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Wonder! A Woman Keeps a Secret-Susanna Centlivre · A School for Greybeards; or, The Mourning Bride

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  Speaker 1: Act one of the Wonder A Woman Keeps a Secret
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  Speaker 1: by Susanna Settliver edited by Augustine Daley eighteen thirty eight
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  Speaker 1: to eighteen ninety nine. This is a LibriVox recording. All
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  Speaker 1: or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org. The cast
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  Speaker 1: of characters in the order in which they first speak.
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  Speaker 2: Frederic read by Adrian Stephens.
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  Speaker 3: Don Lopez read by algiepag.
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  Speaker 4: Lizardo read by Todd.
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  Speaker 5: Colonel Breton read by Jeff Butterfield.
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  Speaker 6: Gibby read by Alan Mapstone.
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  Speaker 7: Vasquez read by David Perdi.
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  Speaker 8: Enies read by Abbaye.
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  Speaker 9: Donna Isabella read by Jan Broda.
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  Speaker 10: Flora read by Sonya, Dona Violante read by Teacher Burns.
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  Speaker 11: Don Felix read by Gregg Giardano.
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  Speaker 12: Don Pedro read by Peter Brash.
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  Speaker 1: Stage directions read by Wayne Cook. Act one seen one
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  Speaker 1: a street enter, Don Lopez left, meeting Frederick right.
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  Speaker 2: My Lord Don Lopez, How dee, Frederick at your Lordship's service.
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  Speaker 2: I'm glad to see you look so well, my Lord.
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  Speaker 2: I hope Antonio is out of danger.
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  Speaker 3: Quite the contrary his fever increases, they tell me, and
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  Speaker 3: the search is our of opinion. His wound is mortal.
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  Speaker 2: Your son, Don Felix, is safe, I hope.
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  Speaker 3: I hope so too. They offer large rewards to a him.
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  Speaker 2: When heard your lordship from him.
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  Speaker 3: Not since he went, I forbade him writing till the
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  Speaker 3: public news gave him an account of Antonio's health. For
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  Speaker 3: I intend to marry my daughter to Don Guzmann, whom
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  Speaker 3: I expect from Holland every day whither he went to
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  Speaker 3: take possession of a large estate left him by his uncle.
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  Speaker 2: You will not surely sacrifice the lovely Isabella to age,
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  Speaker 2: avarice and a fool pardon expression, my lord, But my
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  Speaker 2: concern for your beauteous daughter transports me beyond that good
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  Speaker 2: manners which I ought to pay to your lordship's presence.
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  Speaker 3: I can't deny the justice of the character Frederic, but
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  Speaker 3: I resolve she shall marry Don Guzman the moment he arrives.
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  Speaker 3: Though I could not govern my son, I will my daughter.
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  Speaker 3: I assure you.
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  Speaker 2: This match, my Lord, is more preposterous than that which
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  Speaker 2: you propose to your son. From whence arose this fatal quarrel.
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  Speaker 2: Don Antonio's sister Elvia wanted beauty only, but Gusman everything.
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  Speaker 3: But money that will purchase everything, and so adieu, Exit
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  Speaker 3: right monstrous.
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  Speaker 2: These are the resolutions which destroy the comforts of matrimony.
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  Speaker 1: Enter Lesardo left in a writing.
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  Speaker 2: Habit, Lesardo, from whence came you?
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  Speaker 4: That letter will inform you, Sir, I.
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  Speaker 2: Hope your master's safe.
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  Speaker 4: I left him so I have another to deliver, which
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  Speaker 4: requires haste, your most humble servant.
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  Speaker 1: Sir, bowing crosses to right.
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  Speaker 2: To violante, I suppose the same.
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  Speaker 1: Exit right, Frederick reads.
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  Speaker 2: Dear Frederic, the two chief blessings of this life are
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  Speaker 2: a friend and a mistress to be debarred. The sight
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  Speaker 2: of those is not to live. I hear nothing of
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  Speaker 2: Antonio's death, and therefore resolve to venture to thy house
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  Speaker 2: this evening. Impatient to see a vialante and embrace my
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  Speaker 2: friend yours. Felix. Pray heaven he comes undiscovered.
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  Speaker 1: Enter Colonel Britton.
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  Speaker 2: Right, ha, Colonel Britton.
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  Speaker 5: Frederick, I rejoice to see thee.
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  Speaker 2: What brought you to Lisbon?
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  Speaker 1: Colonel la fortune de la guerre, As the French.
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  Speaker 2: Say, if you are not provided of a lodging, Colonel,
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  Speaker 2: pray command my house while you stay.
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  Speaker 5: If I were sure I should not be troublesome, I
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  Speaker 5: would accept your offer, Frederick.
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  Speaker 2: So far from trouble, Colonel, I shall take it as
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  Speaker 2: a particular favor.
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  Speaker 5: What have we here, my footman? This is our country dress?
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  Speaker 5: You must know which, for the honor of Scotland I
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  Speaker 5: make all my servants wear.
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  Speaker 1: Enter Gibbie in a highland dress.
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  Speaker 6: Right, what'm gonna do with the horses?
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  Speaker 1: And like your honor, cross the center.
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  Speaker 6: They'll tack Cokain they stand in the causeway.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I'll take care of them.
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  Speaker 1: What how a fast quef enter Vasquez?
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  Speaker 3: Right?
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  Speaker 2: Put the horses, which that honest fellow will show you
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  Speaker 2: into my stable. Do you hear? And feed them?
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  Speaker 11: Well?
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  Speaker 7: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 1: Vasquez crosses to Gibbie and bows to him.
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  Speaker 7: Sir, by my master's orders, I am, sir, your most obsequious,
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  Speaker 7: humble servant, be pleased to lead the way.
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  Speaker 6: Spleed gang against Sir, I shall follow you. Vasquez goes
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  Speaker 6: left astay, hungry to feed on compliments.
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  Speaker 1: Exit left, Vesquez bowing him off.
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  Speaker 2: Ha ha, A comical fellow. Well, how do you like
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  Speaker 2: our country, colonel?
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  Speaker 5: Why? Faith Frederick, A man might pass his time agreeably enough,
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  Speaker 5: But to behold such troops of soft, plump, tender, melting
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  Speaker 5: girls through a confounded grating gives us britten strong temptations
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  Speaker 5: to plunder wilt. Thou recommend me to a wife half friend.
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  Speaker 2: She must be very handsome.
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  Speaker 5: I suppose the handsomer the better. But be sure she
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  Speaker 5: has a.
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  Speaker 2: Nose ay aye, and some gold, oh.
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  Speaker 5: Very much gold. I shall never be able to swallow
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  Speaker 5: the matrimonial pill if it be not well.
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  Speaker 2: Gilded beauty will make it slide down nimbly.
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  Speaker 5: That first, Perhaps it may, I confess, Frederick. Women are
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  Speaker 5: the prettiest playthings in nature. But gold, substantial gold, gives
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  Speaker 5: them the air, the man, the shape, the grace and
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  Speaker 5: beauty of our goddess.
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  Speaker 2: And has not gold same divinity in their eyes?
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  Speaker 1: Colonel, Too often none merry now for love, that's aest.
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  Speaker 1: At least the self same bargain serves for wife and beast.
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  Speaker 2: You are always guy, Colonel. Come, shall we take a
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  Speaker 2: refreshing glass at my house and consider what has been said?
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  Speaker 5: I have two or three compliments to discharge for some friends,
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  Speaker 5: and then I shall wait on you with pleasure. In
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  Speaker 5: the close of the evening. I will endeavor to kiss
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  Speaker 5: your hand.
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  Speaker 2: Adieu, I shall expect you with impatience.
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  Speaker 1: Exit Colonel Left and Frederick Wright. Scene too a room
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  Speaker 1: in Don Lopez's house. Enter Isabella, followed by aus her maid. Right.
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  Speaker 8: For goodness sake, madam, where are you going in this
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  Speaker 8: pit anywhere?
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  Speaker 9: To avoid matrimony? The thought of a husband is terrible to.
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  Speaker 8: Me, I of an old husband. But if you may
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  Speaker 8: choose for yourself, I fancy matrimony would be no such
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  Speaker 8: frightful thing to you.
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  Speaker 9: You are pretty much and the right and as But
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  Speaker 9: to be forced into the arms of an idiot who
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  Speaker 9: has neither person to please the eye, sense to charm
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  Speaker 9: the ear, nor generosity to supply those defects. I must
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  Speaker 9: contrive some way to avoid Don cousmin and yet stay
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  Speaker 9: in my own country.
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  Speaker 1: Enter Don Lopez left, Non Lopez aside.
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  Speaker 3: Post you so, mistress, but I shall take care to
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  Speaker 3: prevent you. Isabella.
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  Speaker 1: Whither are you going?
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  Speaker 10: My child to church?
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  Speaker 1: Sirhus Aside?
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  Speaker 8: The old rogue has certainly overheard her.
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  Speaker 3: Your devotion must needs be very strong, or your memory
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  Speaker 3: very weak. My dear, why vespers are herber for this night? Come? Come?
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  Speaker 3: You shall have a better errand to church than to
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  Speaker 3: say your prayers there. Don Gusmann is arrived in the river,
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  Speaker 3: and I expect him to shore to morrow.
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  Speaker 10: Ha to morrow.
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  Speaker 3: He writes me word that his estate in Holland is
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  Speaker 3: worth twelve thousand crowns a year, which together with what
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  Speaker 3: he had before, will make thee the happiest wife in Lisbon.
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  Speaker 9: And the most unhappy woman.
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  Speaker 10: In the world.
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  Speaker 9: Taking his hand, Oh, sir, if I have any power
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  Speaker 9: in your heart, if the tenderness of a father be
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  Speaker 9: not quite extinct, hear me with patience.
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  Speaker 3: No objection against the marriage. Now hear whatsoever thou hast
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  Speaker 3: to say? Remember tis your duty to obey.
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  Speaker 9: I never disobeyed before, and wish I had not reason now.
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  Speaker 9: But nature has got the better of my duty and
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  Speaker 9: makes me loathe the harsh commands you lay.
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  Speaker 3: Ha ha, very fine, ha ha.
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  Speaker 9: Death itself would be welcome.
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  Speaker 3: Are you sure of that?
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  Speaker 9: I am your daughter, my lord, and can boast as
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  Speaker 9: strong a resolution as yourself. I'll die before I marry Gusmin.
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  Speaker 3: Say you, so, I'll try that. Presently. Draws here, let
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  Speaker 3: me see with what dexterity you can breathe.
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  Speaker 1: A vein now offers her his sword.
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  Speaker 3: The point is pretty sharp to do your business.
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  Speaker 1: I warrant you, Highness going between them.
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  Speaker 8: Bless me, sir, what do you mean to put a
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  Speaker 8: sword into the hands of a desperate woman?
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  Speaker 3: Desperate? Ha ha ha, you'll see how desperate she is.
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  Speaker 3: What art thou frightened, little Bell?
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  Speaker 11: Huh?
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  Speaker 9: I confess I am startled at your moral sir.
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  Speaker 3: Aye aye, child, thou hadst better take the.
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  Speaker 9: Man I shall take neither, Sir. Death has many doors,
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  Speaker 9: and when I can live no longer with pleasure, I
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  Speaker 9: shall find one to let him in without your aid.
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  Speaker 3: Seest thou so, my dear Bell odds, I'm afraid thou
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  Speaker 3: art a little lunatic. Bell. I must take care of thee.
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  Speaker 1: Child takes a hold of her and pulls a key
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  Speaker 1: out of his pocket.
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  Speaker 3: I shall make bold to secure thee, my dear. I'll
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  Speaker 3: see if locks and the boughs can keep thee till
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  Speaker 3: the gusman comes. Go get into your chamber.
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  Speaker 1: Pushes her in and locks flat there.
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  Speaker 3: I'll your boasted resolution try and see who'll get the
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  Speaker 3: better you or I.
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  Speaker 1: As he locks Isabella in closet, Ines follows close behind him.
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  Speaker 1: As he advances to speak his couplet, she taps on
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  Speaker 1: the door. He hears her, runs after her, catches her
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  Speaker 1: by the nape of the neck, and runs her off.
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  Speaker 1: Scene three. That's an apartment at Don Pedro's large window
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  Speaker 1: center doors right and left enter Violante reading a letter
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  Speaker 1: and Flora following.
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  Speaker 13: What must that letter be read? Again?
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  Speaker 10: Yes, and again and again and again of thousand times again.
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  Speaker 10: A letter from a faithful lover can never be read
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  Speaker 10: too often. It speaks such kind, such soft, such tender.
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  Speaker 1: Things, crosses right, sits kisses.
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  Speaker 13: It, but always the same language.
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  Speaker 10: It is not charmless, for that reads.
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  Speaker 4: My all.
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  Speaker 10: That's charming. Since life's not life exiled from thee. This
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  Speaker 10: night shall bring me to thy arms. Frederick and THEE
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  Speaker 10: are all I trust. This six week's absence has been
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  Speaker 10: in Love's account six hundred years. When it is dark,
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  Speaker 10: expect the wanted signal at thy window, till when adieu
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  Speaker 10: thine more than his own.
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  Speaker 13: Felix Ah Flora asighed, who would not have said as
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  Speaker 13: much to a lady of her beauty? And twenty thousand pounds?
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  Speaker 13: Were I a man, methinks I could have said a
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  Speaker 13: hundred finer things.
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  Speaker 10: What would you have said?
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  Speaker 13: I would have compared your eyes to the stars, your
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  Speaker 13: teeth to ivory, your lips to coral, your neck to alabaster,
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  Speaker 13: your shape.
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  Speaker 10: To no more of your bomb. Best truth is the
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  Speaker 10: best eloquence in a lover rises what proof remains unngiven
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  Speaker 10: of his love? When his father threatened to disinherit him
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  Speaker 10: for refusing to Antonio's sister, from whence sprang this unhappy quarrel?
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  Speaker 10: Did it shake his love for me? And now, though
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  Speaker 10: strict inquiry runs through every place with large rewards to
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  Speaker 10: apprehend him, does he not venture all for me?
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  Speaker 13: But you know, madam, your father don't paytro designs you
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  Speaker 13: for a nun, to be sure, you look very like
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  Speaker 13: a nun, and says your grandfather left you your fortune
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  Speaker 13: upon that condition.
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  Speaker 10: Not without my approbation. Girl, When I come to one
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  Speaker 10: in twenty, as I am informed, but however I shall
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  Speaker 10: run the risk of that, go call in Lezardo.
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  Speaker 13: Sits right, yes, Madame, a side now for a thousand
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  Speaker 13: verbal questions.
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  Speaker 1: Goes to door and beckons to Lesardo, who.
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  Speaker 10: Enters well, and how do you do Lazardo?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, very weary madam.
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  Speaker 1: Apart to Flora.
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  Speaker 4: Faith, thou lookest wondrous pretty Flora.
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  Speaker 1: Flora a part to Lisardo.
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  Speaker 13: You'd make one believe you are wondrous fond?
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  Speaker 10: Now, where did you leave your master?
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  Speaker 1: Lesardo? Apart to Flora Odd.
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  Speaker 4: If I had you alone, I'd show you how fond
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  Speaker 4: I could be?
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  Speaker 10: Where did you leave your master?
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  Speaker 4: At a little farmhouse, Madam? About five miles off? He'll
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  Speaker 4: be at Don Frederick's in the evening. Apart to Flora Odd,
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  Speaker 4: I will so revenge myself of those lips of thine?
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  Speaker 10: Is he in health?
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  Speaker 1: Flora? Apart to Lesardo, Oh.
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  Speaker 13: You counterfeit, wanders.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Lizardo Apart to Flora.
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  Speaker 4: No, everybody knows I counterfeit very ill.
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  Speaker 1: Violante rises and comes forward.
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  Speaker 10: How say you? Is Felix ill? What's his distemper?
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  Speaker 3: Huh?
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  Speaker 4: Love, Madam? Love? In short, Madam, I believe he has
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  Speaker 4: thought of nothing but your ladyship ever since he left Lisbon.
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  Speaker 4: I am sure he could not, if I may judge
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  Speaker 4: of his heart by my own looks?
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  Speaker 1: Lovingly upon Flora.
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  Speaker 10: How came you so well acquainted with your master's thoughts? Lisado?
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  Speaker 4: By an infallible rule, Madam? Words are the pictures of
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  Speaker 4: the mind.
