Monologue

Lydia Monologue from The Rivals

From The Rivals by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

female · romantic · 51 sec

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How mortifying, to remember the dear delicious shifts I used to be put to, to gain half a minute's conversation with this fellow! How often have I stole forth, in the coldest night in January, and found him in the garden, stuck like a dripping statue! There would he kneel to me in the snow, and sneeze and cough so pathetically! he shivering with cold and I with apprehension! and while the freezing blast numbed our joints, how warmly would he press me to pity his flame, and glow with mutual ardour!--Ah, Julia, that was something like being in love.

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Lydia reflects on her past romantic encounters with a sense of nostalgia and longing, recalling the lengths she went to for love amidst the challenges of secrecy and societal expectations.

20s · longing · love · memory · youth · romance

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