The Blue Bird: a Fairy Play in Six Acts by Maurice Maeterlinck
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page 176 of 198 (88%)
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Not in mine!... I have a tongue of my own!...
BREAD In the name of all and with a restrained but simple and deep emotion, to take leave of two distinguished children, whose exalted mission ends to-day.... When bidding them farewell, with all the grief and all the fondness which a mutual esteem.... TYLTYL What?... You are bidding us farewell?... Are you leaving us too?... BREAD Alas, needs must, since the hour when men's eyes are to be opened has not yet come.... I am leaving you, it is true; but the separation will only be apparent, you will no longer hear me speak.... FIRE That will be no loss!... WATER Order! Silence!... FIRE I shall keep silence when you cease babbling in the kettles, the wells, the brooks, the waterfalls and the taps.... LIGHT (_threatening them with her wand_) That will do, do you hear?... You are all very quarrelsome; It is the coming separation that sets your nerves on edge like this.... |
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