Monologue

Roper Monologue from The 'Mind the Paint' Girl: A Comedy in Four Acts

From The 'Mind the Paint' Girl: A Comedy in Four Acts by Arthur Wing Pinero

male · comedic · 51 sec

Oh, we shall all be at the theatre, to shout Many Happy Returns. Later, I mean. (FARNCOMBE: Nothing that I can't get out of.) Good. Look here. Smythe is giving her a bit of supper in the foyer after the show, a dance on the stage to follow. About five-and-twenty people. 'Ull you come? (FARNCOMBE: If Mr. Smythe is kind enough to ask me----) He does ask you, through me. He's left all the arrangements to me and Morrie Cooling. Carlton never did anything in his life; I egged him on to this. I've been sweating at it since eleven o'clock this morning. Haven't been near the City; not near it. Well?

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