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

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carnaby.You've spoken three times and the words are jumbling in at my ears meaninglessly. I certainly took too much wine at dinner.. or else... Yes.. Sally goes back. . and you'll go forward. Who stays here? Don't burlesque your sister. What's in the air.. what disease is this?

ann.I mean to disobey you.. to stay here.. never to be unhappy.

carnaby.So pleased!

ann.I want to be an ordinary woman.. not clever.. not fortunate.

carnaby.I can't hear.

ann.Not clever. I don't believe in you, Papa.

carnaby.I exist.. I'm very sorry.

ann.I won't be married to any man. I refuse to be tempted.. I won't see him again.

carnaby.Yes. It's raining.

sarah.Raining!

carnaby.Don't you stop it raining.

ann.[In the same level tones, to her sister now, who otherwise would turn, alarmed, to their father.]And I curse you.. because, we being sisters, I suppose I am much what you were, about to be married; and I think, Sally, you'd have cursed your present self. I could become all that you are and more.. but I don't choose.