The Duke Monologue from L'Aiglon

From L'Aiglon by Edmond Rostand

male · contemplative · 49 sec

No. (THE YOUNG MAN: What?) I listened well. And you were charming as you spoke, but nothing. No quiver of your voice, told me of France; You voiced a craze, a form of literature. (THE YOUNG MAN: I've carried out my mission clumsily; Could but the Countess yonder speak!) No use. I love the bravery glowing in her eyes, But that's not France: that is my Family! When next you seek me, later, by and by, Let the call come through some untutored voice, Wherein rough accents of the people throb; Your Byronism is much too like myself. You could not have persuaded me to-night-- I feel myself unready for the crown.

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