You buy "art" at a certain stage in your
development just as you buy motor cars, and you think you can buy artists
the same way. You don't know that to buy dead art is to starve live
artists.
Well, I made good. I can stand alone. Are you offering me money now to
help me in my work? Not a bit! Rich men haven't changed since the first
tribal chief ordered his bow and arrows, his wives and servants, to be
buried with him.
UNCLE RICHARD
You conceited young rascal! I needn't leave you a cent!
RICHARD
I haven't asked you to. I never thought about your money. I can get along
very well without it. But can you take it with you?
UNCLE RICHARD
Of course not! But I can leave it to whom I please.
RICHARD
Why don't you leave it to Joseph?
UNCLE RICHARD
To Joseph--my coachman? Are you joking?
RICHARD
Not at all. Didn't he save your life in the Civil War? And what have I
ever done for you?
UNCLE RICHARD
I have remembered Joseph very handsomely, but to make him my _heir_--why,
that isn't the same thing at all!
RICHARD
Well, to a university then?
UNCLE RICHARD
No.
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