Madame Ranevsky: From the Cherry Orchard – Monologue 13+ Yrs

I bought a villa at Mentone, because he fell ill there, and for three years I knew no rest day or night; the sick man tormented and wore down my soul. Then, last year, when my villa was sold to pay my debts, I went off to Paris, and he came and robbed me of everything, left me and took up with another woman, and I tried to poison myself…. It was all so stupid, so humiliating….