Guldstad Monologue from Love's Comedy

From Love's Comedy by Henrik Ibsen

male · contemplative · 59 sec

Very good, then hear. We've been acquainted now for half a year; We've wrangled-- (FALK: Yes.) We've been in constant feud; We've changed hard blows enough. You fought--alone-- For a sublime ideal; I as one Among the money-grubbing multitude. And yet it seemed as if a chord united Us two, as if a thousand thoughts that lay Deep in my own youth's memory benighted Had started at your bidding into day. Yes, I amaze you. But this hair grey-sprinkled Once fluttered brown in spring-time, and this brow, Which daily occupation moistens now With sweat of labour, was not always wrinkled. Enough; I am a man of business, hence-- FALK (with gentle sarcasm). You are the type of practical good sense.

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