Gerald Barlow Monologue from Touch and Go: A Play in Three Acts

From Touch and Go: A Play in Three Acts by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

male · contemplative · 1:06 min

Yes, it is beautiful--seems so far away from everywhere, if one doesn't remember that the hall is turned into offices.--No one has lived here since I was a little boy. I remember going to a Christmas party at the Walsalls'. (ANABEL: Has it been shut up so long?) The Walsalls didn't like it--too near the ugliness. They were county, you know--we never were: father never gave mother a chance, there. And besides, the place is damp, cellars full of water. (ANABEL: Even now?) No, not now--they've been drained. But the place would be too damp for a dwelling-house. It's all right as offices. They burn enormous fires. The rooms are quite charming. This is what happens to the stately homes of England--they buzz with inky clerks, or their equivalent. Stateliness is on its last legs.

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