American drama -- 20th century; Experimental fiction, American; Prose poems
The servants. They did say that they were Spanish. I said they weren't.
I said Spaniards were polite.
(Nicholas.) I have seen the consul he is going to get me my passport.
(William.) But he can't he is only consular agent. He has to send to
Barcelona.
(Nicholas.) I was not speaking of him. I was speaking of the ambassador.
(William.) Oh that's another matter.
Mr. and Mrs. Clement came in they said that they had lost a friend.
Music.
When they ask for money for the sailors who were drowned they make gay
music.
When they say here is some one who refuses to give them something they
are impertinent.
(Brothers.) How did we know they were brothers. We knew it because they
have the same perplexity. He has lost money in boats and he has in steel
cars.
(Officials.) Come together you can fly a kite if you like. We do not
like. We like to see others do it. It is not much trouble. It depends
entirely on the height of the house.
Nicholas Jane and Anthony and the evening rain. It comes every morning
about two and we have the habit of closing up.
Please me. I will.
Three months yes three months.
Piles of initials he made piles of initials. Would any one think that
they embroidered the name in Mallorca.
(Stephen.) How much is it.
(Stephen.) Forty-five.
(Stephen.) We will change it to forty.
Older ones have gotten to see that it's dangerous to go to Marseilles.
(The colonel.) He owns this house and he wants the almond crop.
We said we did not know that.
He said it was in the lease. Mr. Clement said he had never heard of such
a thing being done.
We met an old frenchman.
We met the people who are going around together and asking for money.
(Genevieve.) Widows should have it.
(Bobbie.) Do as you like.
We asked them not to come in.
The dealer his wife and the servant. Hush don't wake anybody. You must
not call out to one another. Everybody does it. We do not ask you to
control the others. We have decided not to say anything to you about
them.
(The owner of the house.) I am assisting and I am further obliged to
come tomorrow. Will you kindly give me the key.
(The servant.) Will you kindly give me some water. Will you show me the
way to go.
(The wife.) I will not believe that they are settled. It is a great
disappointment to me.
Plenty of time.
Beginning tomorrow can we count a month before they return to the city.
Counting tomorrow can we count a month before they leave the country.
It is a disappointment to me that we have not been able to be rid of
that which is bothering us. It is a great disappointment to me.
Two count, we count two.
The one came first.
He eats sweetbreads by preference and he has a wife and a child. I did
not mean him.
The one came later and is really not very well pleased.
He does not care for the vegetables which are for sale here.
We know an old man that we like better. We like to see that he is met.
When did the owner of the house decide to write to us. He did not write.
He came.
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