BURKE

A shipwrecked stoker, in love and betrayed, rages at the woman he can't stop wanting.

0:48Dramatic20s–30sIntermediate

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I can't do it, God help me, and your two eyes looking at me. Though I do be thinking I'd have a good right to smash your skull like a rotten egg.

Was there iver a woman in the world had the rottenness in her that you have, and was there iver a man the like of me was made the fool of the world, and me thinking thoughts about you, and having great love for you, and dreaming dreams of the fine life we'd have when we'd be wedded! .

Yerra, God help me! I'm destroyed entirely and my heart is broken in bits!

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BURKE

Anna Christie · Eugene O'Neill · 0:48 · 105 words

I can't do it, God help me, and your two eyes looking at me. Though I do be thinking I'd have a good right to smash your skull like a rotten egg. Was there iver a woman in the world had the rottenness in her that you have, and was there iver a man the like of me was made the fool of the world, and me thinking thoughts about you, and having great love for you, and dreaming dreams of the fine life we'd have when we'd be wedded! . Yerra, God help me! I'm destroyed entirely and my heart is broken in bits!

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