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قراءة كتاب The Revolt A Play In One Act
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SUSAN. I call that a very noble and uplifting ambition for a modern young lady.
PAULINE.
Listen:—
On the wild tumultuous water
SUSAN. Oh, how dear!
ALL. Oh, how dear!
PAULINE.
And cut throats, and swear, and swagger.
SUSAN, Hear! Hear!
All. Hear! Hear!
PAULINE.
I would see my victims lying;
And I'd laugh out loud and louder
As I smelled the blood and powder,
For I'd be a roaring pirate,
Be a swearing, tearing pirate,
Bloody-bones, the heartless pirate,
With a cruel, cruel eye.
SUSAN. I consider Bloody-bones a very sweet name for a young lady pirate. Very!
PAULINE. Yes, mam. (curtseys) So, if it's all the same to you, I'd like to be a pirate, mam, SUSAN. Certainly. A pirate's life is a very mannish occupation.
KATE. Wouldn't it be lovely to be a pirate! It is much more interesting than being a doctor.
PAULINE. Yes, Miss Kate. And there's no scrubbin' on a pirate craft. The wash of the sea is merely a poetical term. And if the men is drove off the land, they'll take to ships, do you see, and there'll be plenty of work for a respectable, blood-thirsty lady pirate to do, catchin' 'em and extinguishing 'em.
GRACE. Oh, girls, wouldn't it be lovely to be pirates?
SUSAN. Then be pirates! The Militant Suffragettes need a navy as well as an army. Every revolution needs its privateers.
KATE. No more sewing! (gathers up sewing and throws it down)
PAULINE. No more scrubbin'. (throws away mop and brush)
GRACE. No more rag bags! (takes rag bag from chair, and is about to throw it, when red rags fall out)
PAULINE. Hold on, Miss GRACE! Pirates is mostly dressed out of rag bags, (winds red rag around GRACE's head, and a red rag as sash. All do likewise) Wait till I get the swords, (exit PAULINE)
KATE, (front, with clenched fists) OO—I feel blood-thirsty!
SUSAN. And you look extremely blood-thirsty.
GRACE, OO—I feel ferocious!
SUSAN. And you look too ferocious for anything.
EDITH. OO—I feel wicked!
SUSAN. You are certainly a fear-compelling sight.
IDA. OO—I feel murderous!
SUSAN. You look like a most criminal character.
Mat. OO—I feel dangerous!
SUSAN. You look extremely dangerous.
PAULINE. (entering with table knives, etc.) OO—I feel like if I seen a cake of soap I could kick it! (she distributes knives)
SUSAN. Reserve your wrath for the men. (drawing them all to her) Hist! To-night—at dead of night—we will capture—a lumber schooner—at Copp's lumber yard—
All. Aye! Aye! Mam!
SUSAN. To-night—at dead of night—meet me—at the corner of—Main and Broadway!
All. Aye! Aye! Mam!
SUSAN. To-night—at dead of night—we will strangle the watchmen—
KATE. At dead of night? I don't think we ought to strangle watchmen at dead of night unless we have a chaperone, do you girls?
SUSAN. Nonsense! What kind of Suffragettes are you to need a chaperone? I don't have a chaperone.
GRACE. Well, I don't care! I'm not going out strangling at night without a chaperone! It isn't proper.
SUSAN. But you are a pirate.
EDITH. I don't care if we are pirates. We don't have to be improper pirates. I want to strangle and murder in a perfectly proper manner.
PAULINE. How about takin' the old lady with you?
KATE. Grandma Gregg? Why, she's no Suffragette. Oh, girls! The very thing! We will take Grandma Gregg! We'll capture her! We'll take her, in chains!
SUSAN.