| (Merlin) {Holding up a partly-made pair of black trousers.} | |
| (1, 0) 28 | Merlin! |
| (Merlin) Talk of the ─ | |
| (1, 0) 32 | I pay you to work, and not to waste your time in folly and profanity. |
| (Merlin) {Adjusting his spectacles, amd surveying Josiah with amusement.} | |
| (1, 0) 42 | Hush! Merlin. |
| (1, 0) 43 | Suppose anyone should hear you? |
| (1, 0) 44 | They might think it was me. |
| (1, 0) 45 | Remember the respectability of the establishment, if you please. |
| (Merlin) All right, Josiah─joking I was. | |
| (Merlin) He was always laughing when he was at a funeral. | |
| (1, 0) 50 | It was most unseemly. |
| (Merlin) Yes, but he couldn't help it, poor dab. | |
| (Merlin) If he didn't do that, he 'ould cry. | |
| (1, 0) 54 | Poor Jonathan! he was over-fond of his glass. |
| (Merlin) His |glass|? | |
| (Merlin) You remember the day we buried him, and what a |beautiful| coffin he had? | |
| (1, 0) 59 | I do, very well─it was good enough to be put into the ground to rot. |
| (Merlin) You made a good profit on it, and it was only a common old coffin, too─rotten 'ood, and moths in the cloth─shameful! | |
| (Merlin) You made a good profit on it, and it was only a common old coffin, too─rotten 'ood, and moths in the cloth─shameful! | |
| (1, 0) 61 | Not shameful, Merlin─it was business. |
| (Merlin) Business is a big rogue, very often. | |
| (Merlin) But you will be caught, some day, remember─like I was, coming home from Jonathan's funeral. | |
| (1, 0) 65 | Staggering home, Merlin. |
| (Merlin) Don't you talk─you had a drop yourself, too. | |
| (1, 0) 69 | 'Sh! it was a cold night, and I took a little wine, as Paul commands, for the stomach's sake. |
| (1, 0) 70 | I am not accustomed to strong drinks, and it upset me. |
| (Merlin) Did it make you see the devil? | |
| (1, 0) 73 | No, it didn't. |
| (Merlin) {Encouragingly.} | |
| (1, 0) 86 | My poor wife! |
| (1, 0) 87 | She was, indeed, an angel─ |
| (Merlin) Don't stop me, mun, in the middle of my story─it is bad manners. | |
| (Merlin) And then I said─"If you are the devil, you 'ont touch me because you are friends with my brother-in-law, Josiah Jones." | |
| (1, 0) 90 | Surely, you didn't say that? |
| (1, 0) 91 | It might have been one of the deacons. |
| (Merlin) Shut up, and let me go on. | |
| (Morgan) I─I thought I should find him alone. | |
| (1, 0) 106 | Man is never alone, my young friend─the All-seeing Eye follows him everywhere. |
| (1, 0) 107 | I hope you are well, Mr. Morgans, and that you find business flourishing? |
| (Morgan) It might be better. | |
| (Morgan) Opposition is so keen, and─and─so unfair. | |
| (1, 0) 111 | It is the way of some people to set their failures down to the evil ways of others, and not to their own shortcomings. |
| (1, 0) 113 | Nothing personal, Mr. Morgans. |
| (Morgan) {Earnestly.} | |
| (Morgan) At every turn I am met by unscrupulous trickery─by men who cut the ground from under my feet, and snatch the fruits of my labour from me. | |
| (1, 0) 118 | If you 'ould work as well as you do talk, you 'ould get on better. |
| (1, 0) 119 | You ought to be in the ministry, telling people what to do, and not bothering to do it yourself. |
| (Morgan) I know you don't believe in me─you don't give me credit for anything. | |
| (Morgan) I─I just dropt in to see Merlin. | |
| (1, 0) 133 | Anne, my girl, you had better go in. |
| (1, 0) 134 | You come here a great deal too much for your good; and I am afraid Merlin encourages you. |
| (Merlin) Look you, Josiah, she is my sister's child, and if you keep her from me, I will go somewhere else, so there! | |
| (Merlin) Look you, Josiah, she is my sister's child, and if you keep her from me, I will go somewhere else, so there! | |
| (1, 0) 136 | Temper─temper, Merlin! |
| (1, 0) 137 | I don't want you to leave me. |
| (Merlin) I know that very well. | |
| (Merlin) I keep your bissness together for you when you go off on the spree. | |
| (1, 0) 141 | Merlin! you ought to know better than to say such a thing─before my daughter, too. |
| (Merlin) Never mind, Josiah─I will say when I go off on the spree, if you like. | |
| (Nan) {Chatters with Morgan.} | |
| (1, 0) 155 | Nan!─come here. |
