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When We Dead Awaken Act I · The Henrik Ibsen Library

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Speaker 1: Act one of When We Dead Awaken by Henrik Ibsen,
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Speaker 1: translated by William Archer. This is a LibriVox recording. All
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Speaker 2: Professor Rubek read by Lambda.
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Speaker 3: Maya Rubek read by Libby Gaughan.
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Speaker 4: The Inspector read by Ernst Battinama.
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Speaker 5: Who I'm Read by Nicholas anima Irene read by Elisabeth Klett.
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Speaker 1: Sister of Mercy read by Charlotte Duckett, narrated by Ari L. Lipshaw,
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Speaker 1: Act first. Outside the Bath Hotel, a portion of the
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Speaker 1: main building can be seen. To the right, an open
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Speaker 1: park like place with a fountain, groups of fine old
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Speaker 1: trees and shrubbery. To the left, a little pavilion almost
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Speaker 1: covered with ivy and virgin creeper, a table and chair
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Speaker 1: outside it. At the back a view over the Fiord
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Speaker 1: right out to sea, with headlands and small islands in
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Speaker 1: the distance. It is a calm, warm and sunny summer morning.
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Speaker 1: Professor Rubek and Missus Maya Rubek are sitting in basket
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Speaker 1: chairs beside a covered table on the lawn outside the hotel.
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Speaker 1: Having just breakfasted. They have champagne and seltzer water on
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Speaker 1: the table, and each has a newspaper. Professor Rubek is
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Speaker 1: an elderly man of distinguished appearance, wearing a black velvet
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Speaker 1: jacket and otherwise in light summer attire. Maya is quite young,
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Speaker 1: with a vivacious expression and lively mocking eyes, yet with
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Speaker 1: a suggestion of fatigue. She wears an elegant traveling dress.
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Speaker 1: Sits for some time as though waiting for the Professor
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Speaker 1: to say something, then lets her paper drop with a
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Speaker 1: deep sigh.
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Speaker 3: Oh, dear, dear, dear, looks up.
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Speaker 1: From his paper.
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Speaker 2: Well, Maya, what does them.
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Speaker 3: Just listen to? How silent it is here?
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Speaker 1: Smiles indulgently, And can you hear that?
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Speaker 2: What the silence?
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Speaker 3: Yes? Indeed I can.
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Speaker 2: Well, perhaps you're right, mine, kind one can really hear
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Speaker 2: the silence?
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Speaker 3: Heaven knows you can when it's so absolutely overpowering as
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Speaker 3: it is here.
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Speaker 2: Here at the bats, you mean, wherever.
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Speaker 3: You go at home? Here it seems to me, of course,
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Speaker 3: there was noise and bustle enough in the town, But
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Speaker 3: I don't know how it is even the noise and
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Speaker 3: bustle seem to have something dead.
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Speaker 1: About it with a searching glance.
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Speaker 2: You don't seem particularly glad to be at home again.
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Speaker 2: Maya looks at him.
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Speaker 3: Are you glad? I? Yes, you who have been so
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Speaker 3: much much further away than I? Are you entirely happy
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Speaker 3: now that you are at home again?
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Speaker 2: No, to be quite candid, perhaps not entirely happy?
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Speaker 3: There? Do you see? Didn't I know it?
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Speaker 2: I have been too long abroad, have drifted quite away
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Speaker 2: from all this this home life.
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Speaker 1: Eagerly drawing her chair nearer him.
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Speaker 3: There, you see, rubec we had much better get away
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Speaker 3: again as quickly as ever we can.
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Speaker 2: Well, well, that is what we intend to do, my
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Speaker 2: dear Maya. You know that?
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Speaker 3: But why not now at once? Only think how cozy
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Speaker 3: and comfortable we could be down there in our lovely
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Speaker 3: new house.
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Speaker 1: Smiles indulgently.
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Speaker 2: We ought by rights to say our lovely new home.
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Speaker 3: I prefer to say house.
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Speaker 1: Let us keep to that, his eyes dwelling on her.
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Speaker 2: You're really a strange little person, am I?
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Speaker 3: So strange?
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Speaker 2: Yes? I think so?
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Speaker 3: But why pray? Perhaps because I'm not so desperately in
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Speaker 3: love with mooning about up here?
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Speaker 2: Which of us was it that was absolutely bent on
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Speaker 2: our coming? Not this summer, I admit it was I.
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Speaker 2: It was certainly not I at any rate.
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Speaker 3: But good heaven, who could have dreamt that everything would
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Speaker 3: have altered so terribly at home here? And in so
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Speaker 3: short a time too? Why is it only just four
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Speaker 3: years since I went away?
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Speaker 2: Since you were married, yes.
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Speaker 3: Married, What does that do with the matter.
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Speaker 2: Since you became the Frau professor and found yourself mistress
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Speaker 2: of a charming home. I beg your pardon. A very
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Speaker 2: handsome house, I ought to say, and a villa on
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Speaker 2: the lake of Tornets, just at the point that does
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Speaker 2: become most fashionable too. In fact, it is all very
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Speaker 2: handsome and distinguished. Maya, there is no denying that unspacious too.
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Speaker 2: We need not always beginning in each other's way.
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Speaker 3: No, no, no, there's certainly no lack of house room
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Speaker 3: and that sort of thing.
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Speaker 2: Remember too, that you have been living in altogether more
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Speaker 2: spacious and distinguished surroundings, in more polish society than you
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Speaker 2: were accustomed to at home.
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Speaker 3: Looking at him, ah, so you think it is I
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Speaker 3: that have changed? Indeed, i'd I alone, not the people here.
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Speaker 2: Oh, yes, they two a little perhaps are not at
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Speaker 2: all in the direction of amiability that I readily admit.
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Speaker 3: I should think you must admit it, indeed, changing the subject.
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Speaker 2: Do you know how it affects me when I look
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Speaker 2: at the life of the people around us here, No,
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Speaker 2: tell me. It makes me think of that night we
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Speaker 2: spent in the train when we were coming up here.
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Speaker 3: Why you were sound asleep all the time?
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Speaker 2: Not quite. I noticed how higed it became at all
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Speaker 2: the little roadside stations. I heard the silence like you
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Speaker 2: maya hmm, like me, yes, And that assured me that
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Speaker 2: we had crossed the frontier, that we are really at home.
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Speaker 2: For the train stopped at all the little stations, although
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Speaker 2: there was nothing doing at all.
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Speaker 3: Then why did it stop though there was nothing to
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Speaker 3: be done.
