Lady Monologue from The Man of Destiny

From The Man of Destiny by Bernard Shaw

female · sarcastic · 1:03 min

Oh, you don't appreciate yourself. Besides, I don't really mean meanness and selfishness. (NAPOLEON: Thank you. I thought perhaps you did.) Well, of course I do. But what I mean is a certain strong simplicity about you. (NAPOLEON: That's better.) You didn't want to read the letters; but you were curious about what was in them. So you went into the garden and read them when no one was looking, and then came back and pretended you hadn't. That's the meanest thing I ever knew any man do; but it exactly fulfilled your purpose; and so you weren't a bit afraid or ashamed to do it. NAPOLEON (abruptly). Where did you pick up all these vulgar scruples--this (with contemptuous emphasis) conscience of yours? I took you for a lady--an aristocrat. Was your grandfather a shopkeeper, pray?

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