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    The First and the Last
    The First and the Last
    The First and the Last
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    The First and the Last

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    Release dateNov 25, 2013
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    John Galsworthy

    John Galsworthy was a Nobel-Prize (1932) winning English dramatist, novelist, and poet born to an upper-middle class family in Surrey, England. He attended Harrow and trained as a barrister at New College, Oxford. Although called to the bar in 1890, rather than practise law, Galsworthy travelled extensively and began to write. It was as a playwright Galsworthy had his first success. His plays—like his most famous work, the series of novels comprising The Forsyte Saga—dealt primarily with class and the social issues of the day, and he was especially harsh on the class from which he himself came.

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      The First and the Last - John Galsworthy

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The First and The Last

      by John Galsworthy

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      Title: The First and The Last

      Subtitle: From Six Short Plays)

      Author: John Galsworthy

      Release Date: September 26, 2004 [EBook #2918]

      Last Updated: October 28, 2012

      Language: English

      Character set encoding: ASCII

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FIRST AND LAST ***

      Produced by David Widger

      GALSWORTHY'S PLAYS

      Links to All Volumes

      THE FIRST AND THE LAST

      A Drama In Three Scenes

      From Six Short Plays Of Galsworthy

      By John Galsworthy

      PERSONS OF THE PLAY KEITH DARRANT, K.C. LARRY DARRANT, His Brother. WANDA. SCENE I. KEITH'S Study. SCENE II. WANDA's Room. SCENE III. The Same. Between SCENE I. and SCENE II.—Thirty hours. Between SCENE II. and SCENE III.—Two months.

      SCENE I

      It is six o'clock of a November evening, in KEITH DARRANT'S study. A large, dark-curtained room where the light from a single reading-lamp falling on Turkey carpet, on books beside a large armchair, on the deep blue-and-gold coffee service, makes a sort of oasis before a log fire. In red Turkish slippers and an old brown velvet coat, KEITH DARRANT sits asleep. He has a dark, clean-cut, clean-shaven face, dark grizzling hair, dark twisting eyebrows.

      [The curtained door away out in the dim part of the room behind him is opened so softly that he does not wake. LARRY DARRANT enters and stands half lost in the curtain over the door. A thin figure, with a worn, high cheek-boned face, deep-sunk blue eyes and wavy hair all ruffled—a face which still has a certain beauty. He moves inwards along the wall, stands still again and utters a gasping sigh. KEITH stirs in his chair.]

      KEITH. Who's there?

      LARRY. [In a stifled voice] Only I—Larry.

      KEITH. [Half-waked] Come in! I was asleep. [He does not turn his head, staring sleepily at the fire.]

      The sound of LARRY's breathing can be heard. [Turning his head a little] Well, Larry, what is it? LARRY comes skirting along the wall, as if craving its support, outside the radius of the light. [Staring] Are you ill? LARRY stands still again and heaves a deep sigh.

      KEITH. [Rising, with his back to the fire, and staring at his brother] What is it, man? [Then with a brutality born of nerves suddenly ruffled] Have you committed a murder that you stand there like a fish?

      LARRY. [In

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