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If you are not located in the United States, you'll have -to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. - - - - -Title: The Goddess of Reason - A Drama in Five Acts - - -Author: Mary Johnston - - - -Release Date: December 27, 2016 [eBook #53817] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - - -***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE GODDESS OF REASON*** - - -E-text prepared by Richard Tonsing, MFR, and the Online Distributed -Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made -available by Internet Archive (https://archive.org) - - - -Note: Images of the original pages are available through - Internet Archive. See - https://archive.org/details/goddessofreason00johnuoft - - -Transcriber’s note: - - Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). - - - - - -THE GODDESS OF REASON - -A Drama in Five Acts - - -THE GODDESS OF REASON - -by - -MARY JOHNSTON - - - - - - - -Boston and New York -Houghton, Mifflin and Company -MDCCCCVII - -Copyright 1907 by Mary Johnston -All Rights Reserved - -Published May 1907 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- - - - - - TO - THE HOUSEHOLD AT WOODLEY - THIS DRAMA - IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED - -[Illustration] - - - - - _DRAMATIS PERSONÆ_ - - - RENÉ-AMAURY DE VARDES, _Baron of Morbec_ - RÉMOND LALAIN, _Deputy from Vannes_ - THE ABBÉ JEAN DE BARBASAN - COUNT LOUIS DE CHÂTEAU-GUI - CAPTAIN FAUQUEMONT DE BUC - MELIPARS DE L’ORIENT - ENGUERRAND LA FÔRET - THE VIDAME DE SAINT-AMOUR - THE ENGLISHMAN - GRÉGOIRE - RAÔUL THE HUNTSMAN - A SERGEANT OF HUSSARS - - YVETTE - THE MARQUISE DE BLANCHEFÔRET - MLLE. DE CHÂTEAU-GUI - MME. DE VAUCOURT - MME. DE MALESTROIT - MME. DE PONT À L’ARCHE - SISTER FIDELIS - SISTER SIMPLICIA - SISTER BENEDICTA - NANON - CÉLESTE - ANGÉLIQUE - SÉRAPHINE - AN ACTRESS - -_Guests of De Vardes; Peasants; Lackeys; Soldiers; Nuns; Young Girls; -The Mob at Nantes; Participants in the Fête of the Goddess of Reason; -Republican Commissioners; National Soldiers; Women of the Revolution; -Royalist Prisoners; Gaolers; Judges; Executioners; etc., etc._ - - - - - _TIME 1791–1794_ - - - ACT I. The Château of Morbec in Brittany. - - ACT II. The Garden of the Convent of the Visitation in Nantes. - - ACT III. A Square in Nantes. - - ACT IV. A Church in Nantes used as a Prison. - - ACT V. _Scene I._ A Judgment Hall in Nantes. - - _Scene II._ The Banks of the Loire. - -[Illustration] - - - - - THE - - GODDESS OF REASON - - - - - _ACT I_ - - - _The Château of Morbec in Brittany. A formal garden and a wide - terrace with stone balustrade. In the background the château, - white and peak-roofed, with great arched doors. Beyond it a - distant prospect of a Breton village and of the sea beating - against a dangerous coast. To the left a thick wood, to the right - a perspective of garden alleys, fountains, and flowering trees. On - the terrace a small table set with bread, fruit, and wine. In the - angle formed by the level of the terrace and the wide stone steps - leading into the garden the statue of a nymph, its high and broad - pedestal draped with ivy. Scattered on the terrace and steps a - litter of stones, broken cudgels, rusty and uncouth weapons. The - sun shines, the trees wave in the wind, the birds sing, the - flowers bloom. It is a summer morning in the year 1791._ - - _Enter from one of the garden paths a lackey and_ RÉMOND LALAIN. - LALAIN _wears a riding dress with a tricolour cockade_. - - LALAIN - - Say to Monsieur the Baron of Morbec, - Rémond Lalain, the Deputy from Vannes, - In haste is riding north, but hath drawn rein— - Hearing to-day of Baron Henri’s death— - And audience craves that he may homage pay - To Morbec’s latest lord! - - THE LACKEY - - I go, monsieur! - - [_Exit the lackey._ - - LALAIN - - These gloomy towers! - - [_He muses as he paces the garden walk before the - terrace._ - - Mirabeau is dead! - Gabriel Riquetti, dead, I salute thee, - Great gladiator! Who treads now the sand - That yesterday was trod by Mirabeau? - Barnave, Lameth, ye are too slight of frame! - There’s Lafayette. No, no, _mon général_! - Robespierre? Go to, thou little man! - Jean Paul Marat, dog leech and People’s Friend? - Wild beast to fight with beast! Faugh! Down, Marat! - Who stands this course, why, that man’s emperor! - Now how would purple look upon Marat? - Jacques Danton?—Danton! Hot Cordelier! - Dark Titan forging to a Titan’s end! - Shake not thy black locks from the tribune there, - Nor rend the heavens with thy mighty voice! - ‘Tis not for thee, the victor’s golden crown, - The voice of France— - - [_The doors of the château open. Enter three lackeys - bearing a great gilt chair, which they place with - ceremony at the head of the steps which lead from - the terrace into the garden._ - - FIRST LACKEY (_stamping with his foot upon the terrace_) - - The gilded chair place here! - We always judge our peasants from this chair, - We lords of Morbec! North terrace, gilt chair! - - SECOND LACKEY - - Baron Henri sat here the day he died! - - FIRST LACKEY - - Now Baron René takes his turn! - - [_They place the chair._ - - LALAIN (_as before_) - - Danton! - Why not Lalain? It is as good a name! - Mirabeau’s dead! Out of my way, Danton! - - THIRD LACKEY (_gathering up the stones which lie - upon the terrace_) - - I’ll throw these stones into the shrubbery! - - SECOND LACKEY (_lifting a rusty scythe from the steps_) - - This scythe I’ll fling into the fountain! - - FIRST LACKEY (_his hands in his pockets_) - - Hé! - One sees quite well that we have stood a siege! - - [_The lackeys gather up the stones, the sticks, the broken - and rusty tools and weapons._ - - LALAIN - - Where lives the man who doth not worship Might? - O Goddess All-in-All! make me thine own, - As the bright moon did make Endymion; - And I will rim thy Phrygian cap with stars, - And give thee for thy cestus the tricolour! - - _Enter_ GRÉGOIRE. - - GRÉGOIRE - - Monsieur Lalain! - - LALAIN (_waving his hand_) - - My good Grégoire! - - GRÉGOIRE (_to the lackeys_) - - Despatch! - Monseigneur will be here anon! - - [_He glances at the stones, etc._ - - Rubbish! - Away with’t! - - [_Passing the statue of the nymph, he strikes it with - his hand._ - - Will you forever smile? - Stone lips that long have smiled at bitter wrong! - You might, my dear, have lost that smile last night! - - FIRST LACKEY - - Last night was something like! - - SECOND LACKEY (_throwing the stones one by one into - the shrubbery_) - - Sangdieu! last night - My heart was water! - - GRÉGOIRE - - Ah, poltroon; your heart! - - THIRD LACKEY (_making play with a broken stick_) - - Our baron’s a swordsman! His rapier flashed! - - FIRST LACKEY - - _Keen as the blade of the Sieur de Morbec!_ - —And that is a saying old as the sea! - - SECOND LACKEY - - _Hard as the heart of the Sieur de Morbec!_ - —And that was said before the sea was made! - - [_They laugh._ - - THIRD LACKEY (_pointing to_ LALAIN) - - What’s he? - - GRÉGOIRE - - The advocate Rémond Lalain. - - THIRD LACKEY - - A patriot? - - GRÉGOIRE - - Hotter than Lanjuinais! - - THIRD LACKEY - - What does he at Morbec? - - GRÉGOIRE - - How should I know? - His home was once within the village there, - And now and then he visits the curé. - - FIRST LACKEY - - The curé! He visits Yvette Charruel! - - LALAIN (_as before_) - - Mirabeau and I were born in the south. - Oh, the orange flower beside the wall! - And the shaken olives when Mistral wakes! - - GRÉGOIRE - - Once they were friends, Baron René and he; - The Revolution came between— - - FIRST LACKEY (_He sends a pike whirling into the - shrubbery_) - - Long live - The Revolution! - - GRÉGOIRE - - My friend, ‘twill live - Without thy bawling! - - THIRD LACKEY (_arranging the bottles upon the small - table_) - - So! The red wine here, - The white wine there! - - (_To a fallen bottle._) Stand up, Aristocrat! - - LALAIN - - The sun is high! - - [_He approaches the terrace and addresses the nearest - lackey._ - - How long must I await - The pleasure of Monsieur the Baron here? - - THE LACKEY - - Monsieur? - - LALAIN - - Go, fellow, go! and to him say, - Rémond Lalain— - - THE LACKEY - - I go, monsieur! - - [_Exit the lackey._ - - LALAIN - - ‘Tis well, - René de Vardes, to keep me waiting thus! - - [GRÉGOIRE _pours wine into a glass and descending - the steps offers it to_ LALAIN. - - GRÉGOIRE - - The old vintage, Monsieur Lalain! - - LALAIN - - Thanks, friend. - The day is warm. - - [_He raises the glass to his lips. Laughter and voices - from the winding garden paths._ - - What’s that? - - GRÉGOIRE (_shrugging_) - - More guests, no doubt! - The count, the vidame, and the young marquise! - All Morbihan felicitates Morbec, - And brings our baron bonbons and bouquets, - As if there were no hunger and no frost! - - [_A distant sound from the wood of harsh and complaining - voices._ - - LALAIN - - And that? - - GRÉGOIRE - - Soldiers and huntsmen beat the woods; - For half the village is in hiding there, - Having assayed last night to burn Morbec! - As if ‘twould burn! This time the soldiers came! - Mon Dieu! the times are bad. - - LALAIN (_abruptly_) - - All the village! - Did Yvette Charruel— - - GRÉGOIRE (_shrugging_) - - Yvette! - - FIRST LACKEY (_from the terrace_) - - Yvette! - - SECOND LACKEY - - I warrant monseigneur will hang Yvette! - - [LALAIN _pours the wine upon the ground and throws - the glass from him. It shatters against the balustrade. - Laughter and voices. Guests appear in the garden - walks, the women in swelling skirts of silk or muslin, - powdered hair and large hats; the men in brocade - and silk with cane swords, or in hunting dress._ - - A LADY (_curtseying_) - - Monsieur le Vicomte! - - A GENTLEMAN (_bowing_) - - Madame la Baronne! - - MME. DE MALESTROIT - - A heavenly day. - - ENGUERRAND LA FÔRET - - No cloud in the sky. - - THE VIDAME (_saluting a gentleman_) - - Count Louis de Château-Gui! - - COUNT LOUIS - - Ah, monsieur! - - [_Presents his snuff-box._ - - MME. DE PONT À L’ARCHE - - For laces I advise Louise. Fichus? - The Bleeding Heart above the flower shop. - - THE VIDAME - - —A _lettre de cachet_. To Vincennes he went! - - MME. DE MALESTROIT - - But ah! what use of laces or fichus! - We emigrate so fast there’s none to see! - - THE ENGLISHMAN - - I quote a great man—my Lord Chesterfield: - “Exist in the unhappy land of France - All signs that history hath ever shown”— - - MME. DE PONT À L’ARCHE - - The Queen wore carnation, Madame, pale rose, - The Dauphin— - - LALAIN - - What do I in this galley? - (_To_ GRÉGOIRE.) I’ll walk aside! - - [_Exit_ LALAIN. - - COUNT LOUIS (_to_ GRÉGOIRE) - - Was that Rémond Lalain? - - GRÉGOIRE - - It was, Monsieur le Comte. - - COUNT LOUIS - - Ah, scélérat! - - THE VIDAME - - The talked-of Deputy for Vannes? - - LA FÔRET - - Tribune - Eloquent as Antony! - - COUNT LOUIS - - Demagogue! - - THE ENGLISHMAN - - I heard him in the Jacobins. He spoke, - And then they went and tore a palace down! - - COUNT LOUIS - - Stucco! - - _Enter, laughing_, MLLE. DE CHÂTEAU-GUI, MELIPARS DE - L’ORIENT, _and_ CAPTAIN FAUQUEMONT DE BUC. DE - L’ORIENT _has in his hand a paper of verses_. - - My daughter and De L’Orient, - Captain Fauquemont de Buc! - - MLLE. DE CHÂTEAU-GUI - - Messieurs, mesdames! - The poet and his verses! - - THE COMPANY - - Ah, verses! - - COUNT LOUIS - - Who is the fair, Monsieur de L’Orient? - Lalage or Laïs or little Fleurette? - Men sang of Célestine when I was young,— - Ah, Célestine, behind thy white rose tree! - - DE L’ORIENT - - I do not sing of love, Monsieur le Comte! - - MLLE. DE CHÂTEAU-GUI - - He sings of this day— - - DE BUC - - The Eve of Saint John. - - DE L’ORIENT - - It is a Song of Welcome to De Vardes! - - DE BUC - - But yesterday poor Colonel of Hussars! - - MLLE. DE CHÂTEAU-GUI - - To-day Monsieur the Baron of Morbec! - - DE L’ORIENT - - _Mars to Bellona leaves the tented field._ - - DE BUC - - That’s Bouillé at Metz! Kling! rang our spurs— - De Vardes’ and mine—from Verdun to Morbec! - - DE L’ORIENT - - _The warrior hastens to his native weald._ - - COUNT LOUIS - - Would I might see again Henri de Vardes! - - DE BUC - - It would affright you, sir! The man is dead. - - COUNT LOUIS - - Ah, while he lived it was as did become - A nobleman of France and Brittany! - He was my friend; together we were young! - From dawn to dusk, from dusk to dawn again, - We searched for pleasure as for buried gold, - And found it, too, in days when we were young! - From every flint we struck the golden sparks, - We plucked the thistle as we plucked the rose, - And battle gave for every star that shone! - O nymphs that laughing fled while we pursued! - O music that was made when we were young! - O gold we won and duels that we fought! - _On guard, monsieur, on guard! Sa! sa! A touch! - What shall we drink? Where shall we dine? Ma foi! - There’s a melting eye at the Golden Crown! - The Angel pours a Burgundy divine! - Come, come, the quarrel’s o’er! So, arm in arm!