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

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sarah.I believe that saves digestion.

mrs. opie.Ann, do you need me more to-night?

ann.Not any more.

mrs. opie.Ann, there is gossip among the servants about a wager...

ann.Mrs. Opie, that was... yesterday.

mrs. opie.Ann, I should be glad to be able to contradict a reported.. embrace.

ann.I was kissed.

mrs. opie.I am shocked.

carnaby.Mrs. Opie, is it possible that all these years I have been nourishing a prude in my.. back drawing-room?

mrs. opie.I presume I am discharged of Ann's education; but as the salaried mistress of your household, Mr. Leete, I am grieved not to be able to deny such a rumour to your servants.

She sails back, righteously indignant.

carnaby.Call out that you're marrying the wicked man.. comfort her.

sarah.Mrs. Opie!

carnaby.Consider that existence. An old maid.. so far as we know. Brevet rank.. missis. Not pleasant.

ann.She wants nothing better.. at her age.

sarah.How forgetful!

carnaby.[The force of the phrase growing.]Brighton, Sarah.

sarah.Now you've both read the love-letter which Tetgeen brought me.