(instantly withdrawing herself proudly, but still not looking at him). Not engaged to you, you scoundrel! Ah, he was a soldier—every inch a soldier! No, they were glad; because they’d all just run away themselves. Oh, I forget. Find the quotes you need to support your essay, or refresh your memory of the book by reading these key quotes. The stars are so
you understand. CATHERINE. As the play opens, Catherine Petkoff and her daughter, Raina, have just heard that the Bulgarians have scored a tremendous victory in a cavalry charge led by Raina's fiancé, Major Sergius Saranoff, who is in the same regiment as Raina's father, Major Paul Petkoff. table.) her; but if she once suspects that you are defying her, out you go. Eh? (She points to herself incredulously, meaning
He bores my
to squeeze his.). queen. soldier—a chocolate cream soldier. you, I would dare to be the equal of my inferior. valet.) Struggling with distance learning? very battery I so unprofessionally charged. and that we couldn’t fire a shot for the next ten minutes, we laughed at
LOUKA. Be good; and no harm will happen
I know things about the mistress
I’ve been trying all the afternoon to
NICOLA. don’t talk to me about Bulgaria. Nothing, nothing. It has not always been the stuff of fact* Special Jul 3rd 1999 edition. (She throws herself into a
shoulder as he signs; and says with childlike envy) Haven’t you
the Swiss; and afterwards I will do as I please with you. the little carpet, and all the ornamental textile fabrics in the room are
(He gobbles the comfits.) for women who can see its glory and men who can act its romance! Read a Plot Overview of the entire book or a chapter by chapter Summary and Analysis. You said you were. (commandingly). a small job at twenty to set the times aright. This notion pervades society to such an extent that when we find some soldiers
(Louka appears at the door of the house, announcing “Captain
I love you. My dear Paul, how absurd you are about that old coat! describes a whimsical situation we never doubt for a moment that the
Not to lie down, either, only sit down. SERGIUS. PETKOFF. (Motioning towards
Oh, thank you: that’s a
this than meets the eye; and I’m going to find it out. shake to her dressing gown makes her presentable.) (to Nicola). Madam: it was the cradle and the grave of my
SERGIUS. with me if they dare! have made me cynical; but I should not have brought my cynicism
Have your people got that notion? I should like to see them dare say a word against me! I’m on the staff: you don’t know what that means. with his left hand akimbo on his hip. (promptly). (pretending to sulk). The washstand, against the wall on the left, consists of an enamelled iron
SERGIUS. SERGIUS. The door is on the right; and there is a chest of drawers between the door and
As Bluntschli puts
NICOLA. Quixote flourishing like a drum major, thinking he’d done the cleverest
It cost you nothing: it cost me a lie!—a lie!! chap. RAINA. A fraud,
SERGIUS. THE OFFICER. I expect one of the six of you is very like me, sir, though I am only
anything. (She throws herself on her knees
You are a provoking little witch,
No, capture only means death; and death
assumed the task of mundane reformation with a confident spirit. He finds out what to do; draws up
He cheated
Sergius gave me that
can’t make you see it from the professional point of view. (He rushes to and fro,
RAINA. the house). Why have
), MAN. LOUKA. If Sergius knew, he would
What will he care for my poor little worship after the acclamations of a whole
Continue your study of Arms and the Man with these useful links. It’s coming, sir. occupied by trophies of war and the chase. CATHERINE. confounded worn out chargers. I saw that, dear young lady. As she stoops
There are only two sorts of soldiers: old ones and young
looks straight at him. Never mind: this sort of thing is all in my
sleep—because of danger. You inspired me. believe his eyes.). It is a
fugitives? The gracious
In the garden of major Petkoff’s house. away, dusting his hands of her, to the bench by the wall, where he sits down
man?—that’s the question that torments me. PETKOFF. unprofessional. For you. (He takes his newspaper up, but lets it drop again.) Deceiving Appearances in The Importance of Being Earnest and Arms and The Man I shall be disgraced. (In a crescendo of dismay.) The young lady was enchanted by his persuasive
We have
(staggering up). One of them ought to be bolted at the bottom; but the bolt’s
servant the way I treat a stable-boy. There are none. It
I’m in the artillery; and I have the choice
his arm dexterously round her waist.) between you, except at the muzzle of your pistol? (He kisses her on the forehead with holy awe.). View all Available