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  Speaker 1: You know?
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  Speaker 4: Now? To prove he thinks of nothing but you he
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  Speaker 4: talks of nothing but you. For example, Madam, coming from
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  Speaker 4: shooting t'other day with a brace of partridges, Lizardo said,
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  Speaker 4: he go, bid the cook roast me this brace of
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  Speaker 4: the Alantes to Flora. I flew into the kitchen full
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  Speaker 4: of thoughts of thee and cried, he cook, roast me
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  Speaker 4: this brace of Florilla's.
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  Speaker 13: Flora to Lesardo, Ha, accellent, you mimic your master.
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  Speaker 4: Then it seems another time, Madam the priest came to
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  Speaker 4: make him a visit. He called out hastily. Lillardo said,
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  Speaker 4: he bring a yolante for my father to sit down on. Well,
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  Speaker 4: then he often mistook my name, madam and called me
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  Speaker 4: violante in short. I heard it so often that it
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  Speaker 4: became as familiar to me as my prayers.
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  Speaker 10: You live very merrily.
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  Speaker 4: Then it seems, oh, exceedingly merry, Madam kisses Flora's hand.
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  Speaker 10: Huh exceeding Mary? Had you treats and balls?
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  Speaker 4: Oh? Yes, yes, madam, several.
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  Speaker 13: Flora a party, Lesardo, You mad Lissardo, you don't mind
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  Speaker 13: what my lady says to you.
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  Speaker 1: Fiorante a side?
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  Speaker 10: Huh balls? Is he so merry in my absence? And
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  Speaker 10: did your master dance.
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  Speaker 4: Lezardo, dance, Madam. Oh, where, madam?
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  Speaker 10: Why at those balls? You speak of? Balls? What balls?
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  Speaker 4: Madam?
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  Speaker 10: Why? Sure you are in love? Lezardo? Did you not say?
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  Speaker 10: But now you had balls where you had been balls?
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  Speaker 4: Madam?
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  Speaker 1: Oh?
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  Speaker 4: What ball's madam? Odd life? I ask your pardon, Madam.
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  Speaker 4: I I I had mislaid some wash balls of my
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  Speaker 4: master's other day, and because I could not think where
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  Speaker 4: I had laid them, just what he asked for them.
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  Speaker 4: He very fairly broke my head, madam. And now it
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  Speaker 4: seems I can think of nothing else alas he danced, Madam. No, No,
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  Speaker 4: poor gentleman, he is as melancholy as an unbraced drum.
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  Speaker 10: Poor Felix, there, wear that ring for your master's sake,
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  Speaker 10: and let him know I shall be ready to receive him.
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  Speaker 4: Exit right I shall, Madam?
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  Speaker 1: Puts on the ring.
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  Speaker 4: Methinks a diamond ring is a vast addition to the
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  Speaker 4: little finger of a gentleman.
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  Speaker 1: Admires his hand Flora aside.
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  Speaker 13: That ring must be mine. Well, Lissado, what taste you
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  Speaker 13: make to pay off a reis? Now? Look how the
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  Speaker 13: fellow stands?
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  Speaker 4: He gads, methinks, I have a very pretty hand and
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  Speaker 4: very white, and the shape faith I never minded it
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  Speaker 4: so much before. In my opinion, it is a very
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  Speaker 4: fine shaped hand and becomes a diamond ring as well
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  Speaker 4: as the first grandees in Portugal.
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  Speaker 13: The man's transported. Is this your love? This your impatience?
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  Speaker 1: Lissardo takes snuff.
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  Speaker 11: Now?
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  Speaker 4: In my mind, I take snuff with a very jaunty.
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  Speaker 1: Air stretch across.
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  Speaker 13: Right, sweet mister Lessaldo curtseys, if I may presume to
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  Speaker 13: speak to you without affronting your little finger?
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  Speaker 4: Odd so, Madam, I ask your pardon? Is it to
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  Speaker 4: me or to the ring? You direct your discourse, madam?
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  Speaker 1: Up and across left, madam?
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  Speaker 13: Good like how much a diamond ring improves one?
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  Speaker 4: Why? Though I say it, I can carry myself as
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  Speaker 4: well as anybody. But what were to you going to say?
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  Speaker 1: Child?
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  Speaker 13: Why I was going to say that I fancy you
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  Speaker 13: had best let me keep that ring. It will be
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  Speaker 13: a very pretty wedding ring, Lisado, would it not?
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  Speaker 4: Hm ah? But but but I believe I shan't marry
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  Speaker 4: yet a while?
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  Speaker 1: Cross is right?
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  Speaker 13: You shan't you say?
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  Speaker 1: Hum?
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  Speaker 13: Very well? I suppose you designed that ring for enes?
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  Speaker 10: No?
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  Speaker 4: No, I never bribe an old acquaintance perhaps I might
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  Speaker 4: let it sparkle in the eyes of a stranger a
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: little till we come to a right understanding. But then,
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: like all other mortal things, it would return from whence
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: it came insolent?
• 21:50
  Speaker 13: Is that your manner of dealing.
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: With all but the kiss me?
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: You little rogue? You hugs her and turns her right.
• 22:00
  Speaker 13: Huh, little rogue, Pretty fellow, don't be.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: So familiar, pushes him away.
• 22:08
  Speaker 13: If I mayn't keep your ring, I can keep my kisses.
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: You can, you say, spoke with the air of a chambermaid.
• 22:18
  Speaker 13: Hm replied with the spirit of a serving man.
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: Re enter violante.
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: Right, pretty Flora, don't let you and I fall out.
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: I am in a merry humor and shall certainly fall
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: in somewhere.
• 22:34
  Speaker 13: What care I why you fall in?
• 22:37
  Speaker 10: Why do you keep losardos along, Flora, when you don't
• 22:40
  Speaker 10: know how soon my father may awake His afternoon naps
• 22:43
  Speaker 10: are never.
• 22:44
  Speaker 13: Long, Flora aside, Had don Felix been with her, she
• 22:49
  Speaker 13: would not have thought the time long. These ladies consider
• 22:53
  Speaker 13: nobody's once but their own.
• 22:55
  Speaker 10: Go go let em out.
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: Flora goes up to table and its candle.
• 23:01
  Speaker 10: Yes, Madam, I fly, Madam.
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: Exit Lesardo and Flora left.
• 23:08
  Speaker 10: The day draws in and night the lover's friend advances.
• 23:14
  Speaker 10: Night more welcome than the sun to me because it brings.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: My love Flora within.
• 23:23
  Speaker 13: Oh, thieves, thieves, murder, murder, violante shrieks.
• 23:30
  Speaker 10: Ah, what do I hear? Felix is certainly pursued and
• 23:34
  Speaker 10: will be taken.
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: Re Enter Flora with a broken candle and candlestick running left.
• 23:40
  Speaker 10: Oh, no, answer me quickly? What is the matter, oh, madam?
• 23:45
  Speaker 13: As I was letting out a his saw a gentleman
• 23:48
  Speaker 13: rushed between him and me, struck down my candle, and
• 23:52
  Speaker 13: is bringing a dead person in his arms into our house.
• 23:57
  Speaker 10: A dead person. Heaven grant it does not prove my
• 24:00
  Speaker 10: Felix here they are, Madam. I'll retire till you discover
• 24:05
  Speaker 10: the meaning of this accident.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: Exit right, Flora places chair center. Enter Colonel Britton left
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: with Isabella in his arms, whom he sets down in
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: a chair and addresses himself to Flora.
• 24:19
  Speaker 5: Madam, the necessity this lady was under a being conveyed
• 24:22
  Speaker 5: into some house with speed and secrecy. Will I hope
• 24:26
  Speaker 5: excuse any indecency I might be guilty of in pressing
• 24:30
  Speaker 5: so rudely into this. I am an entire stranger to
• 24:33
  Speaker 5: her name and circumstances. I commit her, Madam, to your care,
• 24:38
  Speaker 5: and fly to make a retreat secure. If the street
• 24:41
  Speaker 5: be clear, permit me to return and learn from her
• 24:44
  Speaker 5: own mouth, if I can be further serviceable. Pray, madam,
• 24:48
  Speaker 5: what is the lady of this.
• 24:49
  Speaker 13: House called violante? Signor are you she madam? Only her woman?
• 24:55
  Speaker 13: Signor you are.
• 24:57
  Speaker 5: Humble servant, mistress? Pray be careful of the lady.
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: In taking out his handkerchief to get at his purse,
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: drops a letter and exits.
• 25:09
  Speaker 12: Too.
• 25:09
  Speaker 13: Moidores, Well, he's a generous fellow. This is the only
• 25:15
  Speaker 13: way to make one careful. I see. These military rules
• 25:19
  Speaker 13: are just the same in every country. They understand the
• 25:23
  Speaker 13: constitution of the chamber made.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: Gets left of chair, re enter Violante? Right?
• 25:31
  Speaker 10: Was you distracted, Flora to tell my name to a
• 25:34
  Speaker 10: man you never saw? I'm thinking, Wench, who knows what
• 25:39
  Speaker 10: this may turn to? What is the lady dead?
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: Ah?
• 25:45
  Speaker 10: Heaven 'tis Isabella sister to my Felix? What has befallen her?
• 25:52
  Speaker 10: Pray heaven he's safe, Run and fetch some cold water.
• 25:56
  Speaker 10: Stay stay Flora, Isabella friend, speak to me Oh, speak
• 26:03
  Speaker 10: to me.
• 26:04
  Speaker 9: Oh ho, dear father, do not force me. Indeed, I
• 26:08
  Speaker 9: cannot love him?
• 26:10
  Speaker 10: How wild you tucks?
• 26:12
  Speaker 9: Where am I.
• 26:15
  Speaker 10: With one as sensible of thy pain as thou thyself
• 26:19
  Speaker 10: canst be?
• 26:21
  Speaker 9: Violante? What kind star preserved and lodged me here?
• 26:26
  Speaker 13: It was a terrestrial star called a man Madam, pray Jupiter.
• 26:31
  Speaker 13: He proves a lucky one.
• 26:34
  Speaker 9: Oh, I remember? Now forgive me, dear violante. My thoughts
• 26:38
  Speaker 9: run so much upon the danger I escaped I forgot.
• 26:43
  Speaker 10: May I not know your story?
• 26:45
  Speaker 9: Thou art no stranger to one part of it? I
• 26:49
  Speaker 9: have often told thee that my father designed to sacrifice
• 26:53
  Speaker 9: me to Don Gusmind, who it seems is just returned
• 26:57
  Speaker 9: from Holland. Upon my refusing to obey him, he locked
• 27:01
  Speaker 9: me into my chamber, vowing to keep me there till
• 27:04
  Speaker 9: he arrived, and forced me to consent. I know my
• 27:08
  Speaker 9: father to be positive, never to be won from his design,
• 27:12
  Speaker 9: and having no hope, left me to escape the marriage.
• 27:15
  Speaker 9: I leaped from the window into the street.
• 27:18
  Speaker 10: You have not hurt yourself, I hope no.
• 27:22
  Speaker 9: A gentleman passing by by accident caught me in his arms.
• 27:27
  Speaker 9: At first, my fright made me apprehend it was my father,
• 27:30
  Speaker 9: till he assured me to the contrary.
• 27:33
  Speaker 13: Oh he's a very fine gentleman, I promise you, madam,
• 27:37
  Speaker 13: and a well bred man I warrant him. I think
• 27:41
  Speaker 13: I never saw a grandee put his hand into his
• 27:44
  Speaker 13: pocket with a better air in my whole lifetime. Then
• 27:48
  Speaker 13: he opened his purse with such a grace that nothing
• 27:52
  Speaker 13: but his manner of presenting me with the gold could equal.
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: Go leave us, Flora exit, Flora left.
• 28:01
  Speaker 10: But how came you hither? Isabella?
• 28:04
  Speaker 9: I know not. I desired the stranger to convey me
• 28:08
  Speaker 9: to the next monastery. But ere I reached the door,
• 28:11
  Speaker 9: I saw, or fancied that I saw Lizardo, my brother's man,
• 28:16
  Speaker 9: and the thought that his master might not be far
• 28:19
  Speaker 9: off flung me into a swoon, which is all that
• 28:22
  Speaker 9: I can remember.
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: Cross his center.
• 28:25
  Speaker 10: Huh, what's here?
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: Picks up letter on stage.
• 28:30
  Speaker 9: For Colonel Britton to be left at the post house
• 28:34
  Speaker 9: in Lisbon. This must be dropped by the stranger who
• 28:38
  Speaker 9: brought me hither.
• 28:39
  Speaker 10: Thou art fallen into the hands of a soldier. Take
• 28:43
  Speaker 10: care he does not lay the under contribution.
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: Girl rises.
• 28:48
  Speaker 9: I find he is a gentleman, and if he is
• 28:51
  Speaker 9: but unmarried. I could be content to follow him all
• 28:54
  Speaker 9: the world over, but I shall never see him more.
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: I fear sits left, sighs and pauses.
• 29:04
  Speaker 10: What makes you sigh, Isabella?
• 29:06
  Speaker 9: The fear of falling into my father's clutches again?
• 29:10
  Speaker 10: Can I be serviceable to.
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: You, Isabella rises? Yes.
• 29:15
  Speaker 9: If you conceal me two or three days.
• 29:18
  Speaker 10: You command my house and secrecy.
• 29:21
  Speaker 9: I thank you, Violante. I wish you would oblige me
• 29:25
  Speaker 9: with missus Flora.
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: Awhile Violante taps.
• 29:28
  Speaker 10: Bell, I'll send her to you. I must watch if
• 29:32
  Speaker 10: father be still asleep, or here will be no.
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: Room for Felix exit right.
• 29:38
  Speaker 9: Well, I don't know what ails me. Methinks, I wish
• 29:41
  Speaker 9: I could find this stranger.
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: Out re enter Flora left.
• 29:46
  Speaker 13: Does your ladyship want me, Madame? I?
• 29:49
  Speaker 9: Flora, I resolve to make you my confidant.
• 29:53
  Speaker 13: I shall endeavor to discharge my duty. Madame.
• 29:56
  Speaker 9: I doubt it not, and desire you to accept this
• 29:59
  Speaker 9: as a toe of my gratitude.
• 30:01
  Speaker 13: Oh, I should have been your humble servant without a fee.
• 30:05
  Speaker 9: I believe it. But to the purpose do you think
• 30:09
  Speaker 9: if you saw the gentleman who brought me hither? You
• 30:12
  Speaker 9: should know him again.
• 30:14
  Speaker 13: From a thousand Madame, I have an excellent memory where
• 30:18
  Speaker 13: a handsome man is concerned. When he went away, he
• 30:21
  Speaker 13: said he would return again immediately. I wonder he comes
• 30:26
  Speaker 13: not here?
• 30:27
  Speaker 9: Did you say you rejoice me?
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: Cross's left, though I'll not see him.
• 30:33
  Speaker 9: If he comes, could not you contrive to give.
• 30:36
  Speaker 13: Him a letter with the air of a duenna.
• 30:39
  Speaker 9: Not in this house. You must veil and follow him.
• 30:42
  Speaker 9: He must not know it comes from me.
• 30:45
  Speaker 13: What do you take me for a novice in love affairs?
• 30:49
  Speaker 13: Though I have not practiced the art since I have
• 30:52
  Speaker 13: been in Donna Violante's service, yet I have not lost
• 30:56
  Speaker 13: the theory of a chamber made.
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: Cross is up left the table, Isabella sits.
• 31:03
  Speaker 13: Do you write the letter and leave the rest to me?
• 31:07
  Speaker 10: Here?
• 31:07
  Speaker 13: Here, here's pen, ink and paper.
• 31:11
  Speaker 9: I'll do it in a minute.
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: Sits a table center and writes.
• 31:16
  Speaker 13: So this is a business after my own heart. Love
• 31:22
  Speaker 13: always takes care to reward his laborers. Oh, I long
• 31:27
  Speaker 13: to see the other two moidores. Methinks there is a
• 31:31
  Speaker 13: grace peculiar to the military in making a present.
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: Isabella rises, So I have done now.
• 31:41
  Speaker 9: If he does, but find this house again.
• 31:44
  Speaker 13: If he should not. I warrant I'll find him if
• 31:48
  Speaker 13: he's in Lisbon, for I have a strong possession that
• 31:52
  Speaker 13: he has two more moidores, as good as ever were told.
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: Puts the letter into her bosom. Violante left, Flora, watch
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: my papa.
