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The people at dinners. Florentia. Oh. they don't say anything in particular. Dorriforth. Doesn't that seem to show the effort isn't very suggestive? Amicia. The conversation at dinners certainly isn't. Dorriforth. I mean our contemporary drama. To begin with, you can't find it there's no text. Florentia. No text? Auberon. So much the better! Dorriforth.
So much the better if there is to be no criticism. There is only a dirt prompter's book. One can't put one's hand upon it; one doesn't know what one is discussing. There is no "authority" nothing is ever published. Amicia. The pieces wouldn't bear that. Dorriforth. It would be a small ordeal to resist if there were anything in them. Look at the novels! Amicia. The text is the French brochure.
It's a morceau de vie, as the French say. Auberon. Oh, don't begin on the French! Amicia. It's a French experiment que voulez-vous? Auberon. English experiments will do. Dorriforth. No doubt they would if there were any. But I don't see them. Amicia. Fortunately: think what some of them might be!
'Some of the sailors who accompanied Frederick were taken, and there was a court-martial held on them on board the Amicia; I believed all they said in their defence, poor fellows, because it just agreed with Frederick's story but it was of no use, and for the first time during the conversation Mrs.
By the resignation of Amauri, his brother, the constable of France, he had succeeded to the estates of his mother Amicia, the elder of the two sisters and coheiresses of the late Earl of Leicester: his subsequent marriage with Eleanor, the King's sister, had brought within his view the prospect of a crown; and his marked opposition to the extortions of the King and the pontiffs had secured to him, though a foreigner, the affection of the nobility, the clergy, and the people.
When Matilda died in 1219, the old gallows on which the abbess had had the right of hanging offenders condemned by her court, fell into disuse, but the right was restored by the King to Amicia. Towards the end of the century, episcopal visitations began, and the Bishop of Winchester looked into various disorders that had grown up among the abbesses and sisters.
Richard remembered stories current in the family, of their grandmother, Amicia, Countess of Leicester in her own right, being forced when a young girl to wed the stern grim old persecuting Simon de Montfort, and how vain had been her struggles against her doom.
Dorriforth. Auberon hates generalizations. Nevertheless I make bold to say that we go to the theatre in the same spirit in which we read a novel, some of us to find one thing and some to find another; and according as we look for the particular thing we find it. Auberon. That's a profound remark. Florentia. We go to find amusement: that, surely, is what we all go for. Amicia.
There will be little illustrations of costume stuck about dressed manikins; but they'll have nothing to say: they won't even go through the form of speech. Amicia. What a hideous prospect! Dorriforth. Not necessarily, for we shall have grown used to it: we shall, as I say, have buried our dead.
It was all extremely quiet and comfortable, and I don't in the least recognize Dorriforth's lurid picture of the dreadful conditions. There was no scenery at least not too much; there was just enough, and it was very pretty, and it was in its place. Dorriforth. And what else was there? Florentia. There was very good acting. Amicia.
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