Miranda
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| Partner: | buecher.de |
| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Schley, Lucy M.) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from Miranda: A Town Idyl Act First Scene First. (Little back parlor at Mrs, Green´s lodging-house littered with unmade dresses sewing machine, cutting-hoard, dress hung over mirror, etc. Books on table; Canary and flowers in window. Door opens at back of stage, and Mrs. Green appears, with Mr. Gaunt - evidently showing him over the house.) Mrs. Green. - ´Taint no particular use showing you this ere hapartment, seeing taint to be let for love nor money leastways, His let for love already aside) bless their ´earts !so can´t be let for money. But I´m one of the kind as goes in for not doing things by alves, specially to first floor lodgers (curtseys), so you may as well look at this, along with the rest. Mr. Gaunt, (adjusting spectacles and looking around) - Hump! Much obliged, I´m sure! Queer place; looks like a dry goods shop struck by lightning. (Sharply) - Of course the female inhabitant is blind? Mrs. Green. - Bless us! What put that into your ´end, sur! Mr. Gaunt, (dryly) - The looking-glass is covered up, that´s all. Mrs. Green, (aside, indignantly) - There´s a insinawatin old bacheldore for you! (With dignity) - You´re mistaken, sur. The young ladies which occupy this apartment ave four as pretty and observin´ eyes between em, as ever you´ve sot your spectacles onto! (Chuckling aside) - There´s a insinewation for him! Mr. Gaunt, (examining things) - Hump! Young, are they? And from the looks of things, rather given over to the pomps and vanities of life. Oh, woman, woman, in your hours of ease, to spend your time on things like these! And, apropos of poetry, here´s some! Picks up books.) Something "sweetly pretty," of course, or "deliciously wicked." (Opens books.) Hullo, what´s this? Tennyson and Browning, with a pair of scissors for a mark in one, and a needle-case in the other; and, as I live, not a pencil-mark anywhere! Why they are a pair of prodigies, these lodgers of yours, Mrs. Green. Mrs. Green, (severely) - I´d thank you not to be calling names promiscuous, if you please, sur! Nobody shall call them two poor dears anything but the nicest mannered, industriousest young ladies that ever drew the breath o´ life, as long as Sarah Green has a tongue to wag back! Prodigals, indeed! not if he was ten times a first floor lodger! Mr. Gaunt, (politely) - I beg ten thousand pardons, madam! I´ve no doubt they are ornaments to their sex, since you say so, and paragons of every virtue but neatness! Still you must admit that this room is not exactly shipshape. Mrs. Green, (hotly) - And I´d like to know what sort of a room anybody would be if they had to get up at six every morning, and sew, sew, till the eyes were like to drop out of their heads, the whole blessed day, month in and month out! To see the way them poor dears toil and moil to put the bare bread into their mouths, and them born ladies, too, which was used to everything most helegant ´till their pa died, is enough to draw tears from an "arble mantlepiece - so it is! And many´s the time I´ve choked up to see em a sitting down so cheerful and merry-like to a dinner as wouldn´t ave been a square mouthful for my. Johnny! Mr. Gaunt, (embarrassed) - I beg your pardon, ma am - I´m sure I didn´t mean to - Id´ no idea of hurting your feelings. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
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