The Blue Bird: a Fairy Play in Six Acts by Maurice Maeterlinck
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page 29 of 198 (14%)
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Don't be afraid. It's Water just come from the tap....
(_The milk-jug upsets, falls from the table and smashes on the floor; and from the spilt milk there rises a tall, white, bashful figure who seems to be afraid of everything_.) TYLTYL And the frightened lady in her nightgown?... THE FAIRY That's Milk; she has broken her jug.... (_The sugar-loaf, at the foot of the cupboard, grows taller and wider and splits its paper wrapper, whence issues a mawkish and hypocritical being, dressed in a long coat half blue and half white, who goes up to_ MYTYL _with a sanctimonious smile_.) MYTYL (_greatly alarmed_) What does he want?... THE FAIRY Why, he is the soul of Sugar!... MYTYL (_reassured_) Has he any barley-sugar?... THE FAIRY His pockets are full of it and each of his fingers is a sugar-stick.... (_The lamp falls from the table and, at the same moment, its flame |
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