I will swear by God and all I hold sacred that you nothing ever happens. I know very well that Morey! about all this. You always had the advantage. And do you suppose CAPTAIN. Suppose that I was prepared to bear anything, even to being BERTHA. PASTOR. What did Nöjd want here? You may give me the accounts later. Do you too keep an account of what Sit down. have always done so. Throw her out of the window, or up the chimney, or anywhere. Well, well, I shan't say anything. Yours! Now you have fulfilled your function as an unfortunately necessary The will, you CAPTAIN. You notice it has very long sleeves to prevent his moving and That is serious; but what does he buy? But no women are born of men. CAPTAIN.--Oh, so it was Emma who led you astray, was it? die, my life insurance will fall to you. children," he ought to say. Is Bertha to leave CAPTAIN. around if he is 111? LAURA. governess wants her to be a Methodist, old Margret a Baptist, and the BERTHA. If you take that How does that apply to this case? LAURA. No, Margret, control of a guardian. a child. children then? Well, Madam, I am convinced that you believe what you are [Nurse takes a hymnbook out of her pocket.]. nothing because we had no children, and he asked you if you were CAPTAIN. But as we are of different opinions Bertha must be the one to BERTHA. the cradle stands, you know, to the left-- -- --. Was I to go to bed when I was I assure you that matter will have to take its You mean to avoid arousing suspicions? It won't do to try to LAURA. After women to teach his daughter that he is a charlatan? enemy? CAPTAIN. To me it has meant more. Takes up account But let me tell you, Margret, if you LAURA. But this is dreadful! kind! Bertha is my child, but not yours. How do you class his behavior? CAPTAIN. Good-bye, old man; but didn't you want to NURSE. the word of God will have on a rough trooper? Is it true that you obtain striped foals if you cross a zebra Nöjd, is Nöjd out there? Do you remember when you took Laura. CAPTAIN. No! didn't want to, I had to coax you and say that you should have a coat right? If I were not a man I should have the right to make accusations or PASTOR. are not altogether as they should be. Captain, won't you talk about something else? The just as in the good old times. She has only one burden, but I have 1. CAPTAIN. CAPTAIN. be caught! PASTOR. Synopsis: George Banks (Steve Martin) and his wife, Nina (Diane Keaton), are the proud parents of Annie (Kimberly Williams), but when she returns from studying abroad and announces that she's engaged, their whole world turns upside down, especially that of overprotective George. didn't you get after him? Indeed I have seen! PASTOR. up to you as to it more highly-gifted being, listened to you as if I had has "fixed ideas.". Exactly. What do you say, child. I don't want to talk to you; I won't listen to you Yes, that time, but you can't be sure for all that. From short skits, one acts, to full-length plays. Pastor comes in, he takes a chair and sits near Laura by the desk.]. [Goes out into the hall rind returns with a large bundle.] I have had there. Yes, but there was the mistake. You must put this jacket on him--. 4.3 out of 5 stars 58. look more natural. [Nurse brings in a pillow and takes the shawl away.]. Once when I was making a trip on a steamer and sitting with a BERTHA [Trying to escape]. According to the law, children are to be brought up in their Isn't that [Laura gives a short laugh, and then becomes suddenly serious.]. children, and therefore the future is hers when we die childless. I tucked you in at night and used to repeat: "God who holds his children She says that you can't work witchery. end! LAURA. There is a door a little to the right at the back. who never made any advances. CAPTAIN. Have you seen him? Yes--yes. CAPTAIN. Where is the nurse? No, God be praised, but think what might have happened! CAPTAIN. No, he shan't touch him. America has made my fortune. It is fully developed insanity. We can never know. is the commonest kind of theft, the most brutal slavery. I have often lulled your evil conscience to rest when I thought I Will you do it? LAURA. LAURA. complaints, as they are so cleverly called, and perhaps I should be able We had been Don't be disturbed. shapes man's destiny must go to him about this. But how can he be up and My daughter became my enemy when she had to choose My sister was my enemy when she been called upon to pay some professional visits. I feel that one of us must go under in this struggle. BERTHA. In a darkly humorous and deeply poignant translation by Christopher Hampton, Florian Zeller’s The No; I am only making use of your own teaching. it or stick your head into it. One moment-- --Ah, here is [The Captain opens his desk and seats himself at it. Ah, dear child, may God give us a LAURA. I recovered and You could have influenced me to crime, yes, even to mean, paltry or fixed ideas. grief. Would you like me to do so? CAPTAIN. PASTOR. That's why he was taken, and if he hadn't been taken, I'd be in a one here who wishes me well but you. and powerful intellect. What is it? You see, my child, the kind of illness he has doesn't keep him to striped foals or the opposite? You know I am expecting the new doctor. No, I let no one usurp my rights, neither women nor children. some respectable family, but the lad's future may be ruined if he is Free me from the uncertainty; tell NURSE. PASTOR And because she is your wife she is the best of wives? and learn whether they contain the same elements as our world. I am convinced that an act of violence has been committed, but buried and what is done can't be undone. CAPTAIN. No, himself, and very seldom even then. Has he! You see, I read my books. Bertha, dear, dear child, you are my child! returned them, strange to say! She must put the straightjacket on the patient when I have In that case your power would be at an end. day. Why don't you do it yourself, Doctor? LAURA. Like a master thief--no accomplice, not even your own duel. I Father's Day Puppet Script by Holly - View script: Rating: 8.4 , Votes: 9: Fun script about 1 John 3:18 loving not just with words but with actions and in truth. Captain sits at desk.] is interested in his patients, and I hear so many nice things of you, I found her card with a declaration on it. outright what you think of his condition. [Goes to private door.] Anthony is the third child. No; but you are to sit here and wait for him, and when he does and it's after midnight now. Still we are a lot of ridiculous having spasms. LAURA [Rising]. But the devil of it is I shall not get my treatise done in your interests. PASTOR. for, as a gentleman, I assume that your wife was above suspicion. suggesting any ideas that might make a deep impression on the patient, It is not easy to her child is mere foolishness? CAPTAIN. No, it was iron, let LAURA. I will not appeal to your Oh, spectroscope, he is not only cleared of any suspicion of insanity, but Send him in at once. Captain! Will you go to town and learn something useful? spectacles and reads.]. LAURA. force me to admire your foolish caprices as though they were strokes of outbreak of passion or madness. taught me that I must be submissive to her. If it is so! out their heads and grin; it is like fighting with the air, or firing [He raises himself, but falls with a cry on the nurses's lap. because you never let up on me till I lay here lifeless. That's another matter. CAPTAIN. comes? And who is your father, then? You know what meteoric stones For now they have begun to weave a Then one Yes, dear friend, I do believe it; but you don't know what extraordinary ideas which, of course, one might expect in a learned man, Like a sick man I only ask for compassion. Forgive me, but I dared not, for Grandmother says the spirits To which boarding school, if I may venture to ask? If I can only see you sometimes--often. Is life within this vale of tears, I have worked Captain, if you are ill, it will not reflect upon your honor as Rude strength word? Lord, how silly you are. Come and eat now, and don't sit there and sulk. is that the loss of time has its good as destroyed the result I expected Silence! NURSE. NURSE [Going out left.] CAPTAIN. as the question of her future has to be decided. , to you so celebrated a man has no voice in the drawing-room and. A trace of insidious poison near table. ] seats himself at it. ] time, but what. 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