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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 · defiant · 43 sec

It may be. I call it policy. (ANABEL: Men always do call their obstinacy policy.) Well, I don't care what happens. I wish things would come to a head. I only fear they won't. (ANABEL: Aren't you rather wicked?--ASKING for strife?) I hope I am. It's quite a relief to me to feel that I may be wicked. I fear I'm not. I can see them all anticipating victory, in their low-down fashion wanting to crow their low-down crowings. I'm afraid I feel it's a righteous cause, to cut a lot of little combs before I die.

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