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Speaker 2: Can't say no one got out or in, But all
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Speaker 2: the same, the train stopped a long, endless time, and
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Speaker 2: at every stage I could make out that there were
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Speaker 2: two railwaymen walking up and down the platform, one with
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Speaker 2: a lantern in his hand, and they sit things to
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Speaker 2: each other in the night, lo and dawnless and meaningless.
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Speaker 3: Yes, that is quite true. There are always two men
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Speaker 3: walking up and down and talking off nothing.
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Speaker 2: But just wait till tomorrow. Then we shall have the
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Speaker 2: great luxurious steamer lying in the harbor. We will go
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Speaker 2: on board her and sail all round the coast northward,
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Speaker 2: ho right to the polar sea.
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Speaker 3: Yes, but then you will see nothing of the country
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Speaker 3: and of the people. And that was what you particularly wanted.
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Speaker 2: I have seen more than in nurs Do you think a.
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Speaker 3: Sea voyage will be better for you?
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Speaker 2: It is always a change.
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Speaker 3: Well, well, if only it is the right thing for you.
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Speaker 2: For me, the right thing. There is nothing in the
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Speaker 2: world the matter.
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Speaker 1: With me rises and goes to him.
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Speaker 3: Yes, there is, rubec I am sure you must feel
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Speaker 3: it yourself.
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Speaker 2: My dearest Maya, what should be a missed with.
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Speaker 1: Me behind him, bending over the back of his chair,
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Speaker 1: that you must tell me you have begun to wander
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Speaker 1: about without a moment's peace.
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Speaker 3: You cannot rest anywhere, neither at home nor abroad. You
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Speaker 3: have become quite misanthropic of late, with a touch of sarcasm.
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Speaker 2: Dear me, have you noticed that no one that.
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Speaker 3: Knows you can help noticing it? And it seems to
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Speaker 3: me so sad that you have lost all pleasure in
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Speaker 3: your work. That deur you that used to be so
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Speaker 3: indefatigable working from morning to night.
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Speaker 2: Used to be Yes, but ever since.
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Speaker 3: You got your great masterpiece out of hand, nods thoughtfully,
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Speaker 3: the resurrection me the masterpiece that has gone round the
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Speaker 3: whole world and made you so famous.
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Speaker 2: Perhaps that is just the misfortune, Maya. How so, when
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Speaker 2: I had finished this masterpiece of mine.
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Speaker 1: Makes a passionate movement with his hand.
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Speaker 2: For the resurrection day is a masterpiece? Or was one
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Speaker 2: in the beginning? No, it is one still, It must
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Speaker 2: must must be a masterpiece.
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Speaker 1: Looks at him in astonishment.
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Speaker 3: Why rubec all the world.
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Speaker 2: Knows that all the world knows nothing, understands nothing.
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Speaker 3: Well, at any rate, it can divine something.
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Speaker 2: Something that isn't there at all, Yes, something that never
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Speaker 2: was in my mind? Ah, yes, that they can all
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Speaker 2: go into ecstasies over what is the good of working
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Speaker 2: oneself to death for the mob and the masses, for
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Speaker 2: all the world.
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Speaker 3: Do you think it is for the better?
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Speaker 2: Then?
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Speaker 3: Do you think it is worthy of you to do
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Speaker 3: nothing at all but portrait bust? Now and then?
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Speaker 2: With a sly smile, They are not exactly portrait busts
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Speaker 2: that I turn out, Maya.
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Speaker 3: Yes, indeed they are. For the last two or three years,
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Speaker 3: ever since you finished your great group and got it
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Speaker 3: out of the house.
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Speaker 2: All the same. They are no mere portrait bursts, I assure.
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Speaker 3: You what are they?
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Speaker 4: Then?
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Speaker 2: There is something equivocal, something cryptic, lurking in and behind
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Speaker 2: these busts, a secret, something that the people themselves cannot see. Indeed,
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Speaker 2: I alone can see it, and it amuses me unspeakably.
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Speaker 2: On the surface, I give them the striking likeness, as
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Speaker 2: they call it, that they all stand and gape but
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Speaker 2: in astonishment. But at the bottom they are all respectable,
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Speaker 2: pompous horse faces and self opinionated donkey muzzles and loppiered
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Speaker 2: low borrowed dog skulls, and fant AT's wine snots, and
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Speaker 2: sometimes dull, brutal bulfronts, as well.
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Speaker 3: All the dear domestic animals, in fact.
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Speaker 2: Simply the dear domestic animals. Maya all the animals which
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Speaker 2: men have bedeviled in their own ima age, and which
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Speaker 2: have be developed. Men in return.
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Speaker 1: Empties his champagne glass and laughs.
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Speaker 2: And it is these double faced works are fard that
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Speaker 2: are excellent trutocrats come in order of me and pay
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Speaker 2: for an all good faith and in good round figures too,
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Speaker 2: almost their weight in gold. As the saying goes.
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Speaker 1: Fills his glass, come ru back, drink and be happy.
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Speaker 1: Passes his hand several times across his forehead, and leans
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Speaker 1: back in his chair.
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Speaker 2: I am happy, Maya, really happy in a way, For
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Speaker 2: after all, there is a certain happiness in feeling oneself
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Speaker 2: free and independent on every hand, in having at once
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Speaker 2: command everything one can possibly wish for, all outward things.
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Speaker 2: That is to say, do you not agree with me, Maya? Oh?
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Speaker 3: Yes, I agree. All that is well enough in its way.
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Speaker 3: Looking at him, But do you remember what you promised
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Speaker 3: me the day we came to an understanding on on
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Speaker 3: that troublesome point.
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Speaker 2: Nods on the subject of our marriage. Yes, it is
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Speaker 2: no easy matter for you, Maya.
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Speaker 3: And agreed that I was to go abroad with you
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Speaker 3: and to live there for good and all and enjoy myself.
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Speaker 3: Do you remember what you promised me that day?
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Speaker 2: Shaking his head, No, I can't see that, I do. Well.
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Speaker 2: What did I promise?
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Speaker 3: You said that you would take me up to a
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Speaker 3: high mountain and show me all the glory of the world.
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Speaker 1: With a slight start?
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Speaker 2: Did I promise you that to me too?
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Speaker 3: Who else?
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Speaker 2: Pray? No? No, I only meant, did I promise to
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Speaker 2: show you all the.
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Speaker 3: Glory of the world. Yes, you did, and all that
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Speaker 3: glory should be mine, he said.
