Read-Aloud Plays by Horace Holley
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they are inside, part of the man himself, there's nothing you can do.
Nothing. You can save a person from the world, but not from himself. That's where the devil comes in. I see it now. I believe in the devil. MARGARET Oh! But _Arthur_.... ROGER I know you think I'm a brute for speaking of Arthur in connection with the devil, but it wasn't the old-fashioned devil I meant. I meant the devil of unfitness. Arthur wasn't _fit_. He had every chance. We can't get away from what life is. Life shoves people to the wall every day. I've had to fight hard myself. I admit things aren't fair all round, but Arthur had his chance, two or three chances, and he just--dropped out. He couldn't _survive_. And it seems to me that for those who loved him it may be a good thing after all that he didn't have to go on. MARGARET Roger! You shan't say that! You shan't! ROGER I don't want to, Margaret, but that's what life itself says. We can't get behind life. We can't beat evolution and the law of survival. MARGARET |
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