The Blue Bird. Maurice Maeterlinck
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Название: The Blue Bird

Автор: Maurice Maeterlinck

Издательство: Bookwire

Жанр: Языкознание

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isbn: 4057664094438

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      MYTYL (who can hardly find room on the stool) I can't. …

      TYLTYL It's snowing! … There's two carriages, with six horses each! …

      MYTYL There are twelve little boys getting out! …

      TYLTYL How silly you are! … They're little girls. …

      MYTYL They've got knickerbockers. …

      TYLTYL What do you know? … Don't push so! …

      MYTYL I never touched you.

      TYLTYL (who is taking up the whole stool) You're taking up all the room …

      MYTYL Why, I have no room at all! …

      TYLTYL Do be quiet! I see the tree! …

      MYTYL What tree? …

      TYLTYL Why, the Christmas-tree! … You're looking at the wall! …

      MYTYL I'm looking at the wall because I've got no room. …

      TYLTYL (giving her a miserly little place on the stool) There! … Will that do? … Now you're better off than I! … I say, what lots and lots of lights! …

      MYTYL What are those people doing who are making such a noise? …

      TYLTYL They're the musicians.

      MYTYL Are they angry? …

      TYLTYL No; but it's hard work.

      MYTYL Another carriage with white horses! …

      TYLTYL Be quiet! … And look! …

      MYTYL What are those gold things there, hanging from the branches?

      TYLTYL Why, toys, to be sure! … Swords, guns, soldiers, cannons. …

      MYTYL And dolls; say, are there any dolls? …

      TYLTYL Dolls? … That's too silly; there's no fun in dolls. …

      MYTYL And what's that all round the table? …

      TYLTYL Cakes and fruit and tarts. …

      MYTYL I had some once when I was little. …

      TYLTYL So did I; it's nicer than bread, but they don't give you enough. …

      MYTYL They've got plenty over there. … The whole table's full. … Are they going to eat them? …

      TYLTYL Of course; what else would they do with them? …

      MYTYL Why don't they eat them at once? …

      TYLTYL Because they're not hungry. …

      MYTYL (stupefied with astonishment) Not hungry? … Why not? …

      TYLTYL Well, they eat whenever they want to. …

      MYTYL (incredulously) Every day? …

      TYLTYL They say so. …

      MYTYL Will they eat them all? … Will they give any away? …

      TYLTYL To whom? …

      MYTYL To us. …

      TYLTYL They don't know us. …

      MYTYL Suppose we asked them. …

      TYLTYL We mustn't.

      MYTYL Why not? …

      TYLTYL Because it's not right.

      MYTYL (clapping her hands) Oh, how pretty they are! …

      TYLTYL (rapturously) And how they're laughing and laughing! …

      MYTYL And the little ones dancing! …

      TYLTYL Yes, yes; let's dance too! … (They stamp their feet for joy on the stool.)

      MYTYL Oh, what fun! …

      TYLTYL They're getting the cakes! … They can touch them! … They're eating, they're eating, they're eating! …

      MYTYL The tiny ones, too! … They've got two, three, four apiece! …

      TYLTYL (drunk with delight) Oh, how lovely! … Oh, how lovely, how lovely! …

      MYTYL (counting imaginary cakes) I've got twelve! …

      TYLTYL And I four times twelve! … But I'll give you some. …

      (A knock at the door of the cottage.)

      TYLTYL (suddenly quieted and frightened) What's that? …

      MYTYL (scared) It's Daddy! …

      (As they hesitate before opening the door, the big latch is seen to rise of itself, with a grating noise; the door half opens to admit a little old woman dressed in green with a red hood on her head. She is humpbacked and lame and near-sighted; her nose and chin meet; and she walks bent on a stick. She is obviously a fairy.)

      THE FAIRY Have you the grass here that sings or the bird that is blue? …

      TYLTYL We have some grass, but it can't sing. …

      MYTYL Tyltyl has a bird.

      TYLTYL But I can't give it away. …

      THE FAIRY Why not? …

      TYLTYL Because it's mine.

      THE FAIRY That's a reason, no doubt. Where is the bird? …

      TYLTYL (pointing to the cage) In the cage. …

      THE FAIRY (putting on her glasses to examine the bird) I don't want it; it's not blue enough. You will have to go and find me the one I want.

      TYLTYL But I don't know where it is. …

      THE FAIRY No more do I. That's why you must look for it. I can do without the grass that sings, at a pinch; but I must absolutely have the blue bird. It's for my little girl, who is very ill.

      TYLTYL What's the matter with her? …

      THE FAIRY We don't quite know; she wants to be happy. …

      TYLTYL Really? …

      THE FAIRY Do you know who I am? …

      TYLTYL You're rather like our neighbour, Madame Berlingot. …

      THE FAIRY (growing suddenly angry) Not a bit! … There's СКАЧАТЬ