The Blue Bird: a Fairy Play in Six Acts by Maurice Maeterlinck
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page 142 of 198 (71%)
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No, no!... Don't!... I want to go away!... I am so frightened, little
brother!... I am terribly frightened!... TYLTYL But there is no danger.... MYTYL I don't want to see the dead!... I don't want to see them!... TYLTYL Very well, you shall not see them; shut your eyes.... MYTYL (_clinging to_ TYLTYL'S _clothes_) Tyltyl, I can't stay!... No, I can't possibly!... They are going to come out of the ground!... TYLTYL Don't tremble like that.... They will only come out for a moment.... MYTYL But you're trembling, too!... They will be awful!... TYLTYL It is time, the hour is passing.... (TYLTYL _turns the diamond. A terrifying minute of silence and motionlessness elapses, after which, slowly, the crosses totter, the mounds open, the slabs rise up...._) MYTYL (_cowering against_ TYLTYL) |
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