The Worsted Man Bangs, John Kendrick Derived Text Format to access the structural information conversion Mathias Göbel TextGrid CC-BY-4.0 Lizenzvertrag John Kendrick Bangs, 1862 – 1922 The Worsted Man: A Musical Play for Amateurs By John Kendrick Bangs New York London Harper & Brothers vii, 86 p. Opening Chorus Doll Miss Patience Willoughby, Miss Marianna Jones and Miss Babette Hawkins Chorus Mr. Wooley Omnes Oh — hullo girls . The Doll Miss Patience Willoughby, Mr. Woolley and Chorus Miss Priscilla Middleton Voices Miss Marianna Jones, Miss Babette Hawkins, Miss Prudence Andrews and Miss Priscilla Middleton Miss Babette Hawkins Mr. Woolley Chorus of Spirits Miss Janette Barrington Miss Marianna Jones Miss Prudence Andrews Miss Ethelinda De Witt The Rest Miss Susanna Darrow Miss Priscilla Middleton and Miss Prudence Andrews Miss Patience Willoughby Bell-Boy Miss Babette Hawkins and Miss Marianna Jones All Musical Farce Prose data extraction from source 1905
THE CAST Mr. Woolley , The Worsted Man, A Doll, An Expedient, and A Flirt . Miss Patience Willoughby , An Ingenious Young Woman, known as Impatience for an obvious reason . Miss Marianna Jones , A Summer Girl, willing to be wooed . Miss Babette Hawkins , Another, anxious to be courted . Miss Janette Barrington , A third, desirous of being won . Miss Susanna Darrow , A fourth, not averse to gallantry . Miss Priscilla Middleton , A fifth, looking for a cavalier . Miss Prudence Andrews , A sixth, with her cap set . Miss Ethelinda De Witt , A seventh, except in years, where she is easily first, being quite thirty-seven; ready for anything . Sambo Front, Esq. , A Bell-Boy of ebon hue. Clerks, Waitresses, Porters, One Invalid, and other Characters who may be introduced at random as long as they do not speak . Also one competent pianist to serve in place of an orchestra .
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— The Office of a Summer Hotel at Highland Hills, New Hampshire .

It is one of those comfortably arranged offices that does duty at the height of the season as a gathering-place for guests after breakfast and dinner, where men may smoke if there are any to smoke and they wish to do so, and the women assemble to put sofa-cushions, embroidered centre-pieces, knitted golf-vests, and other things together while pulling reputations apart. The walls are decorated with lithographed ideals of other summer hotels in distant parts of the country, advertisements of railways, time-tables, and portraits of imaginary trout that were not caught in the adjacent streams. At right is elevator. At left is huge, open fireplace. At rear is desk for cashier, registry, etc. All the clerks are women. There is one colored bell-boy, who also runs the elevator. Above the mantel-piece the head of a moose shot eight hundred miles from the hotel is affixed to the chimney-breast and gazes placidly through its glass eyes upon all that goes on within range of their sockets. The action of non-speaking characters in the play is continuous — porters carrying in trunks, the elevator incessantly running, the cashier footing-up columns of figures and chewing upon the end of her penholder; an occasional waitress passes through, carrying a large tray holding teacups, teapots, dishes of milk-toast, etc. The only masculine life in sight consists of the colored bell-boy and an octogenarian invalid who for the sake of verisimilitude in the play is frequently rolled across the rear of the stage in a wicker wheel-chair. Curtain rising discloses seven Summer Girls sitting in a group, sewing, knitting, and embroidering .

Time — A brilliant morning in mid-August .

 Opening Chorus ( Music: That of Opening Chorus of "Patience .")

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Solo: Marianna

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Chorus

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All

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Solo: Susanna

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All

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Marianna .

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Babette .

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Susanna .

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Priscilla .

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Babette .

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Prudence .

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Ethelinda .

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Priscilla .

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Susanna .

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Janette .

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The elevator door opens . Impatience emerges . Impatience .

