The Pigeon by John Galsworthy
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ANN. That you'll take them off some day, and give them away in the street. Have you got any money? [She feels in his coat, and he his trousers--they find nothing.] Do you know that your pockets are one enormous hole? WELLWYN. No! ANN. Spiritually. WELLWYN. Oh! Ah! H'm! ANN. [Severely.] Now, look here, Daddy! [She takes him by his lapels.] Don't imagine that it isn't the most disgusting luxury on your part to go on giving away things as you do! You know what you really are, I suppose--a sickly sentimentalist! WELLWYN. [Breaking away from her, disturbed.] It isn't sentiment. It's simply that they seem to me so--so--jolly. If I'm to give up feeling sort of--nice in here [he touches his chest] about people--it doesn't matter who they are--then I don't know what I'm to do. I shall have to sit with my head in a bag. ANN. I think you ought to. WELLWYN. I suppose they see I like them--then they tell me things. After that, of course you can't help doing what you can. ANN. Well, if you will love them up! |
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