Ralph Ardsley Monologue from The Americans

From The Americans by Edwin Davies Schoonmaker

male · contemplative · 1:05 min

I don't know. (BISHOP HARDBROOKE: What's it all mean? What's underneath it all?) We're neither of us, Bishop, what we were. We've lost our power. Something's happening That we don't understand. (A pause) And done by men That live right here and walk the streets and talk, Buy vegetables and pass the time of day. I tell you, Bishop Hardbrooke, you can't tell. (BISHOP HARDBROOKE: As though they had the Ark of the Covenant.) If any one had said to me last week That that despondent crowd of shabby men, After six weeks of battle against odds, And beaten into silence, starved and cold, Had in them the capacity for this-- Who was it said we're always in a flux, That nothing's fixed? We don't know anything. It's like a case of type; to-day it spells Egerton and to-morrow M-o-b. To think of Donald Egerton at bay! Egad!

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