Parting Friends 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 – Parting Friends, Tragedy [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. THE YOUNG MEN: MRS. WELBY: unclear MRS. EFFINGER: THE GIRLS: WAYLAND: CHORUS OF DISTRICT MESSENGERS: SALLY: EVELYN: THE STEWARD: EFFINGER: MRS. FARLANE: Comedy One-act Prose data extraction from source 1960 EVELYN:

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He presses her hand hard as it lies on the seat next him and tenderly crushes her arm and fingers intertwined with his. They are seated on one of the most restricted sofas in one of the remotest embrasures of the music-room on the Anglo-Teutonic-Batavian triple turbine wireless 30,000-ton Ritz restaurant steamer Merseyhaveldam, which is to sail in half an hour. Around their feet, and bulking well up to their knees, lie packages and bundles of farewell offerings, the poignancy of grief in them subdued by the gay ribbons and silken cords of their wrappings; boxes and sheaves of flowers abandoned hopelessly on the floor exhale a rank sweetness. The music-room seats are all occupied by preoccupied passengers, and there is an incessant coming and going, and laughing and talking everywhere. Tides of leave-takers swell and choke the passages outside, and pass in and out of the music-room. From time to time a young man enters and passes round the place on an apparently unsuccessful tour of discovery, which the couple in the secret nook do nothing to promote. The young man is tall and gangling, with a face to match his figure and a smile of inexhaustible amiability. He carries aloft a long pasteboard box . EVELYN, shuddering against the shoulder of Wayland with a deep sigh of escape, as the unsuccessful explorer makes one of his disappearances:

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EVELYN, smelling the bunch of violets which she presses to her nose with her free hand:

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EVELYN:

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WAYLAND:

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MRS. WELBY, struggling through the riveted furniture of the music-room, and the flux and reflux of passengers and their laughing, shouting, and talking friends:

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EVELYN:

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MRS. WELBY:

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EVELYN:

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MRS. WELBY:

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WAYLAND:

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He exchanges a furtive hand-pressure with Evelyn . MRS. WELBY:

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SALLY, indignantly :

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She gives him her hand . WAYLAND:

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SALLY:

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EVELYN, hastening to cover his confusion :

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MRS. WELBY:

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SALLY:

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EVELYN, pulling her down and kissing her :

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SALLY, irrelevantly :

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She indicates the box, held above the press and making its way irregularly about, as if seeking a positive direction . EVELYN:

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SALLY:

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MRS. WELBY:

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MRS. EFFINGER:

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EVELYN:

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She reaches for it . MRS. EFFINGER, giving it :

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MRS. WELBY:

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MRS. EFFINGER, with a cry to Evelyn :

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SALLY:

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EVELYN:

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MRS. WELBY:

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She rises . MRS. EFFINGER:

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WAYLAND:

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MRS. WELBY AND SALLY, kissing Evelyn :

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EVELYN:

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WAYLAND, in inexpressible protest :

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They bend over, in pretended scrutiny of the packages at their feet; a loud, jovial voice arrests them . EFFINGER:

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WAYLAND, fiercely :

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EVELYN, with a covert clutch of Wayland's hand :

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EVELYN, convulsively :

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WAYLAND, indignantly :

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EFFINGER, glancing round at the dense laughing and shouting throng in the music-room :

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EVELYN, wildly :

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EFFINGER:

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WAYLAND, with his eyes fastened on a tall form moving on the skirts of the crowd, with a long, narrow box borne aloft :

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EVELYN:

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WAYLAND:

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EFFINGER:

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EVELYN:

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EFFINGER, with intelligence :

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WAYLAND:

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CHORUS OF DISTRICT MESSENGERS:

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EFFINGER, merging himself with the crowd :

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EVELYN, bitterly :

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WAYLAND:

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WAYLAND, very seriously :

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MRS. FARLANE, with astonishment :

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She puts herself in position, and moves this way and that so as to intercept the view of the lingering witnesses in the music-room, and Evelyn and Wayland have risen for a parting embrace, when a joyous noise bursts upon them from a troop of young men and girls who come pushing into the place with incoherent cries . THE GIRLS:

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They drop their gifts at Evelyn's feet, and crowd Wayland from her with their multitude and successive embraces, while the young men shake hands with Wayland and Mrs. Farlane . THE YOUNG MEN:

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With wails from the girls and babbled and bubbled farewells, the party join in flight, and carry with them the tall figure of Mr. Framer, who has haunted the background with his box of roses, and, without attempting to leave it now, involuntarily vanishes . THE STEWARD:

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EVELYN, to Wayland :

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WAYLAND:

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EVELYN, flying to the window :

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MRS. FARLANE, at the next window :

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EVELYN:

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She kisses her hand; then she gives a cry of despair . MRS. FARLANE:

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EVELYN:

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She bursts into tears, and cowers away from the window, hiding her face in her handkerchief. Mrs. Farlane strikes an attitude of helpless and hopeless compassion . THE END