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Scene - Lounging room in the home of Jimmy Forbes.
Place - Riverside Drive, New York City.
Enter: Hon. Bridgewater Forbes, (first), Bozie (second).
Hon. B.Forbes: (Drawing off and folding glove.) Jolly clever my man! Don't go stammering a lot of fool apologies. Your u uing candor is, indeed, refreshing. You're a faithful old dog. A gentleman's servant can say whatever he damn well pleases when he is true u.
Bozie: (Moving about setting things straight.) I cant help being candid, and a bit out of temper, too when I hear you talk cutting Master Jimmy loose without a shilling. The very idea of disinheriting him Is enough to drive me crazy. My master is the finest young man as ever left the British Empire! Why, the whole of Broadway loves the very ground he walks upon!
Hon. B.Forbes: (Pulling on moustache, and, elevating eyebrows.) Every man is a hero to his own servant Enough of your palavering! Broadway has but one love and that's the dollar sign The whole truth of the matter is that Master Jimmy loves Broadway.
Bozie: (With signs of resentment and holding poker like a baton.) Well, as a part of the world, he loves you well enough, though he was no higher'n a duck when he last saw you.
Hon B.Forbes: (Pulling on moustache and frowning.) Of what significance is his love to me? You certainly cant expect me to be proud of his affections when I must share it with prize-fighters, chorus girls, and bartenders.
Bozie: (Shaking finger and executing a fancy sort of gait.) Oh! Oh! I dare sav, he is a bit gay and frolicsome; that he is too much of an all round friend; that he is too ready to laugh with you, and the next minute too ready to weep with you - but for all o that he's a man's man. He will buy you wine to-day, and if need be wear a crepe for you to-morrow. But forsooth, I must ask under whose instructions was Master Jimmy evolved?
Hon B.Forbes: (Pulls moustache, arches eyebrows, puts on glasses. Contemptuous sulk.) Whats that? You mean to say I am responsible for his being a gay and dissipated idler! Why, the very idea' All of my communications to him contained the most useful of advice. Advice such as might prevent him from becoming the gay bird he really is. To think of a Forbes, a Forbes of Kent being known as the King of Broadway! Why, everybody refers to him as if he were a champagne label.
Bozie: (Dead stop - in center of stage.) My Lord, you're going a bit too fast, I say! And a bit too hard on my young master, you are that. Sir! It is sorry I am that you wrote him at all from London, or Rio, as whatever your letters contained aside from the good advice, it served to spoil the master. He rejected the advice, and always cashed the checks!
Hon. B.Forbes: (Regarding Bozie in a contemptuous and deprecatory manner.) Enough now of his faults. I'h hear no more. His faults are in no wise trecaable to me. Why, the young fool has imbibed a vicious philosophy.
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Scene - Lounging room in the home of Jimmy Forbes.
Place - Riverside Drive, New York City.
Enter: Hon. Bridgewater Forbes, (first), Bozie (second).
Hon. B.Forbes: (Drawing off and folding glove.) Jolly clever my man! Don't go stammering a lot of fool apologies. Your u uing candor is, indeed, refreshing. You're a faithful old dog. A gentleman's servant can say whatever he damn well pleases when he is true u.
Bozie: (Moving about setting things straight.) I cant help being candid, and a bit out of temper, too when I hear you talk cutting Master Jimmy loose without a shilling. The very idea of disinheriting him Is enough to drive me crazy. My master is the finest young man as ever left the British Empire! Why, the whole of Broadway loves the very ground he walks upon!
Hon. B.Forbes: (Pulling on moustache, and, elevating eyebrows.) Every man is a hero to his own servant Enough of your palavering! Broadway has but one love and that's the dollar sign The whole truth of the matter is that Master Jimmy loves Broadway.
Bozie: (With signs of resentment and holding poker like a baton.) Well, as a part of the world, he loves you well enough, though he was no higher'n a duck when he last saw you.
Hon B.Forbes: (Pulling on moustache and frowning.) Of what significance is his love to me? You certainly cant expect me to be proud of his affections when I must share it with prize-fighters, chorus girls, and bartenders.
Bozie: (Shaking finger and executing a fancy sort of gait.) Oh! Oh! I dare sav, he is a bit gay and frolicsome; that he is too much of an all round friend; that he is too ready to laugh with you, and the next minute too ready to weep with you - but for all o that he's a man's man. He will buy you wine to-day, and if need be wear a crepe for you to-morrow. But forsooth, I must ask under whose instructions was Master Jimmy evolved?
Hon B.Forbes: (Pulls moustache, arches eyebrows, puts on glasses. Contemptuous sulk.) Whats that? You mean to say I am responsible for his being a gay and dissipated idler! Why, the very idea' All of my communications to him contained the most useful of advice. Advice such as might prevent him from becoming the gay bird he really is. To think of a Forbes, a Forbes of Kent being known as the King of Broadway! Why, everybody refers to him as if he were a champagne label.
Bozie: (Dead stop - in center of stage.) My Lord, you're going a bit too fast, I say! And a bit too hard on my young master, you are that. Sir! It is sorry I am that you wrote him at all from London, or Rio, as whatever your letters contained aside from the good advice, it served to spoil the master. He rejected the advice, and always cashed the checks!
Hon. B.Forbes: (Regarding Bozie in a contemptuous and deprecatory manner.) Enough now of his faults. I'h hear no more. His faults are in no wise trecaable to me. Why, the young fool has imbibed a vicious philosophy.
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