This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 Excerpt: ...some underhand trick, you'd pay for it! Rosaura: It seems to me you should show some decency. After all, I'm the elder. Beat.: Oh, pray, let me kiss the superior lady's hand. Rosaura: Oh, well, I've always said so: we never do get on together. Beat.: If it were not for you, I should have been married three years ago. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 Excerpt: ...some underhand trick, you'd pay for it! Rosaura: It seems to me you should show some decency. After all, I'm the elder. Beat.: Oh, pray, let me kiss the superior lady's hand. Rosaura: Oh, well, I've always said so: we never do get on together. Beat.: If it were not for you, I should have been married three years ago. Fifty suitors wanted me, but our father never wished to wrong his eldest born. Rosaura: Oh, yes, we know your wonderful suitors! Amongst others, the ingenious Signor Ottavio, who, perhaps to revenge himself on your disdain, has invented all these fine tales he has been telling our father. Beat.: Ottavio invented them? Rosaura: Father has just told me so. Beat.: The wretch! If only I could lay my hands on him! Rosaura: He deserves to be flogged! (Enter Colombina, ushering in Ottavio.) Colom.: My ladies, here is Signor Ottavio, who wishes to see you. Ottavio: Behold me, covered with blushes and confusion Rosaura (interrupting him): Deceiver! Beat.: Liar! Ottavio: Ladies, I'm neither one nor t'other. Rosaura: Who told my father that we had been serenaded? Ottavio: I did, but Beat. (interrupting him): Who told him we'd received a stranger here in the house during the night? Ottavio: I, but Rosaura (interrupting): Deceiver! Beat.: Liar! Ottavio: But, Lelio Bisognosi Rosaura (interrupting): Did you say we were on the balcony? Ottavio: Yes, Madam, but listen Beat. (interrupting): Did you say we'd been entertained by the stranger? Ottavio: I said so, because he himself Beat. (interrupting): Deceiver! Ottavio: But, if they won't let me speak? Colombina, I place my honour in your keeping. Go to your mistresses, prevail upon them to listen to me, and I will satisfy them, I promise you. Colom.: But what can you say to clear yourself? Ottavio: I can say muc...
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Used-Good. Good hardback in paperboards with cloth spine. Free end papers yellowed; pencil annotation & sidelining, mainly to Act III; green paper boards worn, scuffed & faded; paper title label on black cloth spine browned & slightly damaged. Translated from the Italian by Grace Lovat Fraser, with decorations by C. Lovat Fraser.
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Fraser, C. Lovat. VG (Some minor wear to extremities of boards; Light foxing at page edges) Light green paper over boards; Pink title plate; Black cloth at spine; Color frontispiece with tissue overlay; Numerous bw illustrations. Translated from the Italian and with illustrations by C. Lovat Fraser; Includes an introduction by E. Gordon Craig.
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