Plays: Second Series: The Eldest Son, The Little Dream, Justice, Volume 2,Bagian 4C. Scribner's sons, 1917 - 217 halaman |
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BILL billiard-room cashier cell CHAPLAIN cheque cheque-book CHESHIRE rises CHRISTINE CLEAVER clerk CLIPTON COKESON comes corridor CORYBANTIC counterfoil COW HORN COWBELLS COWLEY dance dark Davis dead silence dear door doorway EDELWEISS eyes face FALDER father FELSMAN FLOWERS follows FREDA FROME GENTIAN gentlemen girl give GOATHERD goes Good-morning GOVERNOR hand HAROLD Honeywill Italy JACKSON JAMES and WALTER JOAN JOHN GALSWORTHY JUDGE jury keep KEITH LADY CHESHIRE LAMOND LATTER little soul look lordship MABEL married Miss Lanfarne morning mother Mountain air moves never nods O'CLEARY outer office prisoner remember Ronny ROSE round RUTH SCENE SEELCHEN seen shakes her head silence SIR WILLIAM sits sleep smile sorry sort sound speak stands staring STUDDENHAM sudden suddenly SWEEDLE tell Thank thee There's thing thou told turns voice What's window WINE HORN WISTER woman WOODER workroom Ye-es young Dunning
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Halaman 83 - FALDER'S hands are seen moving as if his spirit had already joined in this beating, and the sound swells till it seems to have entered the very cell. He suddenly raises his clenched fists. Panting violently, he flings himself at his door, and beats on it.
Halaman 68 - I can't help thinking that to shut him up there by himself '11 turn him silly. And nobody wants that, I s'pose. I don't like to see a man cry. THE CHAPLAIN. It's a very rare thing for them to give way like that. COKESON. [Looking at him — in a tone of sudden dogged hostility] I keep dogs. THE CHAPLAIN. Indeed? COKESON. Ye-es. And I say this: I wouldn't shut one of them up all by himself, month after month, not if he'd bit me all over.
Halaman 49 - Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself. Is this young man to be ground to pieces under this machine for an act which at the worst was one of weakness ? Is he to become a member of the luckless crews that man those dark, ill-starred ships called prisons? Is that to be his voyage — from which so few return ? Or is he to have another chance, to be still looked on as one who has gone a little astray, but who will come back ? I urge £>u, gentlemen,...
Halaman 83 - A sound from far away, as of distant, dull beating on thick metal, is suddenly audible. FALDER shrinks back, not able to bear this sudden clamour.
Halaman 49 - ... intention when he committed the prime act from which these subsequent acts arose; no — they are merely evidence of the weak character which is clearly enough his misfortune. But is a man to be lost because he is bred and born with a weak character? Gentlemen, men like the prisoner are destroyed daily under our law for want of that human insight which sees them as they are, patients, and not criminals.