Major Barbara, Act III
Next day after lunch Lady Britomart is writing in the library in Wilton Crescent. Sarah is reading in the armchair near the window. Barbara, in ordinary dress, pale and brooding, is on the ttee. Charley Lomax enters. Coming forward between the ttee and the writing table, he starts on eing Barbara fashionably attired and in low spirits.关于年的作文
LOMAX. You've left off your uniform!
Barbara says nothing; but an expression of pain pass over her face.
LADY BRITOMART [warning him in low tones to be careful] Charles!
LOMAX [much concerned, sitting down sympathetically on the ttee beside Barbara] I'm awfully sorry, Barbara. You know I helped you all I could with the concertina and so forth. [Momentously] Still, I have never shut my eyes to the fact that there is a certain amount of tosh about the Salvation Army. Now the claims of the Church of England--
LADY BRITOMART. That's enough, Charles. Speak of something suited to your mental capacity.
LOMAX. But surely the Church of England is suited to all our capacities.
BARBARA [pressing his hand] Thank you for your sympathy, Cholly. Now go and spoon with Sarah.
LOMAX [rising and going to Sarah] How is my ownest today?
SARAH. I wish you wouldn't tell Cholly to do things, Barbara. He always comes straight and does them. Cholly: we're going to the works at Perivale St. Andrews this afternoon.
LOMAX. What works?
每日英语口语SARAH. The cannon works.
LOMAX. What! Your governor's shop!
SARAH. Yes.
LOMAX. Oh I say!
Cusins enters in poor condition. He also starts visibly when he es Barbara without her uniform.
BARBARA. I expected you this morning, Dolly. Didn't you guess that?
CUSINS [sitting down beside her] I'm sorry. I have only just breakfasted.
SARAH. But we've just finished lunch.
BARBARA. Have you had one of your bad nights?
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CUSINS. No: I had rather a good night: in fact, one of the most remarkable nights I have ever pasd.
BARBARA. The meeting?
CUSINS. No: after the meeting.
LADY BRITOMART. You should have gone to bed after the meeting. What were you doing?
CUSINS. Drinking.
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市场专员LADY BRITOMART. What were you drinking, may I ask?
CUSINS. A most devilish kind of Spanish burgundy, warranted free from added alcohol: a Temperance burgundy in fact. Its richness in natural alcohol made any addition superfluous.
BARBARA. Are you joking, Dolly?
CUSINS [patiently] No. I have been making a night of it with the nominal head of this houhold: that is all.消防演习预案
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LADY BRITOMART. Andrew made you drunk!
CUSINS. No: he only provided the wine. I think it was Dionysos who made me drunk. [To Barbara] I told you I was possd.
LADY BRITOMART. You're not sober yet. Go home to bed at once.
我的妈妈写话CUSINS. I have never before ventured to reproach you, Lady Brit; but how could you marry the Prince of Darkness?
LADY BRITOMART. It was much more excusable to marry him than to get drunk with him. That is a new accomplishment of Andrew's, by the way. He un't to drink.
CUSINS. He doesn't now. He only sat there and completed the wreck of my moral basis, the rout of my convictions, the purcha of my soul. He cares for you, Barbara. That is what makes him so dangerous to me.
BARBARA. That has nothing to do with it, Dolly. There are larger loves and diviner dreams than the fireside ones. You know that, don't you?
CUSINS. Yes: that is our understanding. I know it. I hold to it. Unless he can win me on that holier ground he may amu me for a while; but he can get no deeper hold, strong as he is.
BARBARA. Keep to that; and the end will be right. Now tell me what happened at the meeting?
CUSINS. It was an amazing meeting. Mrs Baines almost died of emotion. Jenny Hill went stark mad with hysteria. The Prince of Darkness played his trombone like a madman: its brazen roarings were like the laughter of the damned. 117 conversions took place then and there. They prayed with the most touching sincerity and gratitude for Bodger, and for the anonymous donor of the 5000 pounds. Your father would not let his name be given.
LOMAX. That was rather fine of the old man, you know. Most chaps would have wanted the advertiment.
CUSINS. He said all the charitable institutions would be down on him like kites on a battle field if he gave his name.
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LADY BRITOMART. That's Andrew all over. He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it.
