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Plays, Pleasant and Unpleasant; The Four Pleasant Plays
Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant The Four Pleasant Plays Author:Bernard Shaw General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1900 Original Publisher: H.S. Stone and co. Subjects: Drama / General Drama / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Drama / Shakespeare Fiction / Classics Literary Criticism / Drama Literary Criticism / Shakespeare Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the ori... more »ginal. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: The lady, without speaking, stands upright, and takes a packet of papers from her bosom. For a moment she has an intense impulse to dash them in his face. But her good breeding cuts her of from any vulgar method of relief. She bands them to him politely, only averting her head. The moment he takes them, she hurries across to the other side of the room; covers her face with her hands; and sits down, with her body turned away to the back of the chair. Napoleon (gloating over the papers). Aha! That's right. That's right. (Before opening them he looks at her and says) Excuse me. (He sees that she is hiding her face.) Very angry with me, eh? (He unties the packet, the seal of which is already broken, and puts it on the table to examine its contents.') Lady (quietly, taking down her hands and shewing that she is not crying, but only thinking). No. You were right. But I am sorry for you. Napoleon (pausing in the act of taking the uppermost paper from the packet). Sorry for me! Why? Lady. I am going to see you lose your honor. Napoleon. Hm! Nothing worse than that? (He takes up the paper.) Lady. And your happiness. Napoleon. Happiness, little woman, is the most tedious thing in the world to me. Should I be what I am if I cared for happiness? Anything else? Lady. Nothing -- (He interrupts her with an exclamation of satisfaction. She proceeds quietly) except that you will cut a very foolish figure i...« less