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Mrs Bennet Monologue from Pride and Prejudice, a play founded on Jane Austen's novel

From Pride and Prejudice, a play founded on Jane Austen's novel by Steele, Mrs. MacKaye

female · anguished · 57 sec

(Fretfully.) How can I feel better? I must be ill. It is all very well for the rest of you, now that this disgrace has been brought upon me--but if I had been able to carry my point--if I could have gone to Brighton with all my family, this would never have happened. But poor dear Lydia had nobody to take care of her. Oh, that villainous Wickham! I am sure there was some great neglect or other somewhere, for Lydia is not the kind of girl to run away with a man. But no one would listen to me. I was overruled, as I always am. Poor Lydia! Poor dear child!

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