• 32:04
  Speaker 10: He's fast asleep in his study. If you find him, stir,
• 32:08
  Speaker 10: give me notice.
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: Felix taps at the window.
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: Left.
• 32:13
  Speaker 10: Hark, I hear Felix at the window. Admit him instantly,
• 32:18
  Speaker 10: and then to your post.
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: Exit, Flora left.
• 32:22
  Speaker 9: What say you, Violante? Is my brother come?
• 32:26
  Speaker 10: It is a signal at the window.
• 32:28
  Speaker 9: Isabella kneels, Oh, Violante, I conjure thee by all the
• 32:33
  Speaker 9: love thou bearest to Felix, by thy own generous in nature,
• 32:37
  Speaker 9: nay more by that unspotted virtue Thou art, mistress of
• 32:42
  Speaker 9: Do not discover to my brother I am here.
• 32:45
  Speaker 10: Contrary to your desire. Be assured, I never shall. But
• 32:49
  Speaker 10: where's the danger?
• 32:51
  Speaker 9: Isabella rises art thou born in Lisbon? And ask that question?
• 32:57
  Speaker 9: He'll think his honor blemished by my disobedient and would
• 33:00
  Speaker 9: restore me to my father or kill me. Therefore, dear dear.
• 33:05
  Speaker 10: Girl, depend on my friendship. Nothing shall draw the secret
• 33:10
  Speaker 10: from these lips, not even Felix, though at the hazard
• 33:13
  Speaker 10: of his love. I am coming retire into that closet.
• 33:19
  Speaker 9: Remember, Violante, upon thy promise, my very life depends.
• 33:24
  Speaker 10: Exit right when I betray THEE, may I share thy fate?
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: Enter Felix left. My Felix runs into his arms. Felix
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: inter rapture my violatee.
• 33:40
  Speaker 10: What hazards dost thou run for me? Oh? How shall
• 33:44
  Speaker 10: I requite THEE?
• 33:46
  Speaker 11: If during this tedious, painful exile, thy thoughts have never
• 33:51
  Speaker 11: wandered from thy Felix, Thou hast made me more than satisfaction.
• 33:58
  Speaker 10: Can there be room with in this heart for any
• 34:01
  Speaker 10: but thyself?
• 34:03
  Speaker 12: No?
• 34:04
  Speaker 10: If the God of Love were lost to all the
• 34:06
  Speaker 10: rest of humankind, thy image would secure him in my breast.
• 34:11
  Speaker 10: I am all truth, all love, all faith, and know
• 34:16
  Speaker 10: no jealous fears.
• 34:18
  Speaker 11: My hearts the proper sphere where love resides. Could he
• 34:22
  Speaker 11: quit that he would be nowhere found? And yet, Violante,
• 34:28
  Speaker 11: I'm in doubt?
• 34:30
  Speaker 10: Did I ever give THEE cause to doubt my Felix?
• 34:33
  Speaker 11: True love has many fears and fears, as many eyes
• 34:39
  Speaker 11: as fame. Yet sure I think they see no faults
• 34:43
  Speaker 11: in THEE.
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: Colonel Britain taps at the window left.
• 34:48
  Speaker 11: What's that?
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: Taps again?
• 34:51
  Speaker 10: What I hear?
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: Nothing again? Huh?
• 34:55
  Speaker 11: What means the signal at your window?
• 34:59
  Speaker 10: Some perhaps in passing by, might have accidentally hid it.
• 35:05
  Speaker 10: It can be nothing else.
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: Colonel Britain without at window.
• 35:09
  Speaker 4: Hist donna violande, dona violande.
• 35:15
  Speaker 11: They use your name by accident? To do they?
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: Madam crosses to right, re enter flora left Flora left
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: aside to violante.
• 35:28
  Speaker 13: There is a gentleman at the window, Madam, which I
• 35:31
  Speaker 13: fancied to be the same who brought Isabella. Hither shall I.
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: Admit him violante aside?
• 35:38
  Speaker 10: Admit distraction? Rather there at the cause of this, I'm thinking, Wench.
• 35:44
  Speaker 11: What has missus Scout brought you fresh intelligence death. I'll
• 35:49
  Speaker 11: know the bottom of this immediately.
• 35:53
  Speaker 13: About to go, Scout, I scorn your words, signor.
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: The Colonel taps louder Flora aside.
• 36:03
  Speaker 13: It must be the colonel now to deliver my letter
• 36:06
  Speaker 13: to him.
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: Exit left violante felix.
• 36:11
  Speaker 10: Nay they nay, you must not leave me, runs.
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: And catches hold of him.
• 36:16
  Speaker 11: Oh tis not fair not to answer the gentleman, Madam.
• 36:21
  Speaker 11: It is none of his fault that his visit proves unseasonable. Pray,
• 36:26
  Speaker 11: let me go. My presence is but a restraint upon you.
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: Struggles to get from her. As the taps grow louder, hark.
• 36:35
  Speaker 11: He grows impatient at your delay. Why do you hold
• 36:39
  Speaker 11: the man whose absence would oblige you? Pray let me go, madam?
• 36:45
  Speaker 11: Consider the gentleman wants you at the window?
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: Confusion struggles.
• 36:52
  Speaker 10: It is not me, he wants death, not you.
• 36:57
  Speaker 11: Is there another of your name in the house?
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: Seizes her hand and leads her toward the window.
• 37:04
  Speaker 11: But come on, convince me of the truth of what
• 37:08
  Speaker 11: you say. Open the window. If his business does not
• 37:12
  Speaker 11: lie with you, your conversation may be heard. This and
• 37:17
  Speaker 11: only this can take off my suspicion.
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: What do you pause downstage? Right?
• 37:27
  Speaker 11: Oh? Guilt, guilt? Have I caught you? Nay? Then I'll
• 37:33
  Speaker 11: leap the balcony if I remember this way also leads
• 37:38
  Speaker 11: to it.
• 37:39
  Speaker 10: Goes hold not for the world you.
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: Enter there aside?
• 37:45
  Speaker 10: Which way shall I preserve his sister from his knowledge?
• 37:49
  Speaker 11: What have I touched you? Do you fear your lover's life?
• 37:55
  Speaker 10: I fear for none but you, For goodness sake, do
• 37:58
  Speaker 10: not speak so loud, my felix If my father hears you,
• 38:02
  Speaker 10: I am lost forever.
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: With tenderness and reprovingly one hand on his shoulder, Felix Felix,
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: as he still looks angry. Her woman's pride grets the
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: better of her, and she goes toward the window. Felix
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: still holds her hand and follows her, listening as she
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: throws open the window and speaks. She speaks slowly, as
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: Britain replies. Felix starts a step, then turns and looks
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: her in the face.
• 38:33
  Speaker 10: Your curiosity shall be satisfied.
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: Goes to the window left, throws up the sash.
• 38:40
  Speaker 10: Whoever you are that with such insolence, dare use my
• 38:44
  Speaker 10: name and give the neighborhood pretense to reflect upon my conduct.
• 38:49
  Speaker 10: I charge you instantly to be gone, or expect the
• 38:52
  Speaker 10: treatment you deserve.
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: Colonel Britton without I ask pardon, madam, and will obey.
• 38:59
  Speaker 5: But when I left this house tonight, good.
• 39:03
  Speaker 10: You are mistaken in the house, I suppose, sir.
• 39:06
  Speaker 11: No, no, he's not mistaken. Pray, madam, Let the gentleman
• 39:12
  Speaker 11: go on.
• 39:13
  Speaker 10: Pray be gone, sir. I know of no business you
• 39:16
  Speaker 10: have here.
• 39:17
  Speaker 5: I wish I did not know it either, But this
• 39:20
  Speaker 5: house contains my soul. Then can you blame my body
• 39:23
  Speaker 5: for hovering about it?
• 39:25
  Speaker 11: Beautiful, beautiful, I.
• 39:29
  Speaker 10: Tell you again you are mistaken. However, for your own satisfaction,
• 39:35
  Speaker 10: call tomorrow.
• 39:37
  Speaker 11: Matchless impudence and assignation before my.
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: Face downright, crosses left and up the window.
• 39:46
  Speaker 11: No, he shall not live to meet your wishes.
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: Takes out her pistol and goes toward the window. Right
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: she catches hold of him.
• 39:56
  Speaker 10: Ah, hold, I conjure you tomorrow's an edge.
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: Madam?
• 40:02
  Speaker 5: May I not be admitted to night?
• 40:04
  Speaker 10: If you be a gentleman? I command your absence.
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: A side unfortunate.
• 40:12
  Speaker 10: What will my stars do with me?
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: I have done only this. Be careful of my life,
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: for it is in your keeping. Exit from the window.
• 40:25
  Speaker 11: Pray, observe the gentleman's request, Madam walks from her.
• 40:31
  Speaker 10: I am all confusion.
• 40:33
  Speaker 11: You are all truth, all love, all faith, O thou
• 40:39
  Speaker 11: all woman? How have I been deceived? So death? Could
• 40:45
  Speaker 11: you not have imposed upon me for this one night?
• 40:49
  Speaker 11: Could neither my faithful love nor the hazard I have
• 40:52
  Speaker 11: run to see you make me worthy to be cheated on?
• 40:57
  Speaker 11: Oh thou Felix.
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: Felix repeats, when I left this house tonight tonight to night.
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: Violante aside, Oh, Isabella, what hast thou involved me in?
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: Felix repeats, this house contains my soul, Oh sweet soul,
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: Violante aside.
• 41:24
  Speaker 10: Yet I resolve to keep the secret.
• 41:30
  Speaker 11: Felix repeats, be careful of my life. Fortis in your keeping, fiends,
• 41:38
  Speaker 11: fiends how ugly she appears, looks at her.
• 41:43
  Speaker 10: Believe me, Felix, I have not injured you, Nor am
• 41:47
  Speaker 10: I false?
• 41:48
  Speaker 11: Not false? Not injured me, oh, violante, not false? Oh monstrous?
• 41:58
  Speaker 13: Indeed I am not.
• 42:00
  Speaker 10: There is a cause, Felix, ah, which I must not reveal.
• 42:08
  Speaker 10: Oh think how far honor can oblige your sex? Then
• 42:12
  Speaker 10: allow a woman may be bound by the same rule
• 42:15
  Speaker 10: to keep a secret.
• 42:17
  Speaker 11: Honor, What hast thou to do with honor a secret? Ha?
• 42:22
  Speaker 12: Ha?
• 42:23
  Speaker 11: His affairs are wondrous safe who trusts his secrets to
• 42:28
  Speaker 11: a woman's keeping. But you need give yourself no trouble
• 42:32
  Speaker 11: about clearing this point, madam, for you are become so
• 42:36
  Speaker 11: indifferent to me that your truth and falsehood are the same.
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: Re enter floor, A door left.
• 42:45
  Speaker 13: So I have delivered my letter to the colonel and
• 42:49
  Speaker 13: received my fee. Madam, your father bade me see what
• 42:54
  Speaker 13: noise that was for goodness sake, sir, why do you
• 42:59
  Speaker 13: speak so lud?
• 43:01
  Speaker 11: Oh? I understand my cue, mistress, My absence is necessary.
• 43:09
  Speaker 11: I'll oblige you.
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: Cross the center going Theolante takes hold of him.
• 43:15
  Speaker 10: Oh, let me undeceive you first.
• 43:18
  Speaker 11: Impossible, tis very possible.
• 43:21
  Speaker 10: If I durst, Durst durst another time, I'll tell thee.
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  Speaker 11: All nay now or never. Now it cannot be, then
• 43:36
  Speaker 11: it shall never be. Most ungrateful of thy sex, farewell.
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: Breaks from her and exit left.
• 43:47
  Speaker 10: Yet not even this shall draw the secret from me
• 43:54
  Speaker 10: that I'll preserve. Let fortune frown or smile, and trust
• 43:59
  Speaker 10: to my love to reconcile curtain.
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  Speaker 1: End of Act one, Act two of The wonder A
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: Woman Keeps a Secret by Susanna Saidliver, edited by Augustine Day.
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: visit LibriVox dot org. Scene one, a handsome chamber in
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: Frederick's house. Enter Lesardo and inis, right.
• 44:39
  Speaker 4: Your lady run away and you know not whither, say you, she.
• 44:44
  Speaker 8: Never greatly cared for me after finding you and I together.
• 44:48
  Speaker 8: But you are very grave, methinks.
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: Lisarto Lesardo, looking on the ring.
• 44:54
  Speaker 4: Not at all. I have some thoughts indeed, of altering
• 44:58
  Speaker 4: my course of living. There is a critical minute in
• 45:02
  Speaker 4: every man's life, which, if we can but lay hold of,
• 45:06
  Speaker 4: he may make his fortune.
• 45:08
  Speaker 8: Anus aside, Ah, what do I see a diamond ring?
• 45:14
  Speaker 8: Where did Deuce had he that dring? You have got
• 45:17
  Speaker 8: a very pretty ring here, lissadadan Ah.
• 45:21
  Speaker 4: The trifle is pretty enough, But the lady which gave
• 45:24
  Speaker 4: it to me is a beauty.
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: I assure you, Cross is right, cocks his hat and
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: struts anus aside.
• 45:33
  Speaker 8: I can't bear this the lady, what lady? Pray?
• 45:39
  Speaker 3: Oh?
• 45:39
  Speaker 4: Why that's a question to ask a gentleman.
• 45:43
  Speaker 8: A gentleman, is this your love for me? Ungrateful man?
• 45:48
  Speaker 8: You'll break my heart?
• 45:49
  Speaker 12: So you will.
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: Bursts into tears Lessardo aside.
• 45:54
  Speaker 4: Poor tender hearted fool.
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  Speaker 8: If I knew who gave you that dring, I'd do
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  Speaker 8: her eyes out, so I would.
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: Sobs the Sarto aside.
• 46:05
  Speaker 4: So now the jade wants a little coaxing. Why dost
• 46:10
  Speaker 4: thou weep for now? My dear?
• 46:12
  Speaker 12: Huh?
• 46:13
  Speaker 8: I suppose Flora gave you that ring?
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: But I'll cross, is right?
• 46:18
  Speaker 4: No, the devil take me?
• 46:20
  Speaker 2: If she did?
• 46:21
  Speaker 4: You make me swear? Now I did, but joke. The
• 46:26
  Speaker 4: ring is not of mine, it is my master's. I
• 46:30
  Speaker 4: am to give it to be new set, that's all. Therefore,
• 46:33
  Speaker 4: pray the dry thy eyes and kiss me.
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: Come enter Flora unobserved?
• 46:41
  Speaker 8: And do you really speak truth?
• 46:43
  Speaker 11: Now?
• 46:44
  Speaker 4: Why do you doubt it?
• 46:45
  Speaker 13: Flora Aside, so so very well? I thought there was
• 46:52
  Speaker 13: an intrigue between him and Inness for all? Yes, foresworn
• 46:56
  Speaker 13: it's so often?
• 46:58
  Speaker 8: Nor hadn't you seen Flora since you come to town?
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: Flora Aside?
• 47:03
  Speaker 12: Huh?
• 47:04
  Speaker 13: How dares she mention my name?
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: No?
• 47:08
  Speaker 2: By this kiss?
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: I hand kisses her. Flora Aside, he is.
• 47:14
  Speaker 13: A dissembling vallet.
• 47:16
  Speaker 8: Nor don't you love her at all?
• 47:19
  Speaker 4: Love the devil?
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: There?
• 47:21
  Speaker 4: Now you've made me swear again? Why did I not
• 47:25
  Speaker 4: always tell thee she was my aversion?
• 47:29
  Speaker 13: Did you sew?
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: Villain gives him a box on the ear Lesardo Aside.
• 47:36
  Speaker 4: Sounds she's here. I have made a fine piece of
• 47:39
  Speaker 4: work on it.
• 47:41
  Speaker 8: What's that for?
• 47:42
  Speaker 10: Huh?
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: Goes up to her.
• 47:44
  Speaker 13: I shall tell you by and by missus Frippery. If
• 47:48
  Speaker 13: you don't get about your business.
• 47:51
  Speaker 8: Who do you call frippery? Missus trollop? Pray, get about
• 47:55
  Speaker 8: your business? If you go to that, I hope you
• 47:58
  Speaker 8: pretend to no write and title.
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: Here crosses to the Losardo. Losardo sighed, do.
