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Hotchkiss Monologue from Getting Married

From Getting Married by Bernard Shaw

any · comedic · 1:41 min

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As far as I can make out, you have been having a very charming and eloquent sort of fit. MRS GEORGE (delighted) What! My second sight! (To the Bishop) Oh, how I have prayed that it might come to me if ever I met you! And now it has come. How stunning! You may believe every word I said: I cant remember it now; but it was something that was just bursting to be said; and so it laid hold of me and said itself. Thats how it is, you see. Edith and Cecil Sykes come in through the tower. She has her hat on. Leo follows. They have evidently been out together. Sykes, with an unnatural air, half foolish, half rakish, as if he had lost all his self-respect and were determined not to let it prey on his spirits, throws himself into a chair at the end of the table near the hearth and thrusts his hands into his pockets, like Hogarth's Rake, without waiting for Edith to sit down. She sits in the railed chair. Leo takes the chair nearest the tower on the long side of the table, brooding, with closed lips.

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30s · joy · identity · love · anticipation · social dynamics

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