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diff --git a/43299-8.txt b/43299-8.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 77bdc07..0000000 --- a/43299-8.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,1463 +0,0 @@ -The Project Gutenberg EBook of Square Pegs, by Clifford Bax - -This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with -almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org - - -Title: Square Pegs - A Rhymed Fantasy For Two Girls - -Author: Clifford Bax - -Release Date: July 25, 2013 [EBook #43299] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SQUARE PEGS *** - - - - -Produced by Clarity, Charlie Howard, and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This -file was produced from images generously made available -by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) - - - - - - - - - - SQUARE PEGS - - A RHYMED FANTASY FOR - TWO GIRLS - - _By Clifford Bax_ - - - - -_By the Same Author_ - - -Poems Dramatic and Lyrical, 1911. A few remaining copies can be had -from Hendersons - - The Poetasters of Ispahan. A Comedy in Verse 1912. (_Out of print._) - Goschen - - A House of Words (Poems) Blackwell 5_s_ - - Here is a house of words - Built for the maker's mind. - Enter: and, if you will, stay with me long. - But, if you like it not, - Go with good grace. The man - Who builds his own house builds to please himself. - - Twenty-five Chinese Poems, _paraphrased by Clifford Bax_. Second - Edition Revised and Enlarged Hendersons 1_s_ - - Friendship (An Essay) Batsford 3_s_ - - Antique Pageantry: Four Plays in verse (including The Poetasters). - (_In the Press_) - - - - -SQUARE PEGS - - -[Illustration] - - - - - SQUARE PEGS - - _A Rhymed Fantasy for Two Girls_ - - - BY - - CLIFFORD BAX - - - LONDON: HENDERSONS - - 66 CHARING CROSS ROAD, W.C. - - 1920 - - - - - _To_ - - H. F. RUBINSTEIN - - - - -_This play was first performed at Farthingstone on June 19th, 1919, by -Phyllis Reid (Hilda Gray) and Margot Sieveking (Gioconda), having been -written at their request._ - - - - -SQUARE PEGS - - -CHARACTERS. - - HILDA A MODERN GIRL. - - GIOCONDA A FIFTEENTH CENTURY VENETIAN. - - -SCENE. - -_A Garden. Entrance right and left. Left, a table and two chairs. (The -general effect should suggest a little lawn which leads outward in -several directions.)_ - -_The arrival of a taxicab is heard, off. Enter left_, HILDA _in -summer hat and dress and with a light cloak on her arm. She carries a -folding-map and a small book._ - -HILDA (_speaking off, left_). - - What's that? As certain as your name's Joe Billings - The taximeter points at fifteen shillings. - Well, and you've had a pound. What? Made a slip? - _I_ thought five shillings was a handsome tip. - You want my father's home-address? 'The Haven, - Chad Crescent, Baystead, North-West 57.' - He'll write you out a cheque--I'm sure he will. - - [_Sound of a motor-horn growing fainter._ - - The creature's gone. These taxi-men! But still-- - At last I've found the Enchanted Garden... Wait: - Suppose that isn't really Merlin's Gate, - Nor this the garden where a girl who loathes - Our Twentieth Century (all except its clothes) - May turn the Book of Time to any page - And find herself back in a lovelier age? - The map will show. Yes, there's the gate, and there's - That wall, that table, these two empty chairs... - Everything's right. How wonderful, how splendid, - To know that here the roar of time has ended! - Now, let me see... [_Consulting her map._ - - If I should take that road - What century should I have for my abode? - 'To Ancient Rome.' Lovely! - - [_She starts to go out, right. Then stops._ - - It might be serious, - Though, if I chanced on Nero or Tiberius. - The Romans had no manners... This way here-- - So the map says--would lead me to the year - Ten-sixty-six. I won't be such a fool - As go back where I stuck so long at school. - William the First was always dull. I know - He'd make me listen to him--standing so, - With Bayeux hands, knee crookèd, and neck bowed-- - While he read all the Domesday Book aloud. - I shan't go there... Now, that's a pretty view! - - [_Referring to the map._ - - 'The Eighteenth Century: Boswell Avenue.' - I might try that. But no--that won't do either. - I'd have to wear a wig or tell them why there, - Love coffee-houses more than trees and birds - And talk in such tremendously long words. - I know, I know! If I can find the