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One Day More
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Title: One Day More A Play In One Act
Author: Joseph Conrad
Release Date: January 29, 2006 [EBook #17621]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ASCII
*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ONE DAY MORE ***
Produced by David Widger
This is the sixth book issued by the Beaumont Press 24 copies (four of which are not for sale) have been printed on Japanese vellum signed by the author and numbered 1 to 24 and 250 copies on hand-made paper numbered 25 to 274 This is No. 46
ONE DAY MORE
A PLAY IN ONE ACT
BY JOSEPH CONRAD
CHARACTERS
Captain Hagberd (a retired coasting skipper).
Josiah Carvil (formerly a shipbuilder--a widower--blind).
Harry Hagberd (son of Captain Hagberd, who as a boy ran away from home).
A Lamplighter.
Bessie Carvil (daughter of Josiah Carvil).
SCENE
A small sea port.
To rights two yellow brick cottages belonging to Captain Hagberd, one inhabited by himself the other by the Carvils. A lamp-post in front. The red roofs of the town in the background. A sea-wall to left.
Time: The present-early autumn, towards dusk.
ONE DAY MORE
SCENE I.
CURTAIN RISES DISCLOSING CARVIL _and Bessie moving away from sea-wall. Bessie about twenty-five. Black dress; black straw hat. A lot of mahogany-coloured