Cusins Monologue from Major Barbara

From Major Barbara by Bernard Shaw

male · defiant · 1:08 min

(with sudden heat, his spectacles twinkling with mischief) A thousand! You dare offer a miserable thousand to the son-in-law of a millionaire! No, by Heavens, Machiavelli! you shall not cheat me. You cannot do without me; and I can do without you. I must have two thousand five hundred a year for two years. At the end of that time, if I am a failure, I go. But if I am a success, and stay on, you must give me the other five thousand. (UNDERSHAFT: What other five thousand?) To make the two years up to five thousand a year. The two thousand five hundred is only half pay in case I should turn out a failure. The third year I must have ten per cent on the profits. UNDERSHAFT (taken aback) Ten per cent! Why, man, do you know what my profits are?

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