way - I'll wander back into the sumptuous day - When, in his gardens near the warm lagoon, - Titian gave feasts under the stars and moon. - That would be heavenly! Those were noble times. - There was a grandeur even about the crimes - Of people like the Borgias ... and their dresses, - And the sweet way they wore their hair in tresses, - And--oh, and everything! What was Titian's date? - I mustn't err into a time too late; - But how to make quite sure? I'll take a look - In this adorable fire-coloured book-- - Addington Symonds... Oh, that I knew more! - Was it in fifteen-sixty or before? - - [_Settling herself in one of the chairs, she becomes absorbed - in her book. Enter, right_, GIOCONDA _carrying two or - three modern novels_. - -GIOCONDA (_speaking off, right_). - - I thank you, gondolier. You drowned my nurse - With true dramatic finish. Take this purse. - So--I am in that Garden where time speeds - Backward or forward as our fancy needs. - How sick I am of cloaks and ambuscades, - Of poison, daggers, moonlight serenades, - Of those dull dances that are all _I_ get-- - Pavane, gavotte, forlana, minuet-- - And the long pageant of our life at Venice! - Now, in the Twentieth Century there is tennis, - With cream and strawberries round a chestnut-tree, - And day-long idling in the June-blue sea, - And soda-fountains, too, and motor-cars, - And Henley Weeks and Russian Ballet 'stars.' - Oh, what a wealth of joy that century has! - To think that I myself may learn to jazz! - Truly, I judge it has no slightest flaw-- - The glorious age of Bennett, Wells, and Shaw. - - [_She sets her books on the table and curtsies to them._ - - Gramercy now--Shaw, Bennett, Wells, and Co.-- - Since you have shown me what I longed to know, - How to behave, talk, smoke, and bob my hair - In nineteen-twenty, when at last I'm there. - Could I but find a guide! How shall I tell - Which road to follow? If I listen well - I ought to hear the roaring of their trains, - Their motor-horns, their humming monoplanes... - - [_She listens intently for a moment._ - - The very bees are silent... [_Seeing_ HILDA. - - Who is that? - Surely, unless the books have lied, her hat - Came from 'Roulette's,' in Portman Square, West One! - A Twentieth-Century girl! The thing is done-- - I need but ask her which way London lies. - - [_Kissing her hand, right._ - - Farewell, Rialto! Farewell, Bridge of Sighs! - - [_She goes up to_ HILDA _and curtsies ceremoniously_. - - Dear Signorina ... Signorina ... Deep - In Bennett's fragrant works, or can she sleep? - Could _The Five Towns_ have bored her? Let me try - Once more. Most noble Signorina... - -HILDA (_starting up_). - - Why, - Who are you, lady? By your dress and ways - I think you must have come from Titian's days. - -GIOCONDA. - - Indeed, I do. Old Titian! How he talks! - He did my portrait last July in chalks. - But grant me the great liberty, I pray, - Of asking what your name is... - -HILDA. - - Hilda Gray. - -GIOCONDA. - - How sweet and to the point! - -HILDA. - - And yours? - -GIOCONDA. - - Gioconda - Francesca Violante Giulia della Bionda. - -HILDA. - - It is a poem in itself! It shines - Like the soft sheen on Tasso's velvet lines. - What can have led you to forego an age - When life was an illuminated page - From some superb romance? - -GIOCONDA. - - And what, I wonder, - Can have torn you and your rich time asunder? - -HILDA. - - I'll tell you, for I'm sure you'll sympathise. - I have a lover... - -GIOCONDA. - - That is no surprise. - -HILDA. - - And by the post this morning came a letter-- - -GIOCONDA. - - From him? - -HILDA. - - From him. - -GIOCONDA. - - What could have happened better? - -HILDA. - - Ah! naturally you think that Harry writes - Of longing, suicide, and sleepless nights. - Did he, I'd read his letters ten times over-- - But you don't know the Twentieth Century lover. - Oh, for a man who'd write through tears, all swimmily, - And woo me with grand metaphor and simile! - I couldn't bear the slang that Harry used - In asking for my hand. - -GIOCONDA. - - So you refused! - -HILDA. - - Yes, and came here to seek a braver time. - -GIOCONDA. - - How odd! _I_ had a letter, all in rhyme, - Brought by a lackey to my father's gate - Just when dawn broke. As if I couldn't wait! - He dashed up, panting; and his horse's mouth - Was flecked with blood and foam... - -HILDA (_clasping her hands_). - - The passionate South! - -GIOCONDA. - - The