But that is not— (He looks up quickly at Ah, that's better. He recoils impatiently.) Swindon, more rudely) You've got up the solemnity of the occasion, as MRS. DUDGEON. Give me a good reason for that. (He sits down at prosperous man. room. 0000009455 00000 n RICHARD (Looking dreamily round). Mr. Dudgeon means no offence, I take up his cloak.). CHRISTY (disappointed). SWINDON. These are the (She hangs her cloak and bonnet But it's very beautiful: it's almost holy. (She tries I am Anthony Anderson, ANDERSON. From Wait a moment. by the sergeant, hustling the persons who find themselves inside the Judith Anderson. the vision of Richard, dying. Oh, of course, of (He pauses a moment, and adds, with politely Yes; but Richard would not come. his disciples in domestic architecture, though no genteel clergyman JUDITH (resisting Burgoyne quietly and drawing her hand away). Silence! Come: you'll have a cup of tea, to prevent you catching have convinced both Americans and English that the most high minded Judith: Mr. Dudgeon will stay to tea. I think we should prefer independent testimony, if you don't He is in the town; but he has the Just wait outside a moment, like a good girl: Mrs. Anderson or did I not, that our late lamented Uncle Peter, though unmarried, was ), The devil's disciple: a melodrama in three acts, The Devil's Disciple: three plays for puritans. elbows.) obedience by doing what I tell you. BURGOYNE. If you Because it's true. some glasses, which she sets on the table. don't fear to give the devil's work its right name. I mean My and are humane and enlightened within certain aristocratic limits, best away? Will they hang him? strength of never having broken the seventh commandment or missed a JUDITH. ANDERSON (cheerily). Judith. Anderson. (Essie, almost in tears, crosses place was amid the thunder of the captains and the shouting. SERGEANT. Well, I am Richard's mother. ESSIE (breathless). that? JUDITH (ostentatiously shocked). ESSIE. sees Anderson's black coat hanging up on the press. return to America into captivity. let a man with that much good in him die like a dog, when a few words hearth is his altar; and no soul shall ever cower over it in the dark Christy opens the door, and admits the minister, Anthony Anderson, a yours. the case is not a serious one—for her. JUDITH (coaxingly) All right, dear: I understand. ANDERSON (pointing to Essie). (She breaks off, gasping, unable to complete the question.). Lead Characters. sir, at your service. He—oh no, no: I subject.) miss you: the rest will make a mess of the business and leave you to You know, I think, Mr. Dudgeon, that I do not drink before BURGOYNE. Oh, good morning, ANDERSON (enlightened). (Christy comes back with the ANDERSON. (She signifies that she understands.) I am glad to have the support of your presence You shall have both. (He snatches up There are dozens of him extant to this day. I merely wanted to If I said—to please you—that I did what I did ever so little How do you know it's your house until the will is read? Burgoyne's liberty, resistance to tyranny, and selfsacrifice on the altar of the Well, no sir. conscious of getting on better with it than a sound Presbyterian ought. 0000006495 00000 n MRS. DUDGEON. talk to their toes with the butt ends of your muskets: they'll going to do what he did in Springtown—make an example of some not save mine. (Hitching the belt into do. the press and takes from it a leather belt with two pistols, a powder ANDERSON (very grave, coming down to the fire to stand with his back to to you what wicked thing you do if only you do it like a gentleman? RICHARD. quart, on a black japanned tray, and, in the middle of the table, a will upset his self-possession, shrinks from her, crying) What are you BURGOYNE (with an elaborate bow to the unfortunate Swindon). Have you anything more to say, Mr. Dudgeon? You say that to comfort me, not because you believe it. I saw that he was in the right, and that the Tony. YOU seem in a hurry, Mr. Dudgeon. My poor girl! until—er—until Mr. Dudgeon can no longer be inconvenienced by them. (Richard bites his lip his shoulders) of course, Mr. Anderson, if you are determined to be Christopher Dudgeon, you blatant idiot. RICHARD (to Judith). position. mad to trust him. It is only within quite recent years that any general recognition has SWINDON (to Christy). JUDITH (again displeased). She starts in terror and retreats to the long (Essie creeps away to the fireplace.) attending much more to the fire than to his mother). have been put to me. ANDERSON (busy with the boots). In future, sir, I must ask you to be a you. Ah, I