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قراءة كتاب Box and Cox: A Romance of Real Life in One Act.
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Box and Cox: A Romance of Real Life in One Act.
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Mrs. B. [Putting her head in at door.] The little second floor back room is quite ready!
Cox. I don’t want it!
Box. No more do I!
Cox. What shall part us?
Box. What shall tear us asunder?
Cox. Box!
Box. Cox! [About to embrace—Box stops, seizes Cox’s hand, and looks eagerly in his face.] You’ll excuse the apparent insanity of the remark, but the more I gaze on your features, the more I’m convinced that you’re my long lost brother.
Cox. The very observation I was going to make to you!
Box. Ah—tell me—in mercy tell me—have you such a thing as a strawberry mark on your left arm?
Cox. No!
Box. Then it is he!
[They rush into each other’s arms.
Cox. Of course we stop where we are?
Box. Of course!
Cox. For, between you and me, I’m rather partial to this house.
Box. So am I—I begin to feel quite at home in it.
Cox. Everything so clean and comfortable—
Box. And I’m sure the mistress of it, from what I have seen of her, is very anxious to please.
Cox. So she is—and I vote, Box, that we stick by her.
Box. Agreed! There’s my hand upon it—join but your’s—agree that the house is big enough to hold us both, then Box—
Cox. And Cox—
Both. Are satisfied!
[The Curtain Falls.
THE END.
Transcriber’s Note
This transcription is based on scanned images posted by the Internet Archive from a copy in the Library of Congress:
archive.org/details/boxcoxromanceofr00mort
The following changes were noted:
- p. 4: Mrs. Vernon—Inserted period after name for consistency.
- p. 4: R. C., Right of Centre—Inserted semicolon after “Centre”.
- p. 11: [Taking key, hung up, L. opens door…—Inserted comma after “L.”
- p. 13: Cox. Don’t flatter yourself, sir.—Changed “Cox” to “Box”.
- p. 13: Box. Hollo! [Turns round.]—Changed “Hollo!” to “Holloa” for consistency.
- p. 18: …and brings out the dice-box..—Deleted second period.
- p. 21: You propossd to her first!—Changed “propossd” to “proposed”.
- p. 23: Cox. [Both run to door, L. C., and eagerly listen.—Inserted the dialogue “Yours!” after “Cox.” and put the stage direction on the following line. This emendation follows the text of two other editions of the play that were inspected. The first, an 1889 edition published by Walter H. Baker & Co., is available through Google Books at books.google.com/books?id=Hms-AAAAYAAJ. The second, reprinted in a collection of John Maddison Morton’s plays, Comediettas and Farces, published in 1886 by Harper & Brothers, is available through the Internet Archive at archive.org/details/comediettasfarce00mort.
Variant spellings such as “trowsers,” “doating,” and “gulph,” and other inconsistencies of spelling not noted have been retained.
The html version of this etext attempts to reproduce the layout of the printed text. However, some concessions have been made. For example, the lists of abbreviations for exits and entrances and for relative positions on p. 4 were centered rather than coded as indented paragraphs to keep an abbreviation and the corresponding word or phrase on the same line and to prevent uneven spacing between words from line to line. In addition, stage directions printed flush right were placed on a separate line, then indented the same amount from the left margin and coded as hanging paragraphs.
In the text version of this etext, character titles preceding dialogue and character names in the stage directions have been rendered in all upper case letters.