An ideal husband
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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: IMPORTANCE Characters Lord Illingworth. Sir John Pontefract. Lord Alfred Rufford. Mr. Kelvil, M.P. The Yen. Archdeacon Daubeny, D.D. Gerald Arbuthnot. Farquhar (Butler). Francis (Footman). Lady Hunstanton. L...
MorePurchase 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: IMPORTANCE Characters Lord Illingworth. Sir John Pontefract. Lord Alfred Rufford. Mr. Kelvil, M.P. The Yen. Archdeacon Daubeny, D.D. Gerald Arbuthnot. Farquhar (Butler). Francis (Footman). Lady Hunstanton. Lady Caroline Pontefract. Lady Stutfield. Mrs. Allonby. M1ss Hester Worsley. Alice (Maid). Mrs. Arbuthnot. The Scenes Of The Play Act I. The Terrace at Hunstanton Chase. Act II. The Drawing-room at Hunstanton Chase. Act III. The Hall at Hunstanton Chase. Act IV. Sitting-room in Mrs. Arbuthnot's House at Wrockley. Time- The Present. Place- The Shires. The action of the play takes place within twenty-four hours. ACT I SCENE.- Lawn in front of the terrace at Hunstanton. ('SiR John and Lady Caroline Pontefract, Miss Worsley, on chairs under large yew tree.) Lady Caroline. I believe this is the first English country house you have stayed at, Miss Worsley? Hester. Yes, Lady Caroline. Lady Caroline. You have no country houses, I am told, in America? Hester. We have not many. Lady Caroline. Have you any country? What we should call country? Hester (smiling). We have the largest country in the world, Lady Caroline. They used to tell us at school that some of our states are as big as France and England put .together. Lady Caroline. Ah! you must find it very draughty, I should fancy. (To Sir John.) John, you should have your muffler. What is the use of my always knitting mufflers for you if you won't wear them? Sir John. I am quite warm, Caroline, I assure you. Lady Caroline. I think not, John. Well, you couldn't come to a more charming place than this, Miss Worsley, though the house is excessively damp, quite unpardonably damp, and dear Lady Hunstanton js sometimes a little lax about.the people she asks down here. (To Sir JoHNj Jane mixes to...
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