Excerpt: ...me. And I have waited so long to see you, Nathaniel. There are seventeen very, very long years for us to talk about. Let John have his way. NATHANIEL Well, I'll try for a few days. But I give you warning, my ideas have been settling during the past few years, too. LETITIA Remember, he is used to being obeyed just as your father was. NATHANIEL Yes, I remember that, dear Aunt; but John isn't Pg 98 my father. He is just a brother to whom fate gave a fifteen years' start by birth. As a voice calls, "Nathaniel, are ...
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Excerpt: ...me. And I have waited so long to see you, Nathaniel. There are seventeen very, very long years for us to talk about. Let John have his way. NATHANIEL Well, I'll try for a few days. But I give you warning, my ideas have been settling during the past few years, too. LETITIA Remember, he is used to being obeyed just as your father was. NATHANIEL Yes, I remember that, dear Aunt; but John isn't Pg 98 my father. He is just a brother to whom fate gave a fifteen years' start by birth. As a voice calls, "Nathaniel, are you up there?" Nathaniel looks at Letitia. NATHANIEL His voice is just the same. (Calling) Yes, John, I am up here. The antagonism between the two brothers is apparent immediately. John Clay enters. He is an austere, pompous man of fifty who has the softness of the tithe-collector and the hardness of the tax-collector. He speaks with an adamantine finality which is destined to rude shattering. JOHN How do you do, Nathaniel? NATHANIEL I am very well, I thank you, John. How are you? They shake hands perfunctorily. JOHN You arrived ahead of time. NATHANIEL Yes. JOHN We haven't met for seventeen years. NATHANIEL No. I've been away, John. JOHN Where have you been? NATHANIEL I shall be here for two weeks, John, and if I should tell you all about myself today, I should have nothing to talk about tomorrow. Pg 99 JOHN (severely) You haven't changed, Nathaniel. You are still frivolous. NATHANIEL I shall be serious when I am your age, brother. JOHN I came out here to ask you to be very careful of your conversation before the children. NATHANIEL The children? JOHN Yes, my two grandchildren.
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