Judith Monologue from The Devil's Disciple

From The Devil's Disciple by Bernard Shaw

female · defiant · 1:06 min

(ostentatiously shocked). Dick Dudgeon! Essie: do you wish to be a really respectable and grateful girl, and to make a place for yourself here by steady good conduct? (ESSIE:. Yes.) Then you must never mention the name of Richard Dudgeon—never even think about him. He is a bad man. (ESSIE: What has he done?) You must not ask questions about him, Essie. You are too young to know what it is to be a bad man. But he is a smuggler; and he lives with gypsies; and he has no love for his mother and his family; and he wrestles and plays games on Sunday instead of going to church. Never let him into your presence, if you can help it, Essie; and try to keep yourself and all womanhood unspotted by contact with such men.

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