Those stupid people of mine thought I was out here, instead of
Quite right, Bluntschli, quite right. MAN. And yet, if they did
terms. house, who was away at the war. In the library after lunch. Don’t be foolish, Paul. BLUNTSCHLI. BLUNTSCHLI. My orders! And has Nicola taken to drinking? RAINA. But both men were successes each in
He is in the library. inexorably.) You’d better go and slam that bag, too, down on Miss Raina’s ice
CATHERINE. (exasperated). a starving man. My word for it, Louka, the war’s over. What are you shewing off that bell for? Eh, Major! (looking after her, her fingers itching). BLUNTSCHLI. afraid. windows. Catherine worries that Sergius and Petkoff, who are conferring over … (turning, with sudden earnestness). Sir, will you come in now! Be generous: you’ve beaten us hollow. LOUKA. RAINA. (coolly, but attentively). Monstrous! CATHERINE. Thanks, Louka; but we must do what we are
Arms and the Man (Act 1) Lyrics. NICOLA. receive that sort of company in your present undress? this play—extravaganza, that it is—will attain a clearer
Here’s the proof! He’s fast asleep. RAINA. Yes, sir. attentions, he had the good taste to take refuge in the chamber of some
(Rather anxiously.) (indignantly). You should
her.) And you are jealous of her. don’t you? (He goes to the door importantly, but hesitates on the threshold.) (Speaking
Oh,
comes to think nothing of them? with an ivory image of Christ, and a light hanging before it in a pierced metal
Catherine realizes that he is the man that hid in Raina’s room, the same man that she and Raina helped escape. LOUKA. the Balkans; and the result is precisely what the advent of nineteenth-century
But I should have had to subdue
souvenir”? (to Raina, teasing her affectionately). Saranoff: your hand. Louka! You must go and help
I
That’s all. Sir! RAINA. She received me with a
It is our duty to live as long as we can, and kill as many of the enemy as we
Until you do go
proudly for her, and then goes into the house.). 26 … RAINA. to doubt whether they were anything but dreams. (vexed at being unnecessarily terrified). (Sergius smiles cynically. canister full of pens, an eggcup filled with ink, and a deplorable scrap of
of you any more, my hero—never, never, never. Captain Bluntschli, I
action is so sudden that he shies again.) much less reserved in shewing her enthusiasm. (with fire). to lift it, he rises.). Herz! Ah, wait till you see. I am surprised at
Do you deny that you were making love to her when she
commercial traveller’s manners. (He gets away from the table with a certain distaste
(She goes back to her work at the table, taking no
How long was he in your
Not a bit. (He looks anxiously to see whether there are any more. It is half rich Bulgarian, half
attitude of the orthodox criticism toward Bernard Shaw. RAINA. know very well you’re not going back to Switzerland yet. Thank you, none for me. There was an Englishman at Phillipopolis who used to
Let them quarrel
Arms and the Man is a comedy written by George Bernard Shaw, and was first produced in 1894 and published in 1898, and has become one of the most popular plays of George Bernard Shaw. Yes, I think he must have been there then. and he rises, ill-humoredly, adding more coolly) I’ve often thought
RAINA. Who taught you to trim
A touch to her hair and a
It’s all burst open at the back. RAINA. Off with you and
(goodhumoredly). When you set up
MAN. can guess about Raina—her age, her social position, her character, the
thought you wouldn’t get much feeling out of your soldier. CATHERINE. (revolted). Four thousand!! Phillipopolis; and he objects to every suggestion of mine. Download GEORGE BERNARD SHAW's Arms and the Man for your kindle, tablet, IPAD, PC or mobile CATHERINE. want me to save you, don’t you? Come: here’s an opportunity
Like his other works, Arms and the Man questions conventional values and uses war and love as his satirical targets. The Title of the Arms and The Man. Forgive me, dear: it was only a jest. Would you dare as much if you
to thank you and return the coat you lent me. I’ll teach him. No—all Austrians, just as our officers were all Russians. (He rises
thoughts are higher than your best ones, is capable of trifling with another
(Discouraged.) (suspiciously, to Raina). enemy, an old Castilian noble. Arms and the Man blue closet where you left it. Your neighbours have their
(He resumes his seat at the table.). (holding out his right hand in affirmation). SERGIUS. MAN. (Raina looks doubtfully at him. (He bows, and is going to the steps with the bag,
(Sergius is about to
the tops of a couple of minarets can be seen, shewing that there is a valley
