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

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abud.That's very healthy.

ann.Are you very poor?

abud.I get my meals in the house.

ann.Rough clothes last a long time.

abud.I've saved money.

ann.Where do you sleep?

abud.At Mrs. Hart's.. at a cottage.. it's a mile off.

ann.And you want no more than food and clothes and a bed and you earn all that with your hands.

abud.The less a man wants, Miss, the better.

ann.But you mean to marry?

abud.Yes.. I've saved money.

ann.Whom will you marry? Would you rather not say? Perhaps you don't know yet?

abud.It's all luck what sort of a maid a man gets fond of. It won't be a widow.

ann.Be careful, John Abud.

abud.No.. I shan't be careful.

ann.You'll do very wrong to be made a fool of.

abud.I'm safe, Miss; I've no eye for a pretty face.

dimmuck arrives asthmatically at the top of the steps.

dimmuck.Where's Mr. George? Here's a messenger come post.

ann.Find him, Abud.

abud.[To dimmuck.]From Dolly?

dimmuck.Speak respectful.

abud.Is it from his wife?

dimmuck.Go find him.

ann.[As abud is immovable.]Dimmuck... tell me about Mrs. George.