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Frau Heinecke Monologue from Honor: A Play in Four Acts

From Honor: A Play in Four Acts by Hermann Sudermann

female · contemplative · 1:02 min

Couldn't 've done better! They gave us a place here on the alley, where, thank God, we still are, and they sent Robert off to the school where he got his learning. And when he came back home on his vacations, he was always invited over on the avenue to drink chocolate with whip-cream,--on purpose to play with the little Miss. Young Herr Kurt was still sucking a rubber nipple then. (Frau Hebenstreit: That was all before Alma--?) (More quietly) What do you mean by that? (Frau Hebenstreit: Aw, nothing, I----) And then afterwards they sent him to Hamburg to learn about the foreign business, you know--and when he was seventeen off he goes to India, where they say it's so outlandish hot! The Councillor's nephew is out there. He's got a big coffee and tea plantation!

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