The Night Before Christmas 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 – The Night Before Christmas [1910] [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. MAGGIE: WATKINS: unclear SUSY: AGGIE: JIM AND SUSY: MINNIE: JIM: MRS. FOUNTAIN: HAZARD: FOUNTAIN: Drama One-act Prose data extraction from source 1960 A MORALITY MRS. CLARENCE FOUNTAIN, backing into the room, and closing the door noiselessly before looking round :

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FOUNTAIN, coming to the table, where she sits, and taking up one of the toys with which it is strewn :

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He takes up a mechanical locomotive and stuffs it into the stocking he holds . MRS. FOUNTAIN, staying, his hand :

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FOUNTAIN, dropping into the chair on the other side of the table, under the shelter of a tall Christmas tree standing on it :

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FOUNTAIN, shouting wrathfully :

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WATKINS, opening the door for himself and struggling into the room with an armful of parcels :

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MRS. FOUNTAIN, reading the inscriptions on the packages :

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MRS. FOUNTAIN, dancing about with a long, soft roll in her hand :

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FOUNTAIN, reaching for it :

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WATKINS, making for the door :

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He escapes from her detaining embrace and runs out . MRS. FOUNTAIN, intent upon her roll :

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MRS. FOUNTAIN, with amusement :

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MAGGIE:

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MINNIE:

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MINNIE:

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She snatches his bath-robe and tosses it behind the door . HAZARD:

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He turns to go out again . MRS. FOUNTAIN:

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He goes out . MRS. FOUNTAIN, screaming after him through the open door :

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She throws the bath-robe over Fountain's shoulders . HAZARD, looking in again :

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He vanishes, shutting the door behind him . MRS. FOUNTAIN:

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MAGGIE, bringing in a bundle :

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FOUNTAIN, reading from the card which had fallen out of the garment to the floor :

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MRS. FOUNTAIN, dropping the robe and seizing the card :

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FOUNTAIN, giving her the paper in which the robe came :

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MRS. FOUNTAIN, snatching it from him :

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MRS. FOUNTAIN, capering about joyfully :

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The door is slowly set ajar, then flung suddenly wide open, and Jim and Susy in their night-gowns rush dancing and exulting in . SUSY:

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JIM:

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MRS. FOUNTAIN, severely :

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FOUNTAIN, dreamily :

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MRS. FOUNTAIN, kissing them both :

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He looks up at her from where he has dropped into a chair beside the table strewn with opened and unopened gifts at the foot of the Christmas tree . MRS. FOUNTAIN:

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MRS. FOUNTAIN, springing up :

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She begins to catch her breath, and fails in searching for her handkerchief in the folds of her dress under the bath-robe . FOUNTAIN, offering his handkerchief :

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MRS. FOUNTAIN, catching it from him, and hiding her face in it on the table :

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FOUNTAIN, going on thoughtfully :

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MAGGIE:

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MRS. FOUNTAIN, taking a bundle from her :

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FOUNTAIN, taking the card which she mechanically stretches out to him :

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MAGGIE, opening :

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FOUNTAIN, ironically :

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He signs the messenger's slip, while his wife receives from Maggie a bundle which she regards with suspicion . MRS. FOUNTAIN:

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FOUNTAIN, opening the case :

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MRS. FOUNTAIN, in despair :

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JIM AND SUSY, pushing in :

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MRS. FOUNTAIN, desolately :

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She begins frantically wrapping some of the things up . SUSY:

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MRS. FOUNTAIN, desisting :

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JIM AND SUSY:

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MRS. FOUNTAIN, tenderly :

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He puts his arm round her and presses her toward the door . MRS. FOUNTAIN:

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They laugh together, and then he kisses her . FOUNTAIN:

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