A Cure for the Blues
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"A Cure for the Blues" by Mark Twain. Read aloud by a LibriVox volunteer. Public domain.
Transcript
0:00 then we have this fine picture flung upon the canvas with hardly an effort, as you will notice.
0:06 Advancing toward him, she gave a bright display of her rosy neck, and from her head the ambrosial
0:12 locks breathed divine fragrance. Her robe hung waving to his view, while she stood like a goddess
0:19 confessed before him. There is nothing of interest in the couple's interview. Now, at this point,
0:25 the girl invites Alfonso to a village show, where jealousy is the motive of the play,
0:31 for she wants to teach him a wholesome lesson, if he is a jealous person. But this is a sham,
0:37 and pretty shallow. McClintock merely wants a pretext to drag in a plagiarism of his
0:43 upon a scene or two in Othello. The lovers went to the play. Alfonso was one of the fiddlers.
0:50 He and Ambulinia must not be seen together, lest trouble follow with the girl's malignant
0:55 father. We are made to understand that clearly.