Angelica:
I will obey you to the death.
Mrs. Townly:
What obstinacy, what an opinionated--
Angelica:
It's not obstinacy.
Mrs. Townly:
What, you contradict me without stopping?
Angelica:
To wish what you wish is to contradict you?
Mrs. Townly:
Yes, yes, yes, because I want you to express your will and you won't
do it.
Angelica:
But Mom!
Mrs. Townly:
You make me beside myself. Shut up. They will all say I'm wrong again.
Now it's you--yes, it's your spirit, one can call it that indeed--a
spirit of contradiction. I don't know how I can live with you. A
daughter like this is a real domestic calamity. I want to get rid of
you for sure. Yes, miss--I will marry you off today. The two
candidates are Edward Richly on one side and Mr. Nelson on the other.
I will not give you the honor, I will not give you the choice. You
will take the one I choose. I will speak to your father one more time.
If his ideas are reasonable, I will agree. If not, no.
(Exit Mrs. Townly in a rage)
Angelica: (sighing)
What violence is necessary to turn me into a dissimulator with all the
world. I am naturally sincere. But where my mother is concerned I
don't dare confide in any one if I'm in a situation where I can see
what's happening.
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