_ - O worlds we lost and won when we were young! - O lips we kissed within the jasmine bower! - O sirens singing in the clear moonlight!— - With Bacchus we drank, with Apollo loved, - With Actæon hunted when we were young! - The wax-lights burned with softer lustre then. - The music was more rich when we were young. - Violet was the perfume for hair powder, - Ruffles were point and buckles were brilliant - And lords were lords in the old land of France! - We did what we would, and _lettres de cachet_, - Like cooing doves they fluttered from our hands! - - DE L’ORIENT - - _Our tribute take, last of a noble line!_ - - COUNT LOUIS - - Women! There will come no more such women! - - DE L’ORIENT - - _The laurel and the empress rose we twine._ - - COUNT LOUIS - - And Henri’s gone! And now his cousin reigns,— - René de Vardes that hath been years away! - The King is dead. Well, well, long live the King! - They say he’s brave as Crillon, handsome too, - With that _bel air_ that no De Vardes’s without! - - _Enter_ MME. DE VAUCOURT _followed by the_ ABBÉ JEAN DE - BARBASAN. - - MLLE. DE CHÂTEAU-GUI - - Monsieur l’Abbé! - - DE BUC - - Madame de Vaucourt! - - MME. DE VAUCOURT (_with outspread hands_) - - You’ve heard? Last night they strove to burn Morbec! - - ALL - - What? - - MME. DE VAUCOURT - - The peasants! - - COUNT LOUIS - - Again! - - DE BUC - - Ah, I am vexed. - Messieurs, mesdames, the Baron of Morbec - Silence enjoined, or the tale I’d have told! - The abbé is so bold— - - THE ABBÉ - - De Buc’s so proud! - And just because he brought us help from Vannes! - The red Hussars to hive the bees again! - - THE ENGLISHMAN - - The seigneur and his peasants are at odds? - - THE ABBÉ - - Slightly! - - COUNT LOUIS (_complacently_) - - Henri was hated! Hate descends - With the land. - - DE L’ORIENT - - There is a girl of these parts— - - COUNT LOUIS - - Eh? - - DE L’ORIENT - - She plays the firebrand. - - COUNT LOUIS - - Bah! - - DE L’ORIENT - - She hath - The loveliest face! - - COUNT LOUIS - - Hm! - - THE ABBÉ - - I am unscathed. - De Vardes is slightly wounded! - - ALL - - Oh! - - COUNT LOUIS - - Morbleu! - And how did it happen, Monsieur l’Abbé? - - THE ABBÉ - - Behold us at our ease in the great hall, - De Vardes and I, a-musing o’er piquet! - Voltaire beside us, for we read “Alzire,” - A wine as well, more suave than any verse; - A still and starlit night, soft, fair, and warm; - Wax-lights, and roses in a china bowl. - He laid aside his sword and I my cap, - All tranquilly at home, the Two Estates! - He held carte blanche, I followed with quatorze. - The roses sweetly smelled, the candles burned, - At peace we were with nature and mankind.— - A crash of painted glass! a whirling stone! - A candle out! the roses all o’erturned! - The thunder of a log against our doors! - A clattering of sabots! a sudden shout! - _Morbec, Morbec, it is thy Judgment Night! - Admission, admission, Aristocrats!_ - Red turns the night, the servants all rush in. - _Sieur! Sieur!_ the lackeys moan and wring their hands. - _Give, give!_ the terrace croaks. _Burn, Morbec, burn!_ - The great bell swings in the windy tower - Till the wolves in the forest pause to hear. - _Fall, Morbec, fall! France has no need of thee!_ - Upsprings a rosy light! a smell of smoke! - Mischief’s afoot! The Baron of Morbec - Lays down his cards and takes his rapier up, - Hums _Le Sein de sa Famille_, shuts _Alzire_, - Resignedly rises— - - COUNT LOUIS (_rubbing his hands_) - - Expresses regret - That monsieur his guest— - - THE ABBÉ - - Should be incommoded - And turns to the door. I levy the tongs. - The seneschal Grégoire hauls from the wall - An ancient arquebus! The lackeys wail, - And nothing do, as is the lackey’s wont! - Again the peasants thunder at the door! - _Open, De Vardes! Oh, hated of all names! - The new is as the old! Death to De Vardes!_ - The log strikes full, and now a panel breaks; - In comes a hand that brandishes a pike; - A voice behind, _We’ve come to sup with thee! - For thou hast bread and we have none, De Vardes!_ - - THE ENGLISHMAN - - Ha, ha! ha, ha! ha, ha! - - COUNT LOUIS - - You laugh, monsieur? - - THE ABBÉ - - I like calmness myself. Calm of the sea, - Calm skies, the calm spring, and calmness of mind! - A tempest’s plebeian! So I admired - René de Vardes when he walked to the door - And opened it! Behold the whole wolf pack, - As lean as ‘twere winter! canaille all! - Sans-culottes and tatterdemalions, - Mere dust of the field and sand of the shore; - Humanity’s shreds would follow the mode, - And burn the château of their rightful lord! - De Vardes’ peasants in fine. _Mort aux tyrans! - À bas Aristocrat! Vive la patrie! - Vive la Révolution!_ In they pressed, - Gaunt, haggard, and shrill, and full in the front— - Young and fair, conceive! dark-eyed and red-lipped— - A fury, a mænad, a girl called— - - DE L’ORIENT - - Yvette! - - THE ABBÉ - - So they named her, the peasants of Morbec, - Named and applauded the dark-eyed besom! - When, De Vardes’ drawn rapier just touching - Her breast-knot of blue as she stood in his path, - Up went her brown hand, armed with a sickle!— - De Vardes is a known fencer,—‘tis lucky! - His wound is not deep, and in the left arm! - - THE VIDAME - - She may hang for that! How high I forget - The gallows should be— - - COUNT LOUIS (_offering his snuff-box_) - - Monsieur le Vidame, - Thirty feet, I believe! - - THE VIDAME - - But not in chains— - - COUNT LOUIS - - No! It was the left arm. - - DE L’ORIENT - - What did De Vardes? - - THE ABBÉ - - De Vardes, with Liancourt and Rochefoucauld, - Holds that the peasant doth possess a soul! - I think it hurt him to the heart that he, - New come to Morbec, and unknown to these, - His vassals of the village, field, and shore, - Should be esteemed by them an enemy, - A Baron Henri come again, forsooth! - But since ‘twas so, out rapier! parry! thrust! - Diable! he’s a swordsman to my mind! - The mænad with the sickle he puts by; - Runs through the arm a clamourer of corvée, - Brings howling to his knees a sans-culotte, - And strikes a flail from out a claw-like hand! - They falter, they give way, the craven throng! - The women cry them on; they swarm again. - His bright steel flashes, rise and fall my tongs! - But the lackeys are naught, and Grégoire finds - A flaw in his musket; he will not fire! - Pardieu! the things this Revolution kills! - There is no faithfulness in service now! - Our peasants grow bold. Ma foi! we’re at bay! - De Vardes and De Barbasan, rapier, tongs! - Wild blows and wild cries, blown smoke and a glare, - And the girl Yvette with her reaping hook - Still pushed to the front by the women there! - Upon De Vardes’ white sleeve the blood is dark, - And his breath comes fast! I see the event - As ‘twill look in print in Paris next week, - In _L’Ami du Peuple or Journal du Roi_! - “The Vain Defence of an Ancient Château! - When we Burn so Much, why not Burn the Land?” - And I break with my tongs a young death’s-head - That’s bawling—What think you?—_Vive la République._ - - COUNT LOUIS - - Death and damnation! - - THE ABBÉ - - So I said! And then, - Quite, I assure you, in time’s very nick, - The saint De Vardes prays to smiled on him! - A thunder clap!—_Pas de charge! En avant!_ - Captain Fauquemont de Buc and his Hussars! - - DE BUC - - Warned by the saint, we galloped from Auray! - - THE ABBÉ - - Like the dead leaves borne afar on the blast, - Or like the sea mist when the sun rises, - Or like the red deer when the horn’s sounded,— - Like anything in short that’s light o’ heel,— - Vanished our peasants! The women went last; - And last of all the mænad with the eyes! - Jesu! She might have been Jeanne d’Arc, that girl! - The man who captures her has a hand full!— - To the deep woods they fled, are hunted now.— - De Vardes and I gave welcome to De Buc, - Put out the fire, attended to our wounds, - Resumed our cards, and finished our _Alzire_— - The Château of Morbec stands, you observe! - - [_The company applauds._ - - MLLE. DE CHÂTEAU-GUI - - But who was the saint?— - - DE BUC - - Ah, here is De Vardes! - - _Enter_ DE VARDES. _He is dressed in slight mourning and - carries his arm in a sling._ - - THE GUESTS - - Monsieur the Baron of Morbec! - - DE VARDES - - Welcome, - The brave and the fair, my old friends and new! - Welcome to Morbec! - - COUNT LOUIS - - Ah, your wounded arm!— - Our regret is profound! - - DE VARDES - - It is nothing. - The fraternal embrace of the people! - - COUNT LOUIS - - Oh, the people! - - MME. DE VAUCOURT - - The people! - - DE L’ORIENT - - The people! - - COUNT LOUIS - - My friend, permit us to hope you will make - Of the people a signal example! - - DE VARDES - - They are misguided. - - COUNT LOUIS - - Misguided! Morbleu! - - DE VARDES - - I will talk to them. - - COUNT LOUIS - - Monsieur le Baron, - Let your soldiers talk with a bayonet’s point, - Your bailiffs with a rope— - - MME. DE VAUCOURT - - But what good saint - Brought warning to Auray? - - DE L’ORIENT - - I guess that saint! - - [_A lackey appears upon the terrace._ - - THE LACKEY - - Madame la Marquise de Blanchefôret! - - THE GUESTS - - Ah! - La belle marquise! - - _Enter_ THE MARQUISE. - - DE BUC - - The saint! - - DE VARDES - - My neighbour fair, - And to De Barbasan and me last night - A guardian angel— - - [_He greets_ THE MARQUISE. - - Madame la Marquise! - - THE MARQUISE - - Monsieur le Baron! - (_To the company._) Messieurs, mesdames! - - DE VARDES - - From Blanchefôret to Auray through the night - This lady rode— - - THE MARQUISE (_with gayety_) - - Ah, how I rode last night, - To Auray through the dark! This way it was: - I overheard two peasants yestereve - As in a lane I sought for eglantine. - “How long hath Morbec stood?” said one. “Too long! - But when to-morrow dawns ‘twill not be there! - And we were born, I think, to burn châteaux!— - Ten, by the village clock—forget it not!” - - THE ABBÉ - - Ah, ay, the while I dealt the clock struck ten. - - THE MARQUISE - - It was already dusk.—Like grey death moths - They slipped away! I knew not whom to trust, - For in these times there’s no fidelity, - No faithful groom, no steadfast messenger! - My little page brought me my Zuleika. - I knew the red Hussars were at Auray, - And that ‘twas said they loved their colonel well! - So to Auray came Zuleika and I! - - DE BUC - - We thought it was Dian in huntress dress! - - DE VARDES - - How deeply am I, Goddess, in thy debt! - No gold is coined wherewith I may repay! - - [_Music within._ - - THE MARQUISE - - Give me a rose from yonder tree! - - [_Laughing voices within._ - - MLLE. DE CHÂTEAU-GUI - - More guests, - They’re on the south terrace! - - DE L’ORIENT - - Violins too! - Ah, the old air— - - [_He sings._ - - _There lived a king in Ys, - In Ys the city old! - Beside the sounding sea - He counted o’er his gold._ - - DE VARDES - - Let us meet them. - - [_He gives his hand to_ THE MARQUISE. _Exeunt_ - COUNT LOUIS, THE ABBÉ, DE BUC, DE L’ORIENT, - _etc._ GRÉGOIRE _approaches_ DE VARDES. - - GRÉGOIRE - - Monseigneur—Monsieur the Deputy! - - DE VARDES - - Ah! - Say to monsieur I’m not at leisure now. - - [_Exeunt_ DE VARDES _and_ THE MARQUISE. _The - terrace and garden are deserted save for_ GRÉGOIRE, - _who seats himself in the shadow of the balustrade_. - - GRÉGOIRE - - Humph!—Monseigneur’s not at leisure. - - [_He draws a Paris journal from his pocket and - reads, following the letters with his forefinger._ - - What news? - What says Jean Paul Marat, the People’s Friend? - - [_A cry from the wood and the sound of breaking - boughs._ YVETTE _and_ SÉRAPHINE _enter the garden_. - RAÔUL THE HUNTSMAN’S _voice within_. - - THE HUNTSMAN - - Hilloa!—Hilloa!—Hilloa! - - [YVETTE _and_ SÉRAPHINE _turn towards one of the - garden alleys. Laughter and voices._ - - YVETTE - - Go not that way! - - SÉRAPHINE - - There is no way! - - THE HUNTSMAN (_within_) - - Hilloa!—Hilloa! - - SÉRAPHINE - - We’re caught! - - YVETTE - - The terrace there! Behind the stone woman! - - [_They cross the garden to the terrace._ - - SÉRAPHINE (_She stops abruptly and points to the table_) - - Bread! - - THE HUNTSMAN (_nearer_) - - Hilloa!—Hilloa! - - [YVETTE _and_ SÉRAPHINE _turn from the table and - hide behind the tall, ivy-draped pedestal of the - statue_. GRÉGOIRE _looks up from his paper and sees - them_. - - _Enter_ RAÔUL THE HUNTSMAN. - - THE HUNTSMAN - - This way they came! - - GRÉGOIRE (_jerking his thumb over his shoulder_) - - Down yonder path!—plump to the woods again! - - THE HUNTSMAN - - The Hussars from Auray have twenty rogues! - - GRÉGOIRE - - Indeed! - - THE HUNTSMAN - - These two and my bag’s full! - - [_Exit_ THE HUNTSMAN. - - GRÉGOIRE - - Diable! - - [_He reads aloud._ - - _Weary at last of intolerable wrong, - The peasants of Goy in Normandy rose - And burned the château. Who questions their right?