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

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sarah.Not a quarrel.

carnaby.A political difference.

sarah.Don't look so ferocious.

carnaby.My arm is in great pain and the wine's in my head.

sarah.Won't you go to bed?

carnaby.I'm well enough.. to travel. This marriage makes us safe, Sarah.. an anchor in each camp.. There's a mixed metaphor.

sarah.If you'll have my advice, Papa, you'll keep those plans clear from Ann's mind.

carnaby.John Carp is so much clay.. a man of forty ignorant of himself.

sarah.But if the Duke will not..

carnaby.The Duke hates a scandal.

sarah.Does he detest scandal!

carnaby.The girl is well-bred and harmless.. why publicly quarrel with John and incense her old brute of a father? There's the Duke in a score of words. He'll take a little time to think it out so.

sarah.And I say: Do you get on the right side of the Duke once again,—that's what we've worked for—and leave these two alone.

carnaby.Am I to lose my daughter?

sarah.Papa.. your food's intrigue.

carnaby.Scold at Society.. and what's the use?

sarah.We're over-civilized.