fellow gave the letter, gasped, went red, - And straightway horse and lackey fell down dead. - I scanned the note, observed the flowery phrases - In which the writer smothered me with praises; - Compared them with the style of Bernard Shaw, - And told him briskly that he might withdraw. - -HILDA. - - If I could see that letter! - -GIOCONDA. - - So you shall, - Sweet friend--or, rather, right you are, old pal. - I'll read it. - - [_She produces a letter tied with rose-coloured ribbon._ - -HILDA. - - Do!... I see his passion's flood - Demands red ink. - -GIOCONDA. - - Oh dear, no--that's his blood. - Now, listen. Did you ever hear a style - Quite so absurd? I call it simply vile. [_Reading._ - 'Adored Gioconda--glittering star - Unsullied by the dusty world, - Rich rose with leaves but half uncurled, - New Venus in thy dove-drawn car-- - Have pity: drive thy wrath afar. - Let Cupid's war-flag be upfurled, - Lest by thy gentle hand be hurled - The mortal bolt that leaves no scar. - - 'So prays upon his aching knee - Thy humble vassal, once the fear - Of Christendom, but now--woe's me!-- - One whose wild prayers Love will not hear, - Who treads the earth and has no home-- - Giulio Pandolfo, Duke of Rome.' - -HILDA. - - Gioconda, what a lover! - -GIOCONDA. - - So _I_ think-- - His brain a dictionary, his blood mere ink. - -HILDA. - - Oh, but _I_ mean how fine a lover! Would - That mine could pen a letter half so good! - -GIOCONDA. - - How does he write? - -HILDA. - - Write! Would you deign to call - _That_ 'writing'--this illiterate blotted scrawl? - - [_Reading._ - - 'Dear Hilda, if you buy _The Star_ - To-night, you mustn't for the world - Suppose he got my hair uncurled-- - That blighter who kyboshed the car. - He had the worst of it by far - Because the hood on mine was furled. - Good Lord! what steep abuse he hurled! - Yours, Harry--with a nasty scar. - - 'P.S.--The cut's above the knee, - And won't be right just yet, I fear - Oh, and what price you marrying me? - Anything doing? Let me hear. - Ring up to-morrow, if you're home. - Where shall we do our bunk? To Rome?' - - Now, wasn't that enough to make me mad? - It is a shame! It really is too bad! - 'Dear Hilda'--plain 'dear'! And what girl could marry - A man who, when proposing, ends 'yours, Harry'? - -GIOCONDA. - - I love his downright manner. In my mind - I see him, a tall figure; and, behind, - His old two-seater. Yes, I see him plainly-- - Close-cropped-- - -HILDA. - - Half bald. - -GIOCONDA. - - Slow-moving-- - -HILDA. - - And ungainly. - -GIOCONDA. - - A brow like H. G. Wells' my fancy draws, - An eye like Bennett's and a beard like Shaw's. - I know your Harry--just the English type, - A silent strong man married to his pipe, - With so few words, except about machines, - That he can never tell you what he means: - But were _I_ his, and we two went a-walking, - What should that matter? _I_ could do the talking. - -HILDA. - - Surely you see, Gioconda, I require - A lover who can make love with some fire. - -GIOCONDA. - - And I a lover so much overcome - By deep emotion that it leaves him dumb. - -HILDA. - - No poetry? Then, so far as I can tell, - The Twentieth Century ought to suit you well... - I've an idea! - -GIOCONDA. - - What is it? - -HILDA. - - This: that you - Show me how best you'd like a man to woo. - -GIOCONDA. - - I will, I will! - -HILDA. - - Imagine, then, that I - Am she for whom you say you'd gladly die. - This is my room at Baystead: that's the street: - You must come in from there-- [_Leading her, left._ - and then we meet. - -GIOCONDA. - - By Holy Church, a pretty sport to play! - God shield you, Signorina Hilda Grey! [_Exit left._ - -HILDA. - - Now--what's the time? It must be half-past four. - It is. I'll give him just one minute more. - - [_Looking at herself in a pocket-mirror, and making a toilet._ - - Goodness! I do look horrid... Will he bring - An emerald or a pearl engagement-ring? - He comes! I'll take pearls as a last resort. - -_Enter, left_, GIOCONDA (_carrying a pipe and a walking-stick_). - -GIOCONDA. - - Well, and how _are_ you? In the pink, old sport? - -HILDA. - - I'm glad to see you, Harry. Do sit down. - -GIOCONDA. - - 'Some' heat to-day, what? Even here. In town - Perfectly awful. Got a match? - - [_She tries in vain to light the pipe from a match struck by_ - HILDA. - - I say, - Old thing--you really look top-hole to-day. - -HILDA. - - Well, naturally: