And how have ye tried bein' neighbourly to me? If I haven't a wife, I've got a daughter-in-law. Have Ye celled on her, ma'am? I'm new, and ye're an old family. Ye don't like me, ye think I'm a pushin' man. I go to chapel, an' ye don't like that. I make things and I sell them, and ye don't like that. I buy land, and ye don't like that. It threatens the view from your windies. Well, I don't lie you, and I'm not goin' to put up with your attitude. Ye've had things your own way too long, and now ye're not going to have them any longer. (HILLCRIST: Will you hold to your word over those cottages?) I'm goin' to have the cottages. I need them, and more besides, now I'm to put up me new works. (HILLCRIST: That's a declaration of war.) Ye never said a truer word. It's one or the other of us, and I rather think it's goin' to be me. I'm the risin' and you're the settin' sun, as the poet says.

Hornblower Monologue from The Skin Game (A Tragi-Comedy)

Rehearse Hornblower's monologue