Beauty And The Jacobin TITLE OF SOURCE: AUTHOR'S NAME - FIRST: LAST: DESCRIPTION: Visual Text ELOISE [folding her arms]. You are to withdraw your soldiers, countersign the "permit," and allow my friends to embark at once.<br><br>VALSIN [with solemnity]. Do you give it as an order, Citizeness?<br><br>ELOISE. I do. You will receive suitable political advancement.<br><br>VALSIN [in a choked voice]. You mean as a--a reward?<br><br>ELOISE [haughtily]. I guarantee that you shall receive it! [He looks at her strangely; then, with a low moan, presses his hand to his side, seeming upon the point of a dangerous seizure.]<br><br>VALSIN [managing to speak]. I can only beg you to spare me. You have me at your mercy.<br><br>ELOISE [swelling]. It is well for you that you understand that!<br><br>VALSIN [shaking his hand ruefully]. Yes; you see I have a bad liver: it may become permanently enlarged. Laughter is my great danger.<br><br>ELOISE [crying out with rage]. Oh!<br><br>VALSIN [dolorously]. I have continually to remind myself that I am no longer in the first flush of youth.<br><br>ELOISE. Idiot! Do you not know who I am!<br><br>VALSIN. You? Oh yes--[He checks himself abruptly; looks at her with brief intensity; turns his eyes away, half closing them in quick meditation; smiles, as upon some secret pleasantry, and proceeds briskly.] Oh yes, yes, I know who you are.<br><br> COMMENTS: Visual Text CANDIDATE FOR ADAPTATION?: --- not set --- Not reviewed Promising Unlikely SOURCE MATERIAL: Fable Novella Play Plot summary Short Story -- Parent -- GENRE: Comedy Comic Horror Detective Drama Fable Fairy Tale Fantasy Folklore Folktale Ghost Story Melodrama Mystery Myth Operetta Other Romance Suspense Young Audiences -- Parent -- SETTING: Africa America England Europe Fantasy International New Zealand Pastoral Rural Rustic Science Fiction -- Parent -- LENGTH FOR ADAPTATION: 10 Minutes 15 Minutes 30 Minutes 45 Minutes 60 Minutes 90 Minutes Two Hours -- Parent -- URL FOR PDF DOCUMENT: BeautyAndTheJacobin.pdf
