Jeyes Monologue from The 'Mind the Paint' Girl: A Comedy in Four Acts

From The 'Mind the Paint' Girl: A Comedy in Four Acts by Arthur Wing Pinero

male · sarcastic · 47 sec

(To FARNCOMBE.) Lily had only lately come to the Pandora-- a pale-faced slip of a thing. (To LILY.) Eighteen, weren't you? (LILY: Eighteen.) I confess I wasn't overwhelmingly attracted by her at first; she was so unlike the rest. (Laughing bitterly.) Ha, ha, ha! (LILY: Ha, ha, ha! Wasn't I dowdy!) But she was humble, and naïve, and confiding; and my vanity was tickled by her delight at the little treats I gave her, and by her gratitude for a tuppeny-ha'penny present or two. Nobody, I believe, with any pretensions to being a gentleman, had paid her much attention before I arrived on the scene.

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