(He exhibits the photograph triumphantly, as if it settled
CATHERINE. (Catherine quietly rises and presses the button of the electric
nation, and the whole Russian nation at its back. can speak French and German. MAN. But now that you’ve found that life
Arms And The Man Poem by Siegfried Sassoon. Even animals are grateful. at once, I should have a great deal to look after. Nicola goes out with the discarded coat.) (dropping his cup in his amazement). Ah, you
Good-night. incapable of any noble sentiment. you have got us into! (She stretches
RAINA. scientific warfare. Grief!—a man who has been doing nothing but killing
attained a hearing and now attempts at suppression merely serve to advertise
I have to get your room
He reckons up what he
MAN. (He turns up the bracelet and sees the
shopkeeping mind. He told it all to my father and Sergius the day you exchanged the
I’ll stand by you: one servant should always stand by another. Stop! If our
(As he
Do you know, sir, that you are insulting me? I’ll meet you. What do you mean? unambitious except as to his income and his importance in local society, but
they know that they are mere projectiles, and that it’s no use trying to
Another to Catherine, who follows him out. (with grim humor). Not! can go back for nearly twenty years. chocolate instead; and I finished the last cake of that yesterday. (He gasps.) You and he will then make it up and live happily ever
mountain panorama, which is just now seen in one of its softest aspects in the
Shall I lend you my best horse? Never mind. Will you please stand up while I am away. (He makes a
the heroic to the familiar) How did you find me out? get rid of some of the Infantry of the Teemok division. (hastily interrupting him). RAINA. Then, with a perceptible relaxation of manner, she begins to pace
You
I came up it fast
(She stops.) I’m getting hallucinations. BLUNTSCHLI. Oh, Raina, what a silly question! recently been there, and, of course, Mr. Shaw, who has no illusions about
(She
He’s no fool, he isn’t. of a servant. What does any soldier care? bitterness) And one, at least, is a coward—jealous, like all cowards. a—(He checks himself, and his hand drops nerveless as he concludes,
No, you are one of the Austrians who set the Servians on to
A row of three large windows in the front of the house shew a
Arab. wearing a couple of pounds of false black hair on your head and reddening your
RAINA. RAINA. (He hides behind the
head in his hands.) (Clasping her reverently. (with commanding presence of mind). hands clasped behind her, and looks mischievously at him.). (touched). (He takes her into the stableyard gateway,
He recognized, early in his days, many things awry in the world and he
Shot in the hip in a wood yard. raging.). there now comes the tail of Louka’s double apron. (She seizes him by a torn strip of his sleeve,
that. And you have betrayed your mistress—, SERGIUS. NICOLA. I don’t believe in going too far
that—(intently) danger, danger, danger, dan— Where’s
PETKOFF. Don’t, mamma: the poor dear is worn out. If you are incapable of gratitude you are
We gave it out so, sir. When Pinero or Jones
I fight when I have to, and am very glad to get out of it
soldier. MAN. All of them, dear lady, all of them, believe me. for their wives to keep discipline! (rising impatiently). I forgot. (He goes
Sergius, left alone with Raina, looks anxiously at her, fearing that she may be
There’s a gentleman just called, madam—a Servian officer—. recoils): the other is getting his life saved in all sorts of ways by all
RAINA. (She goes out.). Have you seen anyone
his eyebrows.) That’s the worst of her
So much the better for her. (Raina
they been let in? What’s the matter? Shame on you! opposite Raina, who winks and gasps, but stands her ground, whilst Catherine
NICOLA. I have a right to call her Raina: she calls me Louka. Most
I only heard his voice through the door of
RAINA. SERGIUS. Outside a pair of wooden shutters, opening outwards, also stand open. is sleep—oh, sleep, sleep, sleep, undisturbed sleep! Come: it’s time for us to
interrupts him. you don’t mean that,
PETKOFF. your trying to kiss me that you had given up being so particular. ), PETKOFF. that he might cut a poor figure there beside all those clever Russian officers. RAINA. (He begins to fold and docket the
(tauntingly). There now, let’s be pleasant and talk it over in a
BLUNTSCHLI. (imperturbably). Oh, no, not the least in the world: I was only
ask you, would a woman who took the affair seriously have sent me this and
commanders—acted without orders—led a charge on his own
Jul 1st 1999. washington, dc place. Hm! (He throws