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Speaker 2: This is sort of figure of speech that I was
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Speaker 2: in the habit of using, once upon a time.
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Speaker 3: Only a figure of speech, yes.
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Speaker 2: A schoolboy phrase, the sort of thing I used to
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Speaker 2: say when I wanted to love other neighbor's children, how
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Speaker 2: to play with me in the woods and on the mountains.
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Speaker 3: Looking hard at him, Perhaps you only wanted to lure
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Speaker 3: me out to play as well, passing it off as
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Speaker 3: a jest.
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Speaker 2: Well, has it not been a tolerable, amusing game, Maya?
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Speaker 3: I did not go with you only to play.
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Speaker 2: No, No, I dare say not.
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Speaker 3: And you never took me up with you to any
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Speaker 3: high mountain or showed me all.
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Speaker 2: The glory of the world. No I did not. Well,
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Speaker 2: let me tell you something. You're not really born to
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Speaker 2: be a mountain climber, Little Maya.
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Speaker 1: Trying to control herself.
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Speaker 3: Yet at one time you.
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Speaker 2: Seem to think I was four or five years ago.
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Speaker 1: Yes, stretching himself in his chair.
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Speaker 2: Four or five years it's a long long time, Maya.
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Speaker 1: Looking at him with a bitter expression.
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Speaker 3: Has the time seemed so very long to you? Rubec
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Speaker 3: I am.
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Speaker 2: Beginning not to find it a fel long ah, no
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Speaker 2: one then, you.
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Speaker 1: Know, returning to her place, I shall not bore you
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Speaker 1: any longer. She resumes her seat, takes up the newspaper
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Speaker 1: and begins turning over the leaves, silence on both sides.
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Speaker 1: Leaning on his elbows across the table and looking at
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Speaker 1: her teasingly.
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Speaker 2: Is the frog Professor offended.
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Speaker 1: Coldly, without looking up.
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Speaker 3: No, not at all.
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Speaker 1: Visitors to the baths, most of them. Ladies begin to
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Speaker 1: pass singly and in groups through the park from the
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Speaker 1: right and out to the left. Waiters bring refreshments from
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Speaker 1: the hotel and go off behind the pavilion. The Inspector,
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Speaker 1: wearing gloves and carrying a stick, comes from his rounds
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Speaker 1: in the park, meets visitors, bows politely and exchanges a
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Speaker 1: few words with some of them, advancing to Professor Rubik's
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Speaker 1: table and politely taking off his hat.
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Speaker 4: I have the honor to wish you good morning, missus Rubik.
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Speaker 4: Good morning, Professor Rubik.
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Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, Inspector.
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Speaker 1: Addressing himself to missus rebec.
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Speaker 4: May I venture to ask if you have slept well?
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Speaker 3: Yes, thank you excellently. For my part, I always sleep
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Speaker 3: like a stone.
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Speaker 4: I am delighted to hear it. The first night in
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Speaker 4: a strange place is often rather trying, and the professor.
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Speaker 2: Oh, my night's dress is never much to boast off,
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Speaker 2: especially off late with.
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Speaker 1: A show of sympathy.
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Speaker 4: Oh that is a pity. But after a few weeks
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Speaker 4: stay at the baths, you will quite get over that.
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Speaker 1: Looking up at him, tell.
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Speaker 2: Me, Inspector, are any of your patients in the habit
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Speaker 2: of taking baths during the night.
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Speaker 4: During the night, No, I have never heard of such
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Speaker 4: a thing, have you not? No I do know of
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Speaker 4: any one so ill as to require such treatment.
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Speaker 2: But at any rate, there is some one who is
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Speaker 2: in the habit of walking about the park by night.
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Speaker 1: Smiling and shaking his head.
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Speaker 4: No, Professor, that would be against the rules.
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Speaker 3: Good heavens, rubec I told you so this morning. You
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Speaker 3: must have dreamt it, indeed, must I thank.
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Speaker 1: You, turning to the inspector.
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Speaker 2: The fact is I got up last night I couldn't sleep,
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Speaker 2: and I wanted to see what sort of night.
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Speaker 4: It was, to be sure. And then I.
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Speaker 2: Looked out at the window and caught sight of a
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Speaker 2: white figure in there among the.
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Speaker 3: Trees, smiling to the inspector, and the professor declares that
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Speaker 3: the figure was dressed in a bathing costume.
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Speaker 2: Or something like it. I said, couldn't distinguish very clearly,
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Speaker 2: but I'm sure it was something white.
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Speaker 4: Most remarkable, was it a gentleman or a lady?
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Speaker 2: I could almost have sworn it was a lady. But
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Speaker 2: then after it came another figure, And that one was
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Speaker 2: quite dark, like a shadow starting a dope.
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Speaker 4: One quite black.
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Speaker 2: Perhaps, Yes, I should almost have said so, a.
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Speaker 4: Light breaking in upon him and behind the white figure
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Speaker 4: following close upon her.
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Speaker 2: Yes, at a little distance.
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Speaker 4: Ah, then I think I can explain a mystery, Professor, Well,
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Speaker 4: what was it?
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Speaker 2: Then?
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Speaker 1: Was the professor not really dreaming, suddenly whispering as he
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Speaker 1: directs their attention towards the background on the right.
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Speaker 4: Hush, if you please look there. Don't speak loud for
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Speaker 4: a moment.
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Speaker 1: A slender lady dressed in fine cream white cashmere and
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Speaker 1: followed by a sister of mercy in black, with a
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Speaker 1: silver cross hanging by a chain on her breast, comes
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Speaker 1: forward from behind the hotel and crosses the park towards
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Speaker 1: the pavilion in front on the left. Her face is
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Speaker 1: pale and its lines seem to have stiffened. The eyelids
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Speaker 1: are drooped, and the eyes appear as though they saw nothing.
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Speaker 1: Her dress comes down to her feet and clings to
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Speaker 1: the body in perpendicular folds over her head, neck, breast, shoulders,
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Speaker 1: and arms. She wears a large shawl of white crape.
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Speaker 1: She keeps her arms crossed upon her breast. She carries
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Speaker 1: her body immovably, and her steps are stiff and measured.
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Speaker 1: The sister's bearing is also measured, and she has the
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Speaker 1: air of a servant. She keeps her brown piercing eyes
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Speaker 1: incessantly fixed upon the lady. Waiters with napkins on their
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Speaker 1: arms come forward in the hotel doorway and cast curious
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Speaker 1: glances at the strangers, who take no notice of anything, and,
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Speaker 1: without looking round, enter the pavilion. Has risen slowly and involuntarily,
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Speaker 1: and stands staring at the closed door of the pavilion.
