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Gerald Monologue from Mrs. Dot: A Farce

From Mrs. Dot: A Farce by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

male · anguished · 55 sec

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Oh, my dear, I’m afraid they’re in a most awful mess. I never had much money to start with, and I got into debt. Then I tried a flutter on the Stock Exchange, and the confounded shares went down steadily from the day I bought. (MRS. DOT: It’s a way shares have when fools buy them.) But I daresay I could have weathered that, only a pal of mine got into a hole, and I backed a bill for him. (MRS. DOT: You don’t mean to say you did that?) I was obliged to. I couldn’t let him go under without trying to do something.

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30s · despair · debt · friendship · responsibility · failure

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