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Plays: Lady Frederick, The Explorer, A Man of Honour
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2017
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John
[Drily.] It does inspire respect, doesn't it?
James
I don't know what you mean by that. But I flatter myself I know a good cigar when I see it.
[John sits down, and James Bush, withoutthinking, follows his example.]
John
What d'you think you'll get out of making a row at the inquest? Of course, there'll be an inquest.
James
Yes, I know there will. And I'm lookin' forward to it, I can tell you.
John
I wouldn't have said that if I'd been you.
James
[Quite unconscious of the construction that may be put on his last words – full of his own grievances.] I've 'ad something to put up with, I 'ave.
John
Really?
James
Oh, he's treated me shockin'! He simply treated me like dirt. I wouldn't 'ave stood it a minute, except for Jenny's sake. I wasn't good enough for 'im, if you please. And the way he used to look right through me as if I wasn't there at all – Oh, I'll be even with 'im now.
John
What are you going to do?
James
Never you mind. I'm going to make it hot for 'im.
John
D'you think that'll do you any good?
James
[Springing up.] Yes. And I mean to…
John
[Interrupting.] Now sit down, there's a good chap, and let's have a little talk about it.
James
[Angrily.] You're trying to bamboozle me.
John
Nonsense.
James
Oh, yes, you are. Don't try to deny it. I can see through you as if you was a pane of glass. You people in the West End – you think you know everything.
John
I assure you…
James
[Interrupting.] But I've had a City training, and you can lay anything you like there ain't no flies on me.
John
We're both men of the world, Mr. Bush. Will you do me a great favour as a – friend?
James
[Suspiciously.] That depends on what it is.
John
It's merely to listen to me quietly for two or three minutes.
James
I don't mind doing that.
John
Well, the fact is – Basil's going away, and he wants to get rid of the furniture and the house. What d'you think it's worth, as an auctioneer?
James
[Looking round.] It's a very different business what a thing's worth, and what it'll fetch.
John
[Drily.] It does inspire respect, doesn't it?
James
I don't know what you mean by that. But I flatter myself I know a good cigar when I see it.
[John sits down, and James Bush, withoutthinking, follows his example.]
John
What d'you think you'll get out of making a row at the inquest? Of course, there'll be an inquest.
James
Yes, I know there will. And I'm lookin' forward to it, I can tell you.
John
I wouldn't have said that if I'd been you.
James
[Quite unconscious of the construction that may be put on his last words – full of his own grievances.] I've 'ad something to put up with, I 'ave.
John
Really?
James
Oh, he's treated me shockin'! He simply treated me like dirt. I wouldn't 'ave stood it a minute, except for Jenny's sake. I wasn't good enough for 'im, if you please. And the way he used to look right through me as if I wasn't there at all – Oh, I'll be even with 'im now.
John
What are you going to do?
James
Never you mind. I'm going to make it hot for 'im.
John
D'you think that'll do you any good?
James
[Springing up.] Yes. And I mean to…
John
[Interrupting.] Now sit down, there's a good chap, and let's have a little talk about it.
James
[Angrily.] You're trying to bamboozle me.
John
Nonsense.
James
Oh, yes, you are. Don't try to deny it. I can see through you as if you was a pane of glass. You people in the West End – you think you know everything.
John
I assure you…
James
[Interrupting.] But I've had a City training, and you can lay anything you like there ain't no flies on me.
John
We're both men of the world, Mr. Bush. Will you do me a great favour as a – friend?
James
[Suspiciously.] That depends on what it is.
John
It's merely to listen to me quietly for two or three minutes.
James
I don't mind doing that.
John
Well, the fact is – Basil's going away, and he wants to get rid of the furniture and the house. What d'you think it's worth, as an auctioneer?
James
[Looking round.] It's a very different business what a thing's worth, and what it'll fetch.
John
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