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Speaker 2: Who was that lady?
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Speaker 4: She is a stranger who has rented a little pavilion.
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Speaker 4: There are foreigner, presumably, but anyway, they both came from
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Speaker 4: abroad about a week ago. They've never been here before.
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Speaker 2: Looking at him, it was she I saw in the
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Speaker 2: park last night.
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Speaker 4: No doubt it must have been I thought so from
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Speaker 4: the first.
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Speaker 2: What is this lady's name, Inspector, She.
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Speaker 4: Has registered hersel as Madame de Satov with companion. We
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Speaker 4: know nothing more.
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Speaker 2: Sato, Sata.
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Speaker 3: Do you know any one of that name?
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Speaker 1: Rubec Eh shaking his head.
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Speaker 2: No, no one, Sato. It sounds Russian or in O,
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Speaker 2: even Slavonic. To the inspector, what language does she speak?
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Speaker 4: When the two ladies talk to each other, It is
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Speaker 4: in a language I cannot make out at all. But
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Speaker 4: at other times she speaks Norwegian, like a native Norwegian.
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Speaker 2: You're sure you're not mistaken?
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Speaker 4: No, how could I be mistaken?
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Speaker 1: In that looks at him with eager interest you.
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Speaker 4: Heard on yourselves, Yes, I myself have spoken to her
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Speaker 4: several times, only if you words. However, She's far from communicative,
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Speaker 4: but Norwegian. It was thoroughly good Norwegian, perhaps with a
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Speaker 4: little North Country accent.
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Speaker 1: Gazing straight before him in amazement, whispers that too, a
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Speaker 1: little hurt and jarred.
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Speaker 3: Perhaps this lady has been one of your models, rebec
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Speaker 3: search your memory.
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Speaker 1: Looks cuttingly at her, my models with a provoking.
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Speaker 3: Smile in your younger days. I mean, you are said
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Speaker 3: to have had innumerable models long ago.
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Speaker 2: Of course, Oh, no, little Frau Maya, I have in
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Speaker 2: reality had only one single model, one and only one
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Speaker 2: for everything I have done.
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Speaker 1: Who has turned away and stands looking out to the left.
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Speaker 4: If you'll excuse me, I think I will take my leave.
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Speaker 4: I see some one coming whom it is not particularly
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Speaker 4: agreeable to meet, especially in the presence of ladies.
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Speaker 1: Looking in the same direction.
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Speaker 2: That sportsman there. Who is it?
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Speaker 4: It is a certain mister Ulfheim.
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Speaker 2: From oh, mister Wulfheim.
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Speaker 4: To bear killer, as they call him.
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Speaker 2: I know him?
19:53
Speaker 4: Who does not know him?
19:55
Speaker 2: Very slightly? However, is he on your list of pas
20:00
Speaker 2: at last?
20:01
Speaker 4: No stranger enough? Not as yet? He comes here only
20:06
Speaker 4: once a year, on his way up to his hunting grout.
20:10
Speaker 4: Excuse me for the moment.
20:12
Speaker 1: Makes a movement to go into the hotel. Ulfheim's voice
20:16
Speaker 1: heard outside.
20:17
Speaker 6: Stop a moment, man deviltink, all can you stop while
20:20
Speaker 6: you always scuttle away from me?
20:21
Speaker 1: Stops?
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Speaker 4: I am not scuttling at all, mister Ulfheim.
20:25
Speaker 1: Ulfheim enters from the left, followed by a servant with
20:28
Speaker 1: a couple of sporting dogs in leash. Ulfheim is in
20:31
Speaker 1: shooting costume with high boots and a felt hat with
20:34
Speaker 1: a feather in it. He is a long, lank, sinewy
20:37
Speaker 1: personage with matted hair and beard and a loud voice.
20:41
Speaker 1: His appearance gives no precise clue to his age, but
20:44
Speaker 1: he is no longer young. Pounces upon the inspector.
20:48
Speaker 6: Is this way to receive stranger's ey? Scap her away
20:51
Speaker 6: with your tail between your legs, as if you had
20:53
Speaker 6: the devil at your heels.
20:54
Speaker 1: Calmly without answering him.
20:56
Speaker 4: Has mister Ulfheim arrived by this steamer?
21:00
Speaker 1: I had the daughter of seeing any steamer with his
21:02
Speaker 1: arms a kimbo?
21:03
Speaker 6: Don't you know that?
21:04
Speaker 1: I sail my own cutter to the servant.
21:06
Speaker 6: Look well after your fellow creature's lars, but take care
21:09
Speaker 6: and keep them rapness all the same fresh meat bones,
21:11
Speaker 6: but not too much meat on them, do you hear?
21:13
Speaker 6: And be sure it's freaking raw and bloody, and get
21:16
Speaker 6: something in your own belly while you're about.
21:17
Speaker 1: It, aiming a kick at him, Well, then go to
21:20
Speaker 1: hell with you. The servant goes out with the dogs
21:23
Speaker 1: behind the corner of the hotel.
21:25
Speaker 4: Would not mister Ulfham like to go into the dining
21:27
Speaker 4: room in the meantime and.
21:29
Speaker 6: Among all the half dead flies and people not think
21:32
Speaker 6: you a thousand times with her.
21:33
Speaker 4: Inspector, well well as you please.
21:36
Speaker 6: We get the housekeeper to prepare a hamper for me
21:38
Speaker 6: as usual. There must be plenty of for vendor in it,
21:41
Speaker 6: lots of brandy. You can tell her that I or
21:42
Speaker 6: Lars will come and play Old Harry with her. If
21:45
Speaker 6: she doesn't.
21:45
Speaker 2: We know your ways of olde turning.
21:48
Speaker 4: Can I give the way to any orders? Professor? Can
21:51
Speaker 4: I send missus Trubek anything?
21:53
Speaker 2: No, thank you? Nothing for me.
21:56
Speaker 3: Nor for me.
21:57
Speaker 1: The inspector goes into the hotel, stares at them for
22:00
Speaker 1: a moment, then lifts his hat.
22:02
Speaker 6: Why blast me if there's in a country tight that
22:05
Speaker 6: is straight into regular tiptop society looking up?
22:08
Speaker 2: What do you mean by that? Mister Wulfhire?
22:11
Speaker 1: More quietly and politely, I believe.
