Category: Humour
[_Angrily._] A Ghost! You're always so inaccurate! Nobody minds a spectre at the feast Less than Horatio, but a dozen spectres, All sitting round your hospitable board And clamouring for dinner, are a sight No one can bear with equanimity. Of course, I know it's different for...
However, there's nothing to be done, so I may as well accustom myself to the idea as soon as possible. [_Takes a broom and begins to sweep the floor._] You don't think your absu...
2. SCENE II.--_Before the New Wing of the Castle. The two Clowns,formerly grave-diggers but now employed with equal appropriateness as builders, are working on the structure in the extremely leisurely fashion to be expected of artizans who ar...
6. SCENE II.--_The deck of the English steamer. The vessel has gotoutside the shelter of the fiord, and is beginning to pitch a little in the long sea rollers. MRS. WANGEL is discovered groping her way cautiously up the companion in the darkne...
5. SCENE I.--_Beside the pond in the WANGELS' garden. It is aI don't mean Papa. What does it matter where Papa is! I mean The Stranger. The English steamer is at the pier. It arrived last night. [_Looks at MRS. WANGEL meaningly._]
3. SCENE I.--_The parlour of CHARLES MARLOW'S house. He and KATE are[_Touched by his evident sincerity._] Never mind. It's a shame to laugh at you. But you _are_ rather absurd, you know. [_She goes over and kisses him. He accepts the caress with...
1. Act I. HORATIO and FORTINBRAS come out of the house swathed in[_Angrily._] A Ghost! You're always so inaccurate! Nobody minds a spectre at the feast Less than Horatio, but a dozen spectres, All sitting round your hospitable board And clamo...