Ned Monologue from The Silver Shield: An Original Comedy in Three Acts

From The Silver Shield: An Original Comedy in Three Acts by Sydney Grundy

male · anguished · 1:06 min

Lucy, I wish you wouldn't look over my shoulder. You don't know how it fidgets me. I can't write a line. (LUCY: I'd better go upstairs, then I shan't interrupt you.) Thank you; there's a dear. I'm sorry to be so disagreeable, but I must finish this. (LUCY: Dinner at seven.) All right. ((Exit LUCY, R.)) Now I can go ahead like a steam engine. (writes) "Fool that I was, I thought that it would last for ever. Nothing can now remove the barrier between us. With my own hand I have destroyed my happiness." That's warm enough, I think. I'm making an infernal scoundrel of my namesake, but no matter. ((reads.)) "With my own hand"--I wonder if that's right. Could he have destroyed his happiness with anybody else's hand? With my hand I have--no--he couldn't have done it with his foot. (Re-enter LUCY, R., and down R.C.)

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