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Babette .

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All rise and group themselves about Impatience . Solo: Impatience ( Music: "The Policemen's Chorus," from "Pirates of Penzance." )

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All ( Visibly brightening .)

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All ( Softly smiling .)

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Impatience

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Omnes

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All ( Eagerly .)

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All ( Enthusiastically .)

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Impatience

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All ( Hopefully .)

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All ( Expectant .)

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All ( Hurriedly .)

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Omnes

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Priscilla .

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Impatience .

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All .

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Priscilla .

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Marianna .

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Janette .

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Babette .

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Impatience . ( Laughing .)

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All .

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Babette .

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Impatience .

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Babette .

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Impatience . ( Reading .)

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Janette .

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Impatience .

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All .

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Babette .

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Impatience . ( Running to rear and securing a huge bundle, which she brings back to front .)

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Cuts string and begins to tear wrapper away . All . ( Eagerly .)

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Impatience .

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Jerks huge worsted doll from parcel, and dangles it by the neck before them . All .

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Impatience .

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All courtesy . Impatience bobs doll at each . Ethelinda .

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Babette .

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Susanna . ( Squeezing doll's arm .)

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Marianna .

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Impatience .

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Priscilla .

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Impatience .

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Bell-Boy .

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Impatience .

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Bell-Boy .

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Impatience ( Improvised recitative, tragically .)

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Lights grow dim . Impatience advances to worsted doll and places glass at its lips . Song: Impatience ( Music: "Incantation," etc., from "The Sorcerer." )

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Voices ( From without .)

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Impatience

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Voices ( From without .)

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Marianna ( Fearsomely .)

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Babette ( Comfortingly .)

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Aria: Impatience

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Chorus of Spirits

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Impatience, Marianna, and Babette

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Impatience

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Pouring water into mouth of Worsted Man .

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All

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Impatience ( Repeating operation .)

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All

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Impatience ( Ditto .)

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All

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Voices ( From without .)

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Babette and Marianna ( Aside .)

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Stage goes wholly dark . Voices ( From all points of the compass .)

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There is a roll of thunder, a flash of lightning, and stage becomes brilliant again. The young ladies stand back somewhat awed , Impatience slightly to the fore, gazing in rapt astonishment at the worsted doll, which, sitting in the chair, has suddenly come to life . The Doll ( Blinking his eyes and gazing about him in amazement .)

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Impatience

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The Doll ( With a grin .)

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Springs forward to seize her . Impatience eludes him, and he begins a shuffling dance, and song . Song: The Worsted Man ( Music: "I'm a Most Intense Young Man," from "Patience." )

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Chorus

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The Doll

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Chorus

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Doll .

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Priscilla .

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Doll .

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Marianna .

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Doll .

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Babette .

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Doll .

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Janette .

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Doll .

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Impatience .

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Doll .

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Marianna .

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Doll .

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Impatience .

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Doll .

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Impatience . ( Demurely .)

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Doll .

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Impatience .

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Doll .

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All .

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Doll .

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Babette . ( Aside .)

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Marianna .

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Janette .

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Ethelinda .

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Doll .

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Impatience .

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Doll .

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Marianna .

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Doll .

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( Music: "If You Want a Receipt," from "Patience." )

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Chorus

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Babette .

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Doll .

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Chorus

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Impatience .

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Doll .

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Impatience .

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( Music: "I Cannot Tell What This Love May Be," from "Patience." )

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Chorus

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Impatience .

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Chorus

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Doll .

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Impatience .

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Doll .

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Babette .

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Doll .

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Marianna .

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Ethelinda .

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Doll .

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Babette .

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Doll .

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Impatience . ( Aside .)

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Doll .

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Jeanette .

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Doll .

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Impatience .

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Babette .

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Doll .

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Impatience .

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Woolley shrinks back in dismay . Doll . ( Hoarsely .)

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( Improvised recitative .)

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Impatience .

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Impatience, Doll, and Chorus

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Impatience .

