Читать книгу Three Plays by Granville Barker: The Marrying of Ann Leete, The Voysey Inheritance & Waste онлайн

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george.[Almost to himself.]I am hardly human.

He slowly moves away and out of sight.

ann.John Abud.

He comes back and stands before her too.

ann.I am very sorry for you.

abud.I am very much obligated to you, Miss.

ann.Both those sayings are quite meaningless. Say something true about yourself.

abud.I'm not sorry for myself.

ann.I won't tell. It's very clear you ought to be in a despairing state. Don't stand in the sun with your hat off.

abud.[Putting on his hat.]Thank you, Miss.

ann.Have you nearly finished the rose-trees?

abud.I must work till late this evening.

ann.Weren't you ambitious for Dolly's sake?

abud.She thought me good enough.

ann.I'd have married her.

abud.She was ambitious for me.

ann.And are you frightened of the big world?

abud.Fine things dazzle me sometimes.

ann.But gardening is all that you're fit for?

abud.I'm afraid so, Miss.

ann.But it's great to be a gardener.. to sow seeds and to watch flowers grow and to cut away dead things.

abud.Yes, Miss.

ann.And you're in the fresh air all day.