Which excerpt from chapter 23 of the adventures of huckleberry finn most clearly illustrates that the duke is someone who does not take responsibility for his actions and would rather blame others if something does not go well? so the duke said these arkansaw lunkheads couldn't come up to shakespeare, what they wanted was low comedy and maybe something ruther worse than low comedy, he reckoned, then the duke he lets the curtain down, and bows to the people and says the great tragedy will be performed only two nights more, on accounts of pressing london engagements where the seats is all sold already for it in drury lane, "walk fast now till you get away from the houses, and then shin for the raft like the dickens was after you! "greenhorns, flatheads! i knew the first house would keep mum and let the rest of the town get roped in and i knew they'd lay for us the third night, and consider it was their turn now."