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

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

female · anguished · 1:06 min

Come, come! make no noise. He has fallen asleep on the bench.--Oh, my poor old father! How white his hair has grown during these days! He is so weak, he is so unhappy, that sleep itself no longer brings him peace. It is three whole days now since I have dared to look upon his face.... (ONE OF THE SISTERS OF PALOMIDES: He sleeps profoundly....) He sleeps profoundly, but you can see his soul has no rest.... The sunlight here will vex his eyelids.... I am going to draw his cloak over his face.... (ANOTHER SISTER: No, no; do not touch it.... He might wake with a start....) Some one is coming in the corridor. Come, come! put yourselves before him.... Hide him.... A stranger must not see him in this state....

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