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Captain Brassbound's Conversion

George Bernard Shaw

Form
Form Play
Year
Year 1901
Pages
Pages 110

The coat comes off in a Moroccan mission house. Its owner is explaining, quite calmly, that he means to hand Lady Cicely Waynflete's brother-in-law over to a hill chieftain to be killed, and Lady Cicely threads a needle, mends the torn sleeve, and asks him about his mother.

How glorious! how glorious! And what an escape!
Captain Brassbound's Conversion, George Bernard Shaw

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