Tarleton Monologue from Misalliance

From Misalliance by Bernard Shaw

male · defiant · 1:00 min

(wistfully) Is it nothing to you but paternal sentimentality, Patsy? (HYPATIA: Well, I greatly prefer your superabundant vitality, papa.) (violently) Hold your tongue, you young devil. The young are all alike: hard, coarse, shallow, cruel, selfish, dirty-minded. You can clear out of my house as soon as you can coax him to take you; and the sooner the better. (To Percival) I think you said your price was fifteen hundred a year. Take it. And I wish you joy of your bargain. (PERCIVAL: If you wish to know who I am--) I dont care a tinker's curse who you are or what you are. Youre willing to take that girl off my hands for fifteen hundred a year: thats all that concerns me. Tell her who you are if you like: it's her affair, not mine.

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