Uncle Dick

Author : Ernest Stout
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ISBN 13 : 9781331049845
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (498 download)

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Download or read book Uncle Dick written by Ernest Stout and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-09 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Uncle Dick: An Original American Comedy in Four Acts Scene. - Miss Marjorie's reception room, well furnished: Upright piano, mirror, small table near front. Door right side; portierres in rear center showing hat rack in hall. Maid (Bella) arranging flowers in vase on piano; turns and walks forward on rise of curtain; pauses with back to hall entrance; begins talking when she turns. Bella. - More of them to-night! Well, that's cheerful. Let me see? (Counts on fingers). First it was - Tuesday night, Mr. Greene; Wednesday night, Mr. Todd; Thursday night, a chance for me and Jincks; Friday night, Mr. Brakeley, Saturday night, mine again. Now it's Mr. Brakeley Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday - Mr. Greene and Mr. Todd thrown in twice a week. Mr. Brakeley aint so bad, but he is frequent - I can stand him though - but Mr. Greene - Oh, Lord! (Laughs). It's a good thing some people aint responsible for their making, and Mr. Todd - why; if he had half a chance he'd make love to me. (Jincks enters hall door it noticed with with water set on tray, tip-toes to table, sets it down and listens. Bella looks in mirror, arranges her hair, surveys her figure, and sighs.) Well! why not? (meditatively). Humph! The objection is all on my side. He's rather old and has n't got hair enough to part. He's calling on Miss Marjorie, but - humph! contemptuously) - who would hesitate between an old maid like her and me? Leans meditatively against table). Did n't Claude Uclaire, the rich manufacturer in "Angelina's Love," marry Angelina. The only real fault with Mr. Todd is - that mole. It's plum color; but if he were to say, like Claude, (clasps hands, looks up, love sick), "Miss Simpkins - Arabella, ah! let me pronounce that beloved name! what is there about me to cause this cruel repulsion?" Could I say, "Mr. Todd, it's that mole." But there's Jincks!" (Sighs.) Jincks. - (Who has been going through pantomime of surprise steps forward and confronts her). - "No! Miss Simpkins - Arabella, (mimics her), here's Jincks! Here's Jincks! (Bows. Bella first exhibits hysterical surprise, holds to table, recovers, turns up her nose disdainfully and struts out.) I never did like pudgy persons, (with great contempt), and him, bah! If Miss Marjorie and that man don't have a wedding in this house soon there'll be - a - funeral. (Shakes fist, highly incensed. Bell. Exit in high dudgeon. Admits Mr. Greene, who hands him cane, hat and coat at hall door, walks to table, takes off gloves. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.