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Excerpt from Inside the Lines: A Drama in Five Acts
Laa'y C. Borge! If the Prince should come, make some excuse to keep him out of sight until Borge hasgone. Tell Borge that I await him here. Exit Servant. Enter Barge.
Welcome Borge! Your coming nicks with my desires. It is seldom those we wish for are so prompt besides your visit bears the pass-port to a woman's favor, it is unexpected; quite.
Barge. Your welcome, Catherine, is very pleasing it bids me hope for something more. You know a drowning sailor grasps at straws while striving with all his might to carry his shouts to those whose help he seeks before they pass beyond recall. So from the depths of his loneliness man calls to women. My love came upon me with a suddenness and a power justas the sun in the summer solstice, breaking from behind a cloud, mercilessly beats down upon the traveller, leaving him irresolute and bereft of power to act. His eddying brain whirls round and round as leaves when stirred by autumn winds and is a prey for every fancied ill. In agony I passed from chill to fever, then again to chill, as marshalling the hostile columns of my hopes and fears I watched them struggle on. A portion of my time I pass in bliss as hope soars high and then I sink into the depths of torment as my fears prevail. My love drivcs me ever onward, but the splendors of your beauty and your virtues dazzle and all but over come me. My home is far away; there beneath a sunny sky, the lemon and magnolia, the jasmine, orange and rose exhale their sweetest perfumes, revelling in the thought of having you for mistress. Catherine, I almost fear to hope.
Laa'y C. Catherine bids you have no fear. Your love has long been known to me; I felt the archer drawing his bow before the arrow sought its mark. Isthis the bold and reckless Cavalier Borge?
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