Farrant Monologue from Waste: A Tragedy, In Four Acts

From Waste: A Tragedy, In Four Acts by Harley Granville-Barker

male · anguished · 1:01 min

(With a sort of puzzled discontent.) Well... I never got to telling him of the O'Connell affair at all. He started talking to me... saying that he couldn't for a moment agree to Trebell's proposals for the finance of his bill... I couldn't get a word in edgeways. Then his wife came up.... HORSHAM takes something in this so seriously that he actually interrupts. (HORSHAM: Does he definitely disagree? What is his point?) He says Disestablishment's a bad enough speculation for the party as it is. (BLACKBOROUGH: It is inevitable.) He sees that. But then he says... to go to the country again having bolstered up Education and quarrelled with everybody will be bad enough... to go having spent fifty millions on it will dish us all for our lifetimes.

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