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Dialogue following No. 8
Enter Lady Blanche. All stand up demurely.
| Blanche. |
Attention, ladies, while I read to you
The Princess Ida's list of punishments.
The first is Sacharissa. She's expelled! |
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Expelled! |
| Blanche. |
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Expelled, because although she knew |
No man of any kind may pass our walls,
She dared to bring a set of chessmen here! |
| Sacharissa. |
(crying) I meant no harm; they're only men of wood! |
| Blanche. |
They're men with whom you give each other mate,
And that's enough! The next is Chloe. |
| Chloe. |
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Ah! |
| Blanche. |
Chloe will lose three terms, for yesterday,
When looking through her drawing-book, I found
A sketch of a perambulator! |
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Oh! |
| Blanche. |
Double perambulator, shameless girl!
That's all at present. Now, attention, pray;
Your Principal the Princess comes to give
Her usual inaugural address
To those young ladies who joined yesterday. |
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28 February, 2006
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