Horace Monologue from The Brass Bottle: A Farcical Fantastic Play in Four Acts

From The Brass Bottle: A Farcical Fantastic Play in Four Acts by F. Anstey

male · sarcastic · 51 sec

(Bitterly.) Oh, you brought that off all right--the houris came! (With rising resentment.) And what do you think the Chief Gazelle did?... Hugged my knees and called me her lord and protector and the light of her eyes! Pretty good that--for a gazelle! (FAKRASH: Excellent indeed!) (Turning on him.) Perhaps, when I tell you that the company included the young lady I was engaged to marry-- and her father and mother, and that they put the most unfavourable construction on the houri's behaviour, it may begin to dawn, even on you, that you might have been more tactful! I've lost Sylvia now--and all through you and your confounded gazelle!

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