Three Original Plays

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ACT II. SCENE I. Adele's Cottage. Adele discovered at the open door. Adele. Thank heaven, he is gone; (shuts and locks the door.)? And this is to be poor and unprotected; I dare not walk to breathe the air of evening, but I am to be insulted; one friend alone I have, and he is rich and on the sunny side...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ACT II. SCENE I. Adele's Cottage. Adele discovered at the open door. Adele. Thank heaven, he is gone; (shuts and locks the door.)? And this is to be poor and unprotected; I dare not walk to breathe the air of evening, but I am to be insulted; one friend alone I have, and he is rich and on the sunny side the world, while I (a knock.) Who's there ? Who knocks ? The villains follow me. Help, Walter, help falls fainting on a sofa. (The door is burst open.) Enter Walter. WALTER. Adele Adele What ails thee ? There are none here but Walter, ?thine own Walter She heeds me not. Some wretch again has frightened her;?(fetches water and pours it on her face.) She revives. The roseate hue of life Steals on her cheek, as moonlight wins its way Through fleeting clouds ?Adele look up look up Adele. Walter, are they gone ? WALTER. Gone ? Who ? ADELE. I thought I heard their footsteps; it must have been fancy WALTER. You have toiled too hard to day ADELE. Nay, Walter; insult has unnerved me. WALTER. Insult From whom ? When ? Where ? ADELE. You know where the four roads meet ? Walter. Well. ADELE. Four wretches, staggering with wine, beset me; one put his arm around my waist, struggling for my lips: I cried for help, when, bounding o'er the fence, a gentleman, whose face I thought I recognised, put all the four to flight WALTER. All four? ADELE. They ran the moment he appeared; my rescuer pursued them, and then returning, brought me to my home: he said, he thought he knew the villains, and promised he would have them apprehended. Walter. Tis strange; four scared by one; what was this Hector like ? ADELE. He seemed a gentleman. Walter. That is, he wore good clothes. ADELE...