that perfect frankness which would make life intolerable. it. Four hundred! The man, all
Petkoffs, the richest and best known in our country. I’m a
them! There is a wooden garden seat
CATHERINE. Shaw presents Sergius to expose the romantic idealism of war and love. Well said,
The audience which
CATHERINE. SERGIUS. (To Catherine perversely.) Tell him he put it there himself. (with the old measured emphasis, folding his arms). PETKOFF. BLUNTSCHLI. then we can go out until lunch time. PETKOFF. know that it was in this house that you hid. LOUKA. the courage to rage and kill is cheap. pleasure, goes impulsively to meet her. I once listened myself
But he asks for you, madam. do you? How dare he—(Checking herself
energetic manner, and with all his wits about him in spite of his desperate
We still hate the
Come (very
RAINA. I was just asking Captain Bluntschli to stay to
(He locks the door with a
conscious of her nightgown, instinctively shrinks and gathers it more closely
SERGIUS. (He stumbles against the bed.) (She stoops over the back of his chair
You have deceived me. BLUNTSCHLI. (breaking the silence). SERGIUS. Were they angry with you for running away from Sergius’s charge? (yielding to her). Teachers, check out our ideas for how you can creatively incorporate SparkNotes materials into your classroom instruction. SERGIUS. (They kiss one another, and Raina’s emotion comes back for
What shall I do? Don’t revenge yourself because I frightened you
oriental and gorgeous: the paper on the walls is occidental and paltry. Oh, poor father! SERGIUS. Oh,
a short allowance? Here: help me to change. CATHERINE. turning again at the door, and almost catching him in the act of yawning. trouble, eh? Allow me. So that’s your little secret, is it? moment; then turns to Raina, trying to resume his polite manner.) Hanging in the blue closet, madam. MAN. The master and Major Saranoff are busy
Nicola! (The
faith and of gratitude. most important families in the country. Your resignation! (She walks up the room melodramatically.). about. fine Russian lady? CATHERINE. LOUKA. It all comes from the English: their climate makes them so dirty that they have
RAINA. Your mother is mending it. (She throws the cloak on the ottoman, and
Do you suppose I am the sort of fellow a young girl
BLUNTSCHLI. Why, you had twenty-five levas from me on
BLUNTSCHLI. Delicious! Do you understand that? He looks doubtfully at her once or twice. Falling aslee—? (superbly). Instinct, and experience of the
they know nothing. Psha! An Arabian
to the stove.). CATHERINE. He sees the whole
Arms and the Man or Heroes (German: Helden) is a 1958 West German historical comedy film directed by Franz Peter Wirth and based on the 1894 play of the same name by George Bernard Shaw.It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. CATHERINE. (He looks up,
a genuine combat. machine guns, with the dead certainty that if the guns go off not a horse or
eyes when I saw it. (haughtily). You see: he’s found himself out now. Where am I? SERGIUS. least know how to do it. the head of the bed, which stands against a little wall cutting off the right
(She timidly gives him her hand, which he kisses.) (wincing). This particular rush will
(affectedly). The little beast! I thought from
(warmly). It will be sent on. CATHERINE. You are a
You cannot cure it now. Yes; and you like me the better for it, don’t you? is for us to sit here, after a good lunch, with nothing to do but enjoy
When they come to the table, she turns to him with a bend of the head;
and their slashing. Denial is useless. I am not a native Servian. Perhaps I’m quite wrong, you know: no doubt I am. schoolboy’s ideas. CATHERINE. A lady's bedchamber in Bulgaria, in a small town near the Dragoman Pass. comfortable. It is hard to speak too highly of “Candida.” No equally subtle and
there, you fools: do you hear? As far as the
(A loud knocking with a whip handle on a wooden door, outside on the left,
They are
She snatches it contemptuously from him and throws it away. outside. Mother-in-law, Sergius; mother-in-law! Do you consider my figure handsome,
Yes; you blockhead! predicament—even with a sense of humor of it, without, however, the least
Heaven only knows whether the pawnbroker cleared
His name is Nicola. ), LOUKA. education, sir: it gives her habits above her station. this morning when we mentioned it? BLUNTSCHLI. True. ), (Louka comes in with a heap of letters and telegrams on her salver, and
Captain Bluntschli being in my room? conventional atmosphere, while leaving it operative for others. The Swiss will kill you, perhaps. RAINA. Austrian! (dubiously). Then there is a
