And then I’ll be arrested and sent to jail and you’ll live happily ever after with a friendly guardian, spending your time inventing things and reading books and sharpening your little monkey teeth, and bravery and nobility will prevail at last, and this wicked world will slowly but surely become a place of cheerful harmony, and everybody will be singing and dancing and giggling like the littlest elf! A happy ending! Is that what you had mind?
All that I ask is that you do each and every little thing that pops into my head, while I enjoy the enormous fortune your parents left behind.
Oh, the Captain loved the ladies / But he dragged himself a wife / Now he’s wishin’ he was fishin’ / But he’s on the hook for life.
Well, I guess he shouldn’t ‘ve oughta / But he drowned her in the water / And then a flounder downed her / That’s why they never found her.
*You’re* the monster. These children tried to warn you, but you wouldn’t listen. No one ever listens to children! You think you’re innocent? You’re accomplices! This certificate says that I have the fortune now! And there’s nothing you can do about it!
Then I’ll be arrested and sent to jail, and you’ll live happily ever after with a friendly guardian, spending your time inventing things and reading books and sharpening your little monkey teeth, and bravery and nobility will prevail at last and this wicked world will slowly but surely become a place of cheerful harmony and everyone will be singing and dancing and giggling like the Littles Elf. Happy ending. Is that what you had in mind?
You know, there’s a big world out there filled with desperate orphans who would gladly swim across an ocean of thumbtacks just to be eclipsed by the long shadow that is cast by my accomplishments.
Oh, Violet. Violet, Violet, Violet. Violet. You’re 14 years old. You should know by now that you can’t have everything you want. You want a life of happiness? A roof over your head? A place to call your own and all that jazz? And what about what I want? I want that enormous fortune and for all investigations against me to cease. You’re going to help me get what I want… tonight.