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Imogen Monologue from The Cabinet Minister: A farce in four acts

From The Cabinet Minister: A farce in four acts by Arthur Wing Pinero

female · comedic · 45 sec

Interest! It's torture. And at last she threatened that if I married anybody else she would expire in great pain and appear to me constantly, a ghost, in her night-gown. Well, you've seen Aunt Dora in her night-gown--you can guess my feelings. (LADY EUPHEMIA VIBART: And that decided you.) I went to mamma and asked her advice. (LADY EUPHEMIA VIBART: I guess what that was.) Mamma's expression was that she'd give the heels off her best shoes to see me provided for. And so, late last night, while my maid Phipps was washing my head, I gasped out a soapy sort of yes. (The DOWAGER enters.)

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