• 48:04
  Speaker 4: They take me for an acre of land that they
• 48:07
  Speaker 4: quarrel about right and title?
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  Speaker 11: To me?
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  Speaker 13: Pray? What right have you, mistress, to ask that question?
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: Losardo? Up and down, Flora and iness separate, No.
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  Speaker 8: Matter, for that I can draw a better title to
• 48:22
  Speaker 8: him than you, I believe.
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  Speaker 4: No, my DearS, don't exert yourself so much about me.
• 48:29
  Speaker 4: I might, in a modest way satisfy both your demands
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  Speaker 4: upon me.
• 48:36
  Speaker 13: You satisfy no, Syrah. I am not to be satisfied
• 48:42
  Speaker 13: so soon as you think.
• 48:43
  Speaker 8: Perhaps no, nor I neither? What do you make no
• 48:48
  Speaker 8: difference between us?
• 48:50
  Speaker 13: You, pitiful fellow?
• 48:51
  Speaker 12: You?
• 48:52
  Speaker 13: How often have you sworn to be that you hated
• 48:54
  Speaker 13: yeses and only carried fair for the good cheer she
• 48:58
  Speaker 13: gave you, But that you could I like a woman
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  Speaker 13: with crooked legs?
• 49:02
  Speaker 10: You said?
• 49:03
  Speaker 8: How how crooked legs raises her dress?
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: A little? Lesardo drops down on his knee and holds
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: his hat before his eyes.
• 49:13
  Speaker 4: Prithee, my dear, moderate thy passion.
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  Speaker 8: I'd have you to know, Syrah, my legs were never Flora.
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  Speaker 13: Aside, I am glad I have done some mischief.
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: Losardo to Inus.
• 49:31
  Speaker 4: Art, thou really so foolish as to mind what an
• 49:34
  Speaker 4: enraged woman says. Don't you see she does it on
• 49:39
  Speaker 4: purpose to part you?
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: And I runs to Flora.
• 49:43
  Speaker 4: Could not you find the joke without putting yourself in
• 49:46
  Speaker 4: a passion, you silly girl? Hugh Why I saw you
• 49:51
  Speaker 4: follow us plain enough and said all this that you
• 49:54
  Speaker 4: might not go back with only your labor for your pains.
• 49:58
  Speaker 4: But come ki and be friends.
• 50:02
  Speaker 13: Don't think to coax me. Hang, ye'll kisses.
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: The two maids go up and down, Lesardo between them,
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: and meet in center as if to scratch at each other.
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  Speaker 1: When Felix's voice stops them. Felix without Lisardo Lesardo aside.
• 50:21
  Speaker 4: Odds hard, there's my master, the devil. Take both these
• 50:25
  Speaker 4: jades for me? What shall I do with them?
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: Iness Aside hah.
• 50:31
  Speaker 8: Tissed one Felix's voice. I would not have him find
• 50:34
  Speaker 8: me here with his footman foot of worlds.
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: Felix without why Lisardo Lisardo.
• 50:42
  Speaker 4: Coming, sir, what a play will you do?
• 50:46
  Speaker 13: Bless me, which way shall I get out?
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: Losardo crosses center.
• 50:51
  Speaker 4: Nay, nay. You must even set your quarrel aside and
• 50:55
  Speaker 4: be content to be mewed up in this clothes pressed together,
• 50:58
  Speaker 4: or stay where you are and face it out. There
• 51:01
  Speaker 4: is no help for it.
• 51:02
  Speaker 13: Oh, I'll put me anywhere rather than that. Come come
• 51:06
  Speaker 13: let me in.
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: Lesardo opens door. All three run up and jam in doorway.
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: Inis and Flora face to face. Finally, Flora exit and
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: Inis comes forward.
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  Speaker 8: I'll see her hanged before I'll go into the place
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  Speaker 8: where she is. I'll trust fortune for my deliverance. He
• 51:25
  Speaker 8: used to be a pair of bagstairs. I'll try to
• 51:28
  Speaker 8: find them out.
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  Speaker 1: Exit right entered Don Felix and Frederick left.
• 51:34
  Speaker 11: Was you asleep, Sarah that you did not hear me? Call?
• 51:39
  Speaker 4: I did hear you, and answered you I was coming, sir.
• 51:43
  Speaker 11: Go get the horses ready. I'll leave Lisbon to night,
• 51:47
  Speaker 11: never to see it more.
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: Crosses hey day.
• 51:51
  Speaker 4: What's the matter? Now?
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: Exit left?
• 51:54
  Speaker 2: Pray tell me, Don Felix, what has ruffled your temper?
• 51:57
  Speaker 11: Dous a woman? O friend who can name woman? And
• 52:02
  Speaker 11: forget inconstancy?
• 52:05
  Speaker 2: Come? This is some groundless jealousy. Love raises many fears.
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  Speaker 11: No, No, my ears conveyed the truth into my heart,
• 52:15
  Speaker 11: and reason justifies my anger. Oh, my friend Violante's false,
• 52:22
  Speaker 11: and I have nothing left but thee in Lisbon, which
• 52:26
  Speaker 11: could make me wish ever to see it more except
• 52:29
  Speaker 11: revenge upon my rival, of whom I am ignorant. Oh,
• 52:36
  Speaker 11: that some miracle would reveal him to me, that I might,
• 52:40
  Speaker 11: through his heart, punish her infidelity.
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: And to Vasquez left, Sir, I bring you joyful news.
• 52:50
  Speaker 11: What's the matter?
• 52:52
  Speaker 7: I am told that Don Antonio is out of danger,
• 52:55
  Speaker 7: and now in the palace.
• 52:57
  Speaker 11: I wish it be true. Then I'm at liberty to
• 53:00
  Speaker 11: watch my rival and pursue my sister. Prithee. Frederick informed
• 53:06
  Speaker 11: thyself of the truth of this.
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: Report, paces up and down. Frederick crosses.
• 53:12
  Speaker 2: I will this minute, do you hear to Besquaerez, Let
• 53:16
  Speaker 2: nobody enter don Felix till my return.
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: Exit left.
• 53:21
  Speaker 7: I'll observe, sir.
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: Exit left, Flora opens door right.
• 53:28
  Speaker 13: They have almost frightened me out of my wits. I'm
• 53:30
  Speaker 13: sure now Felix is alone. I have a good mind
• 53:34
  Speaker 13: to pretend I came with a message from my lady.
• 53:38
  Speaker 13: But how then shall I say I came into the.
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: Cupboard, Besquez.
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  Speaker 7: Without I tell you, Madam, don Felix.
• 53:46
  Speaker 10: Is not here, Violante, Without I tell you, sir, he
• 53:51
  Speaker 10: is here, and I will see him.
• 53:53
  Speaker 11: What what noise is that?
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: Enter? Violante left?
• 53:58
  Speaker 10: My stars, my lady here, close this door. You are
• 54:03
  Speaker 10: as difficult of access, sir as the first Minister of.
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: State unveils curtseys very ceremoniously and smiles at his surly looks.
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  Speaker 11: If your visit was destined to Frederick, Madam, he is abroad.
• 54:18
  Speaker 10: No, sir, the visit is to you.
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  Speaker 11: You are very punctual in your ceremonies, Madam, though.
• 54:26
  Speaker 10: I did not come to return your visit, but to
• 54:29
  Speaker 10: take that which your civility ought to have brought me.
• 54:32
  Speaker 11: If my eyes, my ears, and my understanding lied, then
• 54:37
  Speaker 11: I am in your debt. Else not, madam.
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: She is surprised and offended at his saying so gross
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: a word.
• 54:46
  Speaker 10: I will not charge them with a term so gross
• 54:49
  Speaker 10: to say they lied. But call it a mistake, Nay,
• 54:53
  Speaker 10: call it anything to excuse my Felix. Could I think ye?
• 54:59
  Speaker 10: Could I put off my pride so far poorly to
• 55:02
  Speaker 10: dissemble a passion which I did not feel or seek
• 55:05
  Speaker 10: a reconciliation with what I did not love. No law
• 55:10
  Speaker 10: while single binds us to obey, But your sex are
• 55:13
  Speaker 10: obliged to pay a deference to all womankind.
• 55:17
  Speaker 11: These are fruitless arguments. Tis most certain thou wert dearer
• 55:22
  Speaker 11: to these eyes than all that Heaven ever gave to
• 55:26
  Speaker 11: charm the sense of man. But I would rather tear
• 55:29
  Speaker 11: them out than suffer them to delude my reason and
• 55:34
  Speaker 11: enslave my peace.
• 55:36
  Speaker 10: Can you love without esteem? And where's the esteem for her?
• 55:40
  Speaker 10: You still suspect, Oh, Felix, there is a delicacy in
• 55:45
  Speaker 10: love which equals even a religious faith. True love never
• 55:51
  Speaker 10: doubts the object it adores, and skeptics there will disbelieve
• 55:56
  Speaker 10: their sight.
• 55:58
  Speaker 11: Your notions are too fined for mine, Madam re enter Vasquez,
• 56:05
  Speaker 11: how now, Sarah, what do you want?
• 56:08
  Speaker 7: Only my master's cloak? Out of this press, Sir, that's all.
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: Crosses behind to right, make haste. Then Fasquez opens the
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: door right and sees Flora.
• 56:20
  Speaker 7: Oh the devil, the devil.
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: Exit left.
• 56:25
  Speaker 13: Discovered, Naiden legs.
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: Befend me, crosses stage and runs out left.
• 56:32
  Speaker 10: A woman concealed very well, Felix.
• 56:37
  Speaker 11: A woman in the press.
• 56:40
  Speaker 4: Re Enter Lesardo left, Sir, the horses are.
• 56:44
  Speaker 11: How the devil came a woman there?
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: Sarah sees Lesardo and throws him round.
• 56:50
  Speaker 4: Losardo aside, what shall I say now now, Lusardo, show
• 56:56
  Speaker 4: your wit to bring your master off off Madam.
• 57:00
  Speaker 2: Nay nay nay.
• 57:01
  Speaker 4: There There needs be no great wit to to to
• 57:06
  Speaker 4: bring him off madam, for she did and she did
• 57:10
  Speaker 4: not come as as as ah ah. A man may
• 57:16
  Speaker 4: say directly to to to to speak with my master, Madam.
• 57:23
  Speaker 10: I see by your stammering Lisardo, that your invention is
• 57:26
  Speaker 10: at a very low.
• 57:27
  Speaker 11: Ebb steph Rascal, speak without hesitation in the truth too,
• 57:33
  Speaker 11: or I shall run you through and through.
• 57:36
  Speaker 10: No, no, your master mistakes, he would not have you
• 57:39
  Speaker 10: speak the.
• 57:40
  Speaker 11: Truth, Madam. My sincerity wants no excuse.
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: Lesardo asighed, I.
• 57:47
  Speaker 4: Am so confounded between one and the other. I can't
• 57:49
  Speaker 4: think of a lie.
• 57:51
  Speaker 11: Sarah, fetch me this woman back instantly. I'll know what
• 57:55
  Speaker 11: business she had here.
• 57:58
  Speaker 10: Not a step, your master. I shall not be put
• 58:00
  Speaker 10: to the blush.
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: Lisardo bows as if to say, you see, Sir, I
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: can't help it, and goes up.
• 58:08
  Speaker 10: Come a truce, Felix, Do you ask me no more
• 58:12
  Speaker 10: questions about the window, And I'll forgive this.
• 58:17
  Speaker 11: I scorn forgiveness where I own no crime. But your soul,
• 58:22
  Speaker 11: conscious of its guilt, would fain lay hold of this
• 58:26
  Speaker 11: occasion to blend your treason with my innocence insolent.
• 58:33
  Speaker 10: Nay, if instead of owning your fault you endeavor to
• 58:37
  Speaker 10: insult my patience, I must tell you, sir, you don't
• 58:41
  Speaker 10: behave yourself like that man of honor. You would be
• 58:43
  Speaker 10: taken for you ground your quarrel with me upon inconstancy
• 58:48
  Speaker 10: tis plain you were false yourself and would make me
• 58:51
  Speaker 10: the aggressor. It was not for nothing the fellow opposed
• 58:55
  Speaker 10: my entrance. This last usage just given me back my liberty.
• 59:00
  Speaker 10: And now my father's will shall be obeyed without the
• 59:04
  Speaker 10: least reluctance.
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: With stern formality, and throwing her veil over her face
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: as she exits.
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  Speaker 10: And so your servant exit left.
• 59:16
  Speaker 11: Oh stubborn, stubborn heart, what wilt thou do? Her father's
• 59:22
  Speaker 11: will shall be obeyed, ha that carries her to a
• 59:26
  Speaker 11: cloister and cuts off all my hopes at once, By heaven,
• 59:32
  Speaker 11: she shall not must not leave me. No, she is
• 59:38
  Speaker 11: not false. At least my love now represents her true
• 59:42
  Speaker 11: because I feared to lose her. Ha villain art Thou here.
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: Turns upon Lessarto, who is trying to steal off left.
• 59:52
  Speaker 11: Tell me this moment who this woman was and for
• 59:56
  Speaker 11: what intent she was here concealed or drawing his sword?
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 4: Ah, good, sir, forgive me and I'll tell you the
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 4: whole truth.
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: Falls on his knees out with it, then threatening with
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: his sword. Quite at Lesardo's mouth.
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 4: It it.
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 11: Was who who missus?
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 4: Flora, Sir, Dona Bolante's woman. You must know, sir, we
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 4: have had what what a sneaking kindness for one another?
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 4: A great while. She was not willing, you should know it.
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 4: So when she heard your voice, she ran into the
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 4: clothes press. I would have told you this at first,
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 4: but I was afraid of her lady's knowing it. This
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 4: is the truth, as I hope for a whole skin, sir.
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 11: If it be not, I'll not leave you a whole
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 11: bone in it, Sarah, fly and observe if violence goes
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 11: directly home, yes, sir, yes fly you dog.
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: Fly exit Lesarto left.
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 11: I must convince her of my faith. Oh, how irresolute
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 11: is a lover's heart? How absolute is a woman's power
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 11: in vain. We strive their tyranny to quit in vain,
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 11: we struggle for we must submit.
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: Exit right curtain. End of Act two, Act three of
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: The Wonder A Woman Keeps a Secret by Susanna Scentliver
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: edited by Augustine Day. This is a LibriVox recording. All
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org. Act three,
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: Scene one the street enter Gibbie left.
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 6: Ah, this is bunny work. Indeed, to run three hundred
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 6: miles to this wicked tune, and before I can well
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 6: fill my wien to be sent a hunting out of
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 6: this black sheet devil? What gotcha? Are I going to
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 6: spear for this? Watchnow?
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 1: Uh?
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 6: For a ruling elder or a Kirk's treasurer or his
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 6: mon I'd gear my master mac twile this, but I'm
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 6: sure there's nassage on his people here, or there would
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 6: maybe some Michael Skulduddery.
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 1: Enter violante right.
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 6: Ah, wow, man, but I'm glad that you and I
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 6: are fore gathered.
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 10: What would the fellow have nothing?
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 6: A warm man, no worth your heart? What a muckle
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 6: deal of mischief, had you like bring upon poor Gibbee.
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 10: The man's trunk.
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 11: I am not.
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 6: Angin I found yer, ma'am. The lad knows when I
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 6: should for my master bade menire king aim without titans.
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 10: Of you, ma'am Sarah, get about your business or I'll
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 10: have your bones dropped.
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 6: Good faith, my master. I ain't done that to your wounds, ma'am.
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 10: Who is your master? Sir?
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 6: It's no so long you pride wiim, I wish he
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 6: can ye half as well as ye can him.
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 10: Bah, the creature's mad or mistakes me for somebody else,
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 10: and I should be as mad as he to talk
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 10: to him any longer.
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 1: Exit into Don Pedro's house. Enter Lesardo.
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 4: Right, so she's gone home. I see what did that
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 4: scott fellow want with her? I'll try to find it out.
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 4: Perhaps I may discover something that may make my master
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 4: friends with me again.
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 6: Hey, gill Man, a deal scope in your company. But
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 6: almos wheeze as I was, But I'll bite and see
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 6: was house it is cain. I con meet with any
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 6: civil body to spear at.
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 1: Turns and sees Lessardo cross his left.
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 6: My lad, what you while lives.
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 11: In your use?
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 4: Don Pedro de Mendoza.
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 6: And did you see a lady getting him?
