Waste: A
Waste: A Tragedy, In Four Acts
作者：Granville-Barker, Harley, 1877-1946
体例：题 章数：58
字数：164,911 来源：Project Gutenberg
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章节目录
共 58 题- Waste
- WASTE
- AMY O'CONNELL _has reached an open window._
- WALTER _goes out._
- AMY O'CONNELL. I'm told now there's a pretty housemaid ... [_she shrugs._]
- THE SECOND ACT
- SIMPSON, _the maid, comes in._
- TREBELL, _overflowing with vitality, starts to face the floor._
- WEDGECROFT. They must, I think. It's over a month since--
- WEDGECROFT. As to doctors--
- KENT _comes in._
- KENT _comes out of his room and is off downstairs._
- TREBELL _calls to him._
- WEDGECROFT _has suddenly looked at his watch._
- KENT. [_To_ TREBELL.] David Evans--
- TREBELL. It hasn't been so much the fear of scandal then--
- AMY _blazes into desperate rebellion._
- TREBELL. Amy ... if you were my wife--
- KENT _comes in, an open letter in his hand._
- CANTELUPE _bows in silence._
- KENT _with his hat on leaves his room and goes downstairs._
- KENT'S _room is vacant._
- CANTELUPE _takes another._
- CANTELUPE _picks up his papers, avoiding theoretical discussion._
- TREBELL _is weighing his words._
- TREBELL _returns to his subject as forceful as ever._
- CANTELUPE _is opening out a little in spite of himself._
- CANTELUPE, _by taking a deeper fold in himself seems to assent._
- LUCY _considers this and him quite seriously._
- TREBELL _stares at him: then, apparently, making up his mind...._
- THE THIRD ACT
- HORSHAM _assumes an impenetrable air of statesmanship._
- FARRANT, _unappreciative, continues._
- CANTELUPE'S _face melts into an expression of mild amazement._
- CANTELUPE _with a self-denying effort has risen to his feet._
- HORSHAM _takes advantage of the silence that follows._
- FARRANT. My dear Trebell, if your name comes out at the inquest--
- TREBELL _wheels round at this and ceases all bluster._
- TREBELL _smiles at some mental picture he is making._
- HORSHAM _now takes the field, using his own weapons._
- FARRANT. "All right. He has promised."
- HORSHAM _looks at_ BLACKBOROUGH _and scents danger._
- TREBELL _softens to his sincerity._
- BLACKBOROUGH _makes a face._
- FARRANT _looks rather alarmed._
- HORSHAM'S _smooth voice intervenes. He speaks with finesse._
- HORSHAM _suddenly becomes peevish._
- HORSHAM _looks up with the most ingenuous of smiles._
- HORSHAM _shies fastidiously at this touch of poetry._
- THE FOURTH ACT
- TREBELL _walks away from him._
- TREBELL _starts to enjoy his secret._
- TREBELL _resists a hideous temptation to laugh._
- FRANCES _comes back._
- TREBELL _is on his feet at that._
- FRANCES _returns to her task with misty eyes._
- TREBELL _smiles, not at all grimly._
- WEDGECROFT _comes back, grave and tense._