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ADMIRABLE BASHVILLE arms balcony Balkans band BERNARD SHAW blue closet bouse BRENTANO'S Bucharest Bulgarian Captain Bluntschli carpet bag catching Catherine comes cavalry chest of drawers chocolate cream soldier cloak coffee dare dear young lady DOCTOR'S DILEMMA Don Quixote door electric bell Ernani eyes father feel fight fire gentleman girl goes gracious young lady hand head hear hero higher love hookah horses impatiently indignantly keep kill kiss laugh levas LOUKA madam MAJOR BARBARA Major Saranoff marry Miss Raina mistress mother Nicola comes noble officer ottoman Paul PETKOFF pistol portrait RAINA coming Raina looks Raina returns RAINA rising regiments Russian salver schli SERGIUS servant Servian shakes shew shutters sits sleep sleeve sorry stable yard stand steps stops stove sure Swiss tell thank thing throws told touch turns window woman
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Page 33 - Soldiering> my dear madam, is the coward's art of attacking mercilessly when you are strong, and keeping out of harm's way when you are weak. That is the whole secret of successful fighting. Get your enemy at a disadvantage; and never, on any account, fight him on equal terms.
Page 35 - ... She is right, Sergius. If such women exist, we should be spared the knowledge of them. PETKOFF. Pooh ! nonsense ! what does it matter ? SERGIUS [ashamed] No, Petkoff: I was wrong. [To Raina, with earnest humility] I beg your pardon. I have behaved abominably. Forgive me, Raina. [She bows reservedly]. And you too, madam. [Catherine bows graciously and sits down. He proceeds solemnly, again addressing Raina] The glimpses I have had of the seamy side of life during the last few months have made...
Page 77 - I mean — would have sent it back and gone quietly home. Do you suppose I am the sort of fellow a young girl falls in love with? Why, look at our ages! I'm thirty-four: I don't suppose the young lady is much over seventeen. (This estimate produces a marked sensation, a II the rest turning and staring at one another.
Page 32 - When they arrive at the table, she turns to him with a bend of the head: he bows; and thus they separate, he coming to his place, and she going behind her father's chair. RAINA [stooping and kissing her father] Dear father! Welcome home! PETKOFF [patting her cheek] My little pet girl.
Page 77 - Bluntschli: what did you say had spoiled your chances in life? BLUNTSCHLI [promptly] An incurably romantic disposition. I ran away from home twice when I was a boy. I went into the army instead of into my father's business. I climbed the balcony of this house when a man of sense would have dived into the nearest cellar.
Page 15 - It's like slinging a handful of peas against a window pane: first one comes; then two or three close behind him; and then all the rest in a lump.
Page 61 - Thats only your ignorance; and dont you forget it. And dont be so ready to defy everybody. Act as if you expected to have your own way, not as if you expected to be ordered about.
Page 73 - I'm going to find it out. [Shouting] Nicola! NICOLA [coming to him] Sir! PETKOFF. Did you spoil any pastry of Miss Raina's this morning? NICOLA. You heard Miss Raina say that I did, sir. PETKOFF. I know that, you idiot. Was it true? NICOLA. I am sure Miss Raina is incapable of saying anything that is not true, sir. PETKOFF. Are you? Then I'm not. [Turning to the others] Come: do you think I dont see it all?
Page 56 - How did you find me out? BLUNTSCHLI (promptly). Instinct, dear young lady. Instinct, and experience of the world. RAINA (wonderingly). Do you know, you are the first man I ever met who did not take me seriously? BLUNTSCHLI. You mean, don't you, that I am the first man that has ever taken you quite seriously?
Page 36 - And you have never been absent from my thoughts for a moment. [Very solemnly] Sergius: I think we two have found the higher love. When I think of you, I feel that I could never do a base deed or think an ignoble thought.