A FAMILY MAN
A monologue from the
play by John
Galsworthy
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NOTE: This monologue is reprinted
from A Family Man. John Galsworthy. New York: Charles
Scribner's Sons, 1922. |
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- MOON: In River Road yesterday afternoon, Your Worship,
about three-thirty p.m., I was attracted by a young woman callin'
"Constable" outside a courtyard. On hearing the words
"Follow me, quick," I followed her to a painter's studio
inside the courtyard, where I found three persons in the act
of disagreement. No sooner 'ad I appeared than the defendant,
who was engaged in draggin' a woman towards the door, turns to
the young woman who accompanied me, with violence. "You
dare, Father," she says; whereupon he hit her twice with
the stick the same which is produced, in the presence of myself
and the two other persons, which I'm given to understand is his
wife and other daughter. The party struck turns to me and says,
"Come in. I give this man in charge for assault." I
moves accordingly with the words: "I saw you. Come along
with me." The defendant turns to me sharp and says: "You
stupid lout--I'm a magistrate." "Come off it,"
I says to the best of my recollection. "You struck this
woman in my presence," I says, "and you come along!"
We were then at close quarters. The defendant gave me a push
with the words "Get out, you idiot!" "Not at all,"
I replies, and took 'old of his arm. A struggle ensues, in the
course of which I receives the black eye which I herewith produce.
During the struggle, Your Worship, a young man has appeared on
the scene, and at the instigation of the young woman, the same
who was assaulted, assists me in securing the prisoner, whose
language and resistance was violent in the extreme. We placed
him in a cab which we found outside, and I conveyed him to the
station.
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