Clerk Monologue from Augustus Does His Bit: A True-to-Life Farce

From Augustus Does His Bit: A True-to-Life Farce by Bernard Shaw

male · comedic · 48 sec

Ain't it? You just wait till you see her. (He goes out.) Augustus produces a mirror, a comb, and a pot of moustache pomade from the drawer of the writing-table, and sits down before the mirror to put some touches to his toilet. The clerk returns, devotedly ushering a very attractive lady, brilliantly dressed. She has a dainty wallet hanging from her wrist. Augustus hastily covers up his toilet apparatus with The Morning Post, and rises in an attitude of pompous condescension. THE CLERK (to Augustus). Here she is. (To the lady.) May I offer you a chair, lady? (He places a chair at the writing-table opposite Augustus, and steals out on tiptoe.)

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