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Chorus

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Impatience .

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Doll

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Impatience .

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All

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Impatience .

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Chorus

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Impatience .

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Doll

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Impatience .

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All

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curtain .
II. — The same. Worsted Man on done, save for the clerks, hall-boy, etc . ( Music: "Sorry Her Lot Who Loves Too Well," from "Pinafore." )

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( Sighs .) Heigho! I know not what I shall do. As yet I have no heart, and as for my excelsior mind, it is racked with doubt. The law says flirt not on pain of unravelment, and yet how can I deny my smiles to Marianna while beaming pleasantly on Babette? Why should I call Marianna sweetheart while casting an icy shoe-button — I, ah, should say eye — on fair Priscilla? Why should the cotton pulse beneath my zephyr wristlets beat madly for Priscilla and remain unmoved when I feel the soft pressure of Janette's hand upon my mitts? Alas, I know not what to do!

Buries face in his hands — bell rings in office . Bell-Boy . ( To front .)

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Doll .

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Bell-Boy . ( Grinning .)

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Doll .

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Bell-Boy .

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Doll .

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Bell-Boy .

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Doll .

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Bell-Boy . ( Laughing outright .)

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Doll .

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Bell-Boy .

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Doll . ( Amazed .)

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Bell-Boy .

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Doll . ( Dancing with joy .)

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Bell-Boy .

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Doll .

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Bell-Boy .

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Doll .

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Enter Bell-Boy with box . Doll .

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Doll .

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Bell-Boy removes cover from box and takes out several heart-shaped objects, which he hands to Woolley . Bell-Boy .

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Woolley looks them carefully over, and places each in a different pocket as he completes his inspection. During action the following dialogue . Doll .

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Bell-Boy .

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Doll . ( Taking it from bell-boy .)

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Bell-Boy . ( Handing him another .)

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Doll .

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Bell-Boy .

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Doll .

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Bell-Boy .

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Doll .

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Bell-Boy .

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Doll .

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Bell-Boy . ( Aghast .)

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Doll .

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Bell-Boy .

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Doll .

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Enter Impatience. Woolley hastily hides last heart inside his waistcoat . Bell-Boy .

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Impatience .

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Doll .

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Impatience .

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Doll .

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Impatience .

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( Music: "Time Was When Love and I Were Well Acquainted," from "The Sorcerer." .)

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Doll .

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Impatience .

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Doll . ( Gleefully .)

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Dances joyously about the stage, holding the large heart high in the air . Impatience starts back in amazed dismay . Impatience .

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Doll . ( In sing-song voice .)

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Impatience . ( Holding up her hands in horror .)

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Doll .

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Impatience .

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Doll . ( Joyously, getting on his knees before her and holding the heart up .)

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Impatience . ( Embarrassed .)

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Doll .

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Impatience . ( Aside .)

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Enter Babette . She walks to the counter and inspects the register . Woolley hastily rises from his knees . Impatience hurriedly picks heart from the floor and thrusts it into her work-basket . Impatience . ( Aside .)

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Doll . ( Aside to Impatience, ardently .)

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Impatience .

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Runs off stage . Doll . ( Pirouetting gladly .)

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Babette . ( Roguishly .)

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Doll . ( Approaching her and whispering in her ear .)

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Babette .

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Doll .

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Babette .

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Doll .

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Babette . ( Glancing anxiously about her .)

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Doll . ( Valiantly .)

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Babette .

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Doll .

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Babette . ( Kissing him on his forehead and snatching heart from his hands, as she runs gayly off .)

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Doll .

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Marianna .

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Doll .

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Marianna . ( Demurely .)

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Doll .

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Marianna .

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Doll .

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Marianna .

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Doll .

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Marianna .

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Doll .

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Marianna . ( Aside .)

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Doll .

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Marianna .

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Doll . ( Putting it out of his pocket .)

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Marianna .

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Doll . ( Handing her the heart .)

