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Why Jesus Wept
Why Jesus Wept (1904), PDF p. 52
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WHY JESUS WEPT.
SIR PERCY.
You will. You have written more than this.
ANGELA.
If I must —
SIR PERCY.
You must.
ANGELA.
Ah love ! (She yields herself up to him. A long pause.) Learn my
first lesson ; at these great moments of life, silence is the best.
(Aside.) There is a more important one. Had that silly gowk
but the wit to lead him — “ à fin — where were I now ? Not
a drain on his stores, but a — Professor Spooner, in your next
lecture warn the girls to go slow ; it is dangerous as well as
cruel to leave a lover standing.
SIR PERCY.
Oh I have learnt that lesson and a thousand others.
ANGELA.
You must go now. The moon —
SIR PERCY.
This love is not of the moon. To-morrow —
ANGELA.
“ And to-morrow and to-morrow.” Speak not that idle word !
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