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But perhaps the worst instance in all Robertson's play of this pitiful sacrifice of situation and character to a petty "joke" is found in Caste. Sam Gerridge, a gas-fitter and plumber, desiring to marry Polly, the daughter of Eccles, a drunken old brute, tells him so, casually mentioning that to prove his affection he will do anything he can in "the way of spirituous liquor or tobacco."
At a certain time in his life, before he came to be a great artist, he had learned the gas-fitter's trade, and when his opinions were not identical with the opinions of the art managers of the greater number of New York publications he went to see a friend who was a plumber, and the opinions of this man he was thereafter said to respect.
"Oh, I guess not, or not anything serious," I answered, with an effort to throw off the weight I suddenly felt at my own heart. "People have been known to run for a plumber. But if you're anxious, let us go and see what the matter is." I turned and got my hat; Glendenning came in for his, but seemed unable to find it, though he stood before the table where it lay.
Hence, he added, 'the recognised inferiority of the plumber, for no one could believe in plumbing. 'A propos, asked Challoner, 'do you still paint? 'Not now, replied Paul; 'but I think of taking up the violin.
I won't talk to cads no, not even before grown-ups. They can jolly well think what they like." After this no one spoke to Archibald. Oswald rushed for a plumber, and such was his fiery eloquence he really caught one and brought him home. Then he and Dicky waited for Father when he came in, and they got him into the study, and Oswald said what they had all agreed on.
"Amalu and Hemstead, count your winnings; Tommy and I pay that." It was carried without speech: the pair glad enough to receive their winnings, it mattered not from whence; and Tommy, who had lost about five hundred pounds, delighted with the compromise. "And how about Mac?" asked Hemstead. "Is he to lose all?" "I beg your pardon, plumber.
If the light comedian is expecting a plumber, the first man that comes into the drawing-room has got to be a plumber. He is not allowed to point out that he never was a plumber; that he doesn't look like a plumber; that no one not an idiot would mistake him for a plumber.
"Say, what the devil are you driving at, Thompson?" Paisley burst out. I saw I could get nothing from him so I left him looking after me with a perplexed and somewhat indignant gaze. As a detective it seemed I might make a good plumber. I knew very well he would not repeat my questions, but it would be just like good old Paisley to worry himself to death trying to solve them.
He has got to be shut up in the bath-room and have water poured over him, just as if he were a plumber a stage plumber, that is. Not till right away at the end of the last act is he permitted to remark that he happens to be the new curate. I sat out a play once at which most people laughed. It made me sad. A dear old lady entered towards the end of the first act. We knew she was the aunt.
The world at present is inclined to make sorry mysteries or unattractive secrets of the methods and supplies of the fresh and perennial means of life. A very dull secret is made of water, for example, and the plumber sets his seal upon the floods whereby we live.
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