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(Arabesquing wearily they weave a pattern on the floor,
weaving, unweaving, curtseying, twirling, simply swirling.)
ZOE: I’m giddy!
(She frees herself, droops on a chair. Stephen seizes Florry and
turns with her.)
MAGINNI: Boulangère! Les ronds! Les ponts!
Chevaux de bois! Escargots!
(Twining, receding, with interchanging hands the night hours
link each each with arching arms in a mosaic of movements.
Stephen and Florry turn cumbrously.)
MAGINNI: Dansez avec vos dames! Changez de dames!
Donnez le petit bouquet à votre dame! Remerciez!
THE PIANOLA:
Best, best of all,
Baraabum!
KITTY: (JUMPS UP) O, they played that on the
hobbyhorses at the Mirus bazaar!
(She runs to Stephen. He leaves florry brusquely and seizes
Kitty. A screaming bittern’s harsh high whistle shrieks.
Groangrousegurgling Toft’s cumbersome whirligig turns slowly the
room right roundabout the room.)
THE PIANOLA:
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