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LAVINIA--(grimly) Don't be afraid. I'm not going the way Mother and Orin went. That's escaping punishment.
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I know they will see to it I live for a long time! It takes the Mannons to punish themselves for being born!
Full text of monologue available at: O’Neill, Eugene. Mourning Becomes Electra: The Haunted. 1931. http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks04/0400141h.html#s304
https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/o/oneill/eugene/o5m/index.html
http://www.eoneill.com/library/contour/historian/electra.htm
http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks04/0400141h.html
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