Monologue

Lydia Monologue from The Rivals

From The Rivals by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

female · defiant · 44 sec

Nothing at all!--But, I don't know how it was, as often as we had been together, we had never had a quarrel, and, somehow, I was afraid he would never give me an opportunity. So, last Thursday, I wrote a letter to myself, to inform myself that Beverley was at that time paying his addresses to another woman. I signed it your friend unknown, showed it to Beverley, charged him with his falsehood, put myself in a violent passion, and vowed I'd never see him more.

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