Countess Geschwitz Monologue from Pandora's Box: A Tragedy in Three Acts

From Pandora's Box: A Tragedy in Three Acts by Frank Wedekind

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How we did rejoice when Sister Theophila was really dead! From that day on we were free from custody. We changed our beds as we liked. I had done my hair like hers, and copied every tone of her voice. When the professor came he called *her* "gnaediges Fraulein" and said to me, "It's better living here than in prison!"... When the Sister suddenly was missing, we looked at each other in suspense: we had both been sick five days: now was the deciding moment. Next morning came the assistant.--"How is Sister Theophila?"--"Dead!"--We communicated behind his back, and when he had gone we sank in each other's arms: "God be thanked! God be thanked!"--What pains it cost me to keep my darling from betraying how well she already was! "You have nine years of prison before you," I cried to her early and late. Now they probably won't let her stay in the contagious ward three days more!

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