GERALD. The phrase, my God! the phrase.
JOB ARTHUR. Phrase or not phrase, there it is, and face it out if
you can. There it is--there's not one in every parish--there's more
than one--there's a number---
GERALD (suddenly kicking him). Go! (Kicks him.) Go! (Kicks him.)
go! (JOB ARTHUR falls.) Get out! (Kicks him.) Get out, I say!
Get out, I tell you! Get out! Get out!--Vermin!--Vermin!--I'll
vermin you! I'll put my foot through your phrases. Get up, I say,
get up and go--GO!
JOB ARTHUR. It'll be you as'll go, this time.
GERALD. What? What?--By God! I'll kick you out of this park like a
rotten bundle if you don't get up and go.
ANABEL. No, Gerald, no. Don't forget yourself. It's enough now.
It's enough now.--Come away. Do come away. Come away--leave him---
JOB ARTHUR (still on the ground). It's your turn to go. It's you
as'll go, this time.
GERALD (looking at him). One can't even tread on you.
ANABEL. Don't, Gerald, don't--don't look at him.--Don't say any more,
you, Job Arthur.--Come away, Gerald. Come away--come--do come.
GERALD (turning). THAT a human being! My God!--But he's right--
it's I who go. It's we who go, Anabel. He's still there.--My God!
a human being!
(Curtain.)
SCENE II
Market-place as in Act I. WILLIE HOUGHTON, addressing a large
crowd of men from the foot of the obelisk.
WILLIE.
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