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The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Notorious Mrs. Ebbsmith, by Arthur Wing
Pinero
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Title: The Notorious Mrs. Ebbsmith
Author: Arthur Wing Pinero
Release Date: March 14, 2005 [eBook #15357]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)
***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE NOTORIOUS MRS. EBBSMITH***
E-text prepared by Stephen Bishop <sbishop100@btinternet.com>
THE NOTORIOUS MRS. EBBSMITH
by
ARTHUR WING PINERO
THE PERSONS OF THE PLAY
AGNES
LUCAS CLEEVE
SYBIL CLEEVE
SIR SANDFORD CLEEVE
DUKE OF ST. OLPHERTS
GERTRUDE THORPE
REV. AMOS WINTERFIELD
SIR GEORGE BRODRICK
DR. KIRKE
FORTUNE
ANTONIO POPPI
NELLA
HEPHZIBAH
The Scene is laid in Venice--first at the Palazzo Arconati, a lodging
house on the Grand Canal; afterwards in an apartment in the Campo
S. Bartolomeo.
It is Easter-tide, a week passing between the events of the First and
Second Acts.
THE FIRST ACT
The Scene is a room in the Palazzo Arconati, on the Grand Canal,
Venice. The room itself is beautiful in its decayed grandeur, but the
furnishings and hangings are either tawdry and meretricious or avowedly
modern. The three windows at the back open on to a narrow covered
balcony, or loggia, and through them can be seen the west side of the
canal. Between recessed double doors on either side of the room is a
fireplace out of use and a marble mantelpiece, but a tiled stove is
used for a wood fire. Breakfast things are laid on the table. The sun
streams into the room.
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