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MR. TODD DELHOMME. Of you—of thee. How difficult is the English language to express subtle differences! You must have seen, Miss Ossory- EUPHEMIA [duly]. I have seen nothing. DELHOMME. MayI speak? EUPHEMIA. What is this? Oh! DELHOMME. I need not tell you, I see. My unspoken sympathy and devotion EUPHEMIA. Spare me, I pray you. DELHOMME. I must speak. Mademoiselle, I am blessed in loving you. I offer you the sympathy and devotion of a lifetime. EUPHEMIA. I beg you to spare me. It is impossible. DELHOMME. It is the truth—it is necessary—I should …
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MR. TODD carr. —Anything I don’t know. EUPHEMIA. Oh, you laugh even at me! carr. Because I love you. So I laugh at humanity: if 1 took men seriously I should have to cut my throat. EUPHEMIA. So you don’t take me seriously either? carr. IfI did, I should have to cut- EUPHEMIA. What? carr. My lucky! EUPHEMIA. What a dreadful expression! Where do you learn such things? carr. I notice you don’t have to ask what it means. EUPHEMIA. Stop teasing, darling! carr. I’m not teething! That’s what I complain of; you always treat me as a baby! EUPHEMIA. Come…
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THE EQUINOX tHomas. Mr. Delomm would like to see you for a moment on urgent business. [The lovers exchange signals privately. EUPHEMIA. Show him up. THOMAS. Yes, miss. [rHoMAS goes out. carr. I will goand geta snack. Trust me—love me—— EUPHEMIA. I will—I do. [They embrace. CARR goes to the door—turns. CARR. Love me—trust me. {EUPHEMIA files to him, kisses him again, nods. EUPHEMIA. I will—I do—I love you—I trust you. caRR. Sweetheart! [They kiss, furtively, as if hearing Sootsteps.| So.long! [She retreats into the room, and blows him a kiss. CA…
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THE EQUINOX EUPHEMIA. Must J remind you ? carr. No; my memory is excellent. EUPHEMIA. Of what you swore? caRR. I swore at the granite for not being moss. EUPHEMIA. You swore to love me always. carr. The champagne at the Mena House is not cham- pagne; it is—the cork of it is labelled “ Good intentions.” EUPHEMIA. Then you didn’t mean it? carR [kissing her]. Am I, or am I not—a plain question as between man and man—loving you now? EUPHEMIA. Oh, I know! But I am so worried that every- thing most sure seems all shaken in the storm of it! I was glad…
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THE EQUINOX homme. Er—well, we all grow older, you know—one day— er—ah! Nice young fellow, Delhomme! EUPHEMIA. I refused him twenty minutes ago, father. ossory. What? How the deuce did you know what I was going to say? Bless me, I believe there may be some- thing in this psychic business after all! EUPHEMIA. Yes, father, I feel I have strange powers! ossory. But look here, girlie, why did you refuse him? Reculer pour mieux sauter is all very well, don’t you know, but he gives twice who gives quickly. EUPHEMIA. That's the point, father. If you a…
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… Uncle Henry? About two and a half! The only thing you can know about poor Uncle Henry is that poor Uncle Henry once tickled your toes. [EUPHEMIA gives a Little scream of hovvory.| Enough humbug about poor Uncle Henry!... Sweetheart! EUPHEMIA. Mine own! [They embrace and kiss with great intensity. EUPHEMIA. Unhand me, villain! .. . But one has to be decent about one’s relations. Even the humbug of it is rather fun. carr. There speaks the daughter of Shakespeare's country. I am sure the Bacon imbroglio was a consummate practical joke on somebody…
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…of agony crosses his face|—Good Lord alive, /’m short! If I can’t find a couple of hundred thousand before the twelfth I’ll be hammered. EUPHEMIA. And so ? ossory. Very decent young fellow, little Delhomme. I can borrow half a million from him if I want it; but I don’t care to unless—unless things—unless you EUPHEMIA. I’m the goods, am I? You old bear! ossory. I know, Phemie, I know. It’s those damned bulls on Wall Street! How could I foresee—— EUPHEMIA. At least you might have foreseen that I was not a bale of cotton. ossory. But I shall be ha…
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THE EQUINOX [EUPHEMIA looks up and darts a furious glance at him; for she knows that he is mocking British solemnity and cant. DELHOMME. Crushed—crushed in a moment MRS. ossory [very fiously|. Without a warning. Ah well, we must hope that [Her voice becomes a mumble. DELHOMME. I will bid you good morning ; I am sure you will not wish strangers to intrude upon your grief. If there is anything that I can do MR. OssorY [conventionally]. Pray do not leave us yet, Monsieur Delhomme. Lunch is just ready. DELHOMME. I really think that I should go. [He…
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…out with CHARLEY. mrs. ossory. I do hope he meant it. But he’s such a terrible man for pulling legs, as they call it—I can’t think where Euphemia picks up all her slang !—If that plain, quiet man should really be a crowned King! Oh! how I would frown at her! Ah! ah! Somebody coming. [Enter THOMAS. Tuomas. Mr. Todd. [Enter Topp. MRS. Ossory. Oh, my dear Mr. Todd, I am so glad to see you! I’m in such distress! You will help me, won't you? [ropp bows, smiles, and whispers in her ear. She smiles all over. ‘opp offers his arm. She goes out on wt, gi…
