Sachel Monologue from The Ghetto: A Drama in Four Acts

From The Ghetto: A Drama in Four Acts by Herman Heijermans

male · dramatic · 1:05 min

(Aside.) That's what Rafael said last night. Rosa! Go and water the flowers in my window and pick off the dead leaves, and be sure you give plenty of time to it. (Exit ROSA. (ESTHER: Well! Since when have you taken such an interest in flowers?) I want to talk; I've been awake all night. This girl keeps lying to me. Last night she had the effrontery to tell me--[with calculation) --she told me she was considered beautiful! (ESTHER: Well, she is beautiful!) H'm! (He thinks deeply; rises.) Rosa! (Enter ROSA.) Last night you tried to make me think you were ugly;--you deceived me. You are not a woman--you are a fiend come into my house--come in out of the Christian world--to do what? What do you expect to do here? Do you know you are in the heart of the Ghetto? What do you expect to do in my house?

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