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Ollivant Monologue from THE FAR-AWAY PRINCESS

From THE FAR-AWAY PRINCESS by HERMANN SUDERMANN

male · contemplative · 50 sec

Yes. He'd have been somewhere if he'd worked in with me as I did with my father. Things should be handed down. Offered him the chance, tried to make him take it, as your mother knows; but that college chum--nice enough fellow, I've heard--turned his head another way. It's best to humor a young fellow's ideas if he sticks them out, but I'd like to have had us all here together now. The place is big enough even if he should want to marry. Your mother and I came here, you know, when your grandfather was still alive.

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