Monologue

Francis Monologue from The Robbers

From The Robbers by Friedrich Schiller

male · dramatic · 53 sec

Well, this time I will forgive you. But the money! he most certainly put money into your purse? And he pressed your hand more warmly than is customary? something in the manner of an old acquaintance? (DANIEL: Never, indeed, Sir.) He told you, for instance, that he had known you before? that you ought to know him? that the scales would some day fall from your eyes? that--what? Do you mean to say that he never spoke thus to you? (DANIEL: Not a word of the kind.) That certain circumstances restrained him--that one must sometimes wear a mask in order to get at one's enemies--that he would be revenged, most terribly revenged?

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