Hornblower Monologue from The Skin Game (A Tragi-Comedy)

From The Skin Game (A Tragi-Comedy) by John Galsworthy

male · defiant · 45 sec

Not by you because ye've got no need to do it. Here ye are, quite content on what your fathers made for ye. Ye've no ambitions; and ye want other people to have none. How d'ye think your fathers got your land? (HILLCRIST: Not by breaking their word.) (Throwing out his, finger) Don't ye believe it. They got it by breaking their word and turnin' out Jackmans, if that's their name, all over the place. (MRS. H: That's an insult, Mr. Hornblower.) No; it's a repartee. If ye think so much of these Jackmans, build them a cottage yourselves; ye've got the space.

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