Monologue

Lina Monologue from Misalliance

From Misalliance by Bernard Shaw

female · defiant · 1:18 min

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I'll tell you with pleasure. For the last hundred and fifty years, not a single day has passed without some member of my family risking his life--or her life. It's a point of honor with us to keep up that tradition. Usually several of us do it; but it happens that just at this moment it is being kept up by one of my brothers only. Early this morning I got a telegram from him to say that there had been a fire, and that he could do nothing for the rest of the week. Fortunately I had an invitation from the Aerial League to see this gentleman try to break the passenger record. I appealed to the President of the League to let me save the honor of my family. He arranged it for me. (TARLETON: Oh, I must be dreaming. This is stark raving nonsense.) (quietly) You are quite awake, sir.

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20s · determination · honor · family · risk · tradition

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