2 Best Poor Harold! Monologues

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Harold says

Incriminating? How can you ask that, Isabel? They were perfectly innocent letters, such as any gentleman poet might write to any lady poetess. How was I to know that a rather plain-featured woman I sat next to at a Poetry Dinner in Chicago was conducting a dozen love-affairs? How was I to know that my expressions of literary regard would look like love-letters to her long-suffering husband? That’s the irony of it: I’m perfectly blameless. God knows I couldn’t have been anything else, with her. But I’ve always been blameless -in all the seven years of my marriage, I never even kissed another woman. And then to have this happen! Scandal, disgrace, the talk of all Evanston! Disowned my father, repudiated my wife, ostracized my friends, cast forth into outer darkness, and dropped naked and penniless into Greenwich Village!

Poor Harold! (Mrs. Murphy)

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Mrs. Murphy says

It’s too soft you are, that’s why. You take no for an answer, as a girl shouldn’t. Let you keep at him long enough, and he’ll give in. Sure the youth of this generation have no regard for their proper rights. Never was a man yet that couldn’t be come around, if he was taken in his weakness. A silk dress or a wedding ring or shoes for the baby, it’s all the same -they have to be coaxed twice for every one thing they do. It’s the nature of the beast, so it is, God help us. Well I remember how my sister that’s dead in Ireland used to say, and we girls together, “Sure,” says she, “it’s woman’s place to ask,” says she, “and man’s to refuse,” says she, “and woman’s to ask again,” says she. Widow that I am this ten year, I could tell you some things now – but I’ll not be sayin’ a word.

Poor Harold! (Harold)

Harold says

Poor Harold! (Mrs. Murphy)

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