Palomides Monologue from Pélléas and Mélisande; Alladine and Palomides; Home

From Pélléas and Mélisande; Alladine and Palomides; Home by Maurice Maeterlinck

male · romantic · 1:15 min

No; she will come to-morrow. We have journeyed day and night. She was tired and begged me to come on before.... Are my sisters come? (ABLAMORE: They have been here three days waiting for your wedding.--You look very happy, Palomides....) Who would not be happy, to have found what he sought? I was sad of old. But now the days seem lighter and more sweet than harmless birds in the hand.... And if old moments come again by chance, I draw near Astolaine, and you would think I threw a window open on the dawn.... She has a soul that can be seen around her,--that takes you in its arms like an ailing child and without saying anything to you consoles you for everything.... I shall never understand it at all.--I do not know how it can all be; but my knees bend in spite of me when I speak of it....

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