Dialogue following No. 2
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Dialogue following No. 2
Piscatore (softened). If you will only wait till half-past six, | |||||||
I promise you to let you have your way. | |||||||
Amandus. Thanks, kindly fisherman of middle age, | |||||||
A fellow feeling binds us. (Shakes hands with him.) I will wait! |
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Piscator. (cheerily). All things do come to him who can but wait, | |||||||
If he wait long enough. I'll to my sport! (He goes out.) | |||||||
(Enter Amanda across the bridge.) | |||||||
Amanda (resigned). At last my mind's made up--what's left of it, | |||||||
After the mouse-like gnawing of my woes, — And, once made up, that remnant is a dress Never to be unpicked! Oh! why, when I'm So very sad, is everything so gay? |
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