| (Nan) You are an old tease! | |
| (1, 0) 160 | Don't put such silly notions in the girl's head. |
| (1, 0) 161 | My brother-in-law is a bit of a poet, Mr. Morgans, and we must make allowance for his foolish talk. |
| (Morgan) {Who has been absorbed watching Nan and whispering to her, rouses himself as from a dream.} | |
| (1, 0) 180 | You have learnt a lot of nonsense at school, Anne Jones. |
| (Merlin) At school? | |
| (Nan) If you don't take more care of yourself, I shall be very cross with you. | |
| (1, 0) 190 | No beer, Nan─mind! |
| (Merlin) {Looking back over his shoulder.} | |
| (Merlin) Where is the cask, Nan? | |
| (1, 0) 196 | Indeed, it is hard to put up with Merlin, sometimes. |
| (1, 0) 197 | But I have got a soft heart, Mr. Morgans, and he is very fond of my daughter; and she is so foolish about him. |
| (1, 0) 198 | That is how it is─you understand? |
| (Morgan) The sentiment does you honour, sir. | |
| (Morgan) Merlin is a favourite with everybody, and, if anything happened to him, there wouldn't be one in the parish without a tear for him. | |
| (1, 0) 201 | Yes─yes─and you can't go against the public feeling. |
| (1, 0) 202 | You must go with the times. |
| (1, 0) 203 | That is my motto─"Go with the times." |
| (1, 0) 204 | But we mustn't dwell upon these little weaknesses. |
| (1, 0) 205 | You understand? |
| (1, 0) 206 | Tell me, how is business with you, my young friend? |
| (1, 0) 207 | Bad, as usual, I suppose? |
| (Morgan) I am beginning to hope that my luck has turned. | |
| (Morgan) I am beginning to hope that my luck has turned. | |
| (1, 0) 209 | Turn your money, did you, with the new moon? |
| (1, 0) 211 | No offence, Mr. Morgans. |
| (1, 0) 212 | I am glad to hear you say about your luck. |
| (1, 0) 213 | May I ask you the nature of it? |
| (Morgan) It is kind of you to interest yourself in my affairs. | |
| (1, 0) 217 | I hope it is not the place I am after. |
| (1, 0) 218 | It will grieve me very much if it is. |
| (Morgan) I hope not, I am sure. | |
| (1, 0) 223 | You tell me where is yours, and I will tell you where is mine. |
| (1, 0) 224 | I give you first chance, Mr. Morgans. |
| (Morgan) It is in Market Square─near the Bank. | |
| (1, 0) 227 | Dear me, that is very unlucky. |
| (1, 0) 228 | I am afraid we are after the same place. |
| (Morgan) {Despondently.} | |
| (Morgan) Always my luck! | |
| (1, 0) 231 | Come you, don't be downhearted. |
| (1, 0) 232 | If you want it very bad, give me £50, and I'll leave it to you. |
| (Morgan) Good gracious, Mr. Jones, I haven't got it. | |
| (Morgan) It has taken me years to save enough to buy the house, and I must give it up if you are going to bid against me. | |
| (1, 0) 235 | Ah, my young friend, you don't understand business. |
| (1, 0) 236 | But I don't want to be hard on you. |
| (1, 0) 237 | I will lend you the £50. |
| (1, 0) 238 | A hundred if you like. |
| (1, 0) 239 | The house is good security. |
| (Morgan) You are very kind. | |
| (Morgan) I will accept the loan with gratitude. | |
| (1, 0) 242 | These are bad times, Mr. Morgans, and money is hard to get. |
| (1, 0) 243 | Shall we say 6 per cent? |
| (Morgan) I am in your hands. | |
| (1, 0) 248 | "Miss Jones," my young friend, for the present. |
| (Morgan) {Humbly.} | |
| (Morgan) I beg your pardon, sir, I ought not to have called her Nan. | |
| (1, 0) 251 | That is twice you have done the same thing in less than a minute. |
| (1, 0) 252 | You are very forgetful, Mr. Morgans, and a good memory a business man is bound to have, if he is going to climb the ladder to the top. |
| (Morgan) I won't offend again. | |
| (Morgan) If it was a matter of business, I should remember better. | |
| (1, 0) 256 | But it is a matter of business, and I tell you now what I told you before─ |
| (1, 0) 257 | When you can make £50 in five minutes, the same as I have done, you can ask me for my daughter, and I won't say "No." |
| (Morgan) But─ | |
| (Morgan) But─ | |
| (1, 0) 259 | Not another word, if you please. |
| (1, 0) 260 | I must go to the Bank before it do close, to get the money for you. |
| (1, 0) 261 | Take my advice, and don't go to the wall as long as you can borrow £100 from a friend, at 6 per cent! |