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Juno Monologue from Overruled

From Overruled by Bernard Shaw

any · defiant · 1:59 min

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Yes I do. Or at least I did. But I'm an Englishman; and I think you ought to respect the conventions of English life. (MRS. LUNN: But I am respecting them; and you're not.) Pardon me. I may be doing wrong; but I'm doing it in a proper and customary manner. You may be doing right; but you're doing it in an unusual and questionable manner. I am not prepared to put up with that. I can stand being badly treated: I'm no baby, and can take care of myself with anybody. And of course I can stand being well treated. But the thing I can't stand is being unexpectedly treated, It's outside my scheme of life. So come now! you've got to behave naturally and straightforwardly with me. You can leave husband and child, home, friends, and country, for my sake, and come with me to some southern isle--or say South America--where we can be all in all to one another. Or you can tell your husband and let him jolly well punch my head if he can. But I'm damned if I'm going to stand any eccentricity. It's not respectable. GREGORY (coming in from the terrace and advancing with dignity to his wife's end of the chesterfield). Will you have the goodness, sir, in addressing this lady, to keep your temper and refrain from using profane language?

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30s · anger · identity · power · freedom · betrayal

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