Trebell Monologue from Waste: A Tragedy, In Four Acts

From Waste: A Tragedy, In Four Acts by Harley Granville-Barker

male · contemplative · 54 sec

Should I have grown a beard and travelled abroad and after ten years timidly tried to climb my way back into politics? When public opinion takes its heel from your face it keeps it for your finger-tips. After twenty years to be forgiven by your more broad-minded friends and tolerated as a dotard by a new generation.... (WEDGECROFT: Nonsense. What age are you now... forty-six... forty-seven?) Well... let's instance a good man. Gladstone had done his best work by sixty-five. Then he began to be popular. Think of his last years of oratory. He has gone to his table and now very methodically starts to tidy his papers, WEDGECROFT still watching him.

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