I knew that you were coming. - - [GIOCONDA _pulls at her pipe in silence, pokes the floor with - her stick, and shifts it from hand to hand._ - - You're very quiet. - -GIOCONDA (_with a start_). - - Oh! what's that you're thumbing? - - [_Goes over to_ HILDA _and looks over her shoulder._ - -HILDA. - - Addington Symonds. - -GIOCONDA. - - Any good? - -HILDA. - - Why--gorgeous! - You ought to read it--all about the Borgias. - -GIOCONDA. - - What are they? Oh, I see! I had enough - Up at the 'Varsity of that sort of stuff. - I say--oh, blast the thing, this pipe's a dud! - - [_She puts the pipe on the table._ - -HILDA. - - You smoke too much. They say it slows the blood, - And _that_ you simply can't afford. [_Pause._ - -GIOCONDA. - - I say-- - -HILDA. - - Well, what? - -GIOCONDA. - - You really look top-hole to-day. - -HILDA. - - How nice! But flattery always was your wont. [_Pause._ - -GIOCONDA. - - I say-- - -HILDA. - - That's just it, Harry dear--you don't. - -GIOCONDA. - - I came to ask you something... [_Producing a ring._ - Ever seen - A ring like this? Not a bad sort of green. - -HILDA (_taking it_). - - Emeralds! I worship emeralds. They enthrone - All the luxuriant summer in a stone. - Do let me just see how it looks! The third - Finger, I think, is generally preferred? - How splendid! Won't she be delighted? - -GIOCONDA. - - Who? - -HILDA. - - Your dear Aunt Kate. - -GIOCONDA. - - I bought the thing for you. - -HILDA. - - Harry! - -GIOCONDA. - - _You_ know--a what-d'you-call-it ring. - -HILDA. - - Engagement? - -GIOCONDA. - - That's the goods. And in the Spring - The parson gets our guinea. What about it? - -HILDA. - - See, how it fits! I couldn't do without it. - -GIOCONDA. - - Right-o! Then, that's that: good. But if you carry - A diary, jot down, 'Next Spring, marry Harry'-- - You might forget. You've got a diary? - -HILDA (_bringing a small diary from her bag_). - - Look-- - I did blush--buying an engagement-book! - -GIOCONDA. - - Well, how's the enemy? Good Lord! what a shock! - D'you know, old bean, it's more than five o'clock? - -HILDA. - - You'll have some tea? - -GIOCONDA. - - Can't. Sorry. Told two men - I'd play a foursome with them at 5.10. - You'd better make the fourth. - -HILDA. - - I really can't. - I've got some new delphiniums I _must_ plant. - -GIOCONDA (_going out, left_). - - See you to-morrow, then. - -HILDA. - - You'll drive me frantic - If you're not just the teeniest bit romantic! - -GIOCONDA. - - It isn't done. You're absolutely wrong - In asking me to do that stunt. So long! - - [_She tosses the pipe and stick off, left._ - - There! Did I play it well? You'd be my wife? - -HILDA (_sighing_). - - My dear, you played old Harry to the life-- - His gaucherie... - -GIOCONDA. - - His noble self-command... - -HILDA. - - The way he shifts his cane from hand to hand... - -GIOCONDA. - - A nervous trick that shows how much he feels... - -HILDA. - - All I know is--I'd have a man who kneels - And pours out passion in a style as rippling - As the best Swinburne--or at least as Kipling. - -GIOCONDA. - - Then I'll now be _your_ lady. To your part-- - Woo me as you'd be wooed! - -HILDA. - - With all my heart! - - [_Catching up her cloak, she flings it over her shoulder._ - - Last Miracle of the World, sainted, adored, - Divine Gioconda--hear me, I beg! - -GIOCONDA. - - My lord! - -HILDA. - - Dost know of passion? Is that heart so pure - As not to guess what torments I endure - Who for so long have sighed for thee in vain? - And wilt thou have no pity on my pain? - Wilt thou still spurn me as a thing abhorred - Whose only crime is to love thee? - -GIOCONDA. - - My lord-- - -HILDA. - - Stay! I will brook no answer. For thy sake - Did I not paint the town in crimson-lake? - Have I not wrenched thee through thy nunnery-bars? - And bear I not some ninety-seven scars - Taken as I fought my way to thy fair feet? - Think how thy relatives rushed into the street - To save thee--how I put them to the sword - And left them strewn about in heaps! - -GIOCONDA. - - My lord-- - -HILDA. - - Had I a boy's light love when I, to win - Thy favour, cut off all thy kith and kin? - Run through the list! Measure my love by that! - Two great-grandfathers (one, I own, was fat); - Five brothers; fourteen uncles; half a score - Of nephews (and I dare say even more); - A brace of maiden-aunts; a second-cousin; - And family connections by the dozen. - Does it