Harriet Monologue from The Politician Out-Witted

From The Politician Out-Witted by Samuel Low

female · melancholic · 1:04 min

Farewell. (Exit MARIA.) Now Maria is gone, I will see no more company.--If anything can be an excuse for a falsehood, the present occasion offers a very good one:--I feel my mind pretty much at ease, and I do not choose to have it disturbed by the impertinence of pretended friends.--Who is there? (Enter SERVANT.) (SERVANT: Madam.) Whoever calls to see me to-day, remember I am not at home. (SERVANT: Mr. Worthnought is here now, Madam; must I deny you to him?) Undoubtedly. (Exit SERVANT.) I am disgusted with the repetition of that coxcomb's nonsense.-- (Sighs.) --I wish Charles was here:--In spite of the false delicacy of that tyrant, Custom, which forbids us to speak the exquisite effusions of a susceptible heart, I can now speak boldly, while that heart dictates to the willing tongue what complacence it feels at the prospect of its Charles's return. [ (Exit.)

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