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The Romancers - A Comedy in Three Acts by Edmond Rostand
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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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