Arthur Wing Pinero

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Portrait of Arthur Wing Pinero Arthur Wing Pinero,  The Notorious Mrs. Ebbsmith

“ AGNES. At the Grunwald. Why don't you join us? [Turning to Lucas, lightly.] Persuade him, Lucas. [LUCAS pauses at the door.]
ST. OLPHERTS. Er—impossible. Some—friends of mine may arrive tonight. [Lucas goes out.] I am more than sorry.
AGNES. [Mockingly.] Really? You are sure you are not shy of being seen with a notorious woman?
ST. OLPHERTS. My dear Mrs. Ebbsmith—!
AGNES. No, I forget—that would be unlike you. Mad people scare you, perhaps?
ST. OLPHERTS. Ha, ha! Don't be too rough.
AGNES. Come, Duke, confess—isn't there more sanity in me than you suspected?
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Source: Gutenberg

Portrait of Arthur Wing Pinero Arthur Wing Pinero,  The Schoolmistress: A Farce in Three Acts

“ PEGGY.
Leave the boy alone, Gwendoline Hawkins! What has he done?
GWENDOLINE.
He won't feed my darling pets.
ERMYNTRUDE.
And he is generally a Lower Order.
PEGGY.
Go away, Tyler. [Tyler and Jane deposit the trunk in the hall with the other baggage, and disappear.] You silly girls! To make an enemy of the boy at the very moment we depend upon his devotion! It's just like you, Ermyntrude Johnson!
ERMYNTRUDE.
Don't you threaten me with your inky finger, Miss Hesslerigge, please.
PEGGY.
Ugh! Haven't we sworn to help Dinah Rankling with our last breath?
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Source: Gutenberg

Portrait of Arthur Wing Pinero Arthur Wing Pinero,  The Gay Lord Quex: A Comedy in Four Acts

“ Duchess.
Always. It is the very blood in my veins. It keeps me young. I shall die a romantic girl, however old I may be.
Quex.
You ought, you really ought, to have flourished in the Middle Ages.
Duchess.
You have frequently made that observation. [Rising.] I do live in the Middle Ages, in my imagination. I live in every age in which Love was not a cool, level emotion, but a fierce, all-conquering flame—a flame that grew in the heart of a woman, that of a sudden spread through her whole organism, that lit up her eyes with a light more refulgent than the light of sun or moon!
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Source: Gutenberg

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