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She related her history, so far as it was known to herself, simply and graphically, substantially as it has been already set forth, but with an abundance of anecdote and comment which enhanced the interest and at the same time extended its limits, interspersing her monologues with remarks which called for an answer and which served as tests of her companion's attention.
She was talking at length, as one who in the past had been well accustomed to giving monologues and to holding drawing-rooms in subjection while she chattered, and to making drawing-rooms feel glad that they had consented to subjection. She was saying: "You've no idea what the valley of the Clyde is now. You can't have.
I therefore went to the telephone, which is one of my favourite toys, and down which I have shouted many valuable, but prematurely arrested, monologues upon art and morals.
I will tell you, my unseen friend, for whom these lines are written; my unknown brother, on whom the solitary call in sorrow; my imaginary confidant, to whom all monologues are addressed and who is but the shadow of our own conscience. A great event has happened in my life!
"And he said," she cried out in her lonely room "he said, 'Martha, ye've onnly to come and be known to 'm, and then they'll take to the ideea. And wasn't I a patient creature! And it's Pole that's turned Pole!" Varied with the frequent 'Oh! and 'Augh! these dramatic monologues occupied her time while the yacht was sailing for her Devon bay.
In these monologues, Browning interprets characters of varying faiths, nationalities, stations, and historic periods. He shows a wide range of knowledge and sympathy. One type, however, which he rarely presents, is the simple, commonplace man or woman.
Through her guarded manner, her dignified speech, her placid countenance, he discerned the interior of Grace's life only too truly, hidden as were its incidents from every outer eye. These incidents had become painful enough. Fitzpiers had latterly developed an irritable discontent which vented itself in monologues when Grace was present to hear them.
Manuel Portales gave an interesting account of native life in Luzon; and Angus Cameron told us about the French habitants and their narrow little strips of farms fronting on the Canadian streams, every farmer wanting a littoral right, if only a few yards wide. Our evening talks were often monologues, anyone with a word to say having attentive hearers, if interesting, otherwise not.
There is only one thing to do, and that is to let him talk when he will. The day of the "Autocrat's" monologues is over. My friend, said I to the young fellow whom, as I have said, the boarders call "John," My friend, I said, one morning, after breakfast, can you give me any information respecting the deformed person who sits at the other end of the table?
Monsieur Gravier called this "from grave to gay." The Abbe Duret's rubber made another pleasing variety on the monologues of the oracle. The three rivals, tired of keeping their minds up to the level of the "high range of discussion" as they called their conversation but not daring to confess it, would sometimes turn with ingratiating hints to the old priest.
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