_ - - [_He folds his paper._ - - Saint Yves! this stone is much harder than Goy! - - [_He looks fixedly at the statue and raises his voice._ - - Ma’m’selle who would smile at the trump of doom, - I think that all the village will be hanged! - And at its head that brown young witch they call - Yvette— - - _Reënter_ DE VARDES _and_ THE MARQUISE. - - DE VARDES (_to_ GRÉGOIRE) - - Begone! - - [_Exit_ GRÉGOIRE. DE VARDES _and_ THE MARQUISE - _rest beside the statue_, YVETTE _listening_. - - Why, what’s a soldier for? - But pity me, pity me, belle Marquise! - Since pity is so sweet! - - THE MARQUISE - - I’m sure it is - A fearful wound! - - DE VARDES - - A fearful wound indeed! - But ‘tis not in the arm! - - THE MARQUISE - - No, monsieur? - - DE VARDES - - No! - The heart! I swear that it is bleeding fast! - And I have naught wherewith to stanch the wound. - Your kerchief— - - THE MARQUISE - - Just a piece of lace! - - DE VARDES - - ‘Twill serve. - - THE MARQUISE (_giving her handkerchief_) - - Well, there!—Now tell me of last night. - - DE VARDES - - Last night! - Why, all this tintamarre was but a dream, - Fanfare of fairy trumpets while we slept. - A night it was for love-in-idleness, - And fragrant thoughts and airy phantasy! - There was no moon, but Venus shone as bright; - The honeysuckle blew its tiny horn - To tell the rose a moth was coming by. - _Clarice-Marie!_ sang all the nightingales, - Or would have sung were nightingales abroad! - _Hush, hush!_ the little waves kept whispering. - The ivy at your window still was peeping; - You lay in dreams, that gold curl on your breast! - - THE MARQUISE - - No, no! You cheat me not, monsieur! Last night - I did not sleep! - - DE VARDES - - Nor I! - - THE MARQUISE - - Miserable brigands! - - DE VARDES - - No, not brigands! Just wretched flesh and blood. - - THE MARQUISE - - You pity them? - - DE VARDES - - Ay. - - THE MARQUISE - - Were I a seigneur, - Lord of Morbec— - - DE VARDES - - Were I a poor fisher, - Sailing at sunrise home from the islands, - Over the sea, and all my heart singing! - And you were a herd girl slender and sweet, - With the gold of your hair beneath your cap, - And you kept the cows and you were my _douce_, - And you waved your hand from the green cliff head - When the sun and I came up from the sea!— - And there was a seigneur so great and grim - Who walked in his garden and said aloud, - “How many fish has he taken for me? - Which of her cows shall I keep for myself? - I leave him enough to pay for the Mass - The day he is drowned, and the girl shall have - The range of the hills for her one poor cow! - Why should the fisher fret, the herd girl weep? - There is no reason in a serf’s dull heart! - I might have taken all. It is my right!” - La belle Marquise, what would the herd girl do? - And should the fisher suffer and say naught? - - THE MARQUISE - - There is no fisher nor no herd girl here. - How fair the roses of Morbec, monsieur! - - DE VARDES - - Ay, they are lovely queens. They know it too! - I better like the heartsease at your feet. - - THE MARQUISE - - It is a peasant flower!—Sieur de Morbec, - Have you never loved? - - DE VARDES - - How fair is the day! - For loving how fit! ‘Tis the Eve of Saint John. - - THE MARQUISE - - Yes. - - DE VARDES - - Last year I loved on this very day. - Take the omen, madame! - - THE MARQUISE - - We had not met, - You and I! - - DE VARDES - - Ah, ‘tis true! We had not met!— - And so, fair as you are, you were not there, - In Paimpont Wood, on the Eve of Saint John? - - THE MARQUISE - - No! - - DE VARDES - - I wonder who was! - - THE MARQUISE - - In Paimpont Wood! - It is haunted! - - DE VARDES - - On the Eve of Saint John - I rode from Morbec here to Chatillon, - And through the wood of Paimpont fared alone. - It is a forest where enchantments thrive, - And a fair dream doth drop from every tree! - The old, old world of bitterness and strife - Is remote as winter, remote as death. - It was high noon in the turbulent town; - But clocks never strike in the elfin wood, - And the sun’s ruddy gold is elsewhere spent. - The light was dim in the depths of Paimpont, - Green, reverend, and dim as the light may be - In a sea king’s palace under the sea. - The wind did not blow; the flowering bough - Was still as the rose on a dead man’s breast. - On velvet hoof the doe and fawn went by; - In other woods the lark and linnet sang; - A stealthy way was taken by the fox; - The badger trod upon the softest moss; - And like a shadow flitted past the hare. - Without a sound the haunted fountain played. - The oak boughs dreamed; the pine was motionless; - Its silver arms the beech in silence spread; - The poplar had forgot its lullaby. - It was as still as cloudland in the wood, - For in a hawthorn brake old Merlin sleeps, - And every leaf is hushed for love of him. - There through the years they sleep and listless dream, - The wood of Paimpont and the wizard old. - They dream of valleys where the lilies blow; - They dream of woodland gods and castles high, - Of faun and Pan and of the Table Round, - Of dryad trees and of a maiden dark— - That Vivien whom old Merlin once did love, - Vivien le Gai whose love was poisonous! - - THE MARQUISE - - I’ve heard it said by women spinning flax, - “Who wanders in Paimpont wanders in love; - Let him who loves in Paimpont Wood beware!” - - DE VARDES - - Ah, idle word! Oh, many silver bells - Since Vivien’s day have rung, Beware, beware! - And rung in vain, for in every clime - Lies Paimpont Wood, dawns the Eve of Saint John! - - THE MARQUISE - - And in the forest there whom did you love? - - DE VARDES - - I do not know. I have not seen her since, - Unless—unless I saw her face last night! - - YVETTE (_behind the base of the statue_) - - Oh!— - - DE VARDES - - Did you not hear a voice? - - THE MARQUISE - - ‘Tis the wind.— - You’re riding through the wood to Chatillon. - - DE VARDES - - It was a lonely forest, deep and vast, - A secret and a soundless trysting-place, - Where one might meet, nor be surprised to meet, - From out his past, or from his life to come, - A veilèd shape, a presence bitter-sweet, - A thing that was, a thing was yet to be! - It seemed a fatal place, a destined day. - Down a long aisle of beechen trees I rode, - And came upon a small and sunny vale, - And there I met a face from out a dream, - An ancient dream, a dark and lovely face.— - Give me your fan of pearl and ivory! - - [_He takes the fan from_ THE MARQUISE. - - I’ll turn enchanter, use it for my rod, - And make you see, Marquise, the very place! - - [_He points with the fan._ - - Here sprang the silver column of a beech; - There, mossy knees of a most ancient oak; - Yonder a wall of thickest foliage rose; - And here a misty streamlet flowed - With a voice more low than the dying fall - Of a trouvère’s lute in Languedoc, - And on its shore the slender flowers grew; - Upon a foxglove bell hung _papillon_; - And all around the grass was long and fine. - Within this sylvan space, ah, ages since! - The white-robed Druids in the cold moonlight - Had reared an altar stone of wondrous height; - The fane was there, the Druids were away. - All fragrant was the air, and sunny still,— - On the Eve of Saint John ‘tis ever so! - Above, the sky was blue without a cloud; - The sun stood sentinel o’er the haunted wood. - And there she lay, the woman of a dream, - Against the Druid Stone, amid the bloom; - Her eyes were on the stream; she leaned her ear; - From far away the trouvère played to her; - In flakes of gold the sunlight blessed her hair; - Her lips were red; she seemed a princess old; - Mid purple bloom she lay and gazed afar, - In the magic wood on a magic day, - Listening to hear the mighty trouvère play. - Was she a princess or a peasant maid? - I do not know, pardie! She may have been - That Vivien who wrought old Merlin wrong. - I cannot tell if she were rich or poor; - I only saw her face; I only know - I loved the dream I met in Paimpont Wood - As I did ride last year to Chatillon - On Saint John’s Eve.— - - [_He lays the fan upon the table._ - - So I have loved, Marquise! - - THE MARQUISE - - What did your pretty dream? - - DE VARDES - - As other dreams; - She fled! - - THE MARQUISE - - And you pursued? - - DE VARDES - - Yes, but in vain! - Trouble no dream that is dreamed in Paimpont! - The wood closed around her; she vanished quite. - It must have been that evil Vivien, - Since you, Marquise, have never trod the wood! - - THE MARQUISE - - Would I have fled? - - DE VARDES - - Why, then, without doubt - It was Vivien! But yet do you know - ‘Tis the Eve of Saint John, and here, last night, - I dreamed that I saw my dream again! - - [_The hand and arm of the statue fall, broken, to the - ground at the feet of_ THE MARQUISE. - - THE MARQUISE - - Ah! - - DE VARDES (_pushes the marble aside with his foot_) - - It is nothing! The stone was cracked last night. - Some crack-brained peasant had no better mark! - - THE MARQUISE - - ‘Tis a _présigne_!—I feel it.— - - DE VARDES - - You shudder! - - THE MARQUISE - - One trod near my grave! I’m suddenly cold! - - DE VARDES - - The sun never shines on this terrace! - - THE MARQUISE - - No! - ‘Twas an air from the Forest of Paimpont - Came over me! - - [_Voices within._ DE L’ORIENT _sings_. - - DE L’ORIENT - - _In Ys they did rejoice, - In Ys the wine was free; - The Ocean lent its voice - Unto that revelry!_ - - THE MARQUISE - - Oh, come away! - Let us find the violins and the sun! - There are other woods than Paimpont. Come away! - - [_Exeunt_ DE VARDES _and_ THE MARQUISE. - - YVETTE (_leaves the shadow of the statue_) - - ‘Twas he! That horseman who did waken me - That Saint John’s Eve I strayed in Paimpont Wood! - O Our Lady— - - SÉRAPHINE (_from the statue_) - - Saint Yves! There is bread! - - [YVETTE _takes from the table a loaf of bread and - throws it to_ SÉRAPHINE, _who springs upon it like a - famished wolf_. - - Ah—h—h! - - [_Setting her teeth in the loaf._ - - [YVETTE, _about to lay her hand upon another round of - bread, sees the fan lying upon the cloth. She leaves - the bread and takes up the fan. It opens in her hand._ - - YVETTE - - Oh!— - - [_She sits in the great chair and waves the fan slowly - to and fro._ - - Were I a lady fair and free, - I would powder my hair with dust of gold, - I would clasp a necklace around my throat, - Of jewels rare, and a gown I would wear, - Blue silk like Our Lady of Toute Remède! - My shoes should be made of golden stuff, - And a broidered glove should dress my hand, - My hand so white that a lord might kiss! - I would spin fine flax from a silver wheel, - I would weave a web for my bridal sheets, - I would sing of King Gradlon under the sea, - Were I a lady fair and free! - - _Enter_ GRÉGOIRE. - - SÉRAPHINE (_from the statue_) - - Yvette! - Yvette! - - YVETTE - - Peace, peace! - - GRÉGOIRE - - What have you there? - - YVETTE - - A fan. - So long I’ve wanted one! - - GRÉGOIRE - - A fan, forsooth! - You cannot eat a fan, drink it, wear it! - - YVETTE - - I would look on’t. - One day at Vannes the deputy’s sister - Showed me a fan, but it was not like this! - Oh, not like this with these wreaths of roses, - These painted clouds, this fairy ship! - - GRÉGOIRE - - The price - Would keep a peasant from starvation! - And belike it fell from the lifted hand - Of Madame la Marquise de Blanchefôret! - - [_The fan breaks in_ YVETTE’S _hand_. - - SÉRAPHINE (_leaving the statue_) - - Thou evil-starred! - - YVETTE - - What have I done? - - GRÉGOIRE - - Diantre! - Now you will be beaten as well as hanged! - - YVETTE - - She called us miserable brigands! - - _Enter_ DE VARDES. - - SÉRAPHINE - - Saint Yves! Saint Hervé! Saint Herbot! - - DE VARDES (_to_ GRÉGOIRE) - - Voices? - - GRÉGOIRE - - Monseigneur? - - DE VARDES - - The fan of Madame la Marquise. - - GRÉGOIRE - - Monseigneur? - - DE VARDES (_perceiving_ YVETTE _and_ SÉRAPHINE) - - What will you have, good people? - - SÉRAPHINE - - Saint Guenolé! Saint Thromeur! Saint Sulic!— - He did not see us in the dark last night! - - [DE VARDES _regards them more closely_. - - GRÉGOIRE - - Séraphine Robin—Yvette Charruel— - They are not bad folk, monseigneur! - - SÉRAPHINE - - No, faith! - - [DE VARDES _studies the name written upon a playing - card which he holds in his hand_. - - DE VARDES (_to_ GRÉGOIRE) - - Say to Monsieur the Deputy from Vannes - That I await him here. - - [_Exit_ GRÉGOIRE. DE VARDES _looks intently at_ - YVETTE. - - YVETTE - - It was so beautiful, - The fan—I took it in my hand—it broke! - - SÉRAPHINE - - All that she touches breaks! - - DE VARDES (_to_ YVETTE) - - Wast ever thou - In the Forest of Paimpont? - - YVETTE - - Oh, monseigneur! - Last Eve of Saint John, by the Druid Stone! - - DE VARDES - - Ah!— - - [_He takes the fan from_ YVETTE’S _hand and examines it_. - - Beyond all remedy!—Well, ‘tis done. - Do not tremble so! - - YVETTE - - I tremble not! - - _Enter_ LALAIN. - - SÉRAPHINE (_to_ YVETTE) - - Here’s Monsieur Lalain! - - YVETTE - - I care not, I! - - DE VARDES - - Ah, - Rémond Lalain! - - LALAIN (_stiffly_) - - Monsieur— - - DE VARDES - - A moment, pray, - Until I’ve spoken with these worthy folk! - - LALAIN (_coldly_) - - Monsieur the Baron’s pleasure! - - [_He moves aside, but in passing speaks to_ YVETTE. - - Yvette! Yvette! - - YVETTE - - Monsieur the Deputy? - - LALAIN - - Too fair art thou! - Beware! This is the Seigneur of Morbec! - - YVETTE - - I know. - - LALAIN - - He is the foe of France! - - YVETTE - - I know. - - DE VARDES (_to_ SÉRAPHINE) - - Your business, well? - - SÉRAPHINE (_stammering_) - - Our business, monseigneur?