Notorious Mrs.
The Notorious Mrs. Ebbsmith
作者：Pinero, Arthur Wing, 1855-1934
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共 98 题- E-text prepared by Stephen Bishop <sbishop100@btinternet.com>
- THE NOTORIOUS MRS. EBBSMITH
- ARTHUR WING PINERO
- THE PERSONS OF THE PLAY
- THE FIRST ACT
- NELLA. [Turning her head.] Ascolta! (Listen!)
- NELLO. Con suo fratello. (With her brother.)
- NELLA. [Following him.] E vero. (That is true.)
- ANTONIO. [Bustling about.] La stufa! (The stove!)
- DR KIRKE. You don't tell us--
- SIR GEORGE. Oh--well--
- KIRKE. One moment. [Pointing to the balcony.] Mrs. Thorpe--
- AGNES. Excuse me. [She goes to the window and opens it.]
- SIR GEORGE. [Bowing stiffly.] I'm glad--
- SIR GEORGE. [To AGNES.] Er--I--ah--
- LUCAS. [Putting on his gloves.] Agnes, Sir George--
- AGNES. [Patting GERTRUDE'S hand] Ah!--
- AGNES. Mrs Thorpe--
- GERTRUDE. [Looking at her watch.] Amos must be wondering--
- AGNES. Run away, then. [GERTRUDE crosses quickly to the door.]
- LUCAS. Certainly, but at the moment--
- AGNES. Yes--now--
- AGNES. Where? [She joins him.]
- END OF THE FIRST ACT
- THE SECOND ACT
- NELLA. E permess, Signora (Permit us, Signora.)
- NELLA. E venuto colla ferrovia--(It has come by the railway--)
- ANTONIO. [consulting the label.] Da'Firenze. (From Florence.)
- NELLA [Reading from the label.] "Emilia Bardini, Via Rondinelli."
- NELLA. Ma guardi, Signora! (But look, Signora!)
- LUCAS. Oh, when we are dining, or--
- LUCAS. Shall I appear before you in ill-made clothes, clumsy boots--
- AGNES. [Shaking her head.] Ah, Mrs. Thorpe!--
- AGNES. [Coldly.] Perhaps I'm very ungracious--
- AGNES. A relation of Lucas's--the Duke of St. Olpherts
- GERTRUDE. Oh, Mr. Cleeve, we--I--I--
- GERTRUDE. I--I can't; he--doesn't know I've--I've--
- FORTUNE. [Speaking in an undertone.] On ze left 'and side of ze Campo--
- GERTRUDE. [Gratefully.] Ah! [She goes out.]
- AGNES. Shakespeare, the musical glasses, you know--
- ST. OLPHERTS. Insinuation!--
- AGNES. [Suffering.] Oh!--
- ST. OLPHERTS. How fortunate--
- LUCAS. Oh, I--I hope not. Of course, we--
- LUCAS. [Snapping his fingers.] Other people!--
- LUCAS. I'll come. [FORTUNE goes out.]
- LUCAS. [By her side.] You have delighted me! How sweet you look--
- AGNES. I declared it to be untrue. Oh, but--
- LUCAS. But--but--
- LUCAS. Oh!--oh! [Turning away alertly.] Fortune--
- END OF THE SECOND ACT
- THE THIRD ACT
- AGNES. [Taking out her handkerchief.] Let me--let me--
- LUCAS. [Bending over her.] I've never seen you--
- AGNES. Because I--
- AGNES. [In a low voice.] Rest and pleasure--
- AGNES. Lucas--
- LUCAS. Oh, I'd rather--
- AGNES. Marriage--
- ST. OLPHERTS. You might--[GERTRUDE advances with the tray.]
- GERTRUDE. Five--four--nought--two
- AGNES. Oh, if you put it in that way--
- GERTRUDE. Agnes--
- AGNES. Oh, Lucas gave her the idea when he--when he--
- AGNES. Mr. Cleeve wishes me to appear more like--more like--
- ST. OLPHERTS. [Meekly.] Yes. [She smiles at him scornfully.]
- AGNES. Oh, the scandal in London--
- AGNES. Which finally disposes of the whole matter--disposes of it--
- ST. OLPHERTS. Completely. [Struck by an idea.] Unless you--
- AGNES. [Turning to him.] Unless I--
- ST. OLPHERTS. Unless you--
- AGNES. [Outwardly calm.] Oh--Lucas--
- AGNES. The Duke has been--has been--telling me--
- LUCAS. [Hesitatingly.] They suggest--
- AGNES. [With assumed indifference.] Oh, I--
- AGNES. Even if you were ill again--
- LUCAS. Even then, if it were practicable--if it could be--if it--
- LUCAS. Er--if--if I--if we--
- AGNES. The Duke is waiting. [LUCAS turns away, and joins ST. OLPHERTS.]
- GERTRUDE. You've come to fetch me, Amos? [He assents by a nod.]
- AGNES. [Defiantly.] Yes
- END OF THE THIRD ACT
- THE FOURTH ACT
- GERTRUDE. Heppy, we are not going to call--my friend--"Mrs Cleeve."
- HEPHZIBAH. [Going and looking.] Maister Amos. [AMOS enters briskly.]
- GERTRUDE. Them--
- GERTRUDE. "My--hour-is-over."
- AMOS. Pray, sit down. [ST. OLPHERTS seats himself on the settee.]
- ST. OLPHERTS. She attracts me curiously. And if she wanted assistance--
- ST. OLPHERTS. Money--
- ST. OLPHERTS. She should have it. But as for the rest--well--
- SIR SANDFORD. Again I say you wrong yourself there, Sybil--
- SIR SANDFORD. Really, I must protest--
- SIR SANDFORD. I demur to the expression "forced", Sybil--
- SYBIL. He has an old mother--
- AGNES. I!
- SIR SANDFORD. Really, it can hardly be necessary to consult--
- LUCAS. You agreed--