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Plays: Lady Frederick, The Explorer, A Man of Honour
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2017
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[Angrily.] Ah, you're a pretty specimen, you are. You mean skinflint!
Basil
Don't be abusive, James. It's rude.
James
I shall say what I choose.
Basil
And please don't talk so loud. It annoys me.
James
[Malevolently.] I dare say you'd like to get me out of the way. But I mean to keep my eye on you.
Basil
[Sharply.] What d'you mean by that?
James
You know what I mean. Jenny has something to put up with, I lay.
Basil
[Containing his anger.] You'll have the goodness to leave the relations between Jenny and myself alone – d'you hear?
James
Ha, that's touched you up, has it? You think I don't know what sort of a feller you are. I can just about see through two of you. And I know a good deal more about you than you think.
Basil
[Contemptuously.] Don't be foolish, James.
James
[Sarcastic.] A nice thing Jenny did when she married you.
Basil
[Recovering himself, with a smile.] Has she been telling you my numerous faults? [To Jenny.] You must have had plenty to talk about, my love.
Jenny
[Who has been going on with her sewing, looking up now and then uneasily.] I haven't said a word against you, Basil.
Basil
[Turning his back on James.] Oh, my dear Jenny, if it amuses you, by all means discuss me with your brother and your sister and your father and your mother, and the whole crew of them… I should be so dull if I had no faults.
Jenny
[Anxiously.] Tell him I've not said anything against him, Jimmie.
James
It's not for want of something to say, I lay.
Basil
[Over his shoulder.] I'm getting rather tired, brother James. I'd go, if I were you.
James
[Very aggressively.] I shan't go till I choose.
Basil
[Turns round, smiling blandly.] Of course, we're both Christians, dear James; and there's a good deal of civilisation kicking about the world nowadays. But, notwithstanding, the last word is still with the strongest.
James
What d'you mean by that?
Basil
[Good-humouredly.] Merely that discretion is the better part of valour. They say that proverbs are the wealth of nations.
James
[Indignantly.] That's just the sort of thing you'd do – to 'it a feller smaller than yourself.
Basil
Oh, I wouldn't hit you for worlds, brother James. I should merely throw you downstairs.
James
[Making for the door.] I should just like to see you try it on.
Basil
Don't be silly, James. You know you wouldn't like it at all.
James
Basil
Don't be abusive, James. It's rude.
James
I shall say what I choose.
Basil
And please don't talk so loud. It annoys me.
James
[Malevolently.] I dare say you'd like to get me out of the way. But I mean to keep my eye on you.
Basil
[Sharply.] What d'you mean by that?
James
You know what I mean. Jenny has something to put up with, I lay.
Basil
[Containing his anger.] You'll have the goodness to leave the relations between Jenny and myself alone – d'you hear?
James
Ha, that's touched you up, has it? You think I don't know what sort of a feller you are. I can just about see through two of you. And I know a good deal more about you than you think.
Basil
[Contemptuously.] Don't be foolish, James.
James
[Sarcastic.] A nice thing Jenny did when she married you.
Basil
[Recovering himself, with a smile.] Has she been telling you my numerous faults? [To Jenny.] You must have had plenty to talk about, my love.
Jenny
[Who has been going on with her sewing, looking up now and then uneasily.] I haven't said a word against you, Basil.
Basil
[Turning his back on James.] Oh, my dear Jenny, if it amuses you, by all means discuss me with your brother and your sister and your father and your mother, and the whole crew of them… I should be so dull if I had no faults.
Jenny
[Anxiously.] Tell him I've not said anything against him, Jimmie.
James
It's not for want of something to say, I lay.
Basil
[Over his shoulder.] I'm getting rather tired, brother James. I'd go, if I were you.
James
[Very aggressively.] I shan't go till I choose.
Basil
[Turns round, smiling blandly.] Of course, we're both Christians, dear James; and there's a good deal of civilisation kicking about the world nowadays. But, notwithstanding, the last word is still with the strongest.
James
What d'you mean by that?
Basil
[Good-humouredly.] Merely that discretion is the better part of valour. They say that proverbs are the wealth of nations.
James
[Indignantly.] That's just the sort of thing you'd do – to 'it a feller smaller than yourself.
Basil
Oh, I wouldn't hit you for worlds, brother James. I should merely throw you downstairs.
James
[Making for the door.] I should just like to see you try it on.
Basil
Don't be silly, James. You know you wouldn't like it at all.
James
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