Cy Tolliver: I hope you'll take it as measure of my keenness, sir, and curiosity.George Hearst: Yes, yes, yes, Mr. Tolliver, you wish to know your duties in my service.Cy Tolliver: Well, I make my way through the muck to learn the details.George Hearst: Your duties will be to answer like a dog when I call.Cy Tolliver: [slightly taken aback] Like a dog.George Hearst: Complications of intention on your part in dealings with me, or duplicity, or indirection - behavior, in short, which displeases me - will bring you a smack on the snout.Cy Tolliver: Ouch.George Hearst: When administered by a practiced hand, such a blow can be more painful and grievous even than your... recent sufferings.Cy Tolliver: I don't doubt the hand would be practiced.George Hearst: Mr. Swearengen recently discovered as much.Cy Tolliver: I gather it cost him a finger.George Hearst: But I should say too that, in these rooms just this afternoon, such displeasure brought me near to murdering the sheriff and... raping Mrs. Ellsworth. I have learned through time, Mr. Tolliver, and as repeatedly seem to forget, that whatever temporary comfort relieving my displeasure brings me, my long-term interests suffer. My proper traffic is with the earth. In my dealings with... people, I ought solely have to do with n*ggers. And whites who obey me like dogs.Cy Tolliver: If he hadn't meant me to wag it, sir, why would the Lord give me a tail?
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