The Miser by Molière
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HAR. Done this, that I wish you to be off.
LA FL. My master, your son, gave me orders to wait for him. HAR. Go and wait for him in the street, then; out with you; don't stay in my house, straight and stiff as a sentry, to observe what is going on, and to make your profit of everything. I won't always have before me a spy on all my affairs; a treacherous scamp, whose cursed eyes watch all my actions, covet all I possess, and ferret about in every corner to see if there is anything to steal. LA FL. How the deuce could one steal anything from you? Are you a man likely to be robbed when you put every possible thing under lock and key, and mount guard day and night? HAR. I will lock up whatever I think fit, and mount guard when and where I please. Did you ever see such spies as are set upon me to take note of everything I do? (_Aside_) I tremble for fear he should suspect something of my money. (_Aloud_) Now, aren't you a fellow to give rise to stories about my having money hid in my house? LA FL. You have some money hid in your house? HAR. No, scoundrel! I do not say that. _(Aside)_ I am furious! _(Aloud)_ I only ask if out of mischief you do not spread abroad the report that I have some? LA FL. Oh! What does it matter whether you have money, or whether you have not, since it is all the same to us? |
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