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

Now we shall see the faces of the girls when they come
to the banquet.

Mlan:
Never had beggars such a time.

Agmar:
Hark! They are coming. I hear footsteps.

Thahn:
The dancing girls! They are coming!

Thief:
There is no sound of flutes, they said they would come
with music.

Oogno:
What heavy boots they have; they sound like feet of
stone.

Thahn:
I do not like to hear their heavy tread. Those that
would dance to *us* must be light of foot.

Agmar:
I shall not smile at them if they are not airy.

Mlan:
They are coming very slowly. They should come nimbly
to us.

Ulf: {in a loud voice, almost chanting}
I have a fear, an old fear and a boding. We have done
ill in the sight of the seven gods. Beggars we were
and beggars we should have remained. We have given up
our calling and come in sight of our doom. I will not
longer let my fear be silent; it shall run about and
cry; it shall go from me crying, like a dog from a
doomed city; for my fear has seen calamity and has
known an evil thing.

Slag: {hoarsely}
Master!

Agmar: {rising}
Come, come!

{They listen. No one speaks. The stony boots come
on. Enter in single file through door in right of
back, a procession of seven green men, even hands and