22:13
Speaker 6: I have the honor of addressing no less a person
22:15
Speaker 6: than the great sculptor Rubec Noods.
22:18
Speaker 2: I remember meeting you once or twise the autumn when
22:22
Speaker 2: I was last at home.
22:24
Speaker 6: That's many years ago now, and then you weren't so
22:26
Speaker 6: illustrious that as I hear you since become. At that
22:29
Speaker 6: time even a dirty bear hunter might venture come near
22:32
Speaker 6: you smiling.
22:34
Speaker 2: I don't bite even now looks.
22:36
Speaker 1: With interest at Ulfheim.
22:38
Speaker 3: Are you really and truly a bear hunter?
22:40
Speaker 1: Seating himself at the next table nearer the hotel?
22:44
Speaker 6: A bear hunter when I have the chance, madam. But
22:46
Speaker 6: I make the best of any sort of game that
22:48
Speaker 6: comes in my way, eagles and wolves and women and
22:52
Speaker 6: elks and reindeer, if only it's fresh and juicy and
22:54
Speaker 6: has plenty of blood in it.
22:56
Speaker 1: Drinks from his pocket flask regarding him fix it.
23:00
Speaker 3: But you like bear hunting best, I like your past.
23:03
Speaker 6: Yes, for then one to have the knife handy at a.
23:06
Speaker 1: Pinch with a slight smile.
23:08
Speaker 6: We both work in a hard material, madam, both your
23:11
Speaker 6: husband and I. He struggles with his marble blocks, I
23:14
Speaker 6: dare say, and I struggle with tense and quivering bear sinews,
23:18
Speaker 6: And we both of us win the fight in the end,
23:20
Speaker 6: subdue and master our material. We never rest till we've
23:23
Speaker 6: got the upper hand of it, the fight never so hard.
23:26
Speaker 2: Deep in thought, there is a great deal of truth
23:29
Speaker 2: in what you say.
23:31
Speaker 6: Yes, for I think that the stone has something to
23:32
Speaker 6: fight for too. It is dead and determined by no
23:35
Speaker 6: manner means to let itself be hammered into life. Just
23:38
Speaker 6: like the bear when you come and prod him up
23:41
Speaker 6: in his lair.
23:42
Speaker 3: Are you going up to the forest now to hunt?
23:44
Speaker 6: I'm going right up into the high mountain. I suppose
23:47
Speaker 6: you have never been in the high mountain, madam, No,
23:49
Speaker 6: never confound it all. Then you must be sure and
23:52
Speaker 6: come up with me this very summer. I'll take you
23:54
Speaker 6: with me, both you and the professor, with pleasure.
23:57
Speaker 3: Thanks. But Rubec is thinking of taking a sea trip summer.
24:01
Speaker 2: Round the coast through the island channels.
24:04
Speaker 6: Ah, what the devil would you do in those damnable
24:07
Speaker 6: sickly dutters wandering about in the brackish ditchwater dishwater? I
24:12
Speaker 6: should rather.
24:12
Speaker 3: Call it there, you hear, Rubek, They'll much.
24:15
Speaker 6: Better come up with me to run away, clean away
24:18
Speaker 6: from the trail and taint men. You can't think what
24:22
Speaker 6: that means for me.
24:23
Speaker 2: But such a lady he stops.
24:25
Speaker 1: The sister of Mercy comes out of the pavilion and
24:28
Speaker 1: goes into the hotel, following her with his eyes.
24:32
Speaker 6: Just look at her, do that nightcrow?
24:34
Speaker 4: There?
24:35
Speaker 6: Who is it that's to be buried?
24:37
Speaker 2: I have not heard of anyone.
24:39
Speaker 6: Well, there's someone on the point of giving up the
24:40
Speaker 6: ghosts said in one corner or another. People that are
24:44
Speaker 6: sickly and rickety should have the goodness to see about
24:47
Speaker 6: giving themselves buried. The sooner the better.
24:49
Speaker 3: Have you ever been ill yourself, mister Olphine?
24:52
Speaker 6: Never? If I had, I shouldn't be here. But my
24:55
Speaker 6: nearest friends say, I have been ill? Poor things?
24:59
Speaker 3: And what did you do for your nearest friends?
25:01
Speaker 2: Shot them, of course, looking at him, shot then.
25:05
Speaker 1: Moving her chair back, shot them dead nods.
25:09
Speaker 6: I never miss, madam.
25:11
Speaker 3: But how can you possibly shoot people?
25:13
Speaker 6: I'm not speaking of people, you.
25:15
Speaker 3: Said, your nearest friends?
25:16
Speaker 6: Well, who should they beat up?
25:18
Speaker 2: My dogs?
25:18
Speaker 3: Are your dogs? Your nearest friends?
25:21
Speaker 6: I have done near my honest trussy absolutely loyal comrades
25:26
Speaker 6: when one of them turns sick and miserable, bang and
25:29
Speaker 6: then and as my friend sent packing to the other world.
25:32
Speaker 1: The Sister of Mercy comes out of the hotel with
25:34
Speaker 1: a tray on which is bread and milk. She places
25:37
Speaker 1: it on the table outside the pavilion which she enters,
25:41
Speaker 1: laughs scornfully.
25:43
Speaker 6: That's stuff there is that what you call food for
25:45
Speaker 6: human beings? Milk and water and soft clammy bread. Ah,
25:51
Speaker 6: you should see my comrades feeding. Should he like to
25:53
Speaker 6: see it?
25:54
Speaker 1: Smiling across the professor and rising, yes very much, also rising.
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Speaker 6: Spoken like a woman of spirit, Madam, come with me.
26:02
Speaker 6: Then they swallow full great thumping meat bones, gulp them up,
26:07
Speaker 6: and then gulp them down again. Oh, it's a regular
26:10
Speaker 6: treat to see them. Come along and I'll show you.
26:13
Speaker 6: And while we're about it, we can talk over this
26:15
Speaker 6: trip to the mountains.
26:16
Speaker 1: He goes out by the corner of the hotel, Maya
26:19
Speaker 1: following him, almost at the same moment, the strange lady
26:23
Speaker 1: comes out of the pavilion and seats herself at the table.
26:26
Speaker 1: The lady raises her glass of milk and is about
26:28
Speaker 1: to drink, but stops and looks across at Rubec with vacant,
26:32
Speaker 1: expressionless eyes, remains sitting at his table and gazes fixedly
26:37
Speaker 1: and earnestly at her. At last, he rises, goes some
26:41
Speaker 1: steps towards her, stops and says in a low.