— - Oh, give me help, Saint Yves le Véridique!— - Our business?—Saint Michel!—Well, since we’re here!— - Monseigneur, was the pullet plump and sweet? - - DE VARDES - - The pullet? - - YVETTE - - Our pullet, monseigneur. - - LALAIN - - Distrained for rent! - - SÉRAPHINE - - And Lisette, monseigneur? - May we enquire for Lisette’s health? - - DE VARDES - - Lisette? - - YVETTE - - Our cow, monseigneur. - - LALAIN - - Taken for taxes! - - SÉRAPHINE - - It was the best Lisette! - - YVETTE - - She followed me - Through the green lanes, and o’er the meadows salt. - Her breath was sweet as May! - - DE VARDES - - It would please you - To have your cow again? - - YVETTE - - Oh, monseigneur! - Monseigneur, I’m the herd girl of Morbec! - - LALAIN (_aside_) - - They gaze into each other’s eyes! - - DE VARDES - - What is - Thy name? - - YVETTE - - Yvette. - - SÉRAPHINE - - Ay, ay, ‘tis so!—Yvette. - Called also The Right of the Seigneur!— - - DE VARDES - - The Right of the Seigneur! - - SÉRAPHINE (_nodding_) - - Just so. - - LALAIN (_aside_) - - Recall - Just one of a great seigneur’s privileges! - _Baiser des mariées_, in short, my friend! - - SÉRAPHINE - - O holy Saints! the night that she was born! - The thunder pealed, the sea gave forth a cry, - The forked lightnings played, the winds were out - And in the hut her mother lay and wailed, - And called on all the saints, the while Jehan - (That was her mother’s husband, monseigneur), - He stood and struck his heel against the logs. - Up flew the sparks, for all the wood was drift, - Salt with the sea, and every flame was blue. - I held the babe—Yvette, show monseigneur - The mark beneath the ear! - - YVETTE - - No! - - SÉRAPHINE - - Stubbornness! - ‘Tis there! - - LALAIN - - A birthmark—a small blue flower! - - DE VARDES - - Ah! - - SÉRAPHINE - - Ay! a little mark.—Jehan Charruel! - He was a violent man,—the sea breeds such! - He cursed Yvonne upon her pallet there, - So pale she was, and dying with the tide! - He cursed the saints, the purple mark, the babe, - And some one else I dare not name— - - LALAIN - - I dare! - Henri-Etienne-Amaury de Vardes, - Late Baron of Morbec! - - SÉRAPHINE - - Then out he goes, - A-weeping hard—Jehan—into the night. - Ouf! how it blew!— - The sea ran high, he met it in the dark, - Was drowned! Yvonne went with the ebb. Behold - Yvette! - - [SÉRAPHINE _retreats to the table, where she furtively - drinks from a half-emptied wineglass_. LALAIN _follows - her and the two talk together_. - - DE VARDES - - That purple flower, that violet - By nature limned upon thy slender throat,— - From north to south, from east to west ‘tis known! - A De Vardes bore that mark at Poitiers. - The marshal, Hugues the Fair, and black Arnaud, - The late baron—Why, what hast thou to do - With burning down châteaux to make a light - To show the Morbihan that purple flower? - - YVETTE - - O Our Lady of Thorns! - - DE VARDES - - Herd girl too fair! - And vision of Paimpont, fair as I dreamed! - How fair was thy errand last night? - - YVETTE - - Monseigneur! - - DE VARDES - - In the ashes of Morbec what shouldst thou find? - - YVETTE - - We only wished to make a little light— - A little light to let the neighbours know - That we were hungry! - - DE VARDES - - What neighbours hast thou? - - YVETTE - - Normandy and Maine, Anjou and Poitou, - The sea, the sky, and somewhat far away, - The Club of the Jacobins at Paris. - - DE VARDES - - Thy father was a nobleman of France! - - YVETTE - - I never had a father, monseigneur! - I had a mother, and she loved, they say, - She dearly loved the fisherman Jehan! - When for the dead I pray, I pray for them. - - DE VARDES - - How old art thou? - - YVETTE - - How old? Ah, let me see! - - [_She counts upon her fingers._ - - The year the hailstones fell and killed the wheat; - The year the flax failed and we made no songs; - The year I begged for bread; the bitter year - We buried Louison who died of cold, - And Jacques was hanged who shot the seigneur’s deer; - The Pardon of Sainte Anne I had a gown; - Came Angélique from Paris, told us how - The wicked Queen was smiling, smiling there; - Justine pined away, they shot Michel If, - Down fell the Bastille, I learned _Ça ira_; - The deputy came to the curé’s house, - Beside the deep blue sea I walked with him. - A day there was at Vannes, a glorious day, - When music played, and every banner waved, - And all the folk went mad and rang the bells! - _Vive la Révolution! Vive Mirabeau! - Vive Rémond Lalain!_ I wept when ‘twas o’er, - Last summer was so fair! I wandered far, - One day I wandered through a darksome wood— - ‘Twas on the Eve of good Saint John, I know! - - DE VARDES - - Ah— - - YVETTE - - The summer fled, the light, the warmth did go, - The winter came that was so cruel cold, - Cold as the dead! And hunger, monseigneur, - With bread at the château!—Died Baron Henri.— - The summer came again, the roses bloomed, - The roses bloomed, but they were not for us! - For us the dank seaweed, the thorny furze. - The lark sang well, but ah, it sang too high! - We could not lift our hearts to heaven’s gate; - We only heard the wind moan at our door. - We cried to the saints, but they took no heed! - One told us what they did at Goy and Vannes, - At Goy and Vannes, pardieu! they helped themselves! - We heard there had come a new lord to Morbec, - A soldier and a stranger to us all! - Three days have gone since I did sit alone - Upon the cliff edge in the waving grass; - The mew and curlew cried, the night wind blew, - And in the sunset glow red turned Morbec! - I thought of my mother, I thought of France, - I looked at the château cruel and high, - And as I was hungry I ate my black bread!— - I think, monseigneur, that I am nineteen. - - DE VARDES - - _Pauvre petite!_ - - YVETTE - - Ah, poor indeed! - - DE VARDES - - How dark - Thine eyes! - - YVETTE - - My mother’s were darker, they say! - - DE VARDES - - Thy face is the face of a picture there. - - YVETTE - - I know—the Duchess Jeanne, who died for love. - - DE VARDES - - Did Vivien teach thee magic in the wood? - - YVETTE - - Monseigneur? - - DE VARDES - - _Pauvre petite!_ - - YVETTE - - O Our Lady! - The roses smell so sweet— - - [LALAIN _comes forward_. - - LALAIN - - I pardon crave, - But I must sup to-night at Rennes. Please you, - Release this peasant girl! Affairs there are - Of which I’d speak— - - DE VARDES - - Ay, presently! - - LALAIN - - Now! - - DE VARDES - - Monsieur! - - LALAIN - - Citoyen René-Amaury Vardes— - - DE VARDES - - Is that, monsieur, the latest Paris mode? - _Citoyen René-Amaury Vardes_, - The _De_ left off, our hats (_Glances at_ LALAIN) left on! - - LALAIN (_removing his hat_) - - Monsieur - The Baron of Morbec! - - DE VARDES (_bowing_) - - Monsieur - The Deputy for Vannes! - - [_Laughter and voices within._ - - _Enter from the château_ THE MARQUISE _and_ MLLE. DE - CHÂTEAU-GUI _with_ DE L’ORIENT _and_ DE BUC. - - DE L’ORIENT (_sings_) - - _Then spake the king of Ys - Above the song and shout, - Bring here the golden key - That keeps the ocean out!_ - - THE MARQUISE - - Monsieur le Baron, - My lost fan! - - YVETTE (_aside_) - - Oh me! - - DE VARDES - - Madame la Marquise, - I will give you a fan that’s to my taste; - By Watteau painted, mounted by Laudet, - Fragile and fine, an Adonis of fans! - This that I broke I will keep for myself. - - [_Pockets the fan._ - - Forgive the mere accident! - - YVETTE - - Ah! - - SÉRAPHINE (_from the table_) - - Ah—h—h! - - LALAIN (_aside_) - - Gods! - If _I_ forgive! - - THE MARQUISE - - At Blanchefôret, monsieur, - The Watteau, Laudet, Adonis of fans, - I’ll take from your hand— - - DE VARDES - - I ride there anon, - (_Aside._) But not through the Forest of Paimpont - And not on the Eve of Saint John. - - THE MARQUISE - - Come soon, - My garden is sweetest in June. - - DE L’ORIENT (_sings_) - - _In Ys they sing no more, - In Ys the city old! - The waves are rolling o’er - The king and all his gold._ - - MLLE. DE CHÂTEAU-GUI - - Look at _my_ fan, Monsieur le Baron! - - [LALAIN _crosses to_ YVETTE. - - LALAIN - - Hast thou forgot, hast thou forgot, Yvette, - Thy part, thy lot, the very name they give thee? - This is Morbec, this is the brazen castle! - There are no roses here. - - YVETTE - - So generous - He was! - - LALAIN - - Generous! Oh, well are you called - The Right of the Seigneur! - - YVETTE (_passionately_) - - Give me not that - Detestable name! - - LALAIN - - So meek under wrongs— - - YVETTE - - Oh! - - LALAIN - - So quick to forget— - - YVETTE - - Oh! - - LALAIN - - _La patrie_— - Sworn oaths—the tricolour— - - YVETTE - - Anger me not! - - LALAIN - - On your lips _Ça Ira_! but in your heart - _O Richard, O mon Roi!_ - - YVETTE - - ‘Tis false! - - LALAIN - - And I—and I—Yvette! - - YVETTE - - Speak not to me! - - LALAIN - - You gaze at that man! I tell you he wooes - Madame la Marquise de Blanchefôret! - - [YVETTE _crosses to_ _The Marquise_, DE VARDES, - _and the guests_. - - YVETTE (_to_ THE MARQUISE) - - Madame! - I broke the fan! I would pay if I might. - I would keep your cows, or spin your flax— - - THE MARQUISE - - The fan! - You broke the fan—not monsieur there! - - YVETTE - - No, I! - - THE MARQUISE - - Sainte Geneviève! - - _Enter_ COUNT LOUIS, THE VIDAME, MME. DE VAUCOURT, - _etc._ - - SÉRAPHINE - - Yvette! - - COUNT LOUIS - - La belle Marquise! - - [SÉRAPHINE _draws_ YVETTE _back to the base of the - statue_. COUNT LOUIS, THE MARQUISE, _and the - guests talk together_. LALAIN _crosses to_ DE VARDES. - - LALAIN - - René de Vardes! - - DE VARDES - - Rémond Lalain! - - LALAIN - - This day I bury our friendship of old! - - DE VARDES - - So! - - LALAIN - - I owe to you a thousand louis - Which I’ll repay, monsieur! - - DE VARDES - - I doubt it not. - - LALAIN - - Touch not the girl Yvette! - - DE VARDES - - At last the heart of the matter! I see - You have been through the Forest of Paimpont. - - LALAIN - - Or touch at your peril! - - DE VARDES - - Monsieur! - - LALAIN - - Oh, if - You lay your hand upon your sword, monsieur, - I’m for you there! - - DE VARDES - - Art mad, or drunk with power, - Monsieur the favourite of the Jacobins? - - LALAIN - - There’ll come a day when to be Jacobin - Is something more, monsieur, than to be king! - - DE VARDES - - Indeed! - - [_A Sergeant of Hussars appears on the terrace and - salutes._ - - Sergeant! - - THE SERGEANT - - My Colonel! - - DE VARDES - - Well, your report. - - THE SERGEANT - - My Colonel, wood and shore we’ve searched since dawn, - And twenty bitter rogues we’ve found, no less! - They crouched behind the tall grey stones, or lay - Prone in the furze, or knelt at Calvaries! - Two women remain— - - [_He stares at_ YVETTE _and_ SÉRAPHINE. - - SÉRAPHINE - - O Saint Thégonnec! - Saint Guirec! Saint Servan! - - YVETTE - - O Our Lady! - - _Enter_ THE ABBÉ. - - THE ABBÉ - - De Vardes, your precious peasants— - - [_He sees_ YVETTE. - - Who is here? - The De Méricourt, the mænad, I swear! - Who wounded De Vardes! - - YVETTE - - Oh!— - - MME. DE VAUCOURT - - The Egyptian! - - SÉRAPHINE - - Monseigneur, monseigneur, she’s none of mine! - - MLLE. DE CHÂTEAU-GUI - - The poor girl! - - SÉRAPHINE - - Ah, mademoiselle, it is - The innocentest creature! - - THE ABBÉ (_touches_ YVETTE _upon the cheek_) - - Good-morning, - My dear! - - COUNT LOUIS - - Hm—m—m!—pretty! - - THE VIDAME - - Certainly the gallows - Should be thirty feet high. - - COUNT LOUIS - - Hm—m—m! Something less, - Monsieur le Vidame! - - LALAIN - - Diable! - - DE VARDES (_to the sergeant_) - - Where are your captives? - - THE SERGEANT - - My Colonel, - I have them safely here! Ha! you within! - - [_Enter from the hall of the château soldiers and - huntsmen with peasants, men and women; some - sullenly submissive, others struggling against their - bonds. They crowd the terrace before the great - doors. The guests of_ DE VARDES _to the right and - left upon the terrace, the stairs, and in the garden_. - YVETTE _and_ SÉRAPHINE _beside the statue_; LALAIN - _near them_; DE VARDES _with his hand upon the - great chair_. - - MME. DE VAUCOURT - - Oh, the brigands! - - COUNT LOUIS (_rubbing his hands_) - - Here, Sergeant, range them here, - Upon the terrace! And take the great chair, - De Vardes! Ma foi! We will teach them, the rogues! - Monsieur l’Anglais, have you peasants at home - Plague you at times?