Monologue

Bea Monologue from The Lamp and the Bell: A Drama In Five Acts

From The Lamp and the Bell: A Drama In Five Acts by Edna St. Vincent Millay

female · melancholic · 1:57 min

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Pay me no homage, Mario,--but if it be I have your friendship, I shall treasure it. (MAR: That you will have always.) Then you will promise me Never to let her know. I never told her How it was with us, or that I cherished you More than another. It was on my tongue to tell her The moment she returned, but she had seen you Already on the bridge as she went by, And had leaned out to look at you, it seems, And you were looking at her,--and the first words She said, after she kissed me, were, "Oh, sister, I have looked at last by daylight on the man I see in my dreams!" MAR. (Tenderly.) Did she say that? BEA. (Drily.) Ay, that Was what she said.--By which I knew, you see, My dream was over,--it could not but be you. So that I said no word, but my quick blood Went suddenly quiet in my veins, and I felt Years older than Bianca. I drew her head Down to my shoulder, that she might not see my face, And she spoke on, and on. You must not tell her, Even when you both are old, and there is nothing To do but to remember. She would be withered With pity for me. She holds me very dear.

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20s · sadness · love · betrayal · family · longing

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