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Monologue: Martha and Mary.
Ah, a woman's work. Well the place for a woman is in the kitchen isn't it? Who sweeps a room as for The Lord makes that and the action fine. Bring back the drawing room I say, where after eating our fill, thank you ladies, we might withdraw, take port, smoke cigars. All Jane Austen.
Well aside from never having smoked a cigar in my life, though I do like a glass of port, what a load of twaddle, blasphemous, bordering on the obscene! Sanctified misogyny!
All right, all right I hear you say. What's to get all het up about?
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Andrew Pratt (born 1948)
Words © 4/7/2013 Stainer & Bell Ltd, London, England, www.stainer.co.uk.
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