—Word of a gentleman! - It seems like old days and Henri again! - - [_The soldiers thrust their prisoners forward with - the butts of their muskets._ - - A MAN - - Monseigneur! - - ANOTHER - - Monseigneur! - - A WOMAN - - Madame la Marquise! - My father was your father’s foster brother! - - THE MARQUISE - - Is that a reason you should burn châteaux? - - A YOUNG WOMAN - - Where’s Yvette Charruel? - - YVETTE - - Here, Angélique! - - SÉRAPHINE (_aside to_ ANGÉLIQUE) - - Of course! Betray the girl! I knew you would. - - AN OLD WOMAN - - Yvette said God would have mercy! I faint— - - DE VARDES (_to_ GRÉGOIRE) - - Give her wine! - - A PEASANT - - See! There is Rémond Lalain! - - LALAIN - - Patience, compatriot! Thursday I speak - In the Jacobins! - - ANGÉLIQUE - - Ah, monseigneur! - Ah, monseigneur, there’s she who led us here! - There’s she who said the shadow of Morbec - Blackened the land as sin blackens the soul! - - THE GUESTS - - Ah!— - - ANGÉLIQUE - - That same Yvette, who said, monseigneur, - That delving the earth, the peasants of France - In a long age had delved up a thought! - - THE GUESTS - - Ah!— - - ANGÉLIQUE - - She said that we were never born to starve! - She said the seigneur’s dues were all _infâme_! - - THE GUESTS - - Ah!— - - THE VIDAME - - Burn the witch! - - DE VARDES - - Have you done? - - ANGÉLIQUE - - Monseigneur, - She said the forest deer, the hare, the birds, - Were just as much the peasant’s as the lord’s! - - THE ENGLISHMAN - - What? What? - - ANGÉLIQUE - - She said the saints they wished no tithes! - - THE ABBÉ - - I give her up! - - ANGÉLIQUE - - Monseigneur, monseigneur, - She said that all our hope was the tricolour! - - DE BUC - - O lilies of Bourbon! - - SÉRAPHINE (_to_ ANGÉLIQUE) - - Thou little beast! - - ANGÉLIQUE (_shrilly_) - - Yvette said bitter hunger, cold, and want - Came with _noblesse_ and with _noblesse_ would go! - Yvette said the Queen was an Austrian! - Yvette said the King was a fainéant! - Yvette said the princes were traitors! - Yvette said the armies would turn to us! - Yvette heard the drums of the Republic! - - THE GUESTS - - Out! - - COUNT LOUIS - - Enough! - - SÉRAPHINE - - Thou hellicat! - - A PEASANT - - Monseigneur! - Saint Yves le Véridique knows it is truth! - She ever rings the tocsin in our hearts! - - ANOTHER - - Yvette Charruel! - - A WOMAN - - She led us here! - - ANOTHER WOMAN - - Yvette! - Yvette Charruel! - - ANGÉLIQUE - - Yvette?— - - [_Several of the women laugh._ - - DE VARDES - - Why, you are all cowards! - - SÉRAPHINE - - So they are, monseigneur, so they are! - - DE VARDES (_to the peasants_) - - Who speaks for you? - - [_A silence._ - - THE PEASANTS - - Monseigneur—monseigneur— - - [_They break off._ DE VARDES _stands waiting for - them to speak, his hand upon the chair_. - - AN OLD WOMAN - - Yvette— - - AN OLD MAN - - Yvette— - - THE PEASANTS - - Monseigneur— - - [_They break off. They make a sighing sound. The - old woman begins to say her beads._ - - YVETTE - - Monseigneur, - They are so hungry! Monseigneur, ‘tis said - You are a soldier and have been to war! - Oh, to us all there comes one battle-field - When we must look into a conqueror’s eyes! - Think then upon that last dark plain and show - Mercy to us who in the shadow stand! - We are your enemies! - - DE BUC - - Faith of an officer! - De Vardes— - - YVETTE - - The children are crying at home, - Monseigneur! - - A WOMAN - - O Sainte Vierge, have pity! - - YVETTE - - With bowed heads the old men wait! - - A WOMAN - - Oh, my father! - - YVETTE - - The young men hear the ravens crying! - - THE PEASANTS - - Aie!— - - YVETTE - - The nets are dry, the red sails laid away, - And all the boats lie idle by the shore. - - A FISHERMAN - - Star of the Sea! Pray for poor fisherfolk! - - A PEASANT - - I left my sickle in the standing corn. - - YVETTE - - The wheat must fall, the flax be gathered soon, - Or else we’ll sing no songs in Morbihan! - - THE PEASANTS - - Aie! The songs of the _diskanerien_! - - YVETTE - - The hearths are cold and the wheels turn not, - And Hunger sits on every doorstep! - - THE PEASANTS - - Aie!— - - YVETTE - - To-morrow is the Pardon of the Birds. - The birds go free—the birds go free, monseigneur! - - DE BUC - - And so I swear should you! - - THE PEASANTS - - The birds go free! - - A WOMAN - - My little bird at home! - - THE MARQUISE - - Give her, monsieur, - Another fan to break! - - YVETTE - - Not one of yours, - Madame la Marquise! - - DE VARDES (_to the sergeant_) - - Give them liberty. - - THE SERGEANT - - My Colonel? - - DE VARDES - - Cut their bonds; set them free! - Make way for them there! - (_To the peasants._) Peasants of Morbec! - Last night you rose against your lord and strove - To burn his house, to slay his guest and him. - How shall he speak to you to-day? Poor fools! - Distraught and blind you struck ere that you looked, - And struck at one who fain would be your friend, - Who has his vision of a seigneur’s right! - These are the towers of Morbec, but I - Am not Baron Henri, blind that ye are! - I am Baron René, remember my name. - Bread you shall have, I will think of your wrongs. - No foe am I! There are the open doors. - Back to the village go! but look you well. - Mistake no more, it will be dangerous! - Creep not this way again in the dark night, - Or you may meet an ancient Lord of Morbec! - More loyal grow, cease all your traitorous talk, - Raise not Rebellion’s head or it will find - A soldier of the King with armèd heel! - Mistake no more! This once I pardon you. - Begone! The fields await you and the wind - Sits fair for Quiberon! Begone. - (_To_ YVETTE _and_ SÉRAPHINE.) Stay! - - [_The peasants press in confusion toward the doors - of the château._ - - THE PEASANTS - - Live Baron René! - - LALAIN - - O Breton fools!—Yvette! - - [YVETTE _does not answer. She looks at_ DE VARDES. - - THE MARQUISE (_with strained laughter_) - - High justice at Morbec! - - THE VIDAME - - Mille diables! - The wretches all go free! - - COUNT LOUIS - - Is this Morbec? - Mort de ma vie! What is it that you do, - Monsieur le Baron de Morbec? - - DE VARDES - - My pleasure, - Monsieur le Comte de Château-Gui, upon - My peasants of Morbec! - - _CURTAIN_ - -[Illustration] - -[Illustration] - - - - - _ACT II_ - - - _The garden of the Convent of the Visitation at Nantes. Long lines - of fruit trees which appear to sleep in the sunshine. In the - middle of the garden a stone fountain, where rises and falls a - little jet of water. To the left the white buildings of the - convent; in the background, between the convent and the street, a - high garden wall, the tops of trees, and the roof and spire of a - church. There is a barred door in the wall. The doors and windows - of the convent parlour giving upon the garden are open. It is the - summer of 1792._ - - _A nun appears for a moment at the door of the convent, then - vanishes, and_ DE VARDES _and_ YVETTE _enter the garden_. - - DE VARDES - - What hast thou learned to-day? - - YVETTE - - In history: - The battles of Rossbach and of Minden! - The Peace of Paris— - - DE VARDES - - Indeed! - - YVETTE - - Philosophy: - Man is born free—but who will break his chains? - - DE VARDES - - It is a question truly! - - YVETTE - - Theology: - God is the father of us all—and yet - I think I know how feels an orphan child! - - DE VARDES - - Defeat of France, Rousseau, and Modern Doubt! - And hast thou learnt all this in convent walls? - - YVETTE - - No! - - DE VARDES - - They are good to thee, the Sisters all? - - YVETTE - - Monseigneur, yes! - - DE VARDES - - When I did place thee here - After that day thou didst not burn Morbec! - I gave the Reverend Mother straitest charge,— - This convent oweth much to the De Vardes. - They have enriched it oft, and it in turn - Refuge hath given unto noble dames. - Oft did she sit beside the fountain there, - That Duchess Jeanne whose look thou wearest now! - - YVETTE - - Oh!— - - DE VARDES - - How mournfully thou sighest! Yet - How glorious are thine eyes this lovely day! - Thou’rt well, and thou art happy, art thou not? - - YVETTE - - There is no hunger here, no cold, no care! - I ever wished to learn and here I learn, - Here where the Duchess Jeanne did sit forlorn,— - And then I pray within the chapel there, - And then I count the stars as they are lit,— - And then I think of all the lights of Nantes! - - DE VARDES - - It hath been many days I’ve been away, - To Morbec and to Vannes and to Vitré. - - YVETTE - - I thought that thou wouldst never come again! - - DE VARDES - - Didst think the night had ceased to long for day? - Didst think the tide no more obeyed the moon? - The reed no longer bowed unto the wind? - - YVETTE - - Ah, do not jest!—There’s blood upon thy coat! - - DE VARDES - - ‘Tis nothing!—We have had hard words to-day, - My men and I! - - [_He gazes around at the quiet garden._ - - O holy peace! O balm! - O green and sunny quietude! Outside - There’s tumult, heat, confusion, enmity! - Here is a haven, here ‘tis blissful sweet! - - [_They sit upon the marge of the fountain._ - - All is dismay and doubt in France to-day. - With troubled eyes men question destiny! - Outside I front the storm as best I may, - But here is anchorage profound and fair— - There fruit trees drifting bloom, this fountain marge! - - YVETTE - - I better love the wild and desolate shore! - - DE VARDES - - What is that ribbon closed within thy hand? - - [_Yvette opens her hand and shows a ribbon cockade._ - - The tricolour! - - YVETTE - - Wilt thou not wear it? - - DE VARDES - - No! - - YVETTE - - It was my favour—Fare you well, monsieur! - - DE VARDES - - I might not wear that ribbon, no, not if - It were thy favour truly, Vivien! - Ah, when will cease this discord of our minds? - Wilt thou forever be a Jacobin? - - [_A distant bugle, followed by a roll of drums and - martial music._ - - YVETTE - - _Aux armes, Citoyens! - Formez vos bataillons!_ - - DE VARDES - - Where learned’st thou the Marseillaise? - - YVETTE - - ‘Tis in the air! Oh, on these moonlight nights - I dream of France and how he spoke to me - Of all the wrongs of France we should redress! - - DE VARDES - - Who spoke to thee? - - YVETTE - - Rémond Lalain. - - DE VARDES - - Rémond Lalain was once my closest friend. - He travels now a dark and winding way! - - YVETTE - - Where is she now, that lady bright and fair - Who’s named La Belle Marquise in Morbihan? - - DE VARDES - - She is in Nantes. - - YVETTE - - Ah!—Is she not fair? - - DE VARDES - - Most fair. - - YVETTE - - And nobly born? - - DE VARDES - - And nobly born. - - YVETTE - - Alas! - - _Enter_ SISTER BENEDICTA. - - SISTER BENEDICTA - - Monsieur le Baron de Morbec,— - A courier, in haste, foam-flecked and spent, - Demands to speak with you. - - DE VARDES - - What tidings now? - Ill news like ravens to a cumbered field! - I come, my Sister! - (_To_ Yvette.) I’ll return. - - [_Exeunt_ DE VARDES _and_ SISTER BENEDICTA. - - YVETTE - - Alas! - She is in Nantes! He sees her every day. - What is this pain that’s tearing at my heart? - - [_Laughing voices of young girls. Enter from the - convent_ SISTER FIDELIS _and_ SISTER SIMPLICIA - _with a cluster of young girls, pupils of the nuns or - refugees from Royalist families. They seat themselves - upon the wide steps of the fountain._ YVETTE - _leans against the basin and plays in the water with - her hand_. - - A YOUNG GIRL (_to_ YVETTE) - - We’re telling stories! - - ANOTHER - - Finish thine, Louise! - - LOUISE - - ‘Tis told. The beau prince wed the belle princesse, - And they lived happily ever after! - - A YOUNG GIRL - - Whose turn now? - - ANOTHER - - Tell us a story, Yvette! - - YVETTE (_turning from the fountain_) - - _Beneath the halfway tree, - ‘Tween Josselin and Pontivy, - Suddenly, out of the dark, - I heard a grey wolf bark! - Hoée! Hoée! Hoée!_ - - _The snow was on the ground, - The shadows all around, - Laid a finger on my lip, - As I stood, hand on hip, - Listening the grey wolf bark. - Hoée! Hoée! Hoée! - Beneath the halfway tree, - ‘Tween Josselin and Pontivy!_ - - _A little child came by. - “Yvette, the wolf is nigh! - Yvette, take thou me up, - I’ve neither bite nor sup!” - Hoée! Hoée! Hoée!_ - - _The child came to my arm. - He was so fair and warm! - The child came to my arm, - I kept him safe from harm! - Hoée! Hoée! Hoée!_ - - _A light grew round his head, - I felt all cheered and fed. - “Yvette, have thou no fear! - Who giveth aid, to me is dear!” - Hoée! Hoée! Hoée! - The child no longer pressed, - White snow lay on my breast!_ - - _The grey wolf ran away, - Hoée! Hoée! Hoée! - There broke a splendid day, - Beneath the halfway tree, - ‘Tween Josselin and Pontivy!