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 4: But now yes I did, and ye can hear Itay,
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 4: it was Donna Violente his daughter. Aside, what the devil
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 4: makes him so inquisitive? There is something in it that's certain,
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 4: tis our cold morning brother? What think you of a
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 4: dram in true?
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 6: Very well, sir.
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 4: You seem an honest fellow. Prithee. Let's drink to our
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 4: better acquaintance.
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 1: Both going right.
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 6: We oh my heart, sir, and you get to the
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 6: next goose and ass will follow you. Come along, then
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 6: exit right, Don Petro de Mendozo, Dona Violante's daughter. This
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 6: is Rahisma leg No as need nay mayre, I'll tackle,
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 6: drink and then to my measter.
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 1: Exit right. Scene two Dona Violante's apartments, same as in
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 1: second act. Enter Isabella in a gay temper left and
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 1: Violante out of humor.
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 9: Right, My dear, I have been seeking you this half
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 9: hour to tell you the most lucky adventure, and you.
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 10: Have pitched upon the most unlucky hour for it that
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 10: you could possibly have found in the whole four and twenty.
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 10: I have seen the man I like, and I have
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 10: seen the man that I could wish to.
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 1: Hate rises crosses high, and.
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 9: You must assist me in discovering whether he can like
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 9: me or not.
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 10: You have assisted me in such a discovery already. I
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 10: thank ye. What say you, my dear, I say I
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 10: am very unlucky at discoveries, Isabella, I have too lately
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 10: made one pernicious to my ease. Your brother is false, impossible,
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 10: most true.
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 9: Some villain has troduced him to you.
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 10: No, Isabella, I love too well to trust the eyes
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 10: of others. I never credit the ill judging world or
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 10: form suspicions on vulgar censures. No, I had ocular proof
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 10: of this ingratitude. But tell me, Isabella, how can I
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 10: serve you thus?
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 9: Then, the gentlemen that brought me hither, I have seen
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 9: and talked with upon the turteh Depasa this morning, and
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 9: I find him a man of sense, generosity, and good humor.
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 9: In short, he is everything that I could like for
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 9: a husband. And I have dispatched missus Flora to bring
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 9: him hither. I hope you'll forgive the liberty I have taken.
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 10: Hither to what purpose?
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 9: To the great universal purpose matrimony?
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 10: Matrimony? Why do you design to ask him?
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 1: No?
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 9: Violante? You must do that for me.
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 10: I thank you for the favor you design me, but
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 10: desire to be excused. I manage my own affairs too
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 10: ill to be trusted with those of other people. I
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 10: can't for my life admire your conduct to encourage a
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 10: person altogether unknown to you. Twas very important to meet
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 10: him this morning, but much more so to send for
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 10: him hither, knowing what inconveniency you've all already drawn upon me.
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 9: I am not insensible how far my misfortunes have embarrassed you.
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 9: Then do not deny me this last request, when a
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 9: few hours perhaps may render my condition able to clear
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 9: thy fame and bring my brother to thy feet for pardon.
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 10: I suppose he knows you are the same woman that
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 10: he brought in here last night.
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 9: Not a syllable of that I met him veiled, And
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 9: to prevent his knowing the house, I ordered Missus Flora
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 9: to bring him by the back door into the garden.
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 10: The very way which Felix comes. If they should meet,
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 10: there would be fine work. Indeed, my dear, I can't
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 10: approve of your design.
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 1: Enter Flora left.
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 13: Madam, the Colonel waits your pleasure.
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 10: How durst you go upon such a message mistress without
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 10: acquainting me.
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 13: So I am huffed for everything.
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 9: Tis too late to dispute that now, dear Violante, I
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 9: ignore knowledge the rashness of the action, but consider the
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 9: necessity of my deliverance.
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 10: Ah, that indeed is a weighty consideration. Well, what am
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 10: I to do.
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 9: In the next room? I'll give you instructions in the meantime,
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 9: Missus Flora, show the colonel.
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 1: Into this exit Flora left, Isabella and Violante right. Flora
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 1: opens door and beckons to Colonel Britton, who enters.
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 13: The lady will wait on you presently, sir, Exit left.
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 1: Very well, this is a very fruitful soil.
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 5: I have not been here quite four and twenty hours,
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 5: and I have three affairs upon my hands.
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 1: Already re enter, Violante right, veiled Colonel Britton aside.
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 5: Huh, a fine sized woman. Pray heaven, she proves handsome.
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 5: I am come to obey your ladyship's commands. Are you
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 5: sure of that, Colonel, if you be not very unreasonable? Indeed, Madam,
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 5: a man is but a.
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 1: Man takes her hand and kisses it.
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 10: Nay, we have no time for compliments. Colonel, did you
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 10: ever see a woman in all your travels that you
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 10: could like for a wife.
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 1: Colonel breton Aside, A very odd question.
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 5: Do you really expect that I should speak truth?
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 11: Now?
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 1: I do?
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 10: If you expect to be dealt with, Colonel?
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 1: Why then?
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 3: Yes?
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 10: Is she in your country or this.
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 1: Colonel breton Aside, this is a very.
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 5: Pretty kind of catechism in this town. I believe, madam
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 5: her name is Ay?
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 1: How is she called madam?
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 10: Nay? I ask you that, sir, Oh?
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 2: Oh?
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 5: Why she is called pray? Madam?
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 1: How is it you spell your name?
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 10: Oh? Colonel, I am not the happy woman, nor do I.
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 1: Wish it cross is right?
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 12: No?
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 5: I am sorry for that.
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 1: I sighed?
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 5: What the devil does she mean? By all these questions?
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 10: Come, colonel, for once be sincere. Perhaps you may not
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 10: repent it.
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 5: Faith, Madam, I have an inclination to sincerity, but I
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 5: am afraid you'll call my manners in question.
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 10: Not at all. I prefer truth before complimenting this affair.
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 5: Why then, to be plain with you, madam, A lady
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 5: last night wounded my heart by a fall from a window.
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 5: Whose person I could be content to take as my
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 5: father took my mother till death do us part?
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 1: But who she is?
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 5: Or how distinguished, whether maid, wife or widow. I can't
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 5: inform you.
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 10: Perhaps you are she huh not to keep you in suspense,
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 10: I am not.
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 1: She cross is left.
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 10: But I can give you an account of her. That
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 10: lady is a maid of condition, has ten thousand pounds,
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 10: and if you are a single man, her person and
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 10: fortune are at your service.
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 5: I accept the offer with the highest transports. But say,
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 5: my charming angel, art thou not?
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 1: She offers to embrace her once again?
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 10: Colonel, I tell you I am not she. But at
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 10: six this evening you shall find her on the terrierro
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 10: de passa with a white handkerchief in her hand. Get
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 10: a priest ready, and you know the rest.
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 5: I shall infallibly observe your directions.
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 1: Madam re enter Flora left hastily and whispers violante, who
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 1: starts and seems surprised.
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 10: Hah felix crossing the garden. You say, what shall I do?
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 12: Now?
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 5: You seem surprised, Madam?
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 10: Oh, Colonel, my father is coming hither, and if he
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 10: finds you here, I am ruined?
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 1: What laugh? Madame?
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 5: Thrust me anywhere? Can't I go out this way?
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 1: Crosses up? Left?
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 10: No, no, no, he comes that way, ah, how shall
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 10: I prevent their meeting?
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 1: Hesitates, advances a step again, stops in suspense.
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 10: Then resolutely here here, step into my bed chamber, and
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 10: peace still as you value her you love, don't stir
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 10: till you've noticed, as ever you hope to have her.
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 1: On that condition, I'll not Breathe exit right. Violante places
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 1: his chair and sits in center. Picks up a book
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 1: and pretends to be absorbed in it. Flora sits and
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 1: pretends to sleep, her head and arms on table. When
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 1: Felix addresses Violante, she rouses. Flora with some difficulty. Enter Felix.
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 11: I wonder where this dog of a servant is all
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 11: this while, but she is at home. I find aside
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 11: how coldly she regards me. You look, Violante, as if
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 11: the sight of me were troublesome to you.
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 10: Can I do otherwise? When you have the assurance to
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 10: approach me after what I saw to day?
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 11: Assurance rather call it good nature after what I heard
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 11: last night? Pray, give me leave to ask your woman
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 11: one question. My man assures me she was the person
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 11: you saw at my lodgings.
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 13: I confess it, madame, and ask your pardon.
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 10: Impudent baggage not to undeceive me sooner? What business could
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 10: you have there?
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 11: Lisardo? And she it seems, imitates you and me?
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 1: She rises, I.
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 13: Love to follow the sample of my betters, Madame.
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 11: I hope I am justified.
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 1: Theolante Cross is right?
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 10: Since we are to part, Felix, there needs no justification.
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 11: Methinks you talk of parting as a thing indifferent to you?
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 11: Can you forget how I have loved?
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 10: I wish I could forget my own passion. I should
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 10: with less concern remember yours. But for miss Flora you.
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 11: Must forgive her? Must did I say? I fear I
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 11: have no power to impose though the injury was done
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 11: to me.
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 1: Cross is right.
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 10: Tis harder to pardon an injury done to what we
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 10: love than to ourselves. But at your request, Felix, I
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 10: do forgive her. Go watch my father, Flora, lest he
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 10: should awaken surprise us.
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 13: Yes, Madame, exit left.
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 11: Dost thou then love me? Violante?
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 10: What need of repetition from my tongue? When every look
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 10: confesses what you ask?
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 11: Oh, let no man judge of love but those who
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 11: feel it? What wondrous magic lies in one kind look,
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 11: one tender word, destroys a lover's rage and melts his
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 11: fiercest passion into soft complaint. Oh the window, Violante, wouldst
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 11: thou but clear that one suspicion.
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 10: Prithee, no more of that, my Felix. A little time
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 10: shall bring the perfect satisfaction.
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 1: Re enter Flora left hastily, Oh.
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 13: Madam, madam, madam, my lord, your father has been in
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 13: the house, and lock the back door and comes smutching
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 13: to himself this way.
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 10: Then we are caught. No, Felix, we are undone.
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 11: Heaven forbid. This is most unlucky. That means step into
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 11: your chamber. There I must conceal myself.
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 1: Runs to the door right and puts his hand on
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 1: the doorknob. Violante follows him and draws him away. Step
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 1: by step. He keeps his eyes on the door. Pause.
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 10: No, no, Felix, that's no safe place. My father often
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 10: goes thither. And should you call for sneeze, we are lost, Felix.
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 11: Aside, either my eye deceived me, or I saw a
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 11: man within. I'll watch him close.
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 13: Oh, invention, invention, I have it, Madam. Here here, sir,
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 13: off with your sword and head, and I'll fetch you
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 13: a disguise.
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 1: Puts Felix's hat on table. Felix aside.
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 11: She shall deal with the devil if she conveys him
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 11: out without my knowledge.
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 10: Bless me?
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 1: How I tremble re enter floor right with the disguised dress,
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 1: a riding hood and skirt, old woman's dress. Now give
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 1: me your hat, he does so. Now your gloves, he
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 1: does so. Now your sword, Felix his eyes on door.
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 11: No, not my sword.
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 13: Be sure you don't speak a word.
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 11: Not for the indies here, sir, put on.
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 1: This both assistant to disguise, puts on dress. Felix tries
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 1: to get into the front of gown like pantaloons. Pedro
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 1: without left.
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 12: Why how came the garden door open?
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 1: Entered on? Pedro left?
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 4: Huh?
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 12: How now whom have we here? This?
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 13: My mother and please you.
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 1: Sir, Felix and Flora Curtsey, your mother, pie, Saint Andrew.
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 12: She's a strapper? Why you are a dwarf to her?
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 12: How many children have you? Good woman?
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 1: Folante left aside.
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 13: Oh if he speaks, we are lost, Oh, dear signor,
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 13: she cannot hear you. She has been deaft these twenty years.
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 12: Alas, poor woman, Why you muffle her up? As if
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 12: she was blind too, turn up her.
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 1: Hood violante aside undone.
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 10: Forever, Saint Anthony forbid. Oh, sir, she has the dreadfulest,
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 10: unlucky eyes. Pray don't look upon them. I made her
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 10: keep her hood shut on purpose.
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 12: Eyes. Why what's the matter with her eyes?
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 13: My poor mother, sir, is much a fick did with
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 13: the colic?
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 12: What has she colic in her eyes?
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 13: About two months ago she had it grievously in her
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 13: stomach and was over persuaded to take a drama of
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 13: filthy English geneva, which immediately flew up into her head
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 13: and caused such a deflection in her eyes that she
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 13: could never since spare the day light.
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 12: Say you so poor woman? Well, make her sit down violente,
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 12: and give her a glass of wine.
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 10: Let her daughter give her a glass below, Sir, For
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 10: my part, she has frightened me, so I shall be
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 10: myself these two hours. I am sure her eyes are
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 10: evil eyes.
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 12: Well, well do so evil eyes? There are no evil eyes?
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 1: Child? Come along, mother, crossing.
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 12: Left, good bye, take care how you go down, good woman.
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 1: Felix stops to Curtsey three times and stumbles over the
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 1: threshold of the door. Flora re enters almost immediately and
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 1: gets Felix's hat and gloves, concealing them behind her coat. Again,
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 1: Violante engaging her father's attention. Exit Felix and Flora left
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 1: Violante aside.
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 10: Ah, I'm glad he's gone.
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 12: Hast thou heard the news, Violente, What news, sir? Why?
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 12: Vasquez tells me that Don Lopez's daughter Isabella is run
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 12: away from her father. Oh, he has very ill.
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 1: Fortune with his children aside?
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 12: Well, I'm glad my daughter has no inclination to matrimony.
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 12: That my house is plagued with no suitors.
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 10: This is the first word I ever heard of it.
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 10: I pity her frailty.
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 12: Well said Violente. Next week, I intend thy happiness shall begin.
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 10: Fiorlantia sighed, I don't intend to stay so long. Thank you, Papa.
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 12: My lady abbess writes words. She longs to see thee
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 12: and has provided everything in order for thy reception.
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 11: Re enter.
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 12: Flora left, Thou wilt lead a happy life, my girl,
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 12: fifty times before that of matrimony, where an extravagant Coxcomb
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 12: might make a beggar of thee or an ill natured
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 12: surly dog break thy.
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 1: Heart, Flora laughed, aside break her heart.
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 13: She had as good as her bones broke as to
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 13: be a nun. I am sure I had rather of
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 13: the two. You are wondrous kind sir. But if I
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 13: had such a father, I know what I would do.
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 12: Why what would you do?
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 1: Minx Ha, Flora crosses to him.
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 13: I would tell him I had as good a right
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 13: entitle you.
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 12: Would, mistress, who the devil doubts it? You are enough
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 12: to spoil your lady housewife if she had not abundance
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 12: of devotion.
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 10: Fie, Flora, are you not ashamed to talk thus to
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 10: my father? You said yesterday you would be glad to
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 10: go with me into the monastery?
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 13: Did I? I told a great lie Anne, she.
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 12: Go with thee? No? No, she's enough to corrupt the
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 12: whole convent. Well, child, remember what I said to THEE.
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 12: Next week, I am going into the country for two
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 12: or three days to settle some affairs with thy uncle,
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 12: And when I return, we'll provide for thy happiness.
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  Speaker 11: Child.
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  Speaker 12: Goodbye, Violente, take care of thyself.
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  Speaker 1: Exit. Don Pedro and Violante left. Flora watches them off.
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  Speaker 13: So now for the Colonel hist hist Colonel re Enter,
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  Speaker 13: Colonel Britain.
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  Speaker 1: Right is the coast.
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  Speaker 13: Clear, Yes, if you can climb, for you must get
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  Speaker 13: over the wash house and jump from the garden wall
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  Speaker 13: into the street.
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  Speaker 5: Nay, nay, I don't value my neck if my incognita answers,
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 5: but thy lady's promise.
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  Speaker 1: Exit Colonel Britton and Flora right. Re enter Felix left.
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  Speaker 11: I have lain perdue under the stairs till I watched
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  Speaker 11: the old man out.
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  Speaker 1: Violante opens the door. Left, she's death.
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  Speaker 11: I am prevented, goes up to observe.
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  Speaker 1: Re enter Violante left.
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  Speaker 10: Now to set my prisoner at liberty.
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 1: She takes four steps stealthily, starts, turns and looks left. Felix,
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  Speaker 1: watching her at advances to right. Pause. Violante then goes
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  Speaker 1: to door where the colonel was hid.
