The Dramatic Works
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ISBN13: 9780217581042
Paperback|9780217581042
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE OLD MAID. (A COMEDY IN THREE ACTS.) Non tu mine liominum mores Tides ? Dum dos fit, nullum vitium vitio vertitur.?Plauhtt. ' Tb Old Maid was written at Leipzig daring the yean 1716?1748 DRAMATIS PERSONA Fraulein Ohldinn. Lelio, her cousin. Lisette, maid to Fraulein Ohldinh. Herr Oront. Frau Oront. Herr Von Stamp, a captain. Peter, a cake seller. Cutandeb, a friend of Lelio. Erausel, a poet. A Tailor. Herr Rehfuss. The scene is in a parlour. THE OLD MAID. ACT I. Scene I.?Fraulein Ohldinn, Herr Oront, Frau Oront Herr Or. Ah What whims One never grows too old for that. And how old are you, then ? How long is it since I saw you carried in the nurse's arms ? If it were fifty, one, two well, say some fifty years Fr. Ohl. Why not eighty at once ? If you take me to be as old as that why do you talk to me so much about marriage ? Herr Or. Oh, come now You are not too old Not at all too old. Four-and-fifty is just the right age for a marriageable girl. If the young things marry so young, it will follow that the children too Fr. Ohl. What nonsense about your four-and-fifty years ' Frau Or. (to Herr Or). Quite true. You are mistaken, my dear. You even cannot be as old as that yet. Herr Or. I should be glad if that were so. I and the century go along together. Have you anything to complain of in my age? Am I not still Frau Or. Well, well. Then you can't have known her as a child. Herr Or. Oh bother the child Fr. Ohl. If you won't believe me. my baptismal certificate can prove that I shall only be fifty next Easter. Herr Or. What? You only just fifty? I thought you were who knows how old. Ah Then your tine isnot past yet. Sarah was ninety years old. And to judge from your face, I should cert...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217581042 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217581048 |
| Weight | 0.81 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.56 In |
| List Price | $22.91 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 246 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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