Arnold Champion-Cheney Monologue from The Circle: A Comedy in Three Acts

From The Circle: A Comedy in Three Acts by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

male · anguished · 50 sec

I wonder if you realise what it was to grow up under the shadow of that horrible scandal. Everywhere, at school, and at Oxford, and afterwards in London, I was always the son of Lady Kitty Cheney. Oh, it was cruel, cruel! (ELIZABETH: Yes, I know, Arnold. It was beastly for you.) It would have been bad enough if it had been an ordinary case, but the position of the people made it ten times worse. My father was in the House then, and Porteous--he hadn't succeeded to the title--was in the House too; he was Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, and he was very much in the public eye.

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