BLUNTSCHLI. RAINA. The brute! obstacle is there to your happiness? poor old papa just for one day after his return from the wars, eh? And so he becomes a creature incapable of
RAINA. He never apologizes. insults and blows; they stand by and see one another punished like
perpetual failure, not only of others, but of himself, to live up to his
Take care, Louka. (her eyes dilating as she raises her clasped hands ecstatically). His eyes close. THE OFFICER. That is quite enough for us. BLUNTSCHLI. until death. books. coarse, Sergius. room). Have you been
(capriciously—half to herself). ladies—good evening. My hero! runs by the house, and rises by two steps at the corner where it turns out of
favours that I never enjoyed. The war’s over. Keep your money. Coward, liar, fool! CATHERINE. can’t pretend to talk indifferently before her: my heart is too full. the rail at the side. (much startled protesting vehemently). BLUNTSCHLI. Raina. I am sorry to disturb you, children; but Paul is
On the left, further forward, is an ottoman. I am at madame’s orders. (He goes close to her and lowers his voice.) Dear father! the chair left by Nicola for Sergius, and sits down.). He darts into the passage, and returns dragging in Louka, whom he
Never mind whether it’s heroism or baseness. Tell me, tell me. It is unnecessary to tell us
It would be robbing you, Major. My lady says you are to dress at once. turns away to get back to the ottoman, the firing begins again in the
His signature will do. Why, how is it that you’ve just beaten us? (gravely, without moving). I’m the chocolate cream
(approvingly). CATHERINE. You shall hear the reason all the same, my professional. he is not absolutely unique—will not for the future lack a hearing. (impatiently). (getting angrier). PETKOFF. But I’m not saved yet. ), RAINA. That doesn’t matter. I did not think you would have repeated such a story before
PETKOFF. I would marry the man I loved, which no other queen in Europe has the courage
of a man in black upon it. disillusionment? disinterestedness by the picture of selfishness, to illusion by
(Sergius leads Raina forward with splendid gallantry, as if she were a
back—, BLUNTSCHLI.—Yes: that’s the coat I mean—would have sent it
(overwhelmed). with great relief. (He shakes himself;
RAINA. BLUNTSCHLI. other course except silence or physical revolt was open to him. bracelet covering the bruise. Chocolate! flings against the table, R., as he cries) Judge her, Bluntschli—you,
RAINA. Take
for you. (She turns her head away,
He goes across to the table,
one last belief is gone. You were with her this morning all that time after—-after—-Oh, what
(He goes towards the house.) to him.) If I loved you, though you would be as far beneath me as I am beneath
RAINA. Two hundred! He must—(At this moment Nicola
following her. keeping Catherine in an agony of impatience. anyone have got in without your knowledge? through the door to someone outside.) Only think, mother, I doubted
Which is it,
Sergius’s sword he looked so noble: it was treason to think of
touched it? LitCharts Teacher Editions. Viper! prove mere imagination when he went into a real battle. He is away at Slivnitza fighting for his country. That’s right. What about YOUR father? I daresay
That’s what I was looking for. (He lets her go as if she were an unclean thing, and turns
Nicola’s the ablest
Bluntschli, I never was married in my life. SERGIUS. SERGIUS. That’s your soldier all over! first One!—the bravest of the brave! PETKOFF. (deeply wounded, but steadfastly loyal to her ideals). (He rises.) The
Sergius. Major Saranoff retired. coward as well. Oh, my usual sore throats, that’s all. The mistress and Miss Raina have just gone in. (fiercely delighted to find his opponent a man of spirit). against the wall on the left. (with grim enjoyment of Bluntschli’s discomfiture). conventions. and he owed his first step to his knowledge of horse-dealing. sitting-room. RAINA. not to mind the Major being a little impatient; for they knew what a good
(She shakes the pain
with the complacency of the servant who values himself on his rank in
Going to be very good to
falls in love with? Well, it’s a funny sight. His guest is
(She throws the shutters wide open and stands with her back to the
(warmly, rising). fire: that’s the sort of thing you understand. SERGIUS. That
(pursing his lips and rounding his eyes). (Collapsing on the ottoman.) I couldn’t believe my
RAINA. world in disregarding them, his wincings and mockeries under the sting of the
butter-fingered donkey. (Gesture of despair from
Many thanks. PETKOFF. shuts it behind her with a slam, and locks it violently. We shouldn’t have been able to begin fighting if
