Ridgeon Monologue from The Doctor's Dilemma

From The Doctor's Dilemma by Bernard Shaw

male · dramatic · 58 sec

Have you seen the papers? Youll have to alter the name in the letters if you havnt. (REDPENNY: Emmy has just told me. I'm awfully glad. I--) Enough, young man, enough. You will soon get accustomed to it. (REDPENNY: They ought to have done it years ago.) They would have; only they couldnt stand Emmy opening the door, I daresay. EMMY (at the door, announcing) Dr Shoemaker. (She withdraws). A middle-aged gentleman, well dressed, comes in with a friendly but propitiatory air, not quite sure of his reception. His combination of soft manners and responsive kindliness, with a certain unseizable reserve and a familiar yet foreign chiselling of feature, reveal the Jew: in this instance the handsome gentlemanly Jew, gone a little pigeon-breasted and stale after thirty, as handsome young Jews often do, but still decidedly good-looking.

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