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  Speaker 10: Sir, sir, you may appear.
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 1: Felix, who has been following her up to the door,
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 1: seizes her and turns her over to left. Treacherous woman
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 1: Violante aside Felix.
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 10: Here, then all is discovered.
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 1: Felix draws, turns Violante to left.
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  Speaker 11: Villain, whoever thou art, come out? I charge thee and
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 11: take the reward of thy villainous.
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 1: Errand Violante aside?
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 10: What shall I say? Nothing but the secret, which I
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 10: have sworn to keep. Can reconcile the squirrel a coward?
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  Speaker 11: Nay? Then I'll fetch you out. Think not to hide thyself? No,
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 11: by Saint Anthony, an altar should not protect.
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 1: Thee Exit right, Violante aside.
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 10: Defend to be heaven? What shall I do? I must
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 10: discover Isabella, or here will be murder?
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 1: Sinks into chair, overpowered, re enter Flora quickly with a
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 1: gliding step, throwing her hands up in joy.
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  Speaker 13: I have helped the colonel off clear Madam.
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 1: Exit with a quick side step.
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 10: Sayest thou so, my girl? Then I am armed?
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 1: Sits sender, with her eyes riveted on Felix and laughing
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 1: at him as he re enters right, Ah, Violanti bursts
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 1: into a loud fit of laughter and points at him
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 1: in derision. As he rushes on with his back to audience. Pause.
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  Speaker 1: He turns from her in amazement, then turns to her again.
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 11: Where has the devil, in compliance to your sex conveyed
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 11: him from my resentment?
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 10: Him? Whom do you mean, my dear inquisitive spark? Will
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 10: you never leave these jealous whims? Ah?
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 11: Will you never cease to impose upon me?
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 10: You impose upon yourself, My dear, Do you think I
• 1:27:29
  Speaker 10: did not see you? Yes? I did, and resolved to
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 10: put this trick.
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 1: Upon you, imitates her manner of crossing. Right.
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 2: Trick, trick, trick, yeh, trick.
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 10: I knew you'd take the hint and soon relapse into
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 10: your wonted air. How easily your jealousy is fired. I
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 10: shall have a blessed life with you.
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 11: Was there nothing in it then but only to try me?
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 10: Who won't you believe your eyes?
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 11: My eyes, no, nor my ears, nor any of my senses,
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 11: for they have all deceived me.
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 1: Crosses to right.
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 11: The moment a man lets a woman know her conquest,
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 11: he resigns his senses and sees nothing but what she'd
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 11: have him.
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 10: And as soon as a woman finds her love returned,
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 10: she becomes as errant as slave, as if she had
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 10: already said yes at the altar.
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 11: The priest violante would dissipate those fears which cause these quarrels.
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 11: When wilt thou make me happy to morrow?
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 10: I will tell.
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 1: Thee crosses right they meet.
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 10: Center, But leave me now lest some accident should bring
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 10: my father tomorrow.
• 1:28:55
  Speaker 11: Then fly swift ye ours and bring tomorrow kisses her hand.
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 10: Tomorrow we shall meet to part no more.
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 11: Oh, rapturous sounds, Do thou like me? Each doubt and
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 11: fear remove? And all to come be confidence and love.
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 1: Exit. Felix left, Violante right curtain. End of Act three,
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  Speaker 1: Act four of the Wonder A Woman Keeps a Secret
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• 1:29:43
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  Speaker 1: Act four, Scene one, Frederick's house as before, Enter Felix
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 1: and Frederick right.
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  Speaker 11: This hour has been propitious. I am reconciled to Violante,
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 11: and you assure me Antonio is out of danger.
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 2: Your satisfaction is doubly mine.
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 1: Enter Lesardo left.
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 11: What haste you made, sirrah to bring me word? If
• 1:30:21
  Speaker 11: Violance went home?
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  Speaker 4: I can give you very good reasons for my stay, sir. Yes, sir,
• 1:30:29
  Speaker 4: she went home.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, your master knows that, for he has been there himself. Lisardo, Sir,
• 1:30:36
  Speaker 2: may I beg the favor of your ear?
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 11: What have you to say?
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 1: Lesardo whispers and Felix seems uneasy.
• 1:30:45
  Speaker 11: Humph.
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 2: Felix changes color at Lissardo's news. What can it be?
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 11: A Scotch footman that belongs to Colonel Britton, an acquaintance
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 11: of Frederick's.
• 1:30:57
  Speaker 1: Say you that devil aside?
• 1:31:03
  Speaker 11: If she be false, by heaven, I'll trace.
• 1:31:06
  Speaker 1: Her, whispers Lessardo and sends him off left.
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 11: Prithee, Frederick. Do you know one Colonel Britton a scotchman?
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 2: Yes? Why do you ask me?
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 11: Nay, no great matter. But my man tells me that
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 11: he has had some little differences with a servant of his.
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 11: That's all.
• 1:31:27
  Speaker 2: He is a good, harmless, innocent fellow. I am sorry
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 2: for it. The Colonel Lodge is in my house. I
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 2: knew him formerly in England, and met him here by
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 2: accident last night and gave him an invitation home. He
• 1:31:41
  Speaker 2: is a gentleman of good estate beside his commission of
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 2: excellent principles and strict honor. I assure you Cross is
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 2: left here he comes.
• 1:31:52
  Speaker 1: Enter Colonel Britain left.
• 1:31:55
  Speaker 2: Colonel. I began to think I had lost you.
• 1:31:58
  Speaker 11: And not without some if you knew all, there's no
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 11: danger of a fine gentleman's being lost in this town, sir.
• 1:32:08
  Speaker 1: That compliment don't belong to me, sir. But I assure
• 1:32:12
  Speaker 1: you I have been very near being run away.
• 1:32:15
  Speaker 2: With who attempted it.
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 1: Faith, I know not only that she is a charming woman.
• 1:32:22
  Speaker 1: I mean as much as I saw of her, Felix aside, my.
• 1:32:26
  Speaker 11: Heart swells with apprehension. Some accidental re encounter.
• 1:32:34
  Speaker 2: Come unfold.
• 1:32:36
  Speaker 1: The Colonel takes an arm of each and graws them
• 1:32:39
  Speaker 1: close to him, telling his story with great gusto Felix
• 1:32:43
  Speaker 1: in an agony of suppressed irritation.
• 1:32:47
  Speaker 5: Why then, you must know, gentlemen, that I was conveyed
• 1:32:51
  Speaker 5: to her lodgings by one of Cupid's emissaries, called a
• 1:32:54
  Speaker 5: chambermaid in a chair, through fifty blind alleys, who, by
• 1:32:59
  Speaker 5: the help of the key, let me into a garden.
• 1:33:04
  Speaker 1: Felix Aside s death a garden, this must be Violante's garden.
• 1:33:11
  Speaker 5: From thence conducted me into a spacious room, told me
• 1:33:15
  Speaker 5: her lady would wait on me presently, so without unveiling
• 1:33:20
  Speaker 5: modestly withdrew Felix aside.
• 1:33:24
  Speaker 11: Damn her modesty. This was Flora.
• 1:33:28
  Speaker 2: Well, how then, Colonel.
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  Speaker 5: Then, sir, immediately from another door issued forth a lady
• 1:33:35
  Speaker 5: armed at both eyes. From whence such showers of darts
• 1:33:38
  Speaker 5: fell around me. That had I not been covered with
• 1:33:41
  Speaker 5: the shield of another beauty, I had infalla befallen a
• 1:33:45
  Speaker 5: marth or to her charms. For you must know, I
• 1:33:48
  Speaker 5: just saw her eyes eyes, did I say, no? No, Hold,
• 1:33:53
  Speaker 5: I saw but one eye, though I suppose it had
• 1:33:56
  Speaker 5: a fellow equally as.
• 1:33:57
  Speaker 11: Killing well, well, sir, what.
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 1: Then pretending to laugh? But his face turned aside, showing
• 1:34:08
  Speaker 1: intense ill humor.
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  Speaker 5: Why, upon her maid's giving notice her father was coming,
• 1:34:14
  Speaker 5: she thrust me into the bedchamber.
• 1:34:17
  Speaker 11: Upon her father's coming, Ay, so she said.
• 1:34:20
  Speaker 5: But putting my ear to the keyhole of the door,
• 1:34:23
  Speaker 5: I found it was another.
• 1:34:25
  Speaker 1: Lover felix aside.
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 11: And found the jilt twas she without dispute.
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  Speaker 1: Up and down the stage.
• 1:34:36
  Speaker 2: Ah, poor colonel.
• 1:34:39
  Speaker 5: I discovered they had had a quarrel. But whether they
• 1:34:42
  Speaker 5: were reconciled or not, I cannot tell. For the second
• 1:34:46
  Speaker 5: alarm brought the father in good earnest, and had liked
• 1:34:49
  Speaker 5: to have made the gentleman and me acquainted, But she
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 5: found some other stratagem to convey him out.
• 1:34:55
  Speaker 11: Contagion seize her, and make her body as ugly as
• 1:34:59
  Speaker 11: her soul. There's nothing left to doubt of now. Tis
• 1:35:03
  Speaker 11: playing twas.
• 1:35:04
  Speaker 1: She ha ha. Frederick and Colonel laugh.
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 11: Felix aside, Sure he knows me and takes this method
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 11: to insult me to death. I cannot bear.
• 1:35:17
  Speaker 1: It, Colonel Britain to Felix, playfully taking his arm and
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 1: turning him around. Felix turns away, Colonel pulls him around again.
• 1:35:28
  Speaker 1: Why you don't seem to enjoy the joke.
• 1:35:32
  Speaker 11: Oh yes, I too, oh.
• 1:35:39
  Speaker 1: Tries to join in laugh that ends with a groan.
• 1:35:43
  Speaker 5: But sir, dear, sir too, hearken to this.
• 1:35:47
  Speaker 1: The nymph that introduced me conveyed me out again over
• 1:35:50
  Speaker 1: the top of a high wall, where I ran the
• 1:35:52
  Speaker 1: danger of having my neck broke. For the father, it seems,
• 1:35:55
  Speaker 1: had locked the door by which I entered. Felix aside
• 1:36:00
  Speaker 1: that way, I missed him.
• 1:36:03
  Speaker 11: Damn her invention, pray, Colonel.
• 1:36:07
  Speaker 1: Colonel and Felix laugh, A ha.
• 1:36:09
  Speaker 11: Ah, it's very pleasant. Was this the same lady you
• 1:36:15
  Speaker 11: met upon the Terario Depasa this.
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 5: Morning, faith, I can't tell, Sir. I had a design
• 1:36:21
  Speaker 5: to know who that lady was. But my dog of
• 1:36:23
  Speaker 5: a footman, whom I had ordered to watch her home,
• 1:36:26
  Speaker 5: fell fast asleep. I gave him a good beating for
• 1:36:29
  Speaker 5: his neglect, and I have never seen the rascal since.
• 1:36:33
  Speaker 1: Here he comes, Felix pacing the stage to and fro
• 1:36:38
  Speaker 1: entre Gibbee left.
• 1:36:40
  Speaker 5: Where have you been, Sarah?
• 1:36:43
  Speaker 6: Truth has been seeking you, and like your honor these
• 1:36:46
  Speaker 6: tway years, a mere bring me glad t heating, sir?
• 1:36:51
  Speaker 5: What have you found the lady?
• 1:36:54
  Speaker 6: Good faith? I answer, and she's called Donna Violante and
• 1:37:00
  Speaker 6: her parent Don Pedro Dementoza and gin ye'll gang with me,
• 1:37:06
  Speaker 6: and like your honor has will make you kid the
• 1:37:09
  Speaker 6: who's reat well?
• 1:37:11
  Speaker 1: Felix aside, oh torture, torture upstage, Colonel Britain aside.
• 1:37:21
  Speaker 5: Hah, Folante, that's the lady's name of the house where
• 1:37:25
  Speaker 5: my incognita is sure it could not be her, at
• 1:37:29
  Speaker 5: least it was not the same house.
• 1:37:30
  Speaker 1: I am confident.
• 1:37:32
  Speaker 2: Filante tis false. I would not have you credit him,
• 1:37:35
  Speaker 2: Colonel the Dell tak.
• 1:37:37
  Speaker 11: Me, sirgain aili, Sarah, I say you you lie, and
• 1:37:42
  Speaker 11: I'll make you eat it.
• 1:37:43
  Speaker 1: You dog seizing him and throwing him over, kicks him.
• 1:37:48
  Speaker 11: And if your master will justify.
• 1:37:50
  Speaker 5: You not I faith, sir, I answer for nobody's lies
• 1:37:54
  Speaker 5: but my own. If you please kick him again.
• 1:37:58
  Speaker 6: Gibbie gets right, he does as now take it, sir,
• 1:38:02
  Speaker 6: Guiney was a thousand spaniards.
• 1:38:05
  Speaker 1: Walks about in a passion. Colonel Britton apart to Gibbey.
• 1:38:10
  Speaker 5: I owed you a beating, Sarah, and I am obliged
• 1:38:13
  Speaker 5: to this gentleman for taking the trouble off my hands. Therefore,
• 1:38:17
  Speaker 5: say no more, d'ye hear.
• 1:38:18
  Speaker 6: Sir, truth dear, I sir am a field.
• 1:38:23
  Speaker 2: This must be a mistake, Colonel, for I know Violant
• 1:38:26
  Speaker 2: I perfectly well, but I'm certain she would not meet
• 1:38:29
  Speaker 2: you upon the tarrierro de Passer.
• 1:38:32
  Speaker 5: Don't be too positive, Frederick. Now I have some reasons
• 1:38:36
  Speaker 5: to believe it was that very lady.
• 1:38:39
  Speaker 11: You will very much oblige me, sir, if you let
• 1:38:42
  Speaker 11: me know these reasons. Sir, Sir, I see, I have
• 1:38:47
  Speaker 11: a right to inquire into these reasons you speak of.
• 1:38:52
  Speaker 5: Ah, really, Sir, I cannot conceive how you or any
• 1:38:56
  Speaker 5: man can have a right to inquire into my thoughts.
• 1:39:00
  Speaker 11: Sir, I have a right to everything that relates to Violante.
• 1:39:05
  Speaker 11: And he that troduces her fame and refuses to give
• 1:39:09
  Speaker 11: his reason for it is.
• 1:39:11
  Speaker 1: A villain, draws Colonel Britton, aside.
• 1:39:15
  Speaker 5: What the devil have I been doing?
• 1:39:18
  Speaker 11: Now?
• 1:39:18
  Speaker 5: Blisters on my tongue by the dozens.
• 1:39:20
  Speaker 1: Frederick crosses between.
• 1:39:22
  Speaker 2: Them, prithee, Felix, don't quarrel till you know for funt
• 1:39:26
  Speaker 2: this is all a mistake.
• 1:39:27
  Speaker 5: I'm positive look you, sir, that I dare draw my sword.
• 1:39:32
  Speaker 5: I think will admit of no dispute. But though fighting's
• 1:39:35
  Speaker 5: my trade, I'm not in love with it, and I
• 1:39:38
  Speaker 5: think it more honorable to decline this business than pursue it.
• 1:39:41
  Speaker 5: This may be a mistake, however, I'll give you my
• 1:39:45
  Speaker 5: honor never to have any affair directly or indirectly with violante,
• 1:39:49
  Speaker 5: provided she is your violante. But if there should happen
• 1:39:53
  Speaker 5: to be another of that name, I hope you will
• 1:39:55
  Speaker 5: not engross all the valantes in the kingdom.
• 1:39:58
  Speaker 1: Felix Crosses.
• 1:40:00
  Speaker 11: Your vanity has given me sufficient reason to believe I
• 1:40:04
  Speaker 11: am not mistaken. I'll not be imposed upon, sir, nor
• 1:40:09
  Speaker 11: I be bullied, Sir, bullied to death? Such another word,
• 1:40:14
  Speaker 11: and I'll nail thee to the wall.
• 1:40:16
  Speaker 5: Are you sure of that?
• 1:40:17
  Speaker 1: Spaniard draws Gibbie dras.
• 1:40:21
  Speaker 6: Saint a merman. Oh my soul, he is twat twa
• 1:40:26
  Speaker 6: gin a fear, sir, give easterns by you for the
• 1:40:30
  Speaker 6: honor of Scotland.
• 1:40:32
  Speaker 1: Vapors about Frederick Crosses comes down center.
