Litchfield enquirer., 1878-08-01
APPLES :: A COMEDY.


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 Claud.-Then why did you offer to sit for me?
 Lady Roedale.-Why? Why It's too hot to give reasons. Perhaps because your studio is the coolest place in Rome Or shall l mere ly say that sit to you because choose?
 C.-That's better. You always did what you wished. And now you are free. You delight i in your liberty.
 suggestive of violent emotion. I detest vio- lence.
 C.-You say with Hamlet, ''Man delights me
 Lady RI say nothing with Hamlet. Heav- en defend me from such presumption and be- sides, Hamlet was bore, and thought too much of himself 1 C,-Heaven defend you from presumption But any way you agree. You don't like man, and you do like libertys
 Lady R.-I prefer liberty of the two. A widow can do what she pleases, and, and this is far better-she need not do anything which bores her.
 C.-Ah, there you are wrong. Your liberty is sham You are bound by thousand silk threads of society. Your conduct is modified by the criticisms of dozen tea tables. Trip pet takes your cup, and sees that your eyes are red. By the way they are red =
 Lady R,-Thank you. If 1 am looking frightful, had better finish this sitting. C.-Your eyes are red off runs Trippet with the news, Lady Roedale has been cry ing Why? Why of course because the Mar chese has left Rome-says Trippet.
 Lady R-Does he? Trippet is odious, and so is the Marchese, Narcissns stuffed and dyed, who has been in love with himself for seventy years. You are all insrfferable, all you men.
 CT beg your pardon.
 Lady R.-Oh, don't. If you were not so to have snappish little dog, such dear, that parked when I dozed. He was very good for me, but he died.
 C.-And when die, should recommend a parrot.
 Lady RIA parrot! A very good idea A parrot to say, ''Wake up, my lady" Will you get him for me? l C.-I shall be dead. He is to replace me, you know
 Lady R.-No; shouldn't like that like you best, after all.
 C.-That is very kind of you. I believe you do like me, when you remember my ex- 1 istence.
 Lady R-You wouldn't have me think of you all day. A man always about is insuffera- ble.
 C.-Everything is insufferable or edious to- day.
 Lady R,-Do you think SO | C.-I mean that you think so.
 Lady R.-How can you know what I think am sure don't know what think. It is SO hot. I ought not to have sat today but after all, as said, your studio is the coolest place in Rome.
 C.-My room is better than my company.
 Lady RI hate jokes in hot weather They remind me of Laughter holding both his sides'' and tables in roar, and all sorts of violent things.
 Cts no good. can't get on. You look so lazy and indifferent l hate that expres-
 Lady RI am sorry that my appearance is repulsive.
 C.-I wish it were But no matter. We were saying were we saying Oh, re- member. You were saying that you could not bear to have man always about the house. Lady R.-I have been married. Glow can you bear to talk of that
 Lady RI don't know. (She yaaons and stretches cut Aer armas laztIy.) am free now. C.-Are you so in love with freedom |?
 Lady R.-In love! don't like the expres- sion. ''In love- is vile phrase. 1 C.-And you think yourself free. Did notl 1 tell you that you can't move hand or foot with out being talked about; that you can't buy bonnet without being married to some fool; that you can't pass club window without set ting fippant tongues wagging, nor stay at the reason? didn't tell you Lady R.-Yes, you did.
 CT wish had the right to stop their tongues
 Lady R.-You are very old friend. l C.-that's not enough.
 Lady R.-How hot it is l C.-Very. Will you be so kind as to turn your head little more to the left?
 Lady R Oh dear, how cross you are :! and you ought to be so happy. You are not lik9 me. You have something to do. You can stand all day and smudge on color. CA nice occupatian -smudging on color.
 Lady R.-One can't select ones words ln hot weather. I wish could smudge.
 C.-You can sit for pictures. Lady R.-A fine occupation. To be perch ed on platform, with stiff neck, and cross painter, Heine without poetry. believe that you are only painting my gown. I shall l C.-Your gown will be less cruel. GIG puts doaon his painting tools.) Why do youplay with me like this? Lady R.-Play? was not aware 1 was do- ing anything so amusing. C.-It must end some day.
 Lady R.-Everything ends-even the hot weather. | C.-Clara
 Lady R.-Now, please don't quarrel We have always been good friends, you and l. C.-Friendsl Yes.
 Lady R.-Do let me alone.
 C.--Very we'll As you please The head | 8 little more up. Thanks. Gle tales uD his painting toOls.) You don't look well.
 Lady R.-I am sorry that leok ugly.
 C.-You don't look ugly. How irritating ycu are!
 Lady RI am sorry that amso disagreea- ble.
 l .C.-Oh! shall spoil the picture. Perhaps it will be more like the original. l Lady R.-Spoiled Oh, Claud, I do wish you wouldn't be funny till the weather is cool | CT. It's almost vulgar. Besides I am not spoiled. Not in the least. am generally slighted. No woman was ever 90 neglected. I am not fast enough to be success. But to be fast in this heat Oh, dear me it's tiresome enough to be slow.
 CT am glad that you are no faster-not that it is any business of mine, as you were about to say. The chin a littlemore up Thank you.
 Lady R.-How kind of yeu to talk for me It saves me so much trouble. Go on; say what else I am about to say. You amuse l me.
 C.-I am glad to do what can for you. will talk for you, walk for you, fetch and car y Aoi yOus AVC IoI you, uiC IOE yOu, auu SO- |. Lady R.-Mocker! Heine
 C.-"Without the poetry." As you please. Take it as mockery.
 Lady R.-Allromance is mockery. Romance is as much out of date as good manners.
 C.-Was I rude again I beg your pardon.
 Lady R.-Only fashionably uncivil '1ts quite the thing. The best men talk of women as if they were horses.
 C.-And women treat men as if they were donkeys.
 Lady R.-Oh dear me- how quick you arel T wish was a jolly good fellow, with the last clown-gag, "You4l get yourself disliked, my boy" or ''Sports." How popular should be. But can't do it naturally. am not to the manner born. I am b0uTge0ise. Good heav- ems Perhaps I am genteel.
 C.-l though was to do your talking for you. As if any woman could be silent for ten minutes!
 Lady R.-Do you think wish to talk2 I