_ - - SISTER FIDELIS - - A miracle? - - YVETTE - - I do not know. - - A YOUNG GIRL - - I liked best - The beau prince and the belle princesse. - - ANOTHER GIRL - - Oh, - Thou’rt an Aristocrat! - - [_The young girls return to their embroidery._ YVETTE - _plays in the water of the fountain with her hand_. - - YVETTE - - Gold fish, gold fish, - How are the fish of Quiberon? - - A YOUNG GIRL - - Were I - A fairy prince, then my princess should be - Madame la Marquise de Blanchefôret! - - ANOTHER - - If I - Were a princess, I would have for my prince - Monsieur le Baron de Morbec. - - [YVETTE _turns from the fountain_. - - A THIRD GIRL - - They say - That in all France there’s none more brave than he! - And far and near she’s called La Belle Marquise! - A little while and there’ll a wedding be! - - THE FIRST - - But then, the poor Yvette! He is, you know, - Her prince! - - [_They laugh._ - - YVETTE - - Oh, mockery! - - SISTER FIDELIS - - Hush, children, hush! - Monsieur le Baron is her benefactor! - - SISTER SIMPLICIA - - He plucked her from the dreadful world outside! - - SISTER FIDELIS - - He placed her here beneath Our Lady’s care. - - SISTER SIMPLICIA - - In everything he is her truest friend! - - SISTER FIDELIS - - But for his condescension, ah, who knows - What in these fearful days might be her lot! - Here in this fold she’s safe. - - YVETTE (_aside_) - - Alas! alas! - - A YOUNG GIRL - - Oh, she is fairer than the fairy queen! - Clarice de Miramand and Blanchefôret! - - YVETTE (_aside_) - - Is she so fair? Is she so fair indeed? - I broke her fan—now she will break my heart! - - A YOUNG GIRL - - He is a knight like Lancelot! - - YVETTE - - Oh me! - She is the Queen, she is that Guinevere! - - [_Distant music. The noise of footsteps and voices in - the street beyond the wall._ - - A YOUNG GIRL - - Oh, outside the wall what is there passing? - - SISTER FIDELIS (_severely_) - - We have nothing to do with outside the wall. - - A YOUNG GIRL (_indicating the door in the wall_) - - Might we open the door a little way? - - SISTER FIDELIS - - The blessed saints forbid! - - [_From the street are heard the drums and fifes of - passing National troops. The bayonets of the soldiers - are visible above the wall._ - - VOICES (_in the street_) - - _Allons, enfants de la patrie, - Le jour de gloire est arrivé!_ - - A YOUNG GIRL - - Oh, soldiers! - - ANOTHER - - Were the wall only down! - - [_The circle about the fountain breaks. The young - girls walk up and down beneath the trees. The Sisters - watch them from a garden bench. The music - dies away._ YVETTE _sits upon the stone marge of the - fountain_. - - YVETTE - - What is this pain that’s tearing at my heart? - What matters it to me whom he doth love? - And what concern of mine that she is fair? - I would she were not so!—Oh, misery! - She is in Nantes, she is La Belle Marquise! - I would that she were dead! - - [_The chapel bell rings._ - - O Seigneur Dieu! - Her death! I do not wish her death! Not I! - O Our Lady! let not ill thoughts possess me! - I would I were at Morbec this still eve, - Herding the cows amid the golden broom, - Above a sea of glass without a wind, - As stagnant calm as is this prisoned water! - I would gather the musk rose in the lane, - I would tread the wet sand and count the ships, - My brow would not burn, my heart would not ache, - No tears from my eyes would I wipe away! - Why should they not fall like the winter rain? - I am the herd girl here as at Morbec, - And she’s a great lady, loved for herself! - O love! is it love that stifles me so? - O love! is it love that makes me weep? - I thought that love was all splendour and light, - The bow in the sky, the bird at its height, - The glory and state of an angel bright! - What is this pain that burdens all my heart? - - [_She bows her head upon her knees. The hum of the - street deepens to a continuous and sinister sound. - In the distance a roll of drums._ YVETTE _raises her - head_. - - I sit by this fountain, he’ll not return! - He cares not for me,—he’s the Sieur de Morbec, - And I a herd girl wandering through his fields! - Mother, my mother, did you sit and wait, - By the wild sea rim on a glowing eve, - Mid the brown seaweed on the shining sands? - Your heart did it beat, and your senses swim?— - But your lover, the fisher, he came, he came! - - [_The voice of the street deepens._ - - I will not have this pain! I’ll tear it out! - - [_Her hand touches the purple mark on her throat._ - - Ha! how burns this hateful mark to-day! - - [_There comes from the church towers of Nantes a - sudden and violent crash of bells._ - - SISTER FIDELIS (_rising_) - - The tocsin! - - THE YOUNG GIRLS (_They flutter forward to the - fountain_) - - The tocsin! Oh, the tocsin! - Like a hive of bees hums the street without! - - YVETTE - - Oh, all ye iron bells! ring on! ring on! - - _Enter_ MLLE. DE CHÂTEAU-GUI _and_ SISTER BENEDICTA. - - THE YOUNG GIRLS - - Here is Mademoiselle de Château-Gui! - She’ll tell us why the bells are ringing! - - MLLE. DE CHÂTEAU-GUI - - O Ciel! - Would you believe it? O blessed saints above! - The country is in danger! - - A YOUNG GIRL - - Oh! we thought - You brought us news! - - MLLE. DE CHÂTEAU-GUI (_joyously_) - - Do you not hear the bells? - Oh, such a day outside! It is proclaimed! - _La patrie est en danger!_ - - [_Distant trumpets._ - - Well you may wail, - You brazen trumpets of the Revolution! - The Duke of Brunswick he is marching now, - And with him all our nobles back from Coblentz! - O bliss! _La patrie est en danger!_ - - SISTER FIDELIS - - Oh, hush! - The very walls have ears! - - MLLE. DE CHÂTEAU-GUI - - My father says - The King shall have his own again, and all - Will go as merry as a wedding bell! - _La patrie est en danger!_ - - _Enter_ COUNT LOUIS, MELIPARS DE L’ORIENT, _and the_ - ABBÉ DE BARBASAN. - - Oh, here are - My father and Monsieur de L’Orient! - - DE L’ORIENT - - So sweet the flowers here— - - COUNT LOUIS (_to the young girls_) - - Mesdemoiselles, - One garden of rosebuds time hath not touched! - (_To the Sisters._) In your prayers, my Sisters, name Château-Gui! - - [_The young girls curtesy, then exeunt between the - trees._ YVETTE _remains beside the fountain_. COUNT - LOUIS _looks at her through his glass_. - - Ha! - - DE L’ORIENT - - The herd girl of Morbec! - - COUNT LOUIS - - I have eyes, - De L’Orient! - - THE ABBÉ - - Hm!—Fair child! - - YVETTE (_coldly_) - - Citoyen! - - MLLE. DE CHÂTEAU-GUI - - Monsieur de L’Orient, you promised me - My father should not walk abroad to-day! - - DE L’ORIENT - - What could I do? He is so young and rash! - - COUNT LOUIS (_taking snuff_) - - ‘Tis true that Nantes is dangerous to-day - To all save those wild beasts the sans-culottes! - But that’s no reason I should stay at home. - Where is De Vardes? His man said he was here. - It is his wont, pardieu! - - SISTER FIDELIS - - Monsieur le Comte, - Monsieur the Baron of Morbec did come - To see that all was well with this our charge— - A peasant girl, monsieur, whom he did save - From cold and hunger and ill company. - But now she prospers and we think that he - Will come no more. - - YVETTE - - Jesu Maria! - - COUNT LOUIS (_with satisfaction_) - - Ma foi! - He is a soldier is De Vardes! He camps - One day beside the hedgerow in the field! - The next he’s for some royal mount of love, - High as the snow and splendid in the sun! - Since he’s not here I know where else he is! - - DE L’ORIENT (_sings_) - - _Mignonne, Mignonne! - Kiss me, rose of to-day!_ - - YVETTE - - O heart! O world! O hedgerow in the field! - - COUNT LOUIS - - Well, well, her mother was as fair as she! - Clarice de Miramand, long-dead Clarice! - Her hair was golden too.—Old times, old times! - And now it is De Vardes and the Marquise! - - [COUNT LOUIS, MLLE. DE CHÂTEAU-GUI, _and_ DE - L’ORIENT _walk up and down beneath the trees_. DE - L’ORIENT _sings_. - - DE L’ORIENT - - _Mignonne, Mignonne! - The red rose fades away! - Mignonne, Mignonne! - The white rose will not stay!_ - - THE ABBÉ - - My dear, that is a pretty wrist of thine! - - YVETTE - - Citoyen! - - THE ABBÉ - - Hast said thy rosary to-day? - - YVETTE - - Citoyen! - - THE ABBÉ - - A melting eye! - - YVETTE - - Citoyen! - - THE ABBÉ - - Dame! She is only good to burn châteaux! - - [_He joins_ COUNT LOUIS, _etc. They walk and talk - beneath the trees._ - - YVETTE - - The high of heart bide no man’s scorning! I - Will break these bonds! I will be free! I will! - O royal mount of love, snow-high, sun-kissed, - Kissed by the sun which once did shine on me! - If I am of the fields— - - [_Her hand touches the mark upon her throat. She - laughs._ - - O hated flower, - Which grew beneath no hedgerow on this earth! - Teach me, thou poison blossom, pride of heart! - Where is that Duchess Jeanne whom I am like? - They say for love her heart did rive in twain, - But now she smiles beside a shadowy stream - In some far land where none do die of love! - And where is he, Jehan the fisherman, - Who loved Yvonne, who met the sea and died? - They died for love who should have lived for hate! - I’ll live— - - _Enter_ DE VARDES. COUNT LOUIS, _etc., come forward_. - - Oh, here’s the soldier! Now we’ll know - How blow the winds around the camp of love! - - COUNT LOUIS - - What is it, René de Vardes? What is it, man? - - DE VARDES - - The King hath left the Tuileries! The mob - Forced the château and put his life in danger. - The Swiss are murdered, cut down to a man! - The Grenadiers joined with the Marseillaise! - De Maillé writes—the courier’s just arrived— - All is distraction, danger, and despair! - - SISTER FIDELIS - - Alas! - - MLLE. DE CHÂTEAU-GUI - - O Ciel! - - THE ABBÉ - - The soldiers in revolt. - - DE L’ORIENT - - The Swiss all murdered—the stanch Swiss! - - SISTER SIMPLICIA - - Alas! - - COUNT LOUIS - - The King hath left the Tuileries! - - DE VARDES - - To-night - I ride to Paris. - - YVETTE - - O God! - - THE ABBÉ - - To Paris! - As well say that you ride to death, De Vardes! - - COUNT LOUIS - - Ah, were I young again, I’d ride with you! - - SISTER FIDELIS - - Alas, they say it is a fearful place! - - SISTER SIMPLICIA - - It is so safe in Nantes! - - DE VARDES - - Ah, my Sister, - Because it is so safe in Nantes I go! - Once I did love this people; once I thought - Beyond this Revolution lay the morn, - The dewy morn of a most noble day! - It may be so; I know not; but I am - A soldier of the King. Needs must I go, - My bugles call; I’m breaking camp. Farewell! - - SISTER FIDELIS - - You will return. - - DE VARDES - - If I’m in life I will! - - YVETTE - - O Our Lady! O Our Lady! - - [_The noise in the street increases. The tocsin rings. - The sky begins to darken before an approaching - storm._ - - COUNT LOUIS - - Ring on! - Ye bells! ring on to the deaf sky! O France, - Of old thou wast a pleasant land and free, - In palace and in field a courteous place! - Now thou art desolate! Come, Austria, come! - Come, D’Artois, come, Brunswick, and come, Provence! - Rend the tricolour from the breast of France - And plant the fleur-de-lis where stood the Jacobins! - - VOICES (_from the street_) - - _Quoi! ces cohortes étrangères - Feraient la loi dans nos foyers!_ - - MLLE. DE CHÂTEAU-GUI - - Hast said farewell to the Marquise? - - DE VARDES - - Not yet, - As far as Vannes I ride beside her coach. - - YVETTE - - Oh!— - - MLLE. DE CHÂTEAU-GUI - - Soon or late, she’ll draw you back to Nantes! - Now will she not? - - DE VARDES (_smiling_) - - Perhaps. - - YVETTE - - Jesu Maria! - - SISTER FIDELIS - - Monsieur, if you must go, oh, rest you sure - Jealously will we guard and spotless keep - The soul you stooped and drew from the foul mire!— - Yvette, come make your reverence to your lord! - - YVETTE - - I kiss your hand, monseigneur! - - THE ABBÉ - - There will be - A storm to-night! - - COUNT LOUIS - - Come, come, René de Vardes! - I’d see the courier who brought this news! - - DE VARDES - - I’ll follow you, Monsieur le Comte! - - [_Exeunt_ COUNT LOUIS, _his daughter_, DE L’ORIENT, - THE ABBÉ, _and the Sisters_. - - YVETTE - - Wilt thou go? - - DE VARDES - - I must. - - YVETTE - - Why must thou go? - To-day the kingdom fell! Oh, in the dust - Of old things let it rest for evermore! - Take up the Revolution! - - [_Lightning._ - - Oh, see! - The flaming sword before the gates of Eden! - Thou’rt safe within the garden! Go not forth. - Go not to Paris! Stay in Nantes, ah, stay! - Wear the tricolour— - - [_Thunder._ - - Hark! It is the voice, - The menacing voice of the Republic! - It threatens thee, it threatens all who pass - That flaming sword, to lift the thing that was - And is not any more! Oh, let it lie!— - Thou’lt not to Paris? - - DE VARDES - - To-night, Citoyenne! - Ah, thou art skilful at betraying! - - YVETTE - - Quoi! - - _Enter_ SISTER BENEDICTA. - - SISTER BENEDICTA - - Monsieur le Baron de Morbec, the page - Of Madame la Marquise de Blanchefôret - Attends— - - YVETTE - - Name of a name! - - THE ABBÉ (_appearing in the door behind_ _Sister - Benedicta_) - - De Vardes, De Vardes! - You gather the furze while the red rose waits! - - DE VARDES - - At once, my Sister! - - (_To_ YVETTE.) Ah, not in anger, - Must thou and I part for this little while! - If I’m in life I will return, be sure, - To Nantes and all this garden loveliness, - Those fruit trees and this fountain!—Fare thee well. - The nuns will care for thee; I’ve ordered all. - Too fierce of aspect is the world without! - Here is fair peace, security, and calm; - Here thou art fenced from storm and violence. - Abide thou here until I come again! - - [_Lightning._ - - YVETTE - - The flaming sword! - - DE VARDES - - Hearest thou not, Yvette, - How sings the lark in Paimpont Wood to-day? - - YVETTE - - I hear the dirge of the salt sea! - - DE VARDES - - And there, - Seest thou not through yonder trees the stone, - The Druid Stone where thou didst lie in sleep? - - YVETTE - - I see a broken fan! - - DE VARDES - - Abide thou here - And dream of Paimpont Wood until I come. - I too will dream, I too will dream, Yvette! - - YVETTE - - Is not Clarice a lovely name? - - DE VARDES - - Why, yes, - A very lovely name.