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Updated: May 19, 2025
MEPH.: And in doing so became infernally obscure. Excuse shop. Long pause. Time and tide, as you are aware, wait for no man. And SMITH: Yes? CONSCIENCE: You have not, I fear, a very firm grasp of the subject. However, if you work hard till eleven Three hours! Three hours. A little more if anything. By the way, excuse me asking, but have you prepared the subject thoroughly during the term?
MEPH.: Not at all, not at all. Let's hear all about it. CONSCIENCE seeks to interpose, but is prevented by MEPH., who eggs SMITH on to talk cricket for over an hour. I thought I would mention it, in case you had forgotten. SMITH: Great Scott, yes! Here, I say, I must start. CONSCIENCE: Hear! Hear! Did you say you had prepared this book during the term? Afraid I'm a little hard of hearing.
CONSCIENCE: At the least, he would, if he were to pursue the course which I have indicated, greatly benefit his mind. MEPH. gives a short, derisive laugh. Long pause. Rodney Stone, Vice Versa, Many Cargoes. Ripping. Ever read Many Cargoes? I will see you some other day. Exit sorrowfully. MEPH.: Well, thank goodness he's gone. Never saw such a fearful old bore in my life.
Can't think why you let him hang on to you so. We may as well make a night of it now, eh? No use your trying to work at this time of night. SMITH: Not a bit. MEPH.: Did you say you'd not read Many Cargoes? SMITH: Never. Only got it today. Good? MEPH.: Simply ripping. All short stories. Make you yell. MEPH.: Oh no. Besides, you can easily get up early tomorrow for the Thucydides.
SMITH: Of course I can. Never thought of that. Heave us Many Cargoes. Thanks. Begins to read. MEPH. grins fiendishly, and vanishes through floor enveloped in red flame. Sobbing heard from the direction of the ceiling. Scene closes. Next morning, of course, he will oversleep himself, and his Thucydides paper will be of such a calibre that that eminent historian will writhe in his grave.
Eh, what? SMITH: Well er no, I have not. Have you ever played billiards with a walking-stick and five balls? MEPH.: Quite so, quite so. I quite understand. Don't you distress yourself, old chap. You obviously can't get through a whole book of Thucydides in under two hours, can you? MEPH.: Yes, and find that not one of the passages he had prepared was set in the paper.
SMITH: My dear sir! Of course! SMITH: Well, perhaps, not quite so much as I might have done. Such a lot of things to do this term. Cricket, for instance. MEPH.: Rather. Talking of cricket, you seemed to be shaping rather well last Saturday. I had just run up on business, and someone told me you made eighty not out. Get your century all right? I hit but perhaps you've heard?
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