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Marianna , burying her face in her handkerchief, takes the heart and goes slowly off, sobbing, without a word . Doll .

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Bell-Boy .

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Doll .

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Bell-Boy .

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Woolley sinks exhausted in his chair and closes his eyes, having meanwhile taken a fourth heart from his pocket. This he places on the arm of the chair. As he rests, enter Ethelinda . She espies him apparently sleeping and tiptoes softly to his side . Ethelinda . ( Clasping her hands and gazing at him admiringly .)

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Doll sighs deeply as Ethelinda reaches out to pick it up. She darts back and hides behind his chair . Doll smiles broadly and winks his eye . Doll . ( Stretching his arms and yawning .)

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Pretends to doze off again, and a moment later snores . Ethelinda peeps over top of chair, and, seeing him apparently asleep, steals softly back, takes heart in her hand, and kisses it ardently . Ethelinda .

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Looks anxiously about her . Doll starts up, and rubs his eyes as if dazed with sleep . Ethelinda hurriedly hides the heart under the folds of her wrap . Doll .

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Ethelinda .

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Doll .

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Ethelinda . ( Coyly .)

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Doll . ( Rising and putting his arm about her waist .)

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Ethelinda .

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Doll .

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Ethelinda . ( Clasping her hands ecstatically .)

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Doll .

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Ethelinda . ( Pouting ).

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Doll . ( Passionately .)

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Ethelinda .

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Doll .

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Ethelinda . ( Softly .)

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Doll .

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Ethelinda .

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Doll . ( Tapping her on the arm .)

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Ethelinda removes heart from her wrap, and, after kissing it ardently, hugs it close .) Ethelinda . ( Running off .)

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Doll .

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Kisses his hand to her . Ethelinda off . Doll .

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Enter Bell-Boy , with huge pitcher of water . Bell-Boy .

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Doll .

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Bell-Boy .

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Retires . Doll . ( Breathlessly .)

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Bell-Boy . ( From rear .)

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Enter Priscilla and Prudence, Priscilla from left Prudence from right . Priscilla and Prudence . ( Startled by Woolley's activity, which is momentarily increasing .)

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Doll . ( Two-stepping and seizing Prudence in dancing fashion .)

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Prudence .

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Doll . ( Dropping Prudence and flying to Priscilla .)

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Seizes her. They make a single turn of the office . Priscilla .

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Doll . ( Dropping Priscilla .)

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Priscilla .

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Doll . ( Seizing Prudence and dancing .)

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Prudence .

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Doll . ( Taking heart from breast-pocket, and pressing it into Prudence's hand .)

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Drops Prudence and dances towards Priscilla . Prudence .

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Doll . ( To Priscilla .)

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Priscilla . ( Taking arm-chair .)

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Doll .

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Priscilla . ( Inspecting it .)

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Doll .

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Priscilla . ( Doubtfully .)

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Doll .

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Priscilla . ( Demurely .)

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Doll .

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Priscilla .

Contains 33 words in 4 sentences using 151 chars .

Doll . ( Bowing low and kissing her hand .)

Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 19 chars .

Priscilla . ( Rising .)

Contains 7 words in 1 sentence using 27 chars .

Exit, waving her hand at him smilingly . Doll . ( Calming down .)

Contains 59 words in 8 sentences using 285 chars .

Bell-Boy .

Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 7 chars .

Leans over counter at rear and receives articles from clerk . Doll .

Contains 64 words in 6 sentences using 338 chars .

Susanna .

Contains 20 words in 3 sentences using 109 chars .

Doll . ( Smiling .)

Contains 4 words in 1 sentence using 22 chars .

Susanna .

Contains 24 words in 2 sentences using 109 chars .

Doll .

Contains 7 words in 1 sentence using 38 chars .

Bell-Boy puts writing materials on table . Susanna .

Contains 26 words in 3 sentences using 137 chars .

Doll .

Contains 15 words in 2 sentences using 65 chars .

Turns to table and writes . Susanna . ( Aside .)

