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(Bravely). Overdrawn.

You low cad! You ought to be ducked in the horsepond, you rotter! (To the court.) Why look at the man’s private life! Leading a quadruple existence! Street angel and house devil. Not fit to be mentioned in mixed society. The arch conspirator of the age.

(To the court.) And he, a bachelor, how…

The King versus Bloom. Call the woman Driscoll.

Mary Driscoll, scullerymaid!

Another! Are you of the unfortunate class?

(Indignantly.) I’m not a bad one. I bear a respectable character and was four months in my last place. I was in a situation, six pounds a year and my chances with Fridays out and I had to leave owing to his carryings on.

What do you tax him with?

He made a certain suggestion but I thought more of myself as poor as I am.

(In housejacket of rippleclothripplecloth, [sic] flannel trousers, heelless slippers, unshaven, his hair rumpled softly.) I treated you white. I gave you mementos, smart emerald