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186.
petulant arid full of temper".
Of the two copies of the text, annotated in laien
Terry's hand and now at Smallhythe, one is evidently that
sent to Shaw, and commented on by him in his letter of
September 8. 18 The note at New Arden 1,7,299 ("Oh, no,
no") wary of him, is deleted and Mo, she is impulsive and
innocent inserted by Ellen Terry in the upper margin.
Further down the same page, at "I thank you for your pains/
But not away to-morrow]", is the note polite "words
words"-. Throughout the scene, ~:ilen Terry has modified
her original markings in accordance with Shaw's comments.
"What makes your admiration?" is now not suspicious, and
"Will my lord say so?" which in the earlier markings has
the emphasis on "my" has lost the instruction indignantly
>roud. At "Am I one, sir?" Rising grandly has been erased,
and "I pray you, sir/Deliver with more openness your answers/
To my demands." is Disturbed agitated hQT emphatic.
Imogen and lachimo have been sitting, in the earlier
version of the scene, and when Imogen had risen grandly,
lachimo seems to have done so too: when he reveals her
husband's iniquities, she drops into her seat, covers her
face with her hand and whispers "Let me hear no more",
lachimo then makes his suggestion concerning revenge
dropping deftly into a chair and whispering in her ear.
She is still covered at "Reveng'd /If this be true, how
should I be reveng'd'?' 1 Then, at the revelation she breaks
out in Scorn blazing anger. Hhe goes to the right with the
second "Vhat, ho, Pisanio!" (Irvin.r's version of the words)
and with the third she Swoop/s_7 right over to L. to try
for Pisanio in another room and clap hands. "You make
amends" is spoken riot half believing, and her tone is
stronger with each succeeding short speech in the scene.
All this is removed in the revision. The traditional
version of the scene which it suggests - very like Helen
Faucit's reading - is superseded by instructions for Imogen