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The Betrothal

MAURICE MAETERLINCK

Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation

Translated by

ALEXANDER TEIXEIRA DE MATTOS

NEW YORK

DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY

1918

CHARACTERS (arranged in the order of their entrance on the stage) TYLTYL THE FAIRY BÉRYLUNE MILETTE (the Wood-cutter's Daughter) BELLINE (the Butcher's Daughter) ROSELLE (the Inn-keeper's Daughter) AIMETTE (the Miller's Daughter) JALLINE (the Beggar's Daughter) ROSARELLE (the Mayor's Daughter) JOY (the Veiled Girl, or the White Phantom) DESTINY THE MISER LIGHT SOME USUAL THOUGHTS GRANNY TYL GAFFER TYL THE GREAT MENDICANT THE GREAT PEASANT THE RICH ANCESTOR THE SICK ANCESTOR THE DRUNKEN ANCESTOR THE MURDERER ANCESTOR THE GREAT ANCESTOR OTHER ANCESTORS SOME OF TYLTYL'S "ME'S" VARIOUS CHILDREN IN THE ABODE OF THE CHILDREN THE FIVE LITTLE ONES THE SMALLEST OF THEM ALL MUMMY TYL MYTYL DADDY TYL THE NEIGHBOUR

ACT I Scene 1 The Wood-cutter's Cottage. ACT II 2 Outside the Door. 3 The Miser's Cave. 4 A Closet in the Fairy's Palace. 5 A Ballroom in the Fairy's Palace. ACT III 6 Before the Curtain representing Rocks. 7 The Abode of the Ancestors. ACT IV 8 Before the Curtain representing the Milky Way. 9 The Abode of the Children. ACT V 10 Before the Curtain representing the Edge of a Forest. 11 The Awakening.

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