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Cornelius Monologue from John Bull's Other Island

From John Bull's Other Island by Bernard Shaw

male · defiant · 1:34 min

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I wish he'd never set foot in my house, bad luck to his fat face! D'ye think he'd lend me 300 pounds on the farm, Larry? When I'm so hard up, it seems a waste o money not to mortgage it now it's me own. (LARRY: I can lend you 300 pounds on it.) No, no: I wasn't putn in for that. When I die and leave you the farm I should like to be able to feel that it was all me own, and not half yours to start with. Now I'll take me oath Barney Doarn's goin to ask Broadbent to lend him 500 pounds on the mill to put in a new hweel; for the old one'll harly hol together. An Haffigan can't sleep with covetn that corner o land at the foot of his medda that belongs to Doolan. He'll have to mortgage to buy it. I may as well be first as last. D'ye think Broadbent'd len me a little? (LARRY: I'm quite sure he will.) Is he as ready as that? Would he len me five hunderd, d'ye think?

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30s · determination · ambition · power · identity · family

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