not melt that pitiless heart of ice - To see thyself secured at such a price? - -GIOCONDA. - - My lord-- - -HILDA. - - Or if indeed thy heart requires - Flame fiercer than my love's Etnaean fires-- - Ask what thou wilt, but do not ask that I - Live on. Command me, rather, how to die. - Say in what style thou'dst have me perish here, - So that at least my ardour win one tear! - Choose what thou wilt--I'll execute thy charge-- - Nor fear to speak: my repertoire is large. - I can suspend myself upon a rafter; - Fall on my blade, and die with horrid laughter; - Leap from a height; read Bennett's books; or swallow - Poison--and, mark you, with no sweet to follow. - -GIOCONDA. - - My lord-- - -HILDA. - - Thy choice is made? - -GIOCONDA. - - My lord-- - -HILDA. - - Alack! - -GIOCONDA. - - I have accepted thee ten minutes back. - -HILDA. - - Then--I will deign to live. My castle stands - Four-towered among its olive-silvered lands. - Away! Away! Thou art all heaven to me! - - [_She drags_ GIOCONDA _right_. _They break._ - -GIOCONDA. - - Wonderful! That's Pandolfo to a tee! - -HILDA. - - I should adore him! - -GIOCONDA. - - And I Harry, too... - If only you were I and I were you! - But soft! since here we stand beyond the range - Of Time, why don't we swop? - -HILDA. - - You mean 'exchange'? - Why not? We will! [_Moving quickly, right._ - May Titian's age enfold me! - -GIOCONDA. - - Stop! Stop! You can't go yet. You haven't told me - Where I can find the Twentieth Century. - -HILDA (_leading her front, and pointing to the audience_). - - Then, - Behold its ladies and its gentlemen. - -GIOCONDA. - - What lovely people!... All the same, you know, - They're not as I have pictured them. - -HILDA. - - How so? - -GIOCONDA. - - They're all so still... And then--my fancy boggles - To see not one who's wearing motor-goggles! - How can I get among them? - -HILDA. - - You must jump - Down there. - -GIOCONDA. - - But that would mean a dreadful bump! - -HILDA. - - You want to go from fifteen-sixty sheer - To nineteen-twenty. 'Tis a jump, my dear... - And so--farewell! I come, I come at last-- - O fire and sound and perfumes of the Past! - - [_She goes out quickly, right._ - -GIOCONDA. - - Her eyes were green. However hard he tries, - Pandolfo never can resist green eyes. - I know he'll die for her and not for me. - Why did I let her go? It shall not be! - - [HILDA _enters, right._ - -HILDA. - - It shall not be! Why did I let her go? - Harry will love her more than me, I know. - Gioconda! - -GIOCONDA. - - Hilda! - -HILDA. - - Somehow, after all, - I can't let Harry go beyond recall. - I think of his good heart: I know how proud - I'll be to watch him through a dusty cloud - When his new car, balanced upon one tire, - Rolls roistering through the lanes of Devonshire. - -GIOCONDA. - - I too, fair friend, perceive with sudden terror - The greatness of my momentary error. - I mustn't let you risk the enterprise... - Pandolfo never could endure green eyes! - -HILDA. - - Let us each make the best of her own age! - -GIOCONDA. - - But sometimes you will write me--just a page? - -HILDA. - - I will indeed. And you? - -GIOCONDA. - - And so will I. - Hilda--farewell! - -HILDA. - - Gioconda, dear--good-bye! - - [_Standing in the middle of the stage, they take hands and kiss. - Then they come to the front, left and right._ - - So ends our fantasy--the slight design - Arisen and gone like sound in summer trees, - -GIOCONDA. - - The burden such as every mind may seize-- - That in all centuries life is goodly wine! - -HILDA. - - Which has the more of joy, her age or mine, - We leave you to determine as you please. - -GIOCONDA. - - Mine has the painting-schools--the Sienese, - Venetian and unchallenged Florentine. - -HILDA. - - Mine has the knowledge that our mortal pains - Are fleeing from the skilled physician's arts. - -GIOCONDA. - - Mine the delight of unspoiled hills and plains, - Fair speech, adventure, and romantic hearts. - -HILDA. - - And mine a sense that, by the single sun - That all men share, the world for man is one. - - - - -LONDON: STRANGEWAYS, PRINTERS. - - - - -_AT THE BOMB SHOP_ - -HENDERSONS - -66 Charing Cross Road - - -PLAYS - - By JOSIP KOSOR POST PAID - _s_ _d_ - People of the Universe 7 6 - Four Serbo-Croatian Plays: The Woman, Passion's - Furnace, Reconciliation, The Invincible Ship - - By AUGUST STRINDBERG - Advent. 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