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The Parliamentry troops believe he will hide in the home of Colonel Beverly, a famous Cavalier - they surround the house believeing they will smoke him out. No King is found and they are told that they have killed the four children who were in the house - but they escape with the old forester, Jacob Armitage, who must now teach them to lose their lace, and velvet manners and behave and look like Puritans

Les - komedija v pjati dejstvijah russkogo dramaturga Aleksandra Ostrovskogo 1870 goda. Dejstvie proishodit v pomest'e pomeshhicy Gurmyzhskoj, kotoraja po svoej vole vershit sud'by zavisjashhih ot nee ljudej. Ona prodaet prinadlezhashhij ej les potomu, chto ej nuzhny den'gi - dlja bednyh - po ee sobstvennym slovam. Odnako dovol'no bystro stanovitsja jasno, chto den'gi dlja Gurmyzhskoj - prezhde vsego vozmozhnost' kupit' sebe molodogo vozljublennogo.