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Hugh Monologue from The Second Mrs. Tanqueray

From The Second Mrs. Tanqueray by Arthur Wing Pinero

male · anguished · 1:29 min

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(Standing over her.) You--you--you'd better! You----! (PAULA.: Don't bully me! I intend to.) (Taking hold of her; she wrenches herself free.) Look here, Paula! I never treated you badly--you've owned it. Why should you want to pay me out like this? You don't know how I love Ellean! (PAULA.: Yes, that's just what I do know.) I say you don't! She's as good as my own mother. I've been downright honest with her too. I told her, in Paris, that I'd been a bit wild at one time, and, after a damned wretched day, she promised to forgive me because of what I'd done since in India. She's behaved like an angel to me! Surely I oughtn't to lose her, after all, just because I've been like other fellows! No; I haven't been half as rackety as a hundred men we could think of. Paula, don't pay me out for nothing; be fair to me, there's a good girl--be fair to me!

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Hugh pleads with Paula, expressing his deep emotional turmoil over the possibility of losing her due to his past mistakes, revealing his vulnerability and desire for understanding.

30s · despair · love · betrayal · redemption · identity

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