Contains 27 words in 3 sentences using 148 chars .

Sits down and reads book . Doll . ( Writing .)

Contains 11 words in 1 sentence using 68 chars .

Susanna . ( Looking up .)

Contains 5 words in 2 sentences using 27 chars .

Doll .

Contains 27 words in 4 sentences using 119 chars .

Susanna .

Contains 9 words in 4 sentences using 42 chars .

Doll . ( Writing .)

Contains 92 words in 8 sentences using 449 chars .

Bell-Boy .

Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 16 chars .

Doll .

Contains 49 words in 4 sentences using 246 chars .

ell-Boy .

Contains 4 words in 2 sentences using 13 chars .

Doll .

Contains 17 words in 1 sentence using 90 chars .

Susanna closes her book and, rising, takes Woolley's arm. They go out laughing gayly. As they disappear Impatience enters hurriedly from the other side . Impatience .

Contains 20 words in 3 sentences using 99 chars .

Enter Babette, Prudence, Priscilla , and Marianna from different sides . Marianna, Babette, Prudence, and Priscilla .

Contains 4 words in 2 sentences using 20 chars .

Ethelinda puts her head in at the door, coyly . Ethelinda .

Contains 7 words in 1 sentence using 34 chars .

Oh — hullo girls .

Contains 6 words in 2 sentences using 29 chars .

Enter Janette , waving letter in her hand . Janette .

Contains 12 words in 3 sentences using 44 chars .

Omnes .

Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 4 chars .

Janette .

Contains 10 words in 2 sentences using 49 chars .

Impatience . ( Snatching letter from her hand and reading it .)

Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 16 chars .

Ethelinda .

Contains 4 words in 2 sentences using 17 chars .

The Rest . ( Indignantly .)

Contains 7 words in 2 sentences using 30 chars .

Enter Susanna , still holding Mr. Woolley's arm . Susanna . ( Joyously .)

Contains 8 words in 2 sentences using 45 chars .

All .

Contains 1 word in 1 sentence using 4 chars .

Susanna .

Contains 13 words in 3 sentences using 69 chars .

Doll takes centre of stage and looks sheepishly around . All . ( Glancing angrily at him .)

Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 24 chars .

Doll . ( Nervously .)

Contains 3 words in 1 sentence using 17 chars .

Impatience . ( Firmly .)

Contains 19 words in 2 sentences using 98 chars .

Doll .

Contains 2 words in 1 sentence using 11 chars .

Impatience .

Contains 6 words in 1 sentence using 30 chars .

( Music: "Now Is Not This Ridiculous," from "Patience." )

Contains 91 words in 5 sentences using 512 chars .

They all rush madly at Doll , who cowers before them, and each seizing hold of a worsted end they begin pulling him to pieces . Woolley writhes as the worsted unravels, and the stage goes dark. A moment later the stage lighting up again discloses girls all weeping in semicircle, except Impatience , who stands like an avenging goddess over a huge heap of worsted ravellings, mittens, shoes, and the face of Woolley — all that is left of the Worsted Man . Chorus ( Same as Opening Chorus .)

Contains 23 words in 3 sentences using 113 chars .

Impatience

Contains 10 words in 2 sentences using 49 chars .

All

Contains 2 words in 2 sentences using 14 chars .

Impatience

Contains 7 words in 2 sentences using 43 chars .

All

Contains 2 words in 2 sentences using 14 chars .

Impatience

Contains 8 words in 2 sentences using 38 chars .

All

Contains 2 words in 2 sentences using 14 chars .

Impatience

Contains 7 words in 2 sentences using 38 chars .

All

Contains 2 words in 2 sentences using 14 chars .

Chorus

Contains 23 words in 4 sentences using 120 chars .

All

Contains 2 words in 2 sentences using 14 chars .

Solo: Impatience ( To Woolley's remains .)

Contains 32 words in 4 sentences using 179 chars .

All

Contains 2 words in 2 sentences using 14 chars .

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