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2O2 John Galsworthy
Which is it to be? Hands together, and victory or
the starvation you ve got now?
Then Old Thomas appeals to their religious
sentiments :
Thomas. It iss not London; it iss not the Union
it iss Nature. It iss no disgrace whateffer to a potty to
give in to Nature. For this Nature iss a fery pig thing;
it is pigger than what a man is. There is more years to
my hett than to the hett of anyone here. It is a man s
pisness to pe pure, honest, just, and merciful. That s
what Chapel tells you. . . . We re going the roat to
tamnation. An so I say to all of you. If ye co against
Chapel I will not pe with you, nor will any other Got-
fearing man.
At last Roberts makes his plea, Roberts who
has given his all brain, heart and blood aye,
sacrificed even his wife to the cause. By sheer
force of eloquence and sincerity he stays his fickle
comrades long enough at least to listen to him,
though they are too broken to rise to his great dig
nity and courage.
Roberts. You don t want to hear me then? You ll
listen to Rous and to that old man, but not to me. You ll
listen to Sim Harness of the Union that s treated you so
fair; maybe you ll listen to those men from London. . . .
You love their feet on your necks, don t you? . . . Am
I a liar, a coward, a traitor? If only I were, ye d listen
to me, I m sure. Is there a man of you here who has
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