Monologue

Schutzmacher Monologue from The Doctor's Dilemma

From The Doctor's Dilemma by Bernard Shaw

male · contemplative · 59 sec

Oh yes I did. I should have liked very much to have kept the sketch and got it autographed. (B. B: But why didnt you?) Well, the fact is, when I joined Dubedat after his conversation with Mr Walpole, he said the Jews were the only people who knew anything about art, and that though he had to put up with your Philistine twaddle, as he called it, it was what I said about the drawings that really pleased him. He also said that his wife was greatly struck with my knowledge, and that she always admired Jews. Then he asked me to advance him 50 pounds on the security of the drawings. (B. B: { } Think of that! SIR PATRICK { }!) Of course I couldnt lend money to a stranger like that.

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