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Hildegarde Monologue from The Title: A Comedy in Three Acts

From The Title: A Comedy in Three Acts by Arnold Bennett

female · defiant · 1:13 min

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Yes, and live by myself in rooms. (TRANTO: But why?) I couldn't possibly stay here. Think how it would compromise father with the War Cabinet if I did. It might ruin him. And as accounts are everything in modern warfare, it might lose the war. But that's nothing--it's mamma I'm thinking of. Do you forget that Sampson Straight, being a young woman of advanced ideas, has written about everything, everything --yes, and several other subjects besides? For instance, here's the article I was revising when you came in. (Shows the title-page to Tranto.) (TRANTO: Splendid! You're the most courageous creature I ever met.) Possibly. But not courageous enough to offer to kiss mamma when I went to bed on the night that that (indicating the article) had appeared in print under my own name. You don't know mamma.

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20s · fear · family · identity · isolation · power

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