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Carlyon Sahib - Gilbert Murray
Gilbert Murray
Carlyon Sahib
A Drama in Four Acts
Published by Good Press, 2022
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Table of Contents
DRAMATIS PERSONÆ
CARLYON SAHIB
THE FIRST ACT
THE SECOND ACT
THE THIRD ACT
THE FOURTH ACT
PREFATORY NOTE
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This play was written at Viareggio in 1893, and passed an eventful though not unchequered existence for six years before it was produced by Mrs. Patrick Campbell at the Princess of Wales' Theatre, Kennington, on June 19, 1899. The version here published is not exactly that which was acted, though it is much nearer to the acted version than to the original play as it stood before I had the benefit of Mrs. Campbell's vivid and helpful criticism.
I may remark here that the Play never had the ghost of a glimmer of a conscious political allusion in it; nor did it occur to me, when I put my Napoleonic hero in the surroundings which seemed to give most scope to his autocratic and unscrupulous genius, that any sane person would suppose that I wished to attack the Indian Civil Service. The plays on my bookshelves teem with villains of the most diverse professions, from kings and clergymen—chiefly, I must confess, Roman Catholics or Dissenters—to lawyers and journalists. I do not think I should chafe at the appearance of a villanous Professor of Greek. And on the whole I cannot help hoping that those of my critics and friends who adopted a high patriotic tone against this play, will upon reflection be inclined to agree that their imperial sensitiveness was a little overstrained.
GILBERT MURRAY.
DRAMATIS PERSONÆ
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(
Carlyon
is a man approaching sixty, strong, genial, eagle-eyed;
Elizabeth
, a nice-looking though slightly haggard elderly lady, with white hair, very quiet in demeanour;
Rheinhardt
, a short man with an excitable manner and bristly iron-grey hair.)
The First Three Acts take place in Carlyon's country house in England.
The Fourth Act in a bungalow in the Ghautgherry Hills, India.
Carlyon is pronounced like the two words car-lion,
the accent being on the i. The Indian form Kaliena, has the i long and accented, the other syllables short.
CARLYON SAHIB
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THE FIRST ACT
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Sir David Carlyon's
country house;
Vera's
sitting-room. Window right, behind window a curtain on a rod projecting into the room and forming a recess. By window table strewn with books and papers. The books chiefly foreign, with paper backs. On another table a very large birdcage covered with a tablecloth. Doors in the left corner of the back wall, and in the side wall, right.
Elizabeth
discovered sitting in a large chair in the recess.
Vera
holding an ophthalmoscope.
Elizabeth.
Am I sitting right, dear?
Vera.
Yes, that's it. Just the same as before.[Drawing the curtain so as to darken the recess.] Now, I must let the light fall full on your eye—just for a minute. Don't wink. That's all; now you can go right into the dark again, Elizabeth.[
Elizabeth
comes out rubbing her eyes.]I'm afraid it hurt; it is so kind of you!
Elizabeth.
Not at all, dear. And it is all right as soon as I get into the dark again.
Vera.
Should you like to see what the end of your optic nerve is like? There! [Showing plate in a book.
Elizabeth.
Dear me, Vera; is there anything wrong with me?
Vera.
Not a thing! That's a picture of a typical healthy eye. You are quite uninteresting, you and Father both!
Elizabeth.
I don't see how his eyes can be uninteresting.
Vera.
From Dr. Rheinhardt's point of view, quite. Here are two abnormal ones. See how different they are from yours.
Elizabeth.
[Without interest.]Yes, dear.[Hesitating.]I was wondering——
Vera.
You see the depression of that line? That man died insane in two years. If ever one saw that, one would know——[Breaks off.]What did you say?
Elizabeth.
That poor bird: I wondered if I might feed him in here, where it's warm?
Vera.
[Suspiciously.]What are you going to feed him with?
Elizabeth.
[Apologetically.]Well, you see, Vera, he is really ill. He won't eat anything at all unless it's alive.
Vera.
Then you can't feed him in my room!
Elizabeth.
Very well, dear.[Goes and takes the great cage.]Do you know, Vera, I think you are really a little unkind about my eagles.
Vera.
I can't think why father ever gave you such horrid things!
Elizabeth.
I dare say I shouldn't care for them so much if he hadn't given them to me. But really, Vera, they are such splendid great things, with their fierce eyes——
Vera.
Oh, their looks are magnificent; it's their habits! But I must get to work again.
[Turns to the table and opens a book;
Elizabeth
is moving towards the door back, when enter
Servant
,
u.l.
Servant.
If you please, ma'am, a gentleman asking for Sir David.
Elizabeth.
Oh!
[Moving towards door
r.
with evident wish to escape.
Vera.
Don't run away, Elizabeth.
Elizabeth.
I think I must, dear. [Exit
Elizabeth
.
Vera.
I