Sganarelle Monologue from The School for Husbands

From The School for Husbands by Molière

male · defiant · 1:06 min

Not so; but with me I think she is still better. (AR: But...) But her conduct must be guided by me; in short, I know the interest I ought to take in it. (AR: Have I less in her sister's?) By Heaven! each one argues and does as he likes. They are without relatives, and their father, our friend, entrusted them to us in his last hour, charging us both either to marry them, or, if we declined, to dispose of them hereafter. He gave us, in writing, the full authority of a father and a husband over them, from their infancy. You undertook to bring up that one; I charged myself with the care of this one. You govern yours at your pleasure. Leave me, I pray, to manage the other as I think best.

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