"Dunsany, Lord - Five Plays" - читать интересную книгу автора (Dunsany Lord)


Oogno: {to Agmar}
But, master, shall we not have Woldery wine?

Agmar:
We shall have all things if only we are wise at first
for a little.

Thahn:
Master, do any suspect us?

Agmar:
We must be *very* wise.

Thahn:
But if we are not wise, master?

Agmar:
Why, then death may come to us --

Thahn:
O master!

Agmar:
-- slowly.

{All stir uneasily except Slag, who sits motionless in
the doorway.}

Oogno:
Do they believe us, master?

Slag: {half turning his head}
Someone comes.

{Slag resumes his position.}

Agmar: {putting away his meat}
We shall soon know now.

{All take up the attitude. Enter One, loquitur.}

One:
Master, I want the god that does not eat.

Agmar:
I am he.

One:
Master, my child was bitten in the throat by a