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Act I - 08 Act II - 42 Act III - 118 Act IV - 167 Act V - 191 I’m a respectable girl: so help me, I never spoke to him except to ask him to buy a flower off me. (General hubbub, mostly sympathetic to the flower girl, but deprecating her exces- sive sensibility. Cries of Dont start hollerin. Who’s hurting you? Nobody’s going to touch you. Whats the good of fussing? Steady on. Easy easy, etc., come from the elderly staid spectators, who pat her comfortingly. Less patient ones bid her shut her head, or ask her roughly what is wrong with her. A remoter group, not knowing what the matter is, crowd in and increase the noise with question and an- swer: Whats the row? Whatshe do? Where is he? A tec taking her down. What! him? Yes: him over there: Took money off the gentleman, etc. The flower girl, dis- traught and mobbed, breaks through them to the gentleman, crying wildly) Oh, sir, dont let him charge me. You dunno what it means to me. Theyll take away my character and drive me on the streets for speaking togentlemen. They- THE NOTE TAKER (coming forward on her right, the rest crowding after him) There, there, there, there! who’s hurting you, you silly girl? What do you take me for? THE BYSTANDER. It’s all right: he’s a genleman: look at his boots. Act I - 08 Act II - 42 Act III - 118 Act IV - 167 Act V - 191 |
