Quex Monologue from The Gay Lord Quex: A Comedy in Four Acts

From The Gay Lord Quex: A Comedy in Four Acts by Arthur Wing Pinero

male · defiant · 48 sec

(To SOPHY.) You spoke, a little while ago, of giving me "a chance." I see now what was in your mind. There's a risk, then, that this good-bye may not be final? (SOPHY: W--well, I--) (Sharply.) Eh? (SOPHY: Oh, my lord, recollect, she's not much more than a girl!) No, she is not much more than a girl; but you--though you and she are of the same age-- you are a woman. You know your world, upstairs and downstairs, boudoir and kitchen. Yet you own you have encouraged her in this, made her clandestine meetings with this penniless beggar possible. You--! you deserve to be whipped, Miss Fullgarney--whipped!

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