A True Hero Howells, William Dean Derived Text Format to access the structural information conversion Mathias Göbel TextGrid CC-BY-4.0 Lizenzvertrag William Dean Howells, 1837 – 1920 Walter J. Meserve William Merriam Gibson, 1912 – George Warren Arms, 1912 – A True Hero: Melodrama [1909] [in, The Complete Plays of W. D. Howells: Walter J. Meserve ... Under the General Editorship of William M. Gibson and George Arms] New York New York University Press xxxiii, 649 p. REV. GEORGE HARTLEY: LANNARD: TOLBOY: unclear HARTLEY: MRS. ROYCROFT: Melodrama One-act Prose data extraction from source 1960 REV. GEORGE HARTLEY:

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The two are in Hartley's study, which opens into his church, and the strains of organ practice reach them from time to time through the door standing slightly ajar; the sun through the painted window behind Mrs. Roycroft throws the colors on the floor between them. He sits fallen back in his armchair before his desk, and she droops forward from a low seat fronting him, with her clasped hands pressed between her knees, and her shoulders lifted in a figure of hopeless desolation. A necklace and some other trinkets glitter on the desk; Hartley lifts them and tosses them farther from him . HARTLEY:

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MRS. ROYCROFT, in a voice hardly above a husky whisper :

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HARTLEY:

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HARTLEY, perceptibly moved :

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MRS. ROYCROFT, very humbly :

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HARTLEY:

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She sinks yet more abjectly forward . HARTLEY:

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MRS. ROYCROFT:

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HARTLEY, with quick and stern decision :

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HARTLEY, still severely :

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MRS. ROYCROFT, dropping to her knees before him :

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MRS. ROYCROFT, springing to her feet :

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HARTLEY, with a deep sigh :

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MRS. ROYCROFT:

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HARTLEY:

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MRS. ROYCROFT:

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MRS. ROYCROFT:

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HARTLEY:

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MRS. ROYCROFT, with joyous relief :

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HARTLEY:

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MRS. ROYCROFT:

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HARTLEY:

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MRS. ROYCROFT:

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HARTLEY, in alarm :

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MRS. ROYCROFT:

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HARTLEY:

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He puts himself between her and the door . MRS. ROYCROFT, confronting him full height :

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She whips round him, and out of the doorway, and he remains staring at it, when Doctor Tolboy appears within it . TOLBOY:

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HARTLEY, after a moment of silence :

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TOLBOY:

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HARTLEY:

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TOLBOY:

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HARTLEY:

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TOLBOY:

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HARTLEY:

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TOLBOY:

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HARTLEY:

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HARTLEY:

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HARTLEY, in despair :

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HARTLEY:

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HARTLEY:

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He nods toward the door giving into the church . HARTLEY:

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TOLBOY, listening :

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HARTLEY:

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TOLBOY, recurring to him from the music :

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HARTLEY:

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HARTLEY:

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HARTLEY:

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A knock at the street entrance arrests him . TOLBOY, escaping toward the church entrance :

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HARTLEY, seizing Tolboy :

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LANNARD, laxly and inatttentively shaking hands :

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HARTLEY:

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LANNARD, without heeding :

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HARTLEY:

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HARTLEY:

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HARTLEY:

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LANNARD:

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TOLBOY, who has been regarding him with a smile of scientific interest :

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LANNARD, with exaltation :

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TOLBOY, thoughtfully :

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LANNARD, fiercely :

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TOLBOY:

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LANNARD, indignantly :

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HARTLEY:

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TOLBOY:

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HARTLEY:

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LANNARD, as before :

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HARTLEY:

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TOLBOY:

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HARTLEY:

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LANNARD:

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HARTLEY:

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TOLBOY:

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LANNARD:

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HARTLEY:

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LANNARD:

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TOLBOY, comfortably seating himself :

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LANNARD:

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LANNARD, softened into momentary forgetfulness :

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LANNARD:

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TOLBOY, musingly :

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LANNARD:

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LANNARD, recurring to her with a start :

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TOLBOY:

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HARTLEY:

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TOLBOY:

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HARTLEY:

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TOLBOY:

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LANNARD:

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TOLBOY:

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He refers the point to Hartley, with a glance . HARTLEY, after a moment :

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Hartley has the air of being surprised into these conclusions . TOLBOY, turning to Lannard :

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LANNARD:

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TOLBOY:

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LANNARD, desperately :

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LANNARD:

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TOLBOY:

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LANNARD:

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TOLBOY:

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As he escapes into the church by one door, the other slowly opens, and Mrs. Roycroft is seen leaning against one of the jambs, faint and alone . MRS. ROYCROFT, piteously :

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HARTLEY, with a certain severity :

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MRS ROYCROFT, coming forward and dropping into the low chair she occupied before :

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HARTLEY, with lessened sternness :

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MRS. ROYCROFT:

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HARTLEY:

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MRS. ROYCROFT, with hardness :

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HARTLEY:

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MRS. ROYCROFT:

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LANNARD, with a sudden access of courage :

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MRS. ROYCROFT:

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MRS. ROYCROFT:

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LANNARD:

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MRS. ROYCROFT, after a moment of reflection :

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LANNARD:

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MRS. ROYCROFT:

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LANNARD, stupefied :

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MRS. ROYCROFT:

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LANNARD, in wild dismay :

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MRS ROYCROFT:

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LANNARD:

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MRS. ROYCROFT:

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LANNARD:

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MRS. ROYCROFT:

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LANNARD:

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MRS. ROYCROFT:

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LANNARD, in distress :

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MRS. ROYCROFT:

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LANNARD:

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MRS. ROYCROFT:

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LANNARD:

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MRS. ROYCROFT:

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LANNARD:

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MRS. ROYCROFT:

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LANNARD:

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MRS. ROYCROFT:

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MRS. ROYCROFT:

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MRS. ROYCROFT:

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LANNARD, shaken :

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MRS. ROYCROFT:

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LANNARD, stiffly :

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MRS. ROYCROFT:

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LANNARD:

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MRS. ROYCROFT:

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LANNARD, distractedly :

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MRS. ROYCROFT:

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LANNARD:

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MRS. ROYCROFT, after listening inattentively :

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LANNARD, reluctantly :

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MRS. ROYCROFT:

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LANNARD:

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MRS. ROYCROFT:

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She starts toward the telephone, but Lannard stops her, clutching her wrist, and fetching his breath in gasps . LANNARD:

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MRS. ROYCROFT, gayly :

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LANNARD, after manifest throes of deep excitement :

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MRS. ROYCROFT:

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LANNARD:

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MRS. ROYCROFT, advancing upon him where he stands palpitating, and hissing in his face :

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She whirls away toward the street door, as Hartley and Tolboy appear from the church entrance . HARTLEY:

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He hurries to his desk and gathers up the jewelry, which he stretches toward her . MRS. ROYCROFT, turning :

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HARTLEY:

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MRS. ROYCROFT:

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She crashes the door to behind her again . TOLBOY, after a moment of mutual consternation :

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HARTLEY:

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LANNARD, brokenly :

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