impudent
stare with them tis very abashing to woman, very distressing.
Speaker 9 (25:46):
Yes, so it is. But happily their distress is of
that nature that it generally goes off in a simper.
But come, I'll send Marcella to you, and she will no.
Speaker 8 (25:59):
No, stay, my good friend, gasping, you are in a
violent hurry.
Speaker 9 (26:07):
Why truly, signor at our time of life, when we
determine to marry, we have no time to lose.
Speaker 8 (26:14):
Why that's very true? And so asie, oh Saint Antony.
Now it comes to the point. But there can be
no harm in looking at her. A look won't bind
us for better for worse. Well, then, if you have
a mind, I say, you may let me see her exit.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Vasque's right, Caesar puts on his spectacles.
Speaker 8 (26:44):
I here she comes. I hear her trip, trip trip.
I don't like that step. A woman should always tread
steadily with dignity. It owes the men.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Enter Vaska's leading Marcella.
Speaker 9 (27:05):
Right there, Marcella, behold your future husband, and remember that
your kindness to him will be the standard of your
duty to me.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Except right, Marcella, aside.
Speaker 10 (27:19):
Oh, heavens.
Speaker 8 (27:21):
Somehow I am afraid to look around.
Speaker 10 (27:28):
Surely he does not know that I am here?
Speaker 8 (27:33):
So she knows how to give an item.
Speaker 10 (27:36):
My find praising your Have you any commands for me?
Speaker 8 (27:41):
Hummm? Not none plussed at all?
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Looks around?
Speaker 8 (27:47):
Oh that I I don't like that eye?
Speaker 10 (27:54):
My father commanded me.
Speaker 8 (27:56):
Yes, I know, I know, aside, why now I look again?
There is a sort of a modest Oh that smile.
That smile will never do.
Speaker 10 (28:15):
I understand, senor, that you have demanded my hand in marriage, Caesar.
Speaker 8 (28:21):
Aside upon my word plumped to the point, Yes, I
did a sort of I can't say but that I did.
Speaker 10 (28:33):
I am not insensible of the honor you do me, sir.
Speaker 8 (28:36):
But but but what don't you like the thoughts of
the match?
Speaker 3 (28:44):
Oh?
Speaker 10 (28:44):
Yes, sir, yes, exceedingly. Aside, I dare not say, no.
Speaker 8 (28:50):
Oh, you do exceedingly what I suppose? Child? Your head
is full of jewels and finery and equipage.
Speaker 10 (29:01):
No, indeed, sir No.
Speaker 8 (29:04):
What's then? What sort of a life do you expect
to lead when you are my wife? What pleasures do
you look forward to?
Speaker 10 (29:14):
None? Hey, I shall obey my father, sir, I shall
marry you, but I shall be most wretched.
Speaker 8 (29:24):
Indeed, there is.
Speaker 10 (29:26):
Not a fate I would not prefer. But pardon me, go.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
On, go on.
Speaker 8 (29:34):
I never was better pleased.
Speaker 10 (29:36):
Pleased at my reluctance, never.
Speaker 8 (29:40):
Never better pleased in my life. So you had really, now, you,
young baggage, rather have me for a grandfather than a husband.
Speaker 10 (29:52):
Forgive my frankness, sir a thousand.
Speaker 8 (29:54):
Times, my dear girl, let me kiss your hand. Begad
you've let me off charmingly. I was frightened out of
my wits lest you should have taken as violent an
inclination to the match as your father has.
Speaker 10 (30:14):
Dear Sir, you charm me.
Speaker 8 (30:16):
But hark ye, you'll certainly incur your father's anger if
I don't take the refusal entirely on myself, which I
will do, if you'll only assist me in a little
business I have in.
Speaker 10 (30:31):
Hand, anything to show my gratitude.
Speaker 8 (30:35):
You must know I can't get my daughter to marry,
as nothing on earth will drive her to it, but
the dread of a mother in law. Now, if you
will let it appear to her that you and I
are driving to the goal of matrimony, I believe it
(30:56):
will do what say you, shall we be lovers in
play if.
Speaker 10 (31:04):
You are sure it will be only in play?
Speaker 8 (31:07):
Oh, my life for pont. But we must be very fond,
you know, to.
Speaker 10 (31:15):
Be sure exceedingly tender, ha.
Speaker 8 (31:19):
You must smile upon me now, and then rogueishly and
slide your hand into mine when you are sure she
sees you, and let me pat your cheek, and.
Speaker 10 (31:40):
Oh, no farther pray that will be quite sufficient.
Speaker 8 (31:45):
God, I begin to take a fancy to your rogue's face. Now,
I'm in no danger. Mayn't we mayn't we salute? Sometimes
it will seem infinitely more natural.
Speaker 10 (32:03):
Never such an attempt would make me fly off at once.
Speaker 8 (32:08):
Well, you must be lady governess in this business. I'll
go home now and fret madam about her young mother
in law. Bye, sweeting, bye charmer. Oh, bless it's pretty eyes.
Speaker 10 (32:31):
Exit left, bless it's pretty spectacles.
Speaker 4 (32:35):
Ha ha.
Speaker 10 (32:36):
Enter into a league with a cross old father against
a daughter. Why how could he suspect me capable of
so much treachery? I could not answer it to my conscience. No, no,
I'll acquaint Donna Olivia with the plot, and as in
duty bound, we'll turn our arms against Don Caesar
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Exit right end of Act three,
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Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by audiochuck Media Company.
Cardiac Cowboys
The heart was always off-limits to surgeons. Cutting into it spelled instant death for the patient. That is, until a ragtag group of doctors scattered across the Midwest and Texas decided to throw out the rule book. Working in makeshift laboratories and home garages, using medical devices made from scavenged machine parts and beer tubes, these men and women invented the field of open heart surgery. Odds are, someone you know is alive because of them. So why has history left them behind? Presented by Chris Pine, CARDIAC COWBOYS tells the gripping true story behind the birth of heart surgery, and the young, Greatest Generation doctors who made it happen. For years, they competed and feuded, racing to be the first, the best, and the most prolific. Some appeared on the cover of Time Magazine, operated on kings and advised presidents. Others ended up disgraced, penniless, and convicted of felonies. Together, they ignited a revolution in medicine, and changed the world.