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Colonel Tom! Colonel Tom! Colonel Tom! Look! Bertha and Sallie and William and Bert, all your chilluns, runnin’ from you, and you layin’ on de floor there, dead!
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Always, you wanted to kill him. Out there with de hounds and de torches and de cars and de guns, you want to kill me boy. But you won’t kill him! He’s comin’ home first. He’s comin’ home to me. He’s comin’ home!
For full extended monologue, please refer to the script edition cited here: Langston Hughes, Mulatto in Five Plays by Langston Hughes, Indiana University Press, 1963. pp.32-33.
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