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Rankin Monologue from Captain Brassbound's Conversion

From Captain Brassbound's Conversion by Bernard Shaw

male · defiant · 1:37 min

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Then the estate was lost? (SIR HOWARD: Not permanently. It is in my hands at present.) Then how did ye get it back? SIR HOWARD (with crafty enjoyment of his own cunning). By hoisting the rogue with his own petard. I had to leave matters as they were for many years; for I had my own position in the world to make. But at last I made it. In the course of a holiday trip to the West Indies, I found that this dishonest agent had left the island, and placed the estate in the hands of an agent of his own, whom he was foolish enough to pay very badly. I put the case before that agent; and he decided to treat the estate as my property. The robber now found himself in exactly the same position he had formerly forced me into. Nobody in the island would act against me, least of all the Attorney and Solicitor General, who appreciated my influence at the Colonial Office. And so I got the estate back. "The mills of the gods grind slowly," Mr. Rankin; "but they grind exceeding small."

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40s · joy · power · revenge · ambition · redemption

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