L'Œuvre nouvelle.
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LITERARURE
A decently but inelegantly furnished room where
Margaret lives. A little stove, a table, a small
table,Mr. Stool and cupboard; two windows at back;
oors I and R.
SCENÉ I.
Clement leans back in an arm-chain very elegantly
dressed in grey sack owat (morning get up. He is
sm Ettkng aÓgjrette and reads the newspaper. As
the curtain soles, Margaret stands at the window-
then goes to and fromin the room. She is restless)
Cle.
(As he read, he catches and hisses her hand)
Horner has made sure of his business- or rather of mine-
Waterloo five to one - Barometer twenty to one – Busserl seven
G.C.H.P.
to one - Attila boxteen to one.
Mag.
Mm. Foblerins dee
Sixteen to one?
Cle.
Lord Byron one half to one, here we are my pet.
Mag.
I know.