"Dunsany, Lord - Plays of Gods and Men" - читать интересную книгу автора (Dunsany Lord)

Hark, they are coming back. They are singing a hunting
song... why, they have killed a beast. All four of the
men are bringing it on two branches.

Arolind: {Bored.}
What kind of beast is it?

Tharmia:
I do not know. It seems to have barbed horns.

Carolyx:
We must go and meet them.

{The song is loud and joyous. Exeunt by the way that
the Sentries went.}

{Enter Sentries.}

1st Sentry:
Whatever it is has passed away again for they were
smiling.

2nd Sentry:
They feared that their husbands were lost and now they
return in safety.

1st Sentry:
You do not know, for you do not understand women.

2nd Sentry:
I understand them quite as well as you.

1st Sentry:
That is what I say. You do not understand them. I do
not understand them.

2nd Sentry:
...Oh.

{A pause.}

1st Sentry:
We shall never leave Thek now.

2nd Sentry:
Why shall we never leave it?

1st Sentry:
Did you not hear how glad they were when they sang the
hunting song? They say a wild dog does not turn from