26:44
Speaker 2: Voice, I know you quite well, Hireen.
26:48
Speaker 1: In a toneless voice, setting down her glass. You can
26:51
Speaker 1: guess who I am, Arnold without answering.
26:54
Speaker 2: And you recognize me, do I see? With you?
26:58
Speaker 5: It is quite another matter.
27:00
Speaker 2: Her with me? Howso?
27:03
Speaker 5: Oh, you are still alive, not understanding all. Who was
27:10
Speaker 5: the other the woman you had with you there at
27:14
Speaker 5: the table, she that was my my wife?
27:19
Speaker 1: Nods slowly.
27:21
Speaker 5: Indeed, that is well, Arnold. Some one then, who does
27:27
Speaker 5: not concern.
27:27
Speaker 2: Me nods No, of course, not.
27:31
Speaker 5: One whom you have taken to you after my lifetime.
27:35
Speaker 1: Suddenly looking hard at her.
27:37
Speaker 2: After your what do you mean by that, Ireene?
27:41
Speaker 5: Without answering, and the child, I hear the child is
27:45
Speaker 5: prospering too. Our child survives me. It has come to
27:51
Speaker 5: honor and glory.
27:53
Speaker 1: Smiles as at a far off recollection our child.
27:57
Speaker 2: Yes, he called it so then.
28:00
Speaker 1: In my lifetime, Yes, trying to take a lighter tone.
28:04
Speaker 2: Yes, Irene, I can assure you our child I speak
28:08
Speaker 2: of famous all the wide world over. I suppose you
28:12
Speaker 2: have read about it, nuds.
28:14
Speaker 5: And has made its father famous too. That was your dream,
28:19
Speaker 5: it is to you.
28:20
Speaker 2: I woe everything, everything, Irene, and I thank you.
28:25
Speaker 1: Lost in thought for a moment.
28:27
Speaker 5: If I had then done what I had a right.
28:30
Speaker 2: To do, Arnold, Well what then.
28:33
Speaker 5: I should have killed that child?
28:36
Speaker 2: Killed it, you say, killed it.
28:39
Speaker 5: Before I went away from you, crushed it, crushed it
28:44
Speaker 5: to dust.
28:45
Speaker 1: Shakes his head, reproachfully.
28:47
Speaker 2: You would never have been able to do Irene, you
28:51
Speaker 2: had not the heart to do it.
28:54
Speaker 5: No, in those days I had not that sort of heart.
29:00
Speaker 2: But since then, afterwards.
29:02
Speaker 5: Since then, I have killed it innumerable times by daylight
29:07
Speaker 5: and in the dark, killed it in hatred and in
29:12
Speaker 5: revenge and in anguish.
29:16
Speaker 1: Goes close up to the table and asks softly.
29:19
Speaker 2: Ireen, tell me now, at last, after all these years,
29:24
Speaker 2: why did you go away from me? You disappeared so utterly,
29:29
Speaker 2: left not a trace behind.
29:31
Speaker 5: Shaking her head slowly, Oh, Arnold, why should I tell
29:36
Speaker 5: you that now? From the world beyond the grave?
29:41
Speaker 2: Was there someone else whom you had come to love?
29:43
Speaker 5: There was one who had no longer any use for
29:46
Speaker 5: my love, any use for my life.
29:50
Speaker 2: Changing the subject, hmm, don't let us talk any more
29:54
Speaker 2: of the past.
29:56
Speaker 5: No, no, by all means, let us not talk of
29:59
Speaker 5: what is beyond the grave? What is now beyond the grave?
30:03
Speaker 3: For me?
30:04
Speaker 2: Where have you been, Irene? All my inquiries were fruitless.
30:08
Speaker 2: You seemed to have vanished away.
30:10
Speaker 5: I went into the darkness when the child stood transfigured
30:15
Speaker 5: in the light.
30:16
Speaker 2: Have you traveled much about the world.
30:19
Speaker 5: Yes, traveled in many lands.
30:22
Speaker 1: Looks compassionately at.
30:23
Speaker 2: Her, And what have you found to do.
30:26
Speaker 1: Irene, turning her eyes upon him, Wait a moment, let
30:30
Speaker 1: me see.
30:32
Speaker 5: Yes, now I have it. I have posed on the
30:36
Speaker 5: turn table in variety shows, posed as a naked statue
30:40
Speaker 5: in living pictures, raked in heaps of money. That was
30:45
Speaker 5: more than I could do with you, for you had none.
30:50
Speaker 5: And then I turned the heads of all sorts of men,
30:54
Speaker 5: That too, was more than I could do with you. Arnold,
30:57
Speaker 5: you kept yourself better in.
30:59
Speaker 1: Hand, hastening to pass the subject by.
31:02
Speaker 5: And then you are married too, Yes, I married one
31:06
Speaker 5: of them.
31:07
Speaker 2: Who is your husband?
31:08
Speaker 5: He was a South American, a distinguished diplomatist.
31:13
Speaker 1: Looked straight in front of her with a stony smile.
31:16
Speaker 5: Him I managed to drive quite out of his mind, mad,
31:21
Speaker 5: incurably mad, inexorably mad. It was great sport, I can
31:27
Speaker 5: tell you while it was in the doing, I could
31:31
Speaker 5: have laughed within me all the time, if I had
31:35
Speaker 5: anything within me.
31:36
Speaker 2: And where is he now?
31:37
Speaker 5: Oh, in a churchyard somewhere or other, with a fine
31:40
Speaker 5: handsome monument over him, and with a bullet rattling in
31:45
Speaker 5: his skull?
31:46
Speaker 2: Did he kill him? Sir?
31:47
Speaker 5: Yes, he was good enough to take that off my hands.
31:51
Speaker 2: Do you not lament as laws, Irene.
31:53
Speaker 1: Not understanding lament?
31:56
Speaker 5: What loss?
31:58
Speaker 2: Why the loss of head fonsetto?
32:00
Speaker 5: Of course his name was not Satou, was it not.
32:04
Speaker 5: My second husband is called Satou. He is a Russian.
32:08
Speaker 2: And where is he?
32:10
Speaker 5: Far away in the ural mountains, among all his gold mines.
32:15
Speaker 2: So he lives there, shrugs her shoulders.
32:19
Speaker 5: Lives lives in reality. I have killed him. Start killed
32:27
Speaker 5: killed him with a fine sharp dagger, which I always
32:31
Speaker 5: have with me in bed.
