Monologue

The Old Servant Monologue from Pélléas and Mélisande; Alladine and Palomides; Home

From Pélléas and Mélisande; Alladine and Palomides; Home by Maurice Maeterlinck

male · dark · 58 sec

Yes, yes; everybody knows.... But nobody dare speak of it.... One does not speak of this;... one does not speak of that;... one speaks no more of anything;... one no longer speaks truth.... But I know he was found at the bottom of Blind Man's Spring;... but no one, no one could see him.... Well, well, we shall only know all that at the last day.... (FIRST SERVANT: I dare not sleep here any longer....) Yes, yes; once ill-fortune is in the house, one keeps silence in vain.... (THIRD SERVANT: Yes; it finds you all the same....) Yes, yes; but we do not go where we would....

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