The Piper by Josephine Preston Peabody
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[agitated ]
Why would you have me smile? MICHAEL [passionately] Oh, when you smiled, It was--it was like sunlight coming through Some window there, [Pointing to the Minster] --some vision of Our Lady. [She drops her flowers.--He picks them up and gives them back slowly. BARBARA Who are you? You are some one in disguise. MICHAEL [bitterly] A man--that passes for a mountebank. BARBARA [eagerly] I knew! MICHAEL What then? BARBARA Thou art of noble birth. 'T is some disguise, this playing with the fire! |
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