—Farewell, farewell! - I’ll see thy face, be sure, this very night, - Upon the road before me as I ride. - - YVETTE - - Oh, fare you well beneath the silver moon - As slow you ride beside a lady’s coach, - Discoursing of the dazzling, snowy heights! - I kiss your hand, monseigneur! Fare you well! - - [THE ABBÉ’S _voice is heard from the doorway_. - - THE ABBÉ - - De Vardes! De Vardes! - - DE VARDES - - I come! - - THE ABBÉ - - The rose awaits!— - - YVETTE - - It is too much! - - DE VARDES - - Farewell, thou spirit of Paimpont! - - [_Distant music._ - - YVETTE - - Ah, ah! ‘tis worth all else—the Marseillaise! - - DE VARDES - - My Duchess Jeanne— - - YVETTE - - She is dead: cold and dead! - - _Aux armes, Citoyens! - Formez vos bataillons!_ - - DE VARDES - - Perverse and strange! - - YVETTE - - I’ll to my beads. Adieu! - - _Over Ys, the sunken town, - When thou sailest look not down, - Mariner, mariner!_ - - DE VARDES - - What wine hast thou drunken? - - YVETTE - - An old wine— - - _For there dwells a fairy there - Will drag thee down by the long hair, - Mariner, mariner!_ - - DE VARDES - - Oh, thou art too wilful! - - THE ABBÉ - - De Vardes! De Vardes! - - YVETTE (_to the fish in the fountain_) - - Gold fish, gold fish, how are the fish of Quiberon? - - DE VARDES - - Thou sullen witch, adieu! - - [_Exit_ DE VARDES. - - YVETTE - - Monseigneur! ah! - He’s gone! He’s gone to meet the fairy queen! - He’s for the roses and the dazzling peaks! - The seaweed and the furze he’s left behind! - He’s left the storm, he’s left the storm and me! - - [_The convent bell rings._ - - Toll, toll! as though thou’d toll my soul away! - Thou canst not toll him back! Oh, woe is me! - - [_The nuns sing in the chapel._ - - VOICES - - _O salutaris Hostia! - Quae coeli pandis ostium: - Bella premunt hostilia, - Da robur fer auxilium!_ - - [_Above the wall where it is shadowed by a fruit - tree, appear the head and shoulders of_ LALAIN. _He - draws himself up to the coping, watches_ YVETTE - _for a moment, then swings himself down to the garden. - He has a rose in his hand._ - - YVETTE - - Where is the sunshine gone? Where is the gold? - It was a lovely day! ‘Tis cold and dead; - No light, no warmth, no cheer!—Oh, presently - Those two will take the summer road to Vannes! - Ha! does he think that I will meekly stay - Within this convent close, will kneel and pray, - Day in, day out, for all true lovers’ weal? - What is there now to do?—O Jealousy! - I dream of Paimpont Wood in June! I’ll dream - Of sunlit peaks, of roses named Clarice; - I’ll dream of furze that’s set about with thorns - And clings unto the common earth which bore it! - - [_A roll of thunder._ - - On, on! It suits my mood, the crashing sound!— - Jehan the fisherman! rise from the sea, - Lay thy cold hand upon the heart of her - Who’s not thy child, and teach her how to hate! - Yvonne who parted from the earth one night, - Come through the storm that darkens overhead - And teach thy daughter how to hate! Thou too, - Thou other one, thou seigneur high and grand - Whose signet burns upon my aching throat, - Whose nature stirs within me suddenly, - Arise from hell and teach me how to hate! - - [_Thunder._ - - VOICES FROM THE CHAPEL - - _Tantum ergo sacramentum - Veneremur cernui_— - - YVETTE - - O Our Lady! O Our Lady! O Our Lady! - - [LALAIN _throws the rose. It falls beside_ YVETTE. - - Oh!— - - [_She raises the flower to her lips._ LALAIN _comes - forward_. - - Thou! I thought it was—I thought it was. - Go! No rose of thine would I have kissed, - Rémond Lalain! - - [_With a wild petulance she throws down the flower - and treads upon it._ - - LALAIN - - Now for that deed of thine - I will not spare him when the day is mine! - - YVETTE - - Of whom speakest thou? - - LALAIN - - The Citoyen Vardes. - - YVETTE - - Let him be! - - LALAIN - - The Citoyenne Blanchefôret. - - YVETTE - - Again! - - LALAIN - - ‘Tis said the two will shortly wed— - A fitting match!—She’s fair and nobly born. - Thou mightst have seen, thou mightst have seen last night, - Walking by moonlight beside the Loire, - A lady the fairest and a great lord! - - YVETTE - - Say’st thou? - - LALAIN - - Beneath the trees, beside the flood, - Toying and whispering, the sword and fan! - - YVETTE - - Out and alas! Begone, thou torturer! - - LALAIN - - Oh, those old days when by the shore we walked - While sank the sun beneath the emerald waves, - And wild sea birds flashed all their silver wings, - And long we talked of France and liberty! - How thou art tamed, Yvette, Yvette Charruel! - Thou carest not now for France and liberty! - - YVETTE - - It is not true! Thou knowest that I care! - - LALAIN - - This sultry night I speak to patriot hearts - Of War, Dumouriez, Brunswick, Capet! - All Nantes will throng to hear me where I stand, - In the Church of Saint Jean, who’s now become, - From crypt to spire, one mighty Jacobin! - High in the gilt tribune beneath the roof, - The starry roof where the archangels live! - Faces me Michael with his flaming sword, - And Raphael watches me with widened eyes, - And Gabriel frowns between his splendid wings - Because there’s no more incense! When I speak, - The painted walls all vanish like a mist! - On distant plains the drum begins to beat, - The great dome lifts—above the angel heads - I see the stars— - - YVETTE - - There are no stars to-night! - - LALAIN - - There are! There are! Eternally they shine - Beyond this din, beyond these sulphurous clouds! - And there’s a stairway, red and white and blue, - By which to climb to some most famous star - Of glory and of love! Yvette! Yvette! - Climb thou with me unto that golden star! - - YVETTE - - Rémond Lalain— - - LALAIN - - Come thou with me, Yvette! - Come thou with me from out this sluggish place! - Come thou with me into the furious storm! - What dost thou here, thou spirit of the wind, - Restless, with deep eyes and with parted lips? - Thou knowest thou hast naught to do with holy things. - Tear off that white headdress! Red is thy colour! - - YVETTE - - Ay, red is my colour! - - LALAIN - - Last night, the while - I spake of War and all the place was still, - A sudden vision blazed above the lights— - I saw thee dance the Carmagnole! - - YVETTE - - Now, now! - What whispers he to her upon the road? - - LALAIN - - To-night—ah, should I raise my eyes to-night - And see thee smiling there, Yvette, Yvette! - Beside thy sisters in the galleries! - Upon thy twilight hair the bonnet-rouge, - At thy small waist a pistol and a dirk— - Only the Revolution in thy soul - And in thy heart my name, my name, Yvette! - - [_Thunder._ - - It thunders now, but ‘twill be clear to-night. - The moon will shine, the roads will all be white. - - YVETTE - - The roads will all be white, the moon will shine, - The poplars quiver and the eglantine, - The broom and honeysuckle will be sweet, - Upon the road to Vannes— - - [_Lightning and thunder._ LALAIN _walks to the door - in the wall, tries it, then with a stone from the - ground beats back the rusty bolt_. - - LALAIN - - An easy door! - - YVETTE - - The moon will shine— - - LALAIN - - I’ll go this way, ma foi! - Not by the wall! - - YVETTE - - The silver poplars sway! - - LALAIN - - René de Vardes, once I did call thee friend - And took a deal of pride in that possession! - How runs the world away! ‘Twas long ago! - - YVETTE - - Ah, ah, that fearful dream I had last night! - And while I dreamed they walked beside the Loire! - - LALAIN - - This night he rides away. Didst know? - - YVETTE - - I knew! - - LALAIN - - He’s said farewell to thee, but not to her! - - YVETTE - - Wilt thou begone! - - LALAIN - - Ay, through this door, Yvette! - ‘Tis easy, as thou seest. And ah, to-night— - The storm o’er past and shining bright the moon - And the cold nuns all telling o’er their beads, - How simple ‘twere—O priceless liberty! - Thou wouldst not be the only one, I trow, - Who may not walk beside the silver Loire! - - YVETTE - - Name of a name! - - LALAIN - - Adieu, adieu! To-night - I’ll see thee sitting in the galleries— - - [_Exit_ LALAIN. - - YVETTE - - Ah, how the thunder shakes the air! - - [_She moves to the door in the wall and replaces the - bolt, then returns to the fountain._ - - ‘Tis so! - He is her lover! Oh, he loves her true!— - What will they say and whisper all the night - Through light and shadow on the road to Vannes? - Despair!—But I’ll not stay within these walls! - - [_Knocking at the door in the wall._ YVETTE _crosses - the stage to the door_. - - Who is there? - - SÉRAPHINE (_within_) - - Yvette! Yvette! - - YVETTE - - Séraphine! - - SÉRAPHINE (_within_) - - And Nanon too! - - YVETTE - - The deputy’s sister! - - NANON - - Let us in! - - YVETTE - - I dare not. - - SÉRAPHINE - - What! - - YVETTE - - Wait: I dare! - - [_She draws the bolts. The door opens. Enter_ SÉRAPHINE - _and_ NANON. _The former is dressed in complete - carmagnole: short skirt, rolled-up sleeves, sash - of tricolour, and a bonnet-rouge. Pistols at her belt._ - NANON _is more soberly attired but wears the bonnet-rouge. - The door closes behind them._ - - Séraphine! - - SÉRAPHINE - - Chérie! - - YVETTE - - Nanon! - - NANON - - Dear Yvette! - - YVETTE - - How gay you are! What of the Revolution? - - SÉRAPHINE - - It goes. - - NANON - - It goes well. - - SÉRAPHINE - - We have a new song! - Faith! ‘Tis a greater song than _Ça Ira_! - - YVETTE (_sings_) - - _Aux armes, Citoyens! - Formez vos bataillons!_ - - SÉRAPHINE - - That’s it! - - NANON (_looking about her_) - - So very triste it is in here! - - SÉRAPHINE - - So gay outside! All Nantes is dressed in red! - There’s a procession, and then to-night - We sit in the galleries to hear Lalain! - - [_Distant music._ - - Hark to the fife! _Formez vos bataillons!_— - And your feet keep not time to the music! - - YVETTE - - But my heart, Séraphine, my heart keeps time. - - SÉRAPHINE - - Ho! Your heart is in barracks, says Céleste. - - YVETTE - - Céleste! - - NANON - - And Angélique. - - YVETTE - - Angélique! - - SÉRAPHINE - - Faith! - - Angélique is in feather now you’re gone! - Cries _Vive la République!_ here in Nantes. - Rides on the cannon and handles a pike; - Thinks she’s in Paris and plays Théroigne, - And high from the galleries applauds Lalain! - - NANON - - He thinks not of her; he thinks of Yvette! - - YVETTE - - I care not of whom he thinks! - - SÉRAPHINE - - On a fête day, - In a car triumphal see her appear! - Dressed like a goddess just down from the skies, - All crowned with green oak leaves, borne shoulder high— - - YVETTE - - Angélique! - - SÉRAPHINE (_nodding_) - - Ah, you see you are not there! - But between you and me, red does not become her! - - YVETTE - - I should think not!—little blonde! - - SÉRAPHINE - - Ah, but red - Becomes you! - - YVETTE - - Yes! - - SÉRAPHINE - - Monseigneur’s gone from Nantes. - Yes, faith! I saw him ride away— - - YVETTE - - He’s gone! - Rememb’rest thou that lady fair and proud, - Madame la Marquise de Blanchefôret? - - SÉRAPHINE - - Ho! - (_To_ NANON.) Rememb’rest thou the Citoyenne Blanchefôret? - - NANON - - The proud piece! We are mire beneath her feet! - Last eve her coach threw mud upon my gown! - Let her beware! One day she’ll walk afoot. - Let her beware! And let him too beware - Who rode last eve beside her golden coach! - - YVETTE - - Ha, ha! ha, ha! - - [_Music and voices in the street. Impatient knocking - at the door in the wall._ - - VOICES - - Holà, Aristocrats! - Nanon! Séraphine! - - NANON - - Our friends await us. - - SÉRAPHINE - - We have business with the smith upon the quai, - Where by the old dovecot he fashions pikes! - - VOICES - - _Allons, enfants de la patrie!_ - - NANON - - Come, come away! We’ll leave the nun alone - To say her beads for black Aristocrats! - How triste to be for aye in prison here! - - YVETTE (_angrily_) - - Prison! I am no prisoner, I! - - NANON - - Then come with us into the merry streets! - - SÉRAPHINE - - ‘Twill be a heavy storm—all are within. - How easy ‘twere to slip away with us! - - YVETTE - - No, no! - - VOICES - - Citoyennes! Citoyennes! - - NANON - - Ma’m’selle! - - YVETTE - - Ma’m’selle! - - NANON - - Aristocrat! - - YVETTE - - Aristocrat! - - SÉRAPHINE - - Well—kept by an Aristocrat— - - YVETTE - - You lie. - - SÉRAPHINE (_angrily_) - - Saint Yves! I lie! Do I? O Seigneur Dieu! - This is Yvette, the herd girl of Morbec! - This is Yvette, the daughter of Yvonne! - This is that same Yvette who swore one day - That rather would she meet the blight of hell - Than take one favour from a seigneur’s hand! - Once you were hungry! Go you hungry now? - You went in rags. Where is your ragged gown? - Barefoot—what’s that about that throat of thine? - I swear it is a jewel!