One Touch
One Touch of Nature: A Petite Drama, in One Act
作者：Webster, Benjamin, 1797-1882
体例：题 章数：46
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章节目录
共 46 题- ONE TOUCH OF NATURE,
- A PETITE DRAMA,
- BY
- BENJAMIN WEBSTER, ESQ.
- AS FIRST PERFORMED AT THE
- THEATRE ROYAL, NEW ADELPHI,
- ON SATURDAY, AUGUST 6TH, 1859.
- EXPLANATION OF THE STAGE DIRECTIONS.
- ONE TOUCH OF NATURE.
- ACT I.
- JONES. Did you think, sir--
- FLE. And you replied----
- FLE. Oh!----well, there. (_tears up letter._)
- FLE. You speak of Miss Belmour? (_knock and bell._)
- FLE. Well, this is the most singular--
- FLE. I was writing to you--
- CON. To tell me--
- FLE. There is some mystery about you----
- FLE. Then copy it in my study. (_pointing to door R._)
- HOL. No, I shall be more at home in the hall. (_going._)
- FLE. I!
- CON. Have you not told me so to my face? and (_sings_)
- HOL. As I have finished copying, if I can be of any service--
- CON. Do it, "nor leave the task to me."
- BEL. Do you think to escape me thus? I am not a man----
- BEL. Tragedian? humbug! I have my hand full of proofs--this bouquet--
- BEL. Very good, madame, very good. An angel's face, but a--
- HOL. (_making a step towards her; he stops._) My chi----
- HOL. You are right. I will go far, far away--but first--
- HOL. I will go--but--
- JONES. Perhaps, sir, I could adopt it to my style sufficiently----
- CON. Then the rehearsal is a _fiasco?_
- CON. Well, really, it's the oddest circumstance----
- HOL. "I know it"----
- FLE. No--
- FLE. Why, just now you said--
- CON. "You say you are my father."
- CON. "My father!"
- CON. There is something in your words and manner--
- CON. "My father!"
- CON. Ah! yes; cut out, "My father!"
- CON. Surely that was--go on--
- CON. Yes--
- FLE. Why, just now, you talked of--
- HOL. Ah! just now--just now she had not said, "My father."
- Transcriber's Note