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      PERSONS OF THE PLAY
    • A PEASANT WOMAN
    • AN ARMY CAPTAIN
    • A SOLDIER

THE TIME

A TIME OF DARKNESS

THE PLACE

A WIND-SWEPT HILL

Before the curtain rises, a bell from some distant place of worship tolls the hour. Nine brazen notes, far off, out of tune. Then a heavy peal of thunder, and the sharp, cracking strike of a bolt; yet, above all, one other sound, more piercing — a strange, unearthly Cry. There follows a mighty howling of wind, blended with a confused clamour of voices and the hurrying of many feet. The noises have almost all died away, when the Curtain rises upon inky darkness .

A sudden hush. The silence deepens. There is a sense of moorlands and desolate places .

Far off, a cow lows in her stall. Some lost sheep down in the valley bleats dismally. Silence again .

It is broken by the Voice of a Woman, weeping bitterly . A PEASANT WOMAN.
WOMAN.

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Another Voice: the gentlemanly, well-bred voice of an army man, now under some stress of emotion . A CAPTAIN.
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WOMAN.

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CAPTAIN.

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The clank and rattle of his sword and uniform mark his moving away. He sits .

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A bitter wind comes soughing up from the valley. The sheep bleats once, piteously. Then all is quiet again .

Some one else is coming. He is heard stumbling blindly up over the hill, the steel butt of his weapon ringing among the stones . A SOLDIER.

Groping in darkness, he collides suddenly with the CAPTAIN. His Voice is that of a common man, city-bred;

SOLDIER.

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CAPTAIN.

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SOLDIER.

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They consider it for a moment. Presently the SOLDIER laughs at some amusing recollection;
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CAPTAIN.

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Some memory holds him for a moment;

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CAPTAIN.

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SOLDIER.

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CAPTAIN.

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The SOLDIER is rather stupid, or he would have laughed. He goes on;
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CAPTAIN.

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The WOMAN'S Voice rises, sighing like wind;
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The SOLDIER is affected by this. He speaks with real compassion;
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Their minds go wandering through many troubled by-paths of thought. Presently the SOLDIER speaks again;

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They remain silent for a little .

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( taken aback on the sacred word ).

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He is a little nettled at the turn the conversation is taking .
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( sullenly ).

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( shortly ).

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( insisting ).

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(hotly).

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They are silent for a little while. Then the SOLDIER, feeling that he has gone too far, begins assuaging the situation;

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He speaks in an aggrieved tone. It is the way in which shame comes to a soldier .

A pause .

CAPTAIN
( deeply ).

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SOLDIER.

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He rattles his weapon in the darkness and continues;

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( slowly ).

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The cloudy darkness slightly lifts from the ground. Their forms can be dimly discerned — vague shadows upon a deeper gloom. Up above there still dwells impenetrable night .

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CAPTAIN.

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The SOLDIER is embarrassed. He does not know what to say. Something about "duty" comes into his head; but somehow it seems inappropriate .

A brighter thought occurs to him;

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CAPTAIN.

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There is heard the rattle of his salute, and the dying away of his footsteps, as he stumbles blindly up and over the hill .

The CAPTAIN does not speak until all is still again .

CAPTAIN.

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He buries his face in the dirt and stones .

The faintest moaning of wind. The sheep bleats. A dog, disturbed by the sound, barks, far off. Then there is a deep silence, lasting one minute .

The Voice of the PEASANT WOMAN is heard, speaking at first in dull, dead tones, very slowly;

WOMAN.

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A gust of anguish takes her, overwhelming her;

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The wind rises and falls away like a whisper .

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There is heard a low fluttering as of wings;

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Her speech breaks away into sobs for a little while. As she recovers, she goes into a dazed dream of memories;

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The agony begins to prick through again, stab by stab, as she continues;

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She has come to the bottom of her grief. Her voice dies away through strangled sobs into silence .

A pause .

The CAPTAIN rises. He halts irresolute for a moment. Then he can be heard moving over to where she lies prone on the ground .

CAPTAIN.

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WOMAN.

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WOMAN.

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She does not answer .

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She does not answer .

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WOMAN
( in a stupor ).

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She does not answer .

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WOMAN.

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She is bewildered .
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WOMAN.

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WOMAN.

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WOMAN.

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CAPTAIN.

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There is a deep, solemn silence for a moment or two, broken only by the tinkle of sheep-bells, which are gradually approaching .
WOMAN.

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CAPTAIN.

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WOMAN.

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WOMAN.

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WOMAN.

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WOMAN.

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It grows a little lighter .

Some one is heard stumbling blindly over the hill. It is the SOLDIER. His form emerges gray out of the gloom .

SOLDIER.

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CAPTAIN.

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CAPTAIN.

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CAPTAIN.

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CAPTAIN.

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SOLDIER
( after a moment );

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The SOLDIER has no word to say .

The darkness is rapidly melting away. All three figures are now beginning to be seen quite clearly .

SOLDIER.

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CAPTAIN.

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An unearthly splendour fills the place. It is seen to be the top of a bleak stony hill with little grass to it .

The WOMAN is dressed in Eastern garments; the CAPTAIN is a Roman centurion; the SOLDIER, a Roman legionary. Above them rise three gaunt crosses bearing three dead men gibbeted like thieves .

At the foot of the crosses a flock of sheep nibble peacefully at the grass. The air is filled with the sound of their little bells .

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Mathias Göbel
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TextGrid Repository (2024). American Drama. The Terrible Meek. The Terrible Meek. American Drama Corpus. Mathias Göbel. https://hdl.handle.net/21.11113/0000-0014-A17E-7