Let's discuss it further.
Squire
No discussion. Your choice is clear.
McNaughten
But, sir--
Squire
But, sir-- You must give me satisfaction
McNaughten
Me, give you, satisfaction? But, I swear, I don't owe you a penny. Sue
me--I will respond in court.
Squire
You know, very well, I did not even ask for a receipt! When someone
owes me--I carry my own bailiff. (drawing his sword)
McNaughten
Just Heaven--the brute! How am I to get out of this, without being
maimed or killed? How much do you insist I owe you?
Squire
A hundred pounds. How easily you forget.
McNaughten
But, I can't pay you a hundred pounds. I will give you half.
Squire
May I be pulverized to atoms, you will pay me my hundred pounds, in a
quarter of an hour or I will kill you instantly.
Spruce (low to McNaughten
The villain is prepared to kill us both, I believe. Give it to him--if
you're dead, what good will the sixty thousand pounds do you? Answer
him softly. The man is desperate and has nothing to lose.
McNaughten
But, it's robbery.
Spruce
Exactly. Your money or our lives.
McNaughten
He's very rude and I don't like him.
Spruce
What a time for reflections.
McNaughten
If you are in such a hurry, sir, so much the worse for you.
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