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Tom is an American academic in his fifties. He has come to the O’Donnell’s house to study the dying Irish Roman-Catholic aristocracy and has been studying every diary, record, and photograph he can find. Casimir has just arrived from Hamburg and he provides exactly the sort of anecdotes and obscure details of the family’s history that Tom is looking for. Tom is as yet unaware that they are most fabricated and/or hugely exaggerated. Alice contributes a little to the conversation, but she is
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START: Alice: Morning, everybody.
Tom: It’s afternoon Alice.
Alice: Is it?
(She blows a kiss to Casimir. He blows one back.)
Am I the last one down?
Tom: Just about. Is Eamon still asleep?
Alice: He was up and about hours ago. He’s gone down to the village to visit his grandmother.
[... …]
END: Casimir: ‘You betrayed me, Bernard,’ he said to Father. ‘You betrayed me,’ and those cold eyes of his burning with--
(He breaks off suddenly because Claire has switched from the sonata to a waltz--E sharp major (Posth)--’The Bedtime Waltz’)
Listen! Listen! The Bedtime Waltz! Oh, that’s my favourite. That’s easily my favourite.
Brian Friel. Aristocrats. The Gallery Press, 1990. pp.24-28.
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