32:33
Speaker 2: I don't believe you, Irene, with.
32:35
Speaker 1: A gentle smile.
32:36
Speaker 5: Indeed you may believe it.
32:38
Speaker 1: Arnold looks compassionately at her.
32:41
Speaker 2: Have you never had a child?
32:43
Speaker 5: Yes, I have had many children.
32:45
Speaker 2: And where are your children?
32:47
Speaker 6: Now?
32:48
Speaker 5: I killed them?
32:49
Speaker 2: Now you are telling me lies again.
32:52
Speaker 5: I have killed them, I tell you, murdered them pitilessly,
32:56
Speaker 5: as soon as ever they came into the world, oh
33:00
Speaker 5: long long before, one after the other.
33:05
Speaker 2: There is something hidden behind everything you say.
33:09
Speaker 5: How can I help that every word I say is
33:12
Speaker 5: whispered into my ear?
33:14
Speaker 2: I believe I am the only one that can divine
33:17
Speaker 2: your meaning.
33:18
Speaker 5: Surely you ought to be the only one.
33:21
Speaker 1: Rests his hands on the table and looks intently at her.
33:24
Speaker 2: Some of the strings of your nature have broken.
33:27
Speaker 5: Does not that always happen when a young, warm blooded
33:30
Speaker 5: woman dies?
33:32
Speaker 2: Oh, Ireen, have done with all these wild imaginings. You
33:38
Speaker 2: are living, living, living.
33:43
Speaker 1: Rises slowly from her chair and says, quivering.
33:46
Speaker 5: I was dead for many years. They came and bound me,
33:52
Speaker 5: laced my arms together beyond my back. Then they lowered
33:56
Speaker 5: me into a grave vault with iron bars before the loophole,
34:00
Speaker 5: and with padded walls, so that no one on the
34:04
Speaker 5: earth above could hear the grave shrieks. But now I
34:09
Speaker 5: am beginning in a way to rise from the dead.
34:14
Speaker 1: She seats herself again.
34:16
Speaker 2: In all this, do you hold me guilty? Yes, guilty
34:20
Speaker 2: of that you're dead, as you call.
34:22
Speaker 5: It, guilty of the fact that I had to die.
34:27
Speaker 5: Why don't you sit down, arnold?
34:29
Speaker 2: May I?
34:30
Speaker 5: Yes, you need not be afraid of being frozen. I
34:34
Speaker 5: don't think I'm quite turned to ice.
34:36
Speaker 1: Yet, moves a chair and seats himself at her table.
34:41
Speaker 2: There, Ireen, no, we two are sitting together, as in
34:45
Speaker 2: the old days, a.
34:46
Speaker 5: Little way apart from each other. Also, as in the old.
34:50
Speaker 1: Days, moving nearer.
34:53
Speaker 2: It had to be so, then, had it there had
34:56
Speaker 2: to be a distance between us?
34:58
Speaker 5: Was it absolutely necessary, Arnold.
35:01
Speaker 2: Do you remember what you answered when I asked you
35:05
Speaker 2: would you go with me out into the wide world?
35:08
Speaker 5: I held three fingers up in the air and swore
35:11
Speaker 5: that I would go with you to the world's end
35:13
Speaker 5: and to the end of life, and that I would
35:16
Speaker 5: serve you in all.
35:17
Speaker 2: Things as the model for my art.
35:21
Speaker 5: In frank, utter nakedness.
35:24
Speaker 2: And you did serve me, Irene, so bravely, so gladly
35:28
Speaker 2: and ungrudgingly.
35:30
Speaker 5: Yes, with all the pulsing blood of my youth, I served.
35:35
Speaker 1: You, nodding, with the look of gratitude.
35:38
Speaker 2: That you have every right to say.
35:41
Speaker 5: I fell down at your feet and served you.
35:44
Speaker 1: Arnold, holding her clenched hand towards him.
35:48
Speaker 5: But you, you, you.
35:52
Speaker 2: I never did you any wrong, never, Irene.
35:55
Speaker 5: Yes you did. You did wrong to my innermost inborn nature.
36:00
Speaker 1: Starting back, I yes you.
36:05
Speaker 5: I exposed myself wholly and unreservedly to your gaze. And
36:11
Speaker 5: never once did you touch.
36:13
Speaker 2: Me, Irene. Did you not understand that many a time
36:18
Speaker 2: I was almost beside myself under the spell of all
36:21
Speaker 2: your loveliness.
36:23
Speaker 5: And yet if you had touched me, I think I
36:25
Speaker 5: should have killed you on the spot, for I had
36:29
Speaker 5: a sharp needle always upon me, hidden in my.
36:33
Speaker 1: Hair, strokes her forehead meditatively.
36:36
Speaker 5: But after all, after all that you.
36:40
Speaker 1: Could looks impressively at her.
36:43
Speaker 2: I was an artist, Irene.
36:45
Speaker 5: That is just it.
36:48
Speaker 2: That is just it, an artist first of all, and
36:53
Speaker 2: I was sick with the desire to achieve the great glory.
36:56
Speaker 1: Of my life, losing himself in recollection.
37:00
Speaker 2: It was to be called the resurrection day, figured in
37:04
Speaker 2: the likeness of a young woman awakening from the sleep
37:08
Speaker 2: of death.
37:09
Speaker 5: Oh child, Yes, it was.
37:11
Speaker 2: To be the awakening of the noblest, purest, most ideal
37:15
Speaker 2: woman the world ever saw. Then I found you. You
37:20
Speaker 2: were what I required in every respect, and you consented
37:24
Speaker 2: so willingly, so gladly. You renounced home and kindred and
37:30
Speaker 2: went with me.
37:31
Speaker 5: To go with you meant for me the resurrection of
37:34
Speaker 5: my childhood.
37:35
Speaker 2: That was just why I found in you all that
37:38
Speaker 2: I required in you, and in no one else. I
37:43
Speaker 2: came to look on you as a thing hollowed, not
37:47
Speaker 2: to be touched save in adoring thoughts. In those days,
37:52
Speaker 2: I was still ang Irene, and the superstition took hold
37:55
Speaker 2: of me that if I touched you, if I desired
37:59
Speaker 2: you with my senses, my soul would be profaned, so
38:04
Speaker 2: that I would be unable to accomplish what I was
38:07
Speaker 2: striving for. And I still think there was some truth.
38:11
Speaker 5: In that nods with a touch of scorn, the work
38:14
Speaker 5: of art first, then the human being.
