Monologue

Royal Manning Monologue from Comrades: A Drama in Three Acts

From Comrades: A Drama in Three Acts by George M. (George Melville) Baker

male · contemplative · 46 sec

As I always do. ((Exit.) MAY, door L., ROY, hand on back of armchair watches her off.) ’Tis a hard lesson, wife of mine, but through the tears, I see the smile, and behind the clouds, the sunlight, that shall bring lasting peace forevermore. Halloa, you two whispering? I don’t like that. (BESS: Third parties seldom do. I like it: that’s enough.) And so does Marcus. He looks as happy as though to-morrow were to be a holiday for him. (BESS: ’Twill be a holy day, for us.) You’re to be married, to-morrow: to be enslaved. Ah, what will become of you two?

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