Nov
14th
Mon
14th
PATIOMKIN. You have no hearts, you English! [Slapping
his right breast.] Heart! Heart!
EDSTASTON. Pardon, your Highness: your heart is on the
other side.
PATIOMKIN [surprised and impressed]. Is it? You are learned!
You are a doctor! You English are wonderful! We are barbarians,
drunken pigs. Catherine does not know it; but we are.
Catherine’s a German. But I have given her a Russian heart
[he is about to slap himself again.]
EDSTASTON [delicately]. The other side, your Highness.
PATIOMKIN [maudlin].
his right breast.] Heart! Heart!
EDSTASTON. Pardon, your Highness: your heart is on the
other side.
PATIOMKIN [surprised and impressed]. Is it? You are learned!
You are a doctor! You English are wonderful! We are barbarians,
drunken pigs. Catherine does not know it; but we are.
Catherine’s a German. But I have given her a Russian heart
[he is about to slap himself again.]
EDSTASTON [delicately]. The other side, your Highness.
PATIOMKIN [maudlin].
— G.B. Shaw, Great Catherine