38:18
Speaker 2: You must judge me as you will. But at that
38:21
Speaker 2: time I was utterly dominated by my great task and
38:26
Speaker 2: excellently happy in it.
38:28
Speaker 5: And you achieved your great task, Arnold.
38:30
Speaker 2: Thanks and the price be to you. I achieved my
38:34
Speaker 2: great task. I wanted to embody the pure woman as
38:38
Speaker 2: I saw her awakening on the resurrection day, not marveling
38:42
Speaker 2: at anything new and unknown and undivined, but filled with
38:46
Speaker 2: a sacred joy at finding herself unchanged. She the woman
38:52
Speaker 2: of Earth, in the higher, freer, happier region after all
38:58
Speaker 2: the long, dreamless sleep of death. Thus did I fashion her.
39:04
Speaker 2: I fashioned her in your image, Irene.
39:07
Speaker 1: Laying her hands flat upon the table and leaning against
39:09
Speaker 1: the back of her chair.
39:11
Speaker 5: And then you were done with me, Irene. You had
39:15
Speaker 5: no longer any use for me.
39:17
Speaker 2: How can you say that?
39:18
Speaker 5: And began to look about you for other ideals.
39:21
Speaker 2: I found none, none after.
39:24
Speaker 5: You, and no other models. Arnold.
39:27
Speaker 2: You were no model to me. You were the continent
39:30
Speaker 2: of my achievement.
39:31
Speaker 1: Is silent for a short time.
39:33
Speaker 5: What poems have you made since in marble? I mean
39:39
Speaker 5: since the day I left you.
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Speaker 2: I have made no poems since that day, only frittered
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Speaker 2: away my life in modeling.
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Speaker 5: And that woman whom you are now living with.
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Speaker 2: Do not speak of her now? It makes me tingle
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Speaker 2: with shin.
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Speaker 5: Where are you thinking of going with her?
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Speaker 2: Oh? On a tedious coasting voyage to the north, I support.
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Speaker 1: Looks at him, smiles almost imperceptibly, and whispers.
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Speaker 5: You should rather go high up into the mountains, as
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Speaker 5: high as ever you can, higher, higher, always higher, Arnold,
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Speaker 5: with eager expectation.
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Speaker 2: Are you going up there?
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Speaker 5: Have you the courage to meet me? Once again?
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Speaker 1: Struggling with himself uncertainly.
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Speaker 2: If he could, Oh, if only we could?
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Speaker 5: Why can we not do what we will, looks at
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Speaker 5: him and whispers, beseechingly with folded hands, Come come, Arnold, Oh,
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Speaker 5: come up to me.
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Speaker 1: Maya enters, glowing with pleasure, from behind the hotel, and
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Speaker 1: goes quickly up to the table where they were previously
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Speaker 1: sitting still at the corner of the hotel, without looking around.
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Speaker 3: Oh you may say what you please?
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Speaker 1: Reback but stops as she catches sight of eyes.
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Speaker 3: Oh, I beg your pardon. I see you have made an.
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Speaker 2: Acquaintance, renewed an acquaintance. Rises What was it you wanted
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Speaker 2: with me?
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Speaker 3: I only wanted to say this. You may do whatever
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Speaker 3: you please, but I am not going with you on
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Speaker 3: that disgusting steamboat.
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Speaker 2: Why not?
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Speaker 3: Because I want to go up on the mountains and
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Speaker 3: into the forests. That's what I want. Oh, you must
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Speaker 3: let me do it, Rebec. I shall be so good,
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Speaker 3: so good afterwards.
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Speaker 2: Who is that that us put these ideas into your head?
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Speaker 3: Why he that horrid bear killer? Oh you cannot conceive
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Speaker 3: all the marvelous things he has to tell about the
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Speaker 3: mountains and about life up there. Their ugly, horrid, repulsive,
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Speaker 3: most of the yarns he spins, For I almost believe
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Speaker 3: he's lying, but wonderfully alluring all the same. Oh, won't
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Speaker 3: you let me go with him? Only to see if
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Speaker 3: what he says is true? You understand, may I, Rebec?
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Speaker 2: Yes, I have not the slightest objection. Off you go
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Speaker 2: to the mountains as far and as long as you please.
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Speaker 2: I shall perhaps be going the same way myself.
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Speaker 3: No, no, no, you needn't do that not on my account.
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Speaker 2: I want to go to the mountains. I have made
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Speaker 2: up my mind to go.
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Speaker 3: Oh thanks, thanks. May I tell the bear killer at once?
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Speaker 2: Tell the bar killer whatever you please?
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Speaker 6: Oh?
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Speaker 1: Thanks, thanks, thanks, is about to take his hand. He
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Speaker 1: repels the movement, Oh.
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Speaker 3: How dear and good you are to day rebec.
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Speaker 1: She runs into the hotel. At the same time, the
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Speaker 1: door of the pavilion is softly and noiselessly set. Ajar,
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Speaker 1: the sister of Mercy, stands in the opening, intent on
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Speaker 1: the watch. No one sees her, decidedly turning to Irene.
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Speaker 2: Shall we meet up there?
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Speaker 1: Then, rising slowly, Yes, we shall certainly meet.
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Speaker 5: I have sought you for so long?
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Speaker 2: When did you begin to seek for me, Irene?
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Speaker 5: From the moment I realized that I had given away
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Speaker 5: to you something rather their indispensable arnold, something one ought
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Speaker 5: never to part.
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Speaker 2: With, bowing his head, Yes, that is bitterly true. You
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Speaker 2: gave me three or four years of your youth.
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Speaker 5: More more than that I gave you spend thrift, as
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Speaker 5: I then.
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Speaker 2: Was, Yes, you are prodigal, Irene. You gave me all
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Speaker 2: your naked loveliness to gaze upon and to glorify.
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Speaker 5: Yes, for your own glorification, and the.
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Speaker 2: Child's, and yours to Irene.
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Speaker 5: But you have forgotten the most precious gift.
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Speaker 2: The most precious. What gift was that I gave you.
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Speaker 5: My young, living soul? And that gift left me empty within, soulless.
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Speaker 1: Looking at him with a fixed stare.
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Speaker 5: It was that I died of Arnold.
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Speaker 1: The Sister of Mercy opens the door wide and makes
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Speaker 1: room for her. She goes into the pavilion, stands and
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Speaker 1: looks after her.
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Speaker 2: Then whispers Hireen.
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Speaker 1: End of Act one.