• 1:40:36
  Speaker 2: By Saint Antony. You shan't fight on bare suspicion, be
• 1:40:40
  Speaker 2: certain of the injury, and then.
• 1:40:42
  Speaker 11: That I will this moment, and then, Sir, I hope
• 1:40:46
  Speaker 11: you are to be.
• 1:40:47
  Speaker 1: Found whenever you please, Sir exit Felix quickly. Colonel goes
• 1:40:53
  Speaker 1: up stage Frederick, trying to soothe him.
• 1:40:57
  Speaker 6: Sir death, Sir, there ne'er were a Scotsman, yet they
• 1:41:00
  Speaker 6: shamed to show his face.
• 1:41:02
  Speaker 2: Struts about so corals spring up like mushrooms in a minute,
• 1:41:08
  Speaker 2: violante and he were but just reconciled, and you have
• 1:41:11
  Speaker 2: furnished him with fresh matter of falling out again. And
• 1:41:14
  Speaker 2: I am certain Colonel Gibbey is in the wrong.
• 1:41:18
  Speaker 6: Ginnabi, sir the mon that told me lead and guinea did.
• 1:41:22
  Speaker 6: I'll lick him as long as I can hand a
• 1:41:24
  Speaker 6: stick in my hand.
• 1:41:25
  Speaker 5: And now you see, I am sorry for what I
• 1:41:28
  Speaker 5: have said for the lady's sake, But who could divine
• 1:41:31
  Speaker 5: that she was his mistress? Prithee? Who is this warm spark?
• 1:41:35
  Speaker 2: He is the son of one of our grandees named
• 1:41:38
  Speaker 2: Don Lopez de Pimontelle, a very honest gentleman, but somewhat
• 1:41:42
  Speaker 2: passionate in what relates to his love. He is an
• 1:41:46
  Speaker 2: only son, which may perhaps be one reason for indulging
• 1:41:50
  Speaker 2: his passion.
• 1:41:51
  Speaker 5: When parents have but one child, they either make a
• 1:41:54
  Speaker 5: madman or a fool of him.
• 1:41:56
  Speaker 2: He is not the only child. He has a sister.
• 1:41:59
  Speaker 2: But I think through the severity of his father, who
• 1:42:02
  Speaker 2: would have married her against her inclination, she has made
• 1:42:05
  Speaker 2: her escape, and notwithstanding he has offered five hundred pounds,
• 1:42:10
  Speaker 2: he can get no tidings of her.
• 1:42:12
  Speaker 1: Hah, how long has she been missing?
• 1:42:15
  Speaker 2: Nay? But since last night, it seems.
• 1:42:18
  Speaker 1: Colonel Britain. Aside last night the very time, how went't she?
• 1:42:23
  Speaker 2: Nobody can tell their conjecture through the window.
• 1:42:28
  Speaker 1: This must be the lady I caught Cross's center. Dear Frederick,
• 1:42:34
  Speaker 1: I beg your pardon, but I have forgot. I was
• 1:42:37
  Speaker 1: to meet a gentleman upon business at five. I'll endeavor
• 1:42:40
  Speaker 1: to dispatch him and wait on you again as soon
• 1:42:42
  Speaker 1: as possible.
• 1:42:43
  Speaker 2: Chris is right, your humble servant, Colonel.
• 1:42:48
  Speaker 1: Exit left, give I have no business with you at present?
• 1:42:54
  Speaker 1: Exit left.
• 1:42:55
  Speaker 6: That suel now I will gain and see this loon
• 1:43:01
  Speaker 6: and got him gang. We meet at Don Pedro's whose
• 1:43:05
  Speaker 6: can he'll no gang by himself as a god. Game
• 1:43:08
  Speaker 6: by the look, sir, give as a lee.
• 1:43:13
  Speaker 1: Exit right. Scene two, Violante's apartment. Enter Violante and Isabella left.
• 1:43:23
  Speaker 9: The hour draws on Violante, and now my heart begins
• 1:43:27
  Speaker 9: to fail me. But I resolved to venture for all that.
• 1:43:31
  Speaker 10: What does your courage sink? Isabella?
• 1:43:34
  Speaker 9: Only the force of resolution a little retreated, But I'll
• 1:43:38
  Speaker 9: rally it again for all that.
• 1:43:41
  Speaker 1: Enter Flora left.
• 1:43:43
  Speaker 13: Don't Felix is coming up, Madame, my brother, which way
• 1:43:47
  Speaker 13: shall I get out?
• 1:43:48
  Speaker 9: Despatch him as soon as you can, Dear Violante.
• 1:43:51
  Speaker 1: I will exit right. Flora exits left, Andrew Felix, in
• 1:43:57
  Speaker 1: his surly humor, throws himself sulkily into a chair.
• 1:44:02
  Speaker 10: Felix, what brings you back so soon? Did I not
• 1:44:05
  Speaker 10: say tomorrow?
• 1:44:07
  Speaker 1: Felix aside?
• 1:44:09
  Speaker 11: My passion chokes me. I cannot speak. Oh I shall.
• 1:44:15
  Speaker 1: Burst, rises in agitation and sits again.
• 1:44:20
  Speaker 10: Bless me? Are you not well, my Felix?
• 1:44:23
  Speaker 11: Yes, no, I don't know what I am.
• 1:44:27
  Speaker 10: Hey day, what's the matter? Now? Another jealous whim Felix
• 1:44:33
  Speaker 10: aside with.
• 1:44:35
  Speaker 11: What's an air she carries it.
• 1:44:38
  Speaker 10: If I were in your place, Felix, I choose to
• 1:44:41
  Speaker 10: stay at home when these fits of spleener upon me,
• 1:44:44
  Speaker 10: and not trouble such persons as are not obliged to
• 1:44:47
  Speaker 10: bear with them.
• 1:44:48
  Speaker 1: Here he affects to be careless of her.
• 1:44:51
  Speaker 11: I am very sensible, Madam, of what you mean. I
• 1:44:54
  Speaker 11: disturb you, no doubt. But were I in a better humor,
• 1:44:58
  Speaker 11: I should not incommode you less. I am but too
• 1:45:01
  Speaker 11: well convinced. You can easily dispense with my visit when.
• 1:45:05
  Speaker 10: You behave yourself as you ought to do. No company
• 1:45:08
  Speaker 10: so welcome. But when you reserve me for your ill nature,
• 1:45:12
  Speaker 10: I waive your merit and consider what's due to myself.
• 1:45:16
  Speaker 10: And I must be so free to tell you, Felix,
• 1:45:18
  Speaker 10: that these humors of yours will abate, if not absolutely destroy,
• 1:45:23
  Speaker 10: the very principles of love.
• 1:45:26
  Speaker 1: Felix rises.
• 1:45:27
  Speaker 11: And I must be so free to tell you, Madam,
• 1:45:30
  Speaker 11: that since you have made such ill returns to the
• 1:45:33
  Speaker 11: respect that I have paid you, all you do shall
• 1:45:37
  Speaker 11: be indifferent to me for the future, and you shall
• 1:45:40
  Speaker 11: find me abandon your empire with so little difficulty that
• 1:45:45
  Speaker 11: I'll convince the world, that your chains are not so
• 1:45:48
  Speaker 11: hard to break as your vanity would tempt you to believe.
• 1:45:53
  Speaker 11: I cannot brook the provocation you give.
• 1:45:56
  Speaker 10: This is not to be borne insolent, You abandon you,
• 1:46:02
  Speaker 10: whom I have so often forbade ever to see me more?
• 1:46:05
  Speaker 10: Have you not fallen at my feet, implored my favor
• 1:46:08
  Speaker 10: and forgiveness. Did you not trembling weight and wish and
• 1:46:11
  Speaker 10: sigh and swear yourself into my heart? Ungrateful man? If
• 1:46:17
  Speaker 10: my chains are so easily broke as you pretend, then
• 1:46:20
  Speaker 10: you are the silliest cockscomb living. You did not break
• 1:46:22
  Speaker 10: em long ago, and I must think him capable of
• 1:46:25
  Speaker 10: brooking anything on whom such usage could make no impression.
• 1:46:30
  Speaker 11: I always believed, Madam, my weakness was the greatest addition
• 1:46:35
  Speaker 11: to your power. You would be less imperious had my
• 1:46:38
  Speaker 11: inclination been less forward to oblige you. You have indeed
• 1:46:44
  Speaker 11: forbade me your sight, But your vanity even then assured
• 1:46:48
  Speaker 11: you I would return, And I was fool enough to
• 1:46:52
  Speaker 11: feed that vanity. Your eyes, with all their boasted charms,
• 1:46:57
  Speaker 11: have acquired the greatest glory in conquering me, and the
• 1:47:02
  Speaker 11: brightest passage of your life is wounding this heart with
• 1:47:06
  Speaker 11: such arms as pierce. But few persons of.
• 1:47:10
  Speaker 1: My rank walks about in a great passion matchless arrogance.
• 1:47:17
  Speaker 10: True, sir, I should have kept measures better with you
• 1:47:20
  Speaker 10: if the conquest had been worth preserving, but easily hazard
• 1:47:24
  Speaker 10: what gives us no pain to lose. As for my eyes,
• 1:47:28
  Speaker 10: you are mistaken if you think they have vanquished none
• 1:47:30
  Speaker 10: but you. There are men above your boasted rank who
• 1:47:33
  Speaker 10: have confess their power when their misfortune and pleasing you
• 1:47:37
  Speaker 10: made them obtain such a disgraceful.
• 1:47:39
  Speaker 1: Victory up and down to face him.
• 1:47:42
  Speaker 11: Yes, madam, I am no stranger to your victories.
• 1:47:48
  Speaker 10: Crosses right, and what you call the brightest passage of
• 1:47:51
  Speaker 10: my life is not the least glorious part of yours.
• 1:47:56
  Speaker 1: Down left ha ha.
• 1:47:58
  Speaker 11: Don't put yourself in a passion, madam, for I assure you,
• 1:48:02
  Speaker 11: after this day I shall give you no trouble. You
• 1:48:07
  Speaker 11: may meet your sparks on the Terrario de Pasa at
• 1:48:10
  Speaker 11: four in the morning without the least regard to me.
• 1:48:14
  Speaker 11: For when I quit your chamber, the world shay' to
• 1:48:17
  Speaker 11: bring me back.
• 1:48:20
  Speaker 10: I am so well pleased with your resolution. I don't
• 1:48:22
  Speaker 10: care how soon you take your leave. But what you
• 1:48:25
  Speaker 10: mean by the terrierro de pasa at four in the morning,
• 1:48:30
  Speaker 10: I can't guess.
• 1:48:31
  Speaker 1: They face each other.
• 1:48:33
  Speaker 11: No, no, no, not you. You were not upon the
• 1:48:38
  Speaker 11: terrio depasa at four this.
• 1:48:40
  Speaker 1: Morning, Violante crosses, No, I was not shot. At her
• 1:48:46
  Speaker 1: positive denial, he turns away with a gesture of disgust.
• 1:48:50
  Speaker 1: She continues and speaks with firm resentment. She paces up
• 1:48:55
  Speaker 1: and down. He follows her.
• 1:48:57
  Speaker 10: But if I was ope, I may walk where I please,
• 1:49:01
  Speaker 10: and at what hour I please, without asking your.
• 1:49:04
  Speaker 11: Leave, Oh doubtless, madam, And you might meet Colonel Britton there,
• 1:49:11
  Speaker 11: and afterwards send your emissary to fetch him to your house,
• 1:49:14
  Speaker 11: and upon your father's coming in, thrust him into your
• 1:49:18
  Speaker 11: bedchamber without asking my leave. Tis no business of mine.
• 1:49:23
  Speaker 11: If you are exposed among all the footmen in town. Nay,
• 1:49:28
  Speaker 11: if they ballad you and cry you about at a
• 1:49:31
  Speaker 11: halfpenny apiece, they may without my leave.
• 1:49:35
  Speaker 10: Crosses to left, audacious, don't provoke me. Don't My reputation
• 1:49:44
  Speaker 10: is not to be.
• 1:49:44
  Speaker 1: Sported with going up to him.
• 1:49:47
  Speaker 10: At this rate, No, sir, it is.
• 1:49:51
  Speaker 1: Not bursts into tears aside inhuman felix.
• 1:50:05
  Speaker 10: Oh, Isabella, what a train of ills thou has brought
• 1:50:10
  Speaker 10: on me.
• 1:50:15
  Speaker 1: Sits on sofa right felix aside.
• 1:50:20
  Speaker 11: Ha, Now she's crying. I cannot bear to see her weep.
• 1:50:26
  Speaker 11: A woman's tears are far more fatal than our swords. Oh,
• 1:50:31
  Speaker 11: violantastes a death? What a dog I am? No, I
• 1:50:35
  Speaker 11: have no power to stir. Dost thou not know such
• 1:50:39
  Speaker 11: a person as Colonel Briton Prithee? Tell me? Didst not
• 1:50:44
  Speaker 11: thou meet him at four this morning? Upon a terrero deposser.
• 1:50:49
  Speaker 10: Were hypnotic clear my fame? I would not answer thee
• 1:50:53
  Speaker 10: thou black ingrate.
• 1:50:57
  Speaker 1: Rises, But I cannot bear.
• 1:51:00
  Speaker 10: To be reproached with what I even plush to think of,
• 1:51:04
  Speaker 10: much less to act. By heaven, I have not seen
• 1:51:11
  Speaker 10: the derierro de pass this day.
• 1:51:15
  Speaker 11: Did not a Scotch footman attack you in the street?
• 1:51:18
  Speaker 11: Neither violentte yes?
• 1:51:24
  Speaker 10: But he mistook me for another? Or he was drunk?
• 1:51:28
  Speaker 10: I know not which?
• 1:51:30
  Speaker 11: And do you not know the Scotch? Colonel Pray?
• 1:51:33
  Speaker 10: Ask me no more questions. This night shall clear my
• 1:51:38
  Speaker 10: reputation and leave you without excuse for your base suspicions.
• 1:51:43
  Speaker 10: More than this I shall not satisfy you. Therefore, pray
• 1:51:50
  Speaker 10: leave me.
• 1:51:51
  Speaker 11: Didst thou ever love me? Violante?
• 1:51:54
  Speaker 10: I'll answer nothing. You were in haste to be gone
• 1:51:59
  Speaker 10: just now? I should be very well pleased to be alone.
• 1:52:03
  Speaker 1: Sir sits down on right and turns aside.
• 1:52:08
  Speaker 11: I shall not long interrupt your contemplation.
• 1:52:12
  Speaker 1: Aside, stubborn to the last, Violante, aside, did ever a
• 1:52:19
  Speaker 1: woman involve herself as I have done? Felix? Aside?
• 1:52:24
  Speaker 11: Now? Would I give one of my eyes to be
• 1:52:27
  Speaker 11: friends with her? For something? Whispers to my soul. She
• 1:52:31
  Speaker 11: is not guilty. I'm going.
• 1:52:36
  Speaker 1: I am going, pulls a chair and sits by her
• 1:52:40
  Speaker 1: at a little distance, looking at her some time without speaking.
• 1:52:45
  Speaker 1: Then he draws a little nearer to her.
• 1:52:47
  Speaker 11: Give me your hand at parting? However, Violante, won't you?
• 1:52:53
  Speaker 1: She draws her chair away as he torments her with
• 1:52:56
  Speaker 1: his feather. He follows her up and finally lays it
• 1:53:00
  Speaker 1: hand upon her knee.
• 1:53:02
  Speaker 11: Won't you? Won't you?
• 1:53:04
  Speaker 1: Won't you? Theolante half regarding him.
• 1:53:08
  Speaker 10: Won't I do what?
• 1:53:11
  Speaker 11: You know? What I would have? Violante?
• 1:53:14
  Speaker 1: Oh my heart, Violante smiles, I thought my chains were
• 1:53:20
  Speaker 1: so easily broke, lays her hand in his. Felix draws
• 1:53:25
  Speaker 1: his chair close to her and kisses her hand in
• 1:53:28
  Speaker 1: a rapture.
• 1:53:30
  Speaker 11: Too well thou knowest thy strength, Oh my charming angel,
• 1:53:35
  Speaker 11: My heart is all thy own. Forgive my hasty passion.
• 1:53:41
  Speaker 11: Tis the transport of a love. Sincere, Oh violante, Violante
• 1:53:48
  Speaker 11: pedro without.
