Monologue

Diane Monologue from A SatireBy Karl EttlingerTranslated

From A SatireBy Karl EttlingerTranslated by Benjamin F. Glazer.

female · anguished · 40 sec

His mother and you clung to him. There was one excuse after the other. You made him believe that he was too delicate and sensitive. You used all of your influence. Madame le Bargy tried in every way to keep him. She even testified officially that Maurice was weak from birth and had dizzy spells and an unaccountable fear of the sea. And you testified under oath to a long and dangerous illness he had had in childhood.

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