Young WoodleyEnglish schoolboy in love with the headmaster's young wife is expelled from school, his ideals shattered and his scholastic career ruined. |
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Page 54 - SWIFTLY walk over the western wave, Spirit of Night ! Out of the misty eastern cave, Where all the long and lone daylight Thou wovest dreams of joy and fear, Which make thee terrible and dear, — Swift be thy flight ! Wrap thy form in a mantle gray, Star-inwrought ! Blind with thine hair the eyes of day, Kiss her until she be wearied out, Then wander o'er city, and sea, and land, Touching all with thine opiate wand.
Page 123 - Look here, kid, for the thousandth time, what's the trouble? What in God's name possessed you to go and do a damn fool thing like that. I didn't say anything, but I could see something was wrong when you didn't get back on Saturday. I was hoping you'd tell me. You always have told me things. You know I wouldn't go back on you. (Woodley sits chair R. of table Ainger on side of table.) I'll do anything I can to help, kid, honest I will, you know that. Tell me, there's a good fellow. WOODLEY — Oh,...
Page 37 - Well, you needn't say it as if you were eighty. You've plenty of time. We're most of us like that at first, unless we are Vining's sort. WOODLEY — Yes, but what I feel is, all this sort of thing . . . shop-girls and housemaids ... I simply couldn't do it. It would make me feel sick. And then you meet someone, someone you like; someone of your own class ... I don't want to be snobbish; but you know what I mean. Someone you could be really keen on, and the thing's impossible. You can't think of them...
Page 79 - Oh, lovers throughout the world have known Your shadowed beauty, and when poets say Their love was such, I think I know the way You held their reason captive. You alone Have swayed all men through time, in every land. He loved, and...
Page 59 - VINING — H'm. Funny her coming in here. Pretty little thing though. Hot stuff too, I should think. That quiet, dark kind always are. Old Simmy's a lucky fellow. He knows what's what all right and I expect he makes the most of it too. That's the secret of the popularity of marriage you know. I hope she likes it, that's all. Can't say I should care about being mauled by Simmy if I was a girl. Has she got a crush on Ainger, do you think, coming in here after him like that? Ainger's a good-looking...
Page 163 - You're young . . . you have the world before you. I want you to be happy. Don't let me be a bitterness and a reproach to you always . . . don't let me spoil love for you. It's the most precious thing in the world . . . but it is so often wasted and it can be so cruel, it can turn so easily to hate and beastliness. Don't let me feel that I've done that for you.
Page 131 - I would if I could, but I want to be good and I'm not that kind of a girl.' Never mind, it's only done to egg you on to further flights." The next instant Woodley has grabbed a knife from the table and rushed at Vining. Ainger is holding him and Woodley is struggling to free himself and renew the attack when Simmons opens the door. SIMMONS — And what is the meaning of this, may I ask? What is the significance of the knife and the elaborate...
Page 67 - These boys, they are transparent, as clear as crystal, and you see them distorted, twisted. You have no feeling for them, save for their respect for you, their conforming to a few stupid forms and ceremonies.
Page 36 - I simply hadn't got the pluck. I didn't know how to go about it. I felt I couldn't just catch hold of her and kiss her like that straight off the reel. I just sat there, saying nothing like a damned fool till the next dance began. I could have kicked myself afterwards. I never saw her again. Bloody silly, isn't it? Then I go writing poetry that Vining and his sort make fun of where I imagine myself no end of a dog. At least, no I don't mean that but . . . AINGER — I know. WOODLEY — Well, why...
Page 146 - I'm the boy's father and surely I'm entitled to know what he has done. He's been rude to your wife, is that it? SIMMONS No, . . . it's far more than that. I found them here myself the other day. If I hadn't come in when I did, I can't say what might have happened. MR. W. Do you mean that he was making love to your wife ? SIMMONS Well, bluntly . . . yes. MR. W. What do you mean exactly by "making love"?