The Blue Bird: a Fairy Play in Six Acts by Maurice Maeterlinck
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page 28 of 198 (14%)
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Good-morning, sir.... (_To the_ FAIRY) Who is it?...
THE FAIRY Why, don't you see? Its the soul of Tylette offering you his hand.... Kiss him.... THE DOG (_hustling the_ CAT) Me, too!... I've kissed the little god!... I've kissed the little girl!... I've kissed everybody!... Oh, grand!... What fun we shall have!... I'm going to frighten Tylette I Bow, wow, wow!... THE CAT Sir, I don't know you.... THE FAIRY (_threatening the_ DOG _with her stick_) Keep still, will you, or else you'll go back into silence until the end of time.... (_Meanwhile, the enchantment has pursued its course: the spinning-wheel has begun to turn madly in its corner and to spin brilliant rays of light; the tap, in another corner, begins to sing in a very high voice and, turning into a luminous fountain, floods the sink with sheets of pearls and emeralds, through which darts the soul of_ WATER, _like a young girl, streaming, dishevelled and tearful, who immediately begins to fight with_ FIRE.) TYLTYL And who is that wet lady?... THE FAIRY |
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