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Title: The Skin Game (Fourth Series Plays)

Author: John Galsworthy

Last Updated: February 10, 2009
Release Date: September 26, 2004 [EBook #2917]

Language: English

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*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE SKIN GAME (FOURTH SERIES ***

Produced by David Widger

PLAYS IN THE FOURTH SERIES

THE SKIN GAME

(A Tragi-Comedy)

By John Galsworthy

"Who touches pitch shall be defiled"

CHARACTERS

HILLCRIST...............A Country Gentleman
AMY.....................His Wife
JILL....................His Daughter
DAWKER..................His Agent
HORNBLOWER..............A Man Newly-Rich
CHARLES.................His Elder Son
CHLOE...................Wife to Charles
ROLF....................His Younger Son
FELLOWS.................Hillcrist's Butler
ANNA....................Chloe's Maid
THE JACKMANS............Man and Wife

AN AUCTIONEER
A SOLICITOR
TWO STRANGERS

ACT I. HILLCRIST'S Study

ACT II.
SCENE I. A month later. An Auction Room.
SCENE II. The same evening. CHLOE'S Boudoir.

ACT III

SCENE I. The following day. HILLCRIST'S Study. Morning.
SCENE II. The Same. Evening.

ACT I

HILLCRIST'S study. A pleasant room, with books in calf
bindings, and signs that the HILLCRIST'S have travelled, such
as a large photograph of the Taj Mahal, of Table Mountain, and
the Pyramids of Egypt. A large bureau [stage Right], devoted
to the business of a country estate. Two foxes' masks.
Flowers in bowls. Deep armchairs. A large French window open
[at Back], with a lovely view of a slight rise of fields and
trees in August sunlight. A fine stone fireplace [stage Left].
A door [Left]. A door opposite [Right]. General colour
effect--stone, and cigar-leaf brown, with spots of bright
colour.

[HILLCRIST sits in a swivel chair at the bureau, busy with
papers. He has gout, and his left foot is encased accord: He
is a thin, dried-up man of about fifty-five, with a rather
refin