Monologue

The Physician Monologue from Pélléas and Mélisande; Alladine and Palomides; Home

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

male · dark · 55 sec

They are both ailing with the same disease, and it is a disease I do not know.--But I have little hope left. They were seized perhaps with the cold of the underground waters; or else those waters may be poisonous. The decomposed body of Alladine's lamb was found there.--I will come back to-night.--Meanwhile they must have silence.... The level of life is very low in their hearts.... Do not go into their rooms and do not speak to them, for the least word, in the state they are in, might cause their death.... They must succeed in forgetting one another. [ (Exit.)

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