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Excerpt from Rutherford and Son: A Play in Three Acts
Ann. It's a bitter thing for him that's worked all his life to make a place i' the world to have his son go Off and marry secret-like. Folk like him look for a return from their bairns. It's weel known that no good comes of a marriage such as yours, and it's no wonder that it takes him a bit of time to make up his mind to bide it. [getting up to go.] But what's done's done.
Young john rutherford comes in while she is speaking. He is delicate-looking and boyish in speech and manner - attractive, in spite of the fact that he is the type that has been made a gentleman of and stopped half-way in the process.
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