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Rixon Monologue from Mrs. Dot: A Farce

From Mrs. Dot: A Farce by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

male · comedic · 1:21 min

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Queer street? The man’s just come into seven thousand a year. (MR. WRIGHT: What!) That’s why I’m running all over the place to find him. You know he’s a relation of the Hollingtons. I was at her ladyship’s not half an hour ago--the Dowager, you know--my firm has acted for the whole family for the last hundred years. Well, I’d hardly arrived before a message came from the War Office to say that her grandson, the present lord, had been killed in India. So as soon as I could, I bolted round here. Mr. Halstane is the next heir, and he comes into seven thousand a year and the title. (MR. WRIGHT: My gracious, that’s a piece of luck.) I don’t mind telling you now that he’d pretty well come to the end of his tether. Your money was all right because he’d have paid everything up, but he wouldn’t have had much left.

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30s · anticipation · inheritance · family · power · fate

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