Prof Monologue from Vera

From Vera by Oscar Wilde

any · anguished · 1:00 min

. And the letters from our brothers at Paris and Berlin. What answer shall we send to them? VERA . Had I not strangled nature, sworn neither to love nor be loved, methinks I might have loved him. Oh, I am a fool, a traitor myself, a traitor myself! But why did he come amongst us with his bright young face, his heart aflame for liberty, his pure white soul? Why does he make me feel at times as if I would have him as my king, Republican though I be? Oh, fool, fool, fool! False to your oath! weak as water! Have done! Remember what you are--a Nihilist, a Nihilist!

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