The Skin Game by John Galsworthy
page 99 of 138 (71%)
page 99 of 138 (71%)
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ROLF. [Distracted] It looks like it, though.
JILL. Is that all you came to say? ROLF. Suppose we joined, couldn't we stop it? JILL. I don't feel like joining. ROLF. We did shake hands. JILL. One can't fight and not grow bitter. ROLF. I don't feel bitter. JILL. Wait; you'll feel it soon enough. ROLF. Why? [Attentively] About Chloe? I do think your mother's manner to her is---- JILL. Well? ROLF. Snobbish. [JILL laughs.] She may not be your class; and that's just why it's snobbish. JILL. I think you'd better shut up. ROLF. What my father said was true; your mother's rudeness to her that day she came here, has made both him and Charlie ever so much more bitter. |
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