AN INSPECTOR CALLS - finish the quote
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“The lighting should be pink and intimate, until the Inspector arrives, and then it should be…
brighter and harder.”
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“with fairly easy manners but…
rather provincial in his speech.”
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“very much the easy…
well-bred young man-about-town.”
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“in his early twenties, not quite at ease,…
half shy, half assertive.”
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“it’s exactly the same…
port your father gets from him.”
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“You’ll have to…
get used to that, just as I had.”
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“You’re just the kind of
son-in-law I always wanted.”
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“are no longer competing but a working together - for…
lower costs and higher prices.”
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“is it the one…
you wanted me to have?”
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“I’m talking as a…
hard-headed, practical man of business”
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“Nobody wants war…
except some half-civilized folks in the Balkans”
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“Yes, but you’ve got to remember, my boy, that clothes
mean something quite different to a woman”
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“as if we were all…
mixed up together like bees in a hive - community and all that nonsense”
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“she’d swallowed a lot of strong disinfectant…
burnt her inside out, of course.”
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“One person and one line of inquiry at a time. Otherwise…
there’s a muddle.”
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Mr B- “Well it’s my duty…
to keep labour costs down.”
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“That’s something this…
public-school-and-Varsity life you’ve had doesn’t seem to teach you.”
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“But these girls aren’t…
cheap labour - they’re people.”
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\[miserably\] “So I’m…
really responsible?”
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“Why - you…
fool - he knows. Of course he knows.”
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“You musn’t try to…
build up a kind of wall between us and that girl.”
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“I became at once…
the most important person in her life - you understand?”
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“Of course not. You were…
the wonderful Fairy Prince.”
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“We’ve done a great deal of useful work in…
helping deserving cases.”
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“I think it was simply…
a piece of gross impertinence.”
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“She was claiming…
elaborate fine feelings and scruples that were simply absurd in a girl in her position.”
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“As if a girl…
of that sort would ever refuse money!”
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“I was in that state…
when a chap easily turns nasty.”
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“Look Inspector - …
I’d give thousands - yes- thousands.”
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“but there are millions…
and millions and millions of Eva Smiths and John Smiths still left with us.”
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“if men will not learn that lesson…
they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish.”
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“I suppose we’re…
all nice people now.”
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“And it frightens…
me the way you talk.”