Monologue

C-C Monologue from The Circle: A Comedy in Three Acts

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

any · comedic · 55 sec

What figures they had! In those days a woman wasn't supposed to be as thin as a rail and as flat as a pancake. (ELIZABETH: Oh, but aren't they laced in? How could they bear it?) They didn't play golf then, and nonsense like that, you know. They hunted, in a tall hat and a long black habit, and they were very gracious and charitable to the poor in the village. (ELIZABETH: Did the poor like it?) They had a very thin time if they didn't. When they were in London they drove in the Park every afternoon, and they went to ten-course dinners, where they never met anybody they didn't know. And they had their box at the opera when Patti was singing or Madame Albani.

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