The Romancers - A Comedy in Three Acts by Edmond Rostand
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page 28 of 62 (45%)
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PASQUINOT. [Looking over his paper--aside] He looks like some immense beetle. [He pretends to be reading as BERGAMIN passes him.] BERGAMIN. [Aside] See the ridiculous way he reads! [He whistles as he walks away up-stage.] PASQUINOT. [Aside] Whistling! Oh, Heavens! Don't do that, whistling makes me nervous. BERGAMIN. [With a smile] Remember the mote in your neighbor's eye. You, too, get on my nerves sometimes. PASQUINOT. I? BERGAMIN. You tell the same story twenty times a day. PASQUINOT. Why, I-- BERGAMIN. And when you sit down you swing your foot like a pendulum. At meals you roll your bread in a most disgusting manner. PASQUINOT. Ha, you take me to task for my irritating mannerisms! But let me tell you, you are no less unpleasant. You are ridiculous and thoroughly selfish. I know now what the trouble is: the wall-- with it, we were happy, now we don't live at all. BERGAMIN. We didn't do this for ourselves, did we? PASQUINOT. No, we did not! |
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