From The Tyranny of Tears: A Comedy in Four Acts by C. Haddon (Charles Haddon) Chambers

I'll make an effort to tell you. To begin with, I suppose I'm fairly good-natured. (GUNNING: Oh yes!) Or say, if you like, of indolent habit, which after all often passes for the same thing. Then of course I was in love--I am still. One drifted. It's so easy to give way in little things--really not unpleasant when you're in love. And then there's one's work, which fills the mind and makes the little things appear smaller than they are. I say one drifted. (GUNNING: Sometimes, if I know you, you rebelled. What then?) (Promptly.) Tears! And over such absurdly paltry things! Oh, the farcical tragedy of it all! I wished to go shooting for a few days. Tears! I fancied dining and spending the evening with an old chum. Tears! I would go on a walking tour for a week. Tears! Some one would ask me for three days' hunting. Tears! Tears, you understand, always on hand. Tears--tears--tears ad---- (Pulling himself up.) No.

Parbury Monologue from The Tyranny of Tears: A Comedy in Four Acts

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