• 1:53:50
  Speaker 12: Bid Sancho, get a new wheel to the chariot.
• 1:53:52
  Speaker 1: Presently Violante down center.
• 1:53:56
  Speaker 10: Bless me. My father returned.
• 1:54:01
  Speaker 11: The devil.
• 1:54:02
  Speaker 10: What shall we do now, Felix, we are ruined past redemption.
• 1:54:07
  Speaker 11: No, no, no, my love, I can leap from the
• 1:54:09
  Speaker 11: closet window.
• 1:54:11
  Speaker 1: Runs to the door right where Isabella is. Who closes it?
• 1:54:15
  Speaker 1: Noise of bolts heard within confusion.
• 1:54:19
  Speaker 11: Somebody bolts the door withinside. I'll see whom you have
• 1:54:22
  Speaker 11: concealed here if I die for it, Oh Violante, hast
• 1:54:27
  Speaker 11: thou again sacrificed me to my rival?
• 1:54:30
  Speaker 1: Draws by heaven.
• 1:54:32
  Speaker 10: Thou hast no rival in my heart? Let that suffice. Nay,
• 1:54:38
  Speaker 10: sure you will not let my father find you here.
• 1:54:41
  Speaker 11: Distraction, indeed, but I shall except you command this door
• 1:54:46
  Speaker 11: to be opened, and that way conceal me from his sight.
• 1:54:50
  Speaker 1: He struggles with her to come at the door.
• 1:54:53
  Speaker 10: Hear me, Felix, though I were sure the refusing of
• 1:54:57
  Speaker 10: what you ask would separate us forever by all that's powerful.
• 1:55:01
  Speaker 10: You shall not enter here. Either you do love me
• 1:55:05
  Speaker 10: or you do not convince me by your obedience.
• 1:55:10
  Speaker 11: That's not the matter. And debate. I will know who
• 1:55:13
  Speaker 11: is in this closet. Let the consequence be what it will. Nay, nay, nay,
• 1:55:19
  Speaker 11: you strive in vain. I will go in.
• 1:55:23
  Speaker 10: You shall not go in?
• 1:55:27
  Speaker 1: Enter, Don Pedro left.
• 1:55:29
  Speaker 12: Hey day? What's here to do? I will go in,
• 1:55:33
  Speaker 12: and you shall go in, and I will go in.
• 1:55:38
  Speaker 12: Why who are you.
• 1:55:39
  Speaker 1: Sir, Felix? Aside so death?
• 1:55:43
  Speaker 11: What shall I say?
• 1:55:44
  Speaker 1: Now?
• 1:55:45
  Speaker 12: Don Felix? Pray? What's your business in my house? Ha? Sir?
• 1:55:51
  Speaker 10: Oh sir? What miracle returns you home? So soon?
• 1:55:57
  Speaker 13: Some angel?
• 1:55:57
  Speaker 10: Twas that brought my father back to succor the trust.
• 1:56:02
  Speaker 10: This ruffian, I cannot call him a gentleman, has committed
• 1:56:06
  Speaker 10: such an uncommon rudeness as the most profligate wretch would
• 1:56:11
  Speaker 10: be ashamed to own. As I was at my devotions,
• 1:56:17
  Speaker 10: in my closet devotions, I heard a loud knocking at
• 1:56:22
  Speaker 10: my door, mixed with a woman's voice, which seemed to
• 1:56:26
  Speaker 10: imply she was in danger. I flew to the door
• 1:56:29
  Speaker 10: with the utmost speed, where a lady veiled, rushing upon me, who,
• 1:56:35
  Speaker 10: falling on her knees, begged my protection from a gentleman
• 1:56:39
  Speaker 10: who she said pursued her. I took compassion on her
• 1:56:43
  Speaker 10: tears and locked her in this closet. But in surprise,
• 1:56:47
  Speaker 10: having left the door open, this very person, whom you
• 1:56:50
  Speaker 10: see with his sword.
• 1:56:52
  Speaker 1: Drawn Felix sheathed his sword ran.
• 1:56:56
  Speaker 10: In protesting if I refused to give her up to
• 1:56:59
  Speaker 10: his revenge he'd forced the door.
• 1:57:02
  Speaker 1: Felix aside, what in the name of goodness does she
• 1:57:06
  Speaker 1: mean to do?
• 1:57:07
  Speaker 11: Hang me?
• 1:57:09
  Speaker 10: I strove with him till I was out of breath,
• 1:57:11
  Speaker 10: and had you not come as you did, he must
• 1:57:14
  Speaker 10: have entered. But he's in drink, I suppose, or he
• 1:57:19
  Speaker 10: could not have been guilty of such an indecorum.
• 1:57:22
  Speaker 1: Cross's left science to Felix.
• 1:57:26
  Speaker 12: I'm amazed.
• 1:57:28
  Speaker 1: Felix aside, the devil never filled a woman at a
• 1:57:32
  Speaker 1: pinch with a tale?
• 1:57:33
  Speaker 11: Has she formed in a minute in drink? Quoter A
• 1:57:40
  Speaker 11: good hint. I'll lay hold on it to bring myself off.
• 1:57:45
  Speaker 12: Five Don Felix, no sooner rid of one broil, but
• 1:57:49
  Speaker 12: you are commencing another to assault a lady with a
• 1:57:52
  Speaker 12: naked sword derogates much from the character of a gentleman.
• 1:57:56
  Speaker 1: I assure you, Felix counterfeits drunkenness.
• 1:58:01
  Speaker 11: H who I assault a lady.
• 1:58:05
  Speaker 1: Cross the center upon honor?
• 1:58:08
  Speaker 11: The lady assaulted me, Sir, and would have seized this
• 1:58:13
  Speaker 11: body politic upon the King's highway. Let her come out
• 1:58:18
  Speaker 11: and deny it if she can, pray, Sir. Command the
• 1:58:22
  Speaker 11: door to be opened, and let her prove me a
• 1:58:25
  Speaker 11: liar if she knows how.
• 1:58:29
  Speaker 12: I I who doubts it, Sir, Open the door viallente
• 1:58:33
  Speaker 12: and let the lady come out. Come. I warrant thee
• 1:58:36
  Speaker 12: he shan't hurt her.
• 1:58:39
  Speaker 11: No, No, I won't hurt the dear creature aside. Now
• 1:58:45
  Speaker 11: which way will she come off?
• 1:58:47
  Speaker 10: Come forth, madam? None shall dare to touch your veil.
• 1:58:52
  Speaker 10: I'll convent you out with safety or lose my life aside.
• 1:58:57
  Speaker 10: I hope she understands me.
• 1:58:59
  Speaker 1: Noays, have bolt heard? Right? Enter Isabella veiled. Violante leads
• 1:59:06
  Speaker 1: her to Don Pedro, who leads her off left. Felix
• 1:59:10
  Speaker 1: watching closely, Felix over Violante's shoulder.
• 1:59:15
  Speaker 11: Is it really a woman? Though?
• 1:59:17
  Speaker 1: Theolante, laughing but speaking low.
• 1:59:22
  Speaker 10: Come and see get clear of my father, and return
• 1:59:27
  Speaker 10: when all mistakes shall be rectified.
• 1:59:30
  Speaker 1: Exit left. Felix offers to follow her. Pedro draws his sword.
• 1:59:37
  Speaker 12: Not a step, sir to the lady, be past your recovery.
• 1:59:41
  Speaker 12: I never suffer the laws of hospitality to be violated
• 1:59:45
  Speaker 12: in my house. Sir, Come, sir, you and I will
• 1:59:49
  Speaker 12: take a pipe and bottle together.
• 1:59:51
  Speaker 11: Damn your pipe and damn your bottle. I hate drinking
• 1:59:55
  Speaker 11: and smoking.
• 1:59:56
  Speaker 12: First he will have a pipe and a bottle, and
• 2:00:00
  Speaker 12: then he won't have a pipe in a bottle. And
• 2:00:03
  Speaker 12: when I want to pipe in a bottle, he don't
• 2:00:06
  Speaker 12: want to pipe in a bottle. And when I do
• 2:00:08
  Speaker 12: want to pipe in a bottle, he doesn't want to
• 2:00:10
  Speaker 12: pipe in a bottle. As to smoking or drinking, you
• 2:00:14
  Speaker 12: have your liberty, but you shall stay.
• 2:00:17
  Speaker 1: Sir, Felix Cross is right.
• 2:00:20
  Speaker 11: But I won't stay for I've been drinking Burgundy and
• 2:00:23
  Speaker 11: Champagne and Imperial toquay, I've been drinking shamp But I
• 2:00:29
  Speaker 11: love my country better and I don't like you, and
• 2:00:34
  Speaker 11: I won't stay for I have the best reason in
• 2:00:37
  Speaker 11: the world for my not staying.
• 2:00:40
  Speaker 12: I what's that?
• 2:00:43
  Speaker 11: Why? I am going to be married and so goodbye.
• 2:00:48
  Speaker 1: To be married.
• 2:00:50
  Speaker 12: It can't be why you are drunk, Felix.
• 2:00:55
  Speaker 11: Drunk? Ah, to be sure, you don't think i'd go
• 2:01:00
  Speaker 11: to be married if I was sober, but drunk or sober,
• 2:01:04
  Speaker 11: I am going to be married for all that. And
• 2:01:07
  Speaker 11: if you won't believe me to convince you, I shall
• 2:01:11
  Speaker 11: show you the contract.
• 2:01:12
  Speaker 12: Oh, gentlemen, I do come, let's see this contract?
• 2:01:17
  Speaker 11: Then, yes, yes, I'll show you the contract. I'll show
• 2:01:21
  Speaker 11: you the contract here, sir, here's the contract.
• 2:01:25
  Speaker 1: Draws a pistol. Pedro seizes a chair and Felix follows
• 2:01:29
  Speaker 1: him around.
• 2:01:30
  Speaker 12: Well, well I'm convinced, go go, pray, go and be married, sir.
• 2:01:37
  Speaker 11: Yes, yes, I'll go. I'll go and be.
• 2:01:40
  Speaker 1: Married, going and then returning.
• 2:01:44
  Speaker 11: But shan't we take a bottle first?
• 2:01:46
  Speaker 10: No?
• 2:01:47
  Speaker 12: No, pray, dear sir, go and be married very well, very.
• 2:01:53
  Speaker 1: Well, going then returning.
• 2:01:56
  Speaker 11: But I insist upon your taking one glass.
• 2:01:58
  Speaker 12: Though no, not now, some other time. Consider the lady waits.
• 2:02:06
  Speaker 1: Felix aside, what a cross old fool.
• 2:02:10
  Speaker 11: First he will, and then he won't, and then he will,
• 2:02:13
  Speaker 11: and then he won't. But you'll take one glass.
• 2:02:18
  Speaker 1: Pedro seizes a chair.
• 2:02:20
  Speaker 12: Oh, go and get married.
• 2:02:23
  Speaker 11: All right, I'll go and get married.
• 2:02:27
  Speaker 1: Exit Ander Vasquez left.
• 2:02:31
  Speaker 7: Here's Don Lopez.
• 2:02:33
  Speaker 1: Pedro, not seeing what it is, picks up a chair
• 2:02:36
  Speaker 1: and holds it before him.
• 2:02:38
  Speaker 12: Go and get married. Hi, it's you.
• 2:02:42
  Speaker 7: Well, here's Don Lopez de Pimentelle to wait on you, senor.
• 2:02:49
  Speaker 12: What the devil does he want? He's not going to
• 2:02:52
  Speaker 12: be married too. Bring him up?
• 2:02:55
  Speaker 1: Exit Vasquez left.
• 2:02:57
  Speaker 12: He's in pursuit of his son. I suppose enter.
• 2:03:01
  Speaker 1: Don Lopez left, seen in by Vasquez.
• 2:03:05
  Speaker 3: I am glad to find you at home, Don Pedro.
• 2:03:08
  Speaker 3: I was told that you were seen upon the road
• 2:03:10
  Speaker 3: to this afternoon.
• 2:03:13
  Speaker 12: That might be my lord. I had the misfortune to
• 2:03:16
  Speaker 12: break the wheel of my chariot, which oblige me to return.
• 2:03:21
  Speaker 12: What is your pleasure with me, my lord?
• 2:03:24
  Speaker 3: I am informed that my daughter is in your house.
• 2:03:27
  Speaker 12: That's more than I know, my Lord. But here was
• 2:03:30
  Speaker 12: your son just now, as drunk as an emperor.
• 2:03:34
  Speaker 3: My son drunk? I never saw him in drink in
• 2:03:37
  Speaker 3: my life. Where does he pray? Sir?
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  Speaker 12: Gone to be married.
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  Speaker 3: Married to whom? I don't know that he caught it anybody.
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  Speaker 12: Nay, I know nothing of that, but I'm sure he
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  Speaker 12: showed me the contract within.
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  Speaker 1: There re enter Vasquez, bid my.
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  Speaker 12: Daughter come hither. She'll tell you another story, my lord.
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  Speaker 7: She's gone out in a chair, Sir, out in a chair.
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  Speaker 10: What do you mean, sir as I.
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  Speaker 7: Say, Sir, and Donna Isabella went in another just before her,
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  Speaker 7: Isabella and Don Felix followed in another. I overheard them all.
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  Speaker 7: Bid the chairs go to the terrierro de passa.
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  Speaker 1: Voices heard outside.
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  Speaker 7: But I see they have all returned. For here is
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  Speaker 7: Dona Violante and company with her.
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  Speaker 1: Enter, Colonel Britton, Felix, Isabella Violante, Lesardo and Flora.
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  Speaker 3: Right, So have I found your daughter? Then? You have
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  Speaker 3: not hanged yourselves yet? I see.
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  Speaker 5: But she is married, my lord, married zounds to whom
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  Speaker 5: even to your humble servant, my lord, if you please
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  Speaker 5: to give u your blessing.
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  Speaker 1: Nils Lopez to Isabella.
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  Speaker 3: Why, hackey, mistress, are you really married?
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  Speaker 10: Really?
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  Speaker 12: So?
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  Speaker 1: My Lord crosses with colonel and both Niel to Lopez,
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  Speaker 1: Lopez to Colonel Britain. And who are you, sir, an
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  Speaker 1: honest North Britain by birth and a colonel by commission?
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  Speaker 1: My Lord?
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  Speaker 12: She has played you a slippery trick.
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  Speaker 1: Indeed, cousin to violante.
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  Speaker 12: Well, my girl, thou hast been to see thy friend
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  Speaker 12: married next week, thou shalt have a better husband, my dear.
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  Speaker 11: Next week is a little too soon, sir. I hope
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  Speaker 11: to live longer than that.
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  Speaker 12: What do you mean, sir? You have not made a
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  Speaker 12: rib of my daughter too, have you?
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  Speaker 10: Indeed he has, Sir, I know not how, but he
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  Speaker 10: took me in an unguarded minute when my thoughts were
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  Speaker 10: not over strong for a nunnery father.
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  Speaker 3: Your daughter has played you a slippery trick too, signor.
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  Speaker 12: What your son shall never be the better for it,
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  Speaker 12: my Lord, her twenty thousand pounds were left on certain conditions,
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  Speaker 12: and I'll not part with a shilling.
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  Speaker 3: But we have a certain thing called law shall make
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  Speaker 3: you do justice.
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  Speaker 12: Sir, Well, we'll try that, my lord, much good may
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  Speaker 12: it doo with your daughter in law.
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  Speaker 3: I wish you much joy of your rib.
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  Speaker 1: The old men go up, enter Frederick.
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  Speaker 11: Left, Frederick welcome. I sent for thee to be partaker
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  Speaker 11: of my happiness, and pray give me leave to introduce
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  Speaker 11: you to the cause of it. And now I, violante,
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  Speaker 11: I shall proclaim thy virtues to the world. Let us
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  Speaker 11: no more thy sexes conduct blame since thou art a
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  Speaker 11: proof to their eternal fame, that man has no advantage
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  Speaker 11: but the name.
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  Speaker 10: A few mistakes our sex may well excuse, and this
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  Speaker 10: are pleased. No woman should refuse your approbation. Ladies can't
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  Speaker 10: but move the hearts of men, which first you taught
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  Speaker 10: to love, and they must applaud if you but favor
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  Speaker 10: and to success. But give the savor.
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  Speaker 1: Curtain and of Act four and of the wonder A
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  Speaker 1: Woman keeps Her Secret by Susannah Stliver, edited by Augustine Daley,