Astolaine Monologue from Pélléas and Mélisande; Alladine and Palomides; Home

From Pélléas and Mélisande; Alladine and Palomides; Home by Maurice Maeterlinck

female · melancholic · 1:17 min

Do not weep.... I know too that one does not do what one would do... nor was I ignorant that you would come.... There must indeed be laws mightier than those of our souls, of which we always speak.... (Kissing him abruptly).--But I love thee the more, my poor Palomides. (PALOMIDES: I love thee, too... more than her I love.... Thou weepest, as I do?) They are little tears.... Do not be sad for them.... I weep so, because I am woman, but they say our tears are not painful.... You see I can dry them already.... I knew well what it was.... I waited for the wakening.... It has come, and I can breathe with less disquietude, being no longer happy.... There!... We must see clearly now for you and her. For I believe my father already has suspicions. [ (Exeunt.).

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