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Read Ebook: The Lonely Way—Intermezzo—Countess Mizzie Three Plays by Schnitzler Arthur Bj Rkman Edwin Translator
Font size: Background color: Text color: Add to tbrJar First Page Next Page Prev PageEbook has 2797 lines and 33086 words, and 56 pagesSALA Don't be so unjust to yourself, Professor. MRS. WEGRAT You must have been walking all that long way home again? WEGRAT MRS. WEGRAT Is she in Vienna? WEGRAT Just passing through. She intends to call on you. SALA Has she still got an engagement at Hamburg? WEGRAT No, she has left the stage, she told me, and is now living in the country with her married sister. JOHANNA I saw her once in a play of yours, Mr. von Sala. SALA Then you must have been a very small girl indeed. JOHANNA She played a Spanish princess. SALA Unfortunately. For princesses were not at all in her line. She has never in her life been able to treat verse properly. REUMANN And you can still bear that in mind, Mr. von Sala--that some lady on some occasion happened to handle your verse badly? SALA Well, why shouldn't I, my dear Doctor? If you were living at the center of the earth, you would know that all things are of equal weight. And were you floating in the center of the universe, you would suspect that all things are of equal importance. MRS. WEGRAT How does she look anyhow? WEGRAT She is still very pretty. SALA Has she preserved her resemblance to that portrait of hers which is hanging in the Museum? What portrait is that? JOHANNA Is her portrait really in the Museum? SALA Oh, you know it. In the catalogue it is labeled "Actress"--just "Actress." A young woman in the costume of a harlequin, over which she has draped a Greek toga, while at her feet lie a confused heap of masks. With her staring glance turned toward the spectators, she stands there all alone on an empty, dusky stage, surrounded by odd pieces of misfit scenery--one wall of a room, a forest piece, part of an old dungeon.... And the background shows a southern landscape with palms and plane trees...? SALA Yes, and it is partly raised so that still farther off you can see a pile of furniture, steps, goblets, chandeliers--all glittering in full daylight. But that's Julian Fichtner's picture? SALA Exactly. I had not the slightest idea that the figure of that woman was meant for Irene Herms. WEGRAT Twenty-five years have passed since he painted that picture. It caused a tremendous sensation at the time. It was his first big success. And to-day I suppose there are lots of people who no longer remember his name.--Come to think of it, I asked Irene Herms about him. But strange to say, not even his "perennial best girl" could tell where in this world he happens to be straying. I talked with him only a few days ago. WEGRAT What? You have seen Julian Fichtner? He was in Salzburg?--When? Only about three or four days ago. He looked me up, and we spent the evening together. A suburb near the western limits of Vienna and not far from the location indicated for the Wegrat home. SALA Add to tbrJar First Page Next Page Prev Page |
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