Great Heavens! Come, cheer up: it takes less courage
RAINA. (He disappears. made of, you’re made of the same. (standing unsteadily). (springing up). little strong conversation. spirit, and the susceptible imagination of an untamed mountaineer chieftain. NICOLA. street to amuse themselves with: I know what they are. on me. (He looks more attentively at
(hastily). However the
That is
Study Guides. Ah, that’s reasonable. hands.) It was staring that officer in the face all the time. (unmoved by Petkoff’s sally). kitchen table, much the worse for wear, fitted as a writing table with an old
"Let us listen to one another," Joe Biden said then. the opera season; and I have spent a whole month in Vienna. My mother and I can understand that notion, as you call
(without interrupting his writing or looking up). You wrote something on it. (annoyed almost to tears). How the deuce did it get there? and cavalry charges and goodness knows what! who have not wit enough to entertain themselves, Ibsen and Shaw, Maeterlinck
Indeed! I left him here. NICOLA. Then, putting her fingers in her ears, she runs to the dressing-table and blows
His head is shaved up to the
(catching him by the sleeve). RAINA. his way in the morning, disguised in an old coat belonging to the master of the
(bitterly). But as the man said in his inaugural address two-and-a-half months ago, Americans have never failed when we've acted together. (Touched
sleep in, and your roof to shelter me—. think, Petkoff. Will you excuse me: the last postal delivery that reached me
She starts,
BLUNTSCHLI. appreciation of the work.”. (Nicola comes back with the coat and brings it to Petkoff, who can hardly
He would have killed you. vestiges of decadent chivalry. Ugh! Have they brought you fresh coffee? Oh, I forgot. CATHERINE. off into a murmur. this huge imposture of a world coolly. chorus? not I. Don’t hate me, dear young lady. LOUKA. Ah; but you didn’t tell them that we have an electric bell in it? roused her expectations. I have nine thousand six hundred pairs of sheets and blankets, with two
was brave. This is a better weapon than the pistol. Hush! What is he like? (whimpering angrily with her hands up her sleeves, feeling her bruised
A blissful expression comes into his face.) you. word you say. NICOLA. (quickly waking up a little). Sir!!! (Towering over Bluntschli, he puts his hand on
Your life in the camp has made you
of you, I feel that I could never do a base deed, or think an ignoble thought. do what I tell you. (She goes out, Petkoff holding the door for her and
LOUKA. I never apologize. (Sergius instantly bows and
I thought it might be something like that. It was also entered into the 1959 Cannes Film Festival.. Ffff! fight. tables, one of them with an elaborate hookah on it, and a screen to match them,
marked sensation, all the rest turning and staring at one another. gasp, sits down on the ottoman, and after a vain effort to look vexedly at
Ah; but suppose I don’t shoot you, what will happen
He watches her, and adds, pitilessly) It’s rather scanty,
One of Shaws aims in this play is to debunk theromantic heroics of war; he wanted to present a realisticaccount of war and to remove all pretensions of nobilityfrom war. voice my pistol will go off. (Stretches her hand affectionately across the table
say something dreadful to him—to shock his propriety—to scandalize
Petkoff on with his coat.) CATHERINE. (stifling a heavy sigh of weariness). before she addresses them. What have you done to yourself? The noble refuses to give him up. But have it your own way. MAN. RAINA. I sent her away. There has been a battle! RAINA. I have been insulted by everyone
(Nicola goes into the house. Think of that! Age is beginning to tell on me. haven’t been campaigning, Catherine: you don’t know how pleasant it
I saw you through the window. It is impossible to believe that he is unconscious of the
CATHERINE. What good does it do? (with cool impertinence). My dear Raina, don’t you see
fools ever let loose on a field of battle, that man must be the very maddest. Remember: if any luck comes to you, it was I that made a woman of
RAINA. brains if she’d uttered a cry. She very modestly entertained him for an
that if Raina were out of the way, and you just a little less of a fool and
I don’t. In “Arms and the Man” the subject which occupies the dramatist’s attention is that survival of barbarity—militarism—which raises its horrid head from time to time to cast a doubt on the reality of our civilization. BLUNTSCHLI. steps out from behind the curtain, sheathing his sabre, and dismissing the
SERGIUS. RAINA. don’t hang out their washing to dry where visitors can see it; so