Monologue

Mrs L Monologue from The Foundations (An Extravagant Play)

From The Foundations (An Extravagant Play) by John Galsworthy

female · contemplative · 1:11 min

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(Cheerful) They say life's a vale o' sorrows. Well, so 'tes, but don' du to let yureself thenk so. (PRESS: And so you came to London, Mrs. Lemmy?) Same year as father died. With the four o' them--that's my son Fred, an' my son Jim, an' my son Tom, an' Alice. Bob there, 'e was born in London--an' a praaper time I 'ad of et. (PRESS: "Her heroic struggles with poverty----") Worked in a laundry, I ded, at fifteen shellin's a week, an' brought 'em all up on et till Alice 'ad the gallopin' consumption. I can see poor Alice wi' the little red spots is 'er cheeks---an' I not knowin' wot to du wi' 'her--but I always kept up their buryin' money. Funerals is very dear; Mr. Lemmy was six pound, ten.

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40s · melancholy · family · death · poverty · struggle

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