The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941)

John Qualen: Miser Stevens

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Quotes 

• Mr. Scratch : [reading from his list]  Sherwin, Slaterly, Stevens - I can cross him off the list, he's an old customer...

  [something like a moth flies out of his handkerchief toward Jabez] 

  Miser Stevens' Voice : [faint]  Help me, Jabez Stone! Help me!

  Jabez Stone : That's Miser Stevens' voice!

  Mr. Scratch : [catching it]  Miser Stevens' soul, I'm sorry for the disturbance.

  Jabez Stone : But he isn't dead, he's dancing! He's in there!

  Mr. Scratch : He was.

  [Jabez runs into the ballroom and sees Stevens' body stretched out] 

  Mr. Scratch : In the midst of life, one really hates to close these long standing accounts. But, business is business.

• Jabez Stone : What's the matter with you?

  Miser Stevens : Are you afraid?

  Jabez Stone : Afraid of what?

  Miser Stevens : Of what happens when we die.

  Jabez Stone : Are you crazy, man? We're buried, that's all.

  Miser Stevens : But what becomes of our soul?

  Jabez Stone : [agitated]  Why should you fret about something that isn't there?

  Miser Stevens : Don't say that. I know it is.

  Jabez Stone : All right, so it's buried with you!

  Miser Stevens : But what if one hasn't a soul anymore?

  Jabez Stone : What's that? Well, what about it? Who cares anyhow!

  Miser Stevens : I do. And I think you do, too.