Monologue

Mrs D Monologue from Christmas Candles: Plays for Boys and Girls

From Christmas Candles: Plays for Boys and Girls by Elsie Hobart Carter

female · defiant · 1:10 min

. Should you? But I look less well in it. Surely I would rather look pretty myself than have my dress look pretty, wouldn't I? Give me the gray, and hurry. Mr. Goodhue will be here in a second.... Bonnet, you trying creature! Didn't I you to put a hook and eye in the neck of this? Didn't I you? are your ears? are your senses? What on do you spend your time thinking about, I should like to know, anyway? I wouldn't wear that thing as it, not for--not for---- Oh, I'm tired of living surrounded by fools! Take it away--take it away! Bring the other one.... Now, button my gloves. Ouch! Go softly; you pinch! Ouch! You pinch me!

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