The Village Wizard

Ciw-restr ar gyfer Nan

(Merlin) {Holding up a partly-made pair of black trousers.}
 
(1, 0) 124 A penny for your thoughts, old wizard!
(Merlin) {Laughingly.}
 
(Merlin) Tuppence for yours, little witch!
(1, 0) 127 Not for sale!
 
(1, 0) 129 A present for you out of my pocket money.
 
(1, 0) 131 Oh!─Mr. Morgan─l didn't know you were here.
(Morgan) I─I just dropt in to see Merlin.
 
(Merlin) Never mind, Josiah─I will say when I go off on the spree, if you like.
(1, 0) 143 Oh, Merlin, you are making it all up as you go on.
(Merlin) {Smiling.}
 
(1, 0) 151 You turn words out of their meaning, you wicked man.
(Merlin) Keep you quiet, Nan, or I will be even with you directly.
 
(Merlin) Keep you quiet, Nan, or I will be even with you directly.
(1, 0) 153 I won't say another word.
 
(Merlin) I will have a new shop myself, so big as the Crystal Palace, and you shall come and live with me, and every young man in the place will be ordering clothes every day of the week─for the sake of coming to see you.
(1, 0) 159 You are an old tease!
(Josiah) Don't put such silly notions in the girl's head.
 
(Morgan) {Puts his hand into his, pocket, and brings out some money.}
(1, 0) 165 Oh, my goodness!
 
(1, 0) 167 You have said something now.
(Morgan) If I have, the fault is yours─{whispers}─your eyes bewitch me.
 
(1, 0) 173 I love poets─they have such a nice way of saying things.
(1, 0) 174 A common idea, pictured in beautiful words, ìs like a photograph of a common scene─so lovely, glittering in the sunshine!
(1, 0) 175 The muddy roads, dried up by the magic of the artist, the misty fogs and ill-odours banished by the camera, leave {turns her eyes up rapturously.} only the spell of the picturesque to charm the vision.
(Merlin) {Admiringly.}
 
(Merlin) That is the time when the froth do rise to a man's head, if he haven't got much balance.
(1, 0) 186 Why, you haven't been home to dinner.
(1, 0) 187 Come in, this minute, and have something to eat.
 
(1, 0) 189 If you don't take more care of yourself, I shall be very cross with you.
(Josiah) No beer, Nan─mind!
 
(1, 0) 268 What's the matter, Morgan?
(Morgan) {Taking Nan's hand.}
 
(Morgan) He has been my enemy all through, just because I love you.
(1, 0) 274 What has he been saying, now?
(Morgan) Oh, the old story.
 
(Morgan) I am only a fool to be plucked by the rooks─not fit for the responsibilities of a home.
(1, 0) 277 He didn't say that?
(Morgan) {Bitterly.}
 
(1, 0) 282 He wouldn't be so unkind.
(1, 0) 283 Success in business is everything to him, and he only meant to encourage you─I am sure.
(Morgan) How am I to get £50 in five minutes?
 
(1, 0) 286 You must be dreaming.
(1, 0) 287 Of course, it would be impossible.
(Morgan.) That was the condition.
 
(Morgan.) How a man gets it doesn't count.
(1, 0) 291 You mustn't say that.
(Morgan.) Forgive me, Nan!
 
(1, 0) 295 I am sure there is some misunderstanding.
 
(1, 0) 297 Oh, yes there is.
 
(1, 0) 299 I'll go and see Merlin, and tell him all about it; and you must see him, too.
(1, 0) 300 There is nothing he can't do─nothing he won't do for me.
(Morgan) And would it please you very much, Nan {looking into her eyes} if─if─we could somehow─if Merlin could help us to win your father's consent?
 
(1, 0) 303 You know it would.
(Morgan) {Rapturously taking her in his arms, just as Merlin peeps round the door-post.}
 
(Merlin) Ha! rascal! rascal!
(1, 0) 310 Oh!
 
(1, 0) 312 Tell him, Morgan─everything!