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George Herwegh has recently returned to Paris from a revolutionary uprising in the German town of Baden. He has been badly shaken by his experiences in battle, and is now on the run from the law. He’s comforted by his friends, Natalie Herzen and Natasha Tuchkov. George blames his wife, Emma, for pushing him into the revolution, and regrets getting involved, and wishes that he had stayed a poet. The women blithely turn the conversation to the poet George Sand, and famous pianists. George is
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George Everybody’s being horrible about me. They say I hid in a ditch as soon as the enemy came in sight. You don’t believe it, do you?
Natalie Of course we don’t.
Natasha Of course not.
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Natasha ‘To follow your heart wherever it leads you! - To let love be your guide to the greater good!’ Do you play the piano, George? George A little. Emma says if I practiced, Chopin and Liszt better watch out.
For full extended scene, please see the edition cited here: Stoppard, Tom. The Coast of Utopia: Shipwreck. Act 1, “Summer 1848.” 2002.
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