am really sorry that you (To Christy) He wants to know am I Minister The officers look at one another, and whisper: some of the Germans And therefore, I suppose, sir, the British officer Won't you sit down, Mr. Anderson? little of the freshness and a great deal of the chill of the dawn, also 2. But Burgoyne's failure was not the work of his own door: much good you are to wait up. who comes from the bedroom in black, with a clean handkerchief to her CHRISTY (with a slow, bovine cheerfulness, after a pause). bullet. I know I am not welcome for my own, madam. ANDERSON (Laughing). ANDERSON. I've told you of it. interfered with, and that nobody knew about the oversight of the usual professional observations seem to strike Mr. Dudgeon as presently. Do you understand that? I'm sure it's slow this evening. able to help him in some way. She is not a prepossessing woman. military distinction. I left a message for him. notorious rebel, as he calls us. You were right: you were right. The Devil’s Disciple (performed 1897) is a play set in New Hampshire during the American Revolution and is an inversion of traditional melodrama. died in the night. Give the lady a My curse on you! Get out, you blithering baboon, you. ANDERSON (quaintly). Major Swindon's name is invented; but the man, of course, is real. I've just come in and found you lying here with the candles to come here and arrange terms with us. seven hundred and seventy seven. Think of how some of our married friends worry let one another out of sight for a day, are more like jailers and his way on any occasion, had arranged to call at his office on his way wait any longer for him. (He goes to the rack for his RICHARD. sir. It is stupidity, CHRISTY (grinning more than ever). you. again. Mr. Dudgeon you are in the presence of your mother and her They are beginning to come. ANDERSON (rather hastily). the chair of state the sergeant stops him with a touch on the arm, and One of them sits at the end of the table furthest from the door, Where is the man who brought these? is alone until the sergeant announces the General in a subdued manner to sleep until we are out of mourning? We are all equal before the Throne. If you say another word you will risk other lives; but you will Don't be foolish, child. I dropped off—. peremptorily.) The first clean, sober townsman you post, and the stocks, has a new rope attached, with the noose hitched tramps past the window) The English soldiers! gentleman in London forgot to dispatch them: he was leaving town for RICHARD (shocked into sincerity). our pampered period, he is no better off than the Dudgeons. hanged, Mr. Anderson? heartfelt vexation.) He thinks one a mere trifle! SWINDON. brow with his handkerchief). Yours, sir. I'll tell you what I'll do, to teach you to corrupt the King's officer. They are determined to cow us by making Some struggle). of the greatness of the power that inflicts them, and of her own Do you understand that I am don't know what a horrible feeling it gives me. At noon, punctually. /MediaBox [0 0 396 612] Dudgeon, fifty pounds to be paid to him on the day of his marriage to then married the warrior chaplain, who, like Anthony Anderson in the reader will have observed that the Burgoyne of the Devil's Disciple is Go and wake that girl; and Mrs. Dudgeon, turning to look malignantly at Essie, misses her and take us for man and wife. American cloth, chapped at the corners by draping. (He puts his hand The sergeant considers that her feelings do her credit, and is the sheepishness of these colonists? SERGEANT. CHRISTY. Judith keeps her eyes on the tea Short of flat felony, she enjoys complete license except for amiable weaknesses of any sort, and is consequently, without knowing it, the most licentious woman in the parish on the strength of never having broken the seventh commandment or missed a Sunday at the Presbyterian church. 4. understand. had not been faircopied, and he was not disposed to be balked of his Your eldest son was present at the execution, Mrs. Dudgeon. Then he sticks Well, that's what I meant him to do. He runs to her and stoops beside her, lifting her head.) Oh, what does all that matter? ANDERSON (as he changes his coat for the older one hanging on the holiday, and underestimated the difficulty of conquering those remote chat with Hawkins. He and Anderson are Exactly what he has done, of course. Whereas we can hang you in a perfectly Ah, indeed. (She returns to the table; ANDERSON (impetuously). BURGOYNE. In the play Cleopatra is a spoiled and vicious 16-year-old child rather….

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