—and we pine - For bread, we women of the Revolution! - - [YVETTE _unclasps the jewel from her neck and lets - it fall_. - - I lie, do I? Diable! Just prove I lie! - This night we make a little noise in Nantes - Shall show Aristocrats who is in danger! - Lalain will speak and all the bells will ring, - And Angélique will deck herself in red! - Steal through yon door, be of us evermore! - I lie, do I? Then show me that I lie! - - YVETTE - - In Nantes where do you lodge? - - SÉRAPHINE - - With Angélique - Under the Lanterne, Sign of the Hour Glass. - - VOICES - - Nanon! Nanon! You are missing the sights! - - [_Distant music._ - - OTHER VOICES - - _Allons, enfants de la patrie, - Le jour de gloire est arrivé!_ - - NANON - - Come, come away! - - [SÉRAPHINE _unbars the door in the wall. It swings - open_. - - SÉRAPHINE - - Faith! One can see the Loire! - ‘Tis fine to walk beside it ‘neath the moon! - - YVETTE - - Oh!— - - VOICES - - _Tremblez, tyrans! et vous perfides_,— - - NANON - - Away! Away! - - YVETTE - - I’ll go—I’ll go with you. - Ye fruit trees and thou fountain, fare ye well! - - [_Exeunt_ YVETTE, SÉRAPHINE, NANON. _The door - swings to. Lightning and thunder._ SISTER FIDELIS - _appears in the convent door_. - - VOICES (_dying away_) - - _Aux armes, Citoyens! - Formez vos bataillons!_ - - _CURTAIN_ - -[Illustration] - -[Illustration] - - - - - _ACT III_ - - - _A square in Nantes. On the left the deep porch of a church with - pillars. To the right and in the background, a perspective of - streets with tall, many-windowed houses. Opposite the church a - great plaster statue of Liberty. Over the church door is written - in white lettering: “The Republic One and Indivisible. Liberty, - Equality, Fraternity or Death. National Property.” A distant view - of the Loire. Men and women in holiday garb, wearing liberty caps - and great tricoloured cockades, cross and recross the square. - Life, movement, colour. Red the dominant note. It is the year - 1794._ - - _Hoarse voices within. Hawkers of Revolutionary journals cross the - square._ - - A HAWKER - - _Le Journal des Jacobins!_ - - ANOTHER - - _Le Discours - De la Lanterne!_ - - _Enter_ GRÉGOIRE. - - A THIRD - - _L’Orateur du Peuple!_ - - A FOURTH - - _Le père Duchesne! Le Père Duchesne!_ - - GRÉGOIRE (_stopping him_) - - Here!— - - [_He buys a paper._ - - And what to-day says Père Duchesne? - - THE HAWKER - - He says - That Paris envies Nantes her Carrier! - - GRÉGOIRE - - Humph! - - A HAWKER - - _La Bouche de Fer!_ - - ANOTHER - - _Les Actes des Apôtres!_ - - A CITIZEN - - I’ll buy the _Actes_. - - ANOTHER - - I’ll buy the _Bouche de Fer_. - - [_Enter a man with a long brush and a pot of paste. - He proceeds to cover the wooden base of the Statue - of Liberty with placards._ - - THE CROWD - - The placards! The placards! - - A BRETON SAILOR - - I cannot read! - - [_He catches by the arm a man in a long cloak, with - a broad hat pulled low over his face._ - - Prithee, Citizen, what says the placard? - - THE MAN IN THE CLOAK - - It says Duport is dead; Biron is dead; - Barnave is dead. - - THE CROWD - - Ha, ha! Biron! Barnave! - - A MAN - - Through the little window they’ve looked at last! - _À bas les Aristocrats! Vive la Guillotine!_ - - ANOTHER - - Ah, here in Nantes we drown them in the Loire! - - THE CROWD - - _Vive Carrier! Vive Lambertye! Vive Lalain!_ - - [_The man with the brush affixes a second placard._ - - THE BRETON - - And this, Citizen? - - THE MAN IN THE CLOAK - - D’Alleray is dead; - Bailly is dead; Du Barry is dead. - - THE CROWD - - Ha! - - A WOMAN - - Ho! ho! The courtesan, she’ll kiss no more! - - THE CROWD - - She’ll kiss no more! - - [_The man with the brush affixes the third placard._ - - THE BRETON - - And this one, Citizen? - - THE MAN IN THE CLOAK (_reads_) - - _The Republic One and Indivisible. - It is Decreed - There is no God. To-day we worship Reason._ - - [_The crowd applauds._ - - A MAN - - In a red mantle! - - ANOTHER - - That’s the Paris Reason! - Our Reason wears blue. - - A THIRD - - And oak leaves in her hair. - - THE BRETON - - Is Reason truly a woman? - - THE MAN IN THE CLOAK - - God knows! - - A MAN - - Ha! he says God! God is a word forbid! - - THE MAN IN THE CLOAK - - Then Reason knows. - - A MAN - - That’s better. - - [_Singing within. A band of dancers, men and women, - whirl into the square._ - - THE CROWD - - Carmagnole! - - THE DANCERS - - _Dansons la Carmagnole! - Vive le son, vive le son! - Dansons la Carmagnole! - Vive le son du canon!_ - - [_The crowd breaks and joins the dancers. They take - hands and with uncouth and extravagant gestures - circle once or twice around the statue, then with a - long cry exeunt._ - - A WOMAN - - The great procession forms upon the quai! - - ANOTHER - - It winds and winds about and comes this way! - - [_Exeunt men and women._ GRÉGOIRE _and the man - in the cloak remain_. - - GRÉGOIRE - - The priests are gone. It is Reason’s fête day. - - THE MAN IN THE CLOAK - - Reason, being a woman, will have her way. - - GRÉGOIRE - - Still, Monsieur l’Abbé— - - THE ABBÉ - - I am known! - - GRÉGOIRE - - To serve - Monsieur, I had the honour at Morbec. - - THE ABBÉ - - Monsieur le Baron’s seneschal, I think. - - GRÉGOIRE - - The same,—but I am gaoler now in Nantes. - - THE ABBÉ - - That night in June your musket would not fire! - Diable! I’ve played and lost! Well, fellow? - - GRÉGOIRE - - Hein? - - THE ABBÉ - - The wind blows cold in Nantes, and so I wear - This cloak! So long I’ve looked on fires of hell - I needs must have a hat to shade my eyes!— - But now I’ll cock it in the face of all— - Cold, wind, darkness, devils, and Republic! - - GRÉGOIRE - - I think the citizen has lost his head. - - THE ABBÉ - - Ay, and my heart as well. Holà! what’s that? - - [_A noise without. Clash of steel and excited voices._ - - _Enter_ DE VARDES _and_ FAUQUEMONT DE BUC _pursued by - seven or eight red-capped men armed with pikes_. DE - VARDES _and_ DE BUC _use their swords_. - - THE RED CAPS - - Aristocrats! Aristocrats! - - DE VARDES (_thrusting_) - - Take that, - Republican! - - DE BUC (_thrusting_) - - Out, canaille! - - THE ABBÉ - - Here’s wine! - Have at you, brow-bound galley slaves! - - DE VARDES (_over his shoulder_) - - Ha! De Barbasan! - - [_Wounds his adversary._ - - We’re at our last château! - - THE ABBÉ - - I’ve shut Voltaire! Here goes the candle out! - - [_He throws his long cloak over the head of one of - the red caps and makes at another with his dagger._ - - DE VARDES - - The window splinters! - - [_He sends the pike flying from a red cap’s hand._ - - Take warning, sans-culottes! - - THE ABBÉ - - One, two, three! - - DE BUC - - My sword arm! - - DE VARDES - - Fight with your left. - I saw you do it at Nanci! - - VOICES (_within_) - - _Ah! ça ira, ça ira, ça ira! - Les Aristocrats à la Lanterne!_ - - DE VARDES - - _O Richard, O mon Roi, - L’univers t’abandonne!_ - - [_A howl from the mob._ - - THE MOB - - Aristocrats! - - GRÉGOIRE (_from the statue_) - - Desperate! - - [_The red caps_, DE VARDES, THE ABBÉ, _and_ DE BUC - _fight across the stage and exeunt_. GRÉGOIRE _follows - them_. - - VOICES (_within_) - - _Ça ira!_ - - _Enter women and children of the Revolution._ - - A WOMAN - - Upon the church steps I will take my stand! - - ANOTHER - - I have brought my knitting. - - A THIRD - - And I. - - A FOURTH - - And I. - - ALL (_singing_) - - _We are the tricoteuses! - Dyed wool we knit while rumbles by the cart. - Knit! knit! all knitting in the sun._ - - _We are the tricoteuses! - Red wool we knit while soul and body part. - Knit! knit! the knitting now is done!_ - - [_They seat themselves upon the church steps._ - - A CHILD - - Maman! Maman! how many carts will pass? - - A WOMAN - - None, sweeting, none! It is a holiday. - - _Enter_ CÉLESTE, ANGÉLIQUE, _and_ NANON. - - NANON - - It was the very night of the great storm - From those dull convent walls she ran away! - - CÉLESTE - - Two years agone— - - ANGÉLIQUE - - Would she had stayed! - - NANON - - Ah, then, - You had been Goddess, Angélique! - - ANGÉLIQUE - - The witch! - With her dark skin and with her purple flower! - Let her beware! I know a thing or two! - - CÉLESTE - - _I_ know who comes from Paris back to Nantes! - This morning on the quai I saw him! - - NANON (_eagerly_) - - Is’t - That ci-devant, that black Aristocrat, - De Vardes? - - CÉLESTE - - The man your brother loves? The same. - - NANON - - I spit upon his name! - - CÉLESTE - - Denounced! - - NANON - - The set of sun - Will see him so, or my name’s not Nanon! - - CÉLESTE - - The Loire—the Loire will close above his head! - - _Enter_ SÉRAPHINE. - - SÉRAPHINE - - Whose head? - - NANON - - The Citizen Vardes. - - SÉRAPHINE - - Monseigneur! - He’s in the prison of La Force at Paris!— - One truly told me so—He’s not in Nantes. - - NANON - - And if he were— - - SÉRAPHINE (_stammering_) - - Why—why— - - NANON - - And if he were, - You would not give him up! I know you well! - I know you, Séraphine! - - SÉRAPHINE - - And if you do, - You know no ill of me, Citoyenne! - - CÉLESTE - - Yvette - Would not give him up either. - - ANGÉLIQUE - - No, i’ faith! - I’ll take my oath on that! - - SÉRAPHINE - - Your oath, lint-locks! - It’s worth a deal, your oath! _Your_ mind I know! - You would be Goddess, you and not Yvette! - - ANGÉLIQUE - - Let her beware! - - SÉRAPHINE - - Yvette! She’s coming now! - Bright as the star that’s highest in the night! - And all the men have turned astronomers! - Faith! ‘tis easy work to worship Reason, - When Reason is a woman, and that fair! - - ANGÉLIQUE - - I’ve seen her gather seaweed on the shore! - - SÉRAPHINE - - And now she gathers hearts in her two hands. - - ANGÉLIQUE - - Oh! oh! - - NANON - - Would that my brother hated her! - Disdainful prude! - - CÉLESTE - - Oh, love may turn to hate. - She’s Goddess now, but wait, but wait, but wait! - - NANON - - I join my brother at the Olive Tree. - Come, Angélique, Céleste! - - [_Exeunt_ NANON, ANGÉLIQUE, CÉLESTE. - - SÉRAPHINE - - Were’t not too late, - I’d warn monseigneur just for old time’s sake! - When all is said and done, old times are best; - He gave us back Lisette, he fed us all— - Eh! ‘twere a pity. What now? Who’s this? - - _Enter hurriedly_ THE MARQUISE. _She looks over her shoulder - as if fearing pursuit, then, drawing her cloak and hood - closely about her, attempts to cross the square unobserved. - Enter a rabble of men and women._ - - THE MOB - - _Ah! ça ira, ça ira, ça ira! - Les Aristocrats à la Lanterne. - Ah! ça ira, ça ira, ça ira! - Les Aristocrats on les pendra!_ - - A TRICOTEUSE - - She hides - Her face. - - ANOTHER - - She draws her cloak about her! - - THE FIRST - - Ho! - Her hand is white and there’s a jewel on’t! - - A MAN (_accosting_ THE MARQUISE) - - Citoyenne! - - THE MARQUISE - - Citoyen— - - THE MAN - - Citoyenne, come! - Join our _ronde patriotique_, our _carillon_! - - THE MARQUISE - - Sainte Geneviève! - - THE MAN - - What? - - A WOMAN (_her hand upon_ THE MARQUISE) - - Where’s your cockade? - - ANOTHER WOMAN - - Show! - - THE MARQUISE - - _De grâce, Citoyennes!_ - - THIRD WOMAN - - The cloak! The cloak! - - [_They tear from_ THE MARQUISE _her hood and cloak_. - - A CHILD - - Oh, the pretty lady! - - THE MARQUISE - - I’ll give you gold! - There, there!—My rings, my brooch—take all! - Ah! let me peaceably depart— - - THE MOB - - Ha! ha! - Aristocrat! - - A WOMAN - - It is the emigrée - Clarice-Marie Miramand Blanchefôret! - Are not her gold locks known in Brittany? - - ANOTHER - - She fled to England. - - A THIRD - - She returned. - - THE MARQUISE - - O death! - (_To a woman._) Citoyenne, your cockade! I’ll wear it gladly, - Ay, o’er my heart I’ll pin it— - - [_She takes the cockade from the woman and with - trembling fingers pins it to her gown._ - - THE WOMAN - - Red cap as well— - - THE MARQUISE - - With pleasure, Citoyenne. - - [_She places the bonnet-rouge upon her head._ - - THE MOB - - Ha, ha! - - A MAN - - Now cry - _Vive la République!_ - - THE MARQUISE - - _Vive la République!_ - - THE MAN - - _Mort aux tyrans!_ - - THE MARQUISE - - _Mort aux tyrans!_ - - THE MAN - - _À bas - Les Aristocrats!_ - - [_Silence._ - - THE MOB - - Ah—h—h! - - THE MAN - - _Vive la Guillotine!_ - - [_Silence._ - - A WOMAN - - Take that! - - [_She strikes at_ THE MARQUISE. - - THE MOB - - Down! Down! - - [THE MARQUISE _breaks through the ring of men and - women and runs to_ SÉRAPHINE. - - THE MARQUISE - - I know your face! - You are a Morbec woman! Save me! Save! - - SÉRAPHINE - - Saint Servan! Saint Gildas! Saint Mériadek!— - Ay, madame, you should have stayed in England! - - _Enter_ DE VARDES, _torn and bleeding_. - - DE VARDES - - De Buc taken and De Barbasan! Dieu! - The day’s not old. I’ll see them ere its close. - We’ll meet, I think, at Carrier’s judgment bar, - Then the dark river,—and then peace at last— - - THE MARQUISE - - _À moi, Monsieur le Baron de Morbec!_ - - DE VARDES - - La belle Marquise! - - [_He forces his way to the side of_ THE MARQUISE. - - SÉRAPHINE (_from the church porch_) - - Saint Yves le Véridique! - - THE MOB - - Both! Both! - - A TRICOTEUSE - - To prison with them! - - ANOTHER - - