Lord Leonard Alcar Monologue from The Great Adventure: A Play of Fancy in Four Acts

From The Great Adventure: A Play of Fancy in Four Acts by Arnold Bennett

male · sarcastic · 1:09 min

Not in the least. But the fact is we haven't yet settled the price. The exact price is to depend on the result of our gathering. (JANET: Well, if anybody had told me I should find my own portrait--cooking-sleeves and all----) And now that we have got so far, Mr. X, I should like to centralize the attention of this quite friendly gathering on yourself. (CARVE: Really!) There are several questions we might discuss. For example, we might argue the artistic value of the pictures admittedly the work of Mr. X. That would probably occupy us for about ten years. Or we might ask ourselves how it happened that that exceedingly astute dealer, Mr. Ebag, came to sell as a genuine Ilam Carve, without offering any explanation, a picture which, on the face of it, was painted some time after that great painter had received a national funeral in Westminster Abbey.

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