A Duel in the Dark: An Original Farce, in One Act

A Duel in the Dark: An Original Farce, in One Act

SCENE.A handsomely furnished Apartment on the ground floor of a Hotel at Dieppe. A French window at back opening on a garden. Door, 2E.L. Door, 3E.L. A large stove, L. between the two doors. Door, 2E.R. Easy chair near door, R. Tables, R. and L. C. at back; bottle of brandy with glasses on table, L. Chairs, &c. Two lighted candles on. GREEN. Well now this is something like an adventure. (putting down the umbrella and bandbox, R.) Theres a romantic mystery attached to me that I cant unravel, in fact I feel myself like a tangled pennorth of thread; the more I try to clear myself the more complicated I become. Let me calmly consider my singular position. (throws the cloak on the easy chair, R. and places the carpet bag beside it) In the first place here I have arrived at the Hotel d Angleterre in Dieppe accompanied by the Countess de Rambuteaua real Countess! Poor Mrs. Greenfinch little dreams what a rake I ambut for a long time Ive been dying for an aristocratic flirtationI have looked at lovely women in the private boxes at the theatresand have run after carriages in the parkbut all in vain, and now, startling as the fact may seem, I have been for the last thirty hours the travelling companion of a French Countess, and have shared her post-chaise from Paris: when I say shared, I mean the Countess and her maid took the inside and left me the outside, where I was exalted to the dickey amongst a miscellaneous assortment of trunks and bandboxes, by which I have been jolted and jammed till I havent a bone in my body without its particular ache. But the most extraordinary part of the affair is that I have never yet seen the Countesss face, for she has always concealed it from me beneath a thick veil. However thats nothing, theres a secret sympathy by which I think I could discover a pretty face under a piecrust. Hah! here she comes, and now for the tender revelationthe soft confessionthe blushing avowalthe ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 50012
Author: Coyne, J. Stirling (Joseph Stirling)
Release Date: Sep 19, 2015
Format: eBook
Language: English