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THE EQUINOX carr. Oh, Todd’s a good sort! I think I must be going, sir. EUPHEMIA. I wish you would stay and help me with the letters, Mr. Carr. We shall have a great deal to do in the next day or two. carr. Well, if you really wish it, I will try and be of what service I can. [carr, with his back to the audience, laughs with his hands, behind it. MRS. ossory. That is indeed kind of you, Professor! [carr’s hand-laugh grows riotous. GRANDFATHER. Where is Nurse? I want my whisky and milk. MRS. ossory. [Riugs.] I shall go down to lunch, Alfred. Lun…
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MR. TODD not Shaw! Vaughan, or Gorell Barnes, or some name like that! EUPHEMIA. But you will, won’t you? carr. No, I won't, will I? [Sings.] “I have a wife and bairnies three, And I’m no sure how ye’d agree, lassie!” EUPHEMIA. What? [She releases herself. CARR. Well, the wife’s dead, as a matter of fact. Her name was Hope-of-ever-doing-something-in-the-Wide-Wide. But the bairns are alive: young Chemistry, already apt at repartee —I should say retort; little Biology, who’s rather a worm between you and me and the gate-post ; and poor puny, pulin…
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ACT I GRANDFATHER sunk in melancholy in his arm-chair; MRS. ossory ved and weeping; ossory (a British heavy father) grief-stricken ; EUPHEMIA sobbing at the table; CARR aud DELHOMME cold and hot respectively in their expression of sympathy. MR. TopD is at the door, his cloak on, his hat in his hand. ossory. It is kind of you to have come so far to break the sad news, my dear sir. I hope that we shall see you again soon under—under—under happier circumstances. [Topp bows very low to the company as if deeply sympathis- ing; but turning his face t…
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…TODD PERSONS OF THE PLAY GRANDFATHER OSSORY (eighty-one) ALFRED OSSORY (fifty), his son, a shipowner EMILY OSSORY (forty-five), his wife EUPHEMIA OSSORY (eighteen), his daughter CHARLEY OSSORY (fem), his son GEORGE DELHOMME (twenty-four), of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs DIONYSUS CARR (thirty-four), Professor of Experimental Eugenics in the University of Titbingen ; and MR. TODD THOMAS, a footman A HOSPITAL NURSE
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THE EQUINOX DELHOMME. I would not brush the bloom from off the lily—and yet—— EUPHEMIA. My God !—Monsieur Delhomme, I am going to shock you. Oh! Oh! [She buries her face in her hands. He starts back, sur- prised at the turn things ave taking, and at the violence of her emotion and of its expression. DELHOMME. What is it? Are you ill? Have I EUPHEMIA. [Steady and straight before him.] 1 am another man’s—his—his mistress. There! [He reels, catches a chair and saves himself. Her breast heaves ; swallowing a sob, she runs out of the room. DELHOMME …
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…y too glad. You should try and get a nap after lunch. mrs. ossory. I will—I really think I will. [Bxit. caRR. [Closes the door, turns to EUPHEMIA, executes a quiet hornpipe, goes to Euruemia, holds out his arms.] Sweetheart | EUPHEMIA. How dare you! Howcan you! With poor Uncle Henry lying dead! 219
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…im.] carr [sharply, as if pained]. Oh, oh! Don’t suggest such a thing without the very best reason. It would be too terrible! [This time EUPHEMIA laughs. ossory. My dear boy, I deliberately say it. I have the very best of reasons for supposing him to be very deeply dipped. Very deeply dipped. carr. [Hides his head in his hands and groans, pretending to be overwhelmed by the tragedy. Looks up.| Well, 1 was told the other day that he held a lot of land in London, and has more tenants than the Duke of Westminster! ossory. Well, we'll hope it is tr…
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…nreasonable; it’s an instinct, an intuition. You know Saga of Bond Street said how psychic I was! [During the next few speeches CARR and EUPHEMIA Ccorre- spond by signs and winks. GRANDFATHER. When I was in Australia forty-four years ago there was a very good fellow of the name of Brown in Ballarat. Brown of Buninyong we used to call him. I remember- MRS. ossory [bursting into tears}. How can you, grandpa? Can’t you realise that poor Henry is dead? GRANDFATHER. Henry dead? MRS. ossory. Didn’t you hear? He was run over by Mr. Todd’s motor-car th…
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…ould relieve me at once. Very good! Very good ! [ropp wheels him out of the room, the old man laugh- ing and chuckling. Enter OSSORY and EUPHEMIA, talking. ossory. I want to say a word, girlie, about young Del- 227
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MR. TODD EUPHEMIA. How splendid! You mean it? It is true? Better than all the rest! Come, come! [She throws her arm vound his neck and runs laughing out of the room with him. [Enter CARR and CHARLEY, @ toy steam-engine puffing in Sront of them; they follow on hands and knees. The engine stops at the other end of the room. CHARLEY. Oh, my poor engine’s stopped! CARR. You must pour more spirit into it. [cHaRLEY goes to the cupboard and gets it, busying him- self until CARR’S exit. CARR sighs heavily, and sits down thoughtfully. Todd’s been too fr…