Bill Patten Monologue from The Americans

From The Americans by Edwin Davies Schoonmaker

male · defiant · 43 sec

(Bitterly) Give 'em your apples and expect the core. (SILAS MAURY: It came so quick, though, Bill; he didn't think.) If he had just kept still and called to Chris And had him help and roll the log aside And then at night let some of us men know, We could have slipped it out and hidden it, And gone to Egerton and said, 'See here, We've found the log that you've been lookin' for These years and haven't found it----' (CAP SAUNDERS: You don't mean----) 'And if you'll do the square thing we'll cough up; If not, we'll go and find the mine ourselves.'

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