Four Short Plays; Look After Louise, an Everyday Tragedy Big Kate, a Diplomatic Tragedy the Real People, a Sawdust Tragedy Aren't They Wonders? a Holiday Tragedy

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 edition. Excerpt: ...seizes her hand and kisses it) Vaughan I "shouldn't say that, Your Majesty--not in this instance. Last night--at the Embassy--I made her wife. Catharine (portentously) To-night she be your widow! (Calls) Vlas! Vlas! (Goes to door, right. An angry voice heard off, right, in colloquy with Vlas.) THE VOICE Now, I tell you--and no damned nonsense!--I demand him now or hell to pay! Catharine (with humor) Ingleesh Ambassador! Vlas (at door) Sir Charles Williams! CATHARINE What he--demand? Vlas Mi-lor' Ribblesdale. (A pause during which Catharine glares at Vaughan) Vaughan (bowing deeply) With Your Majesty's leave? (makes to go, but Vlas bars his way and looks to Catharine for orders) Catharine (with gesture of dismissal) All right! (Vaughan exits, followed by Vlas.) (Catharine dazed by this, her first experience of a man's slight--mjuria spretae formae--flashes with swiftly changing emotions: --bewilderment, rage, pique, consternation, grief. She turns to the mantelmirror, as if for explanation of the catastrophe. Peers into the glass with anxious scrutiny; smooths her brow, temples, the outer corner of her mouth, her neck, in search of tell-tale lines. Then from a tmy rouge-box, set like a jewel in her bracelet, she "touches-up" cheeks, lips, and pencils eye-brows; takes up a hand-mirror; surveys herself with evident content, humming a gay tune. Rings. Khitroff enters. He brings a coat of silver-fox which he starts to put on Catharine.) Catharine (declining) No. Khitroff (with assurance) Yes! CATHARINE But--why? I have not cold. KHITROFF Your Majesty go to Tsarkoi-Salo. Catharine (after a slight pause, during which she surveys Khitroff approvingly) All right! (Gets into coat and puts on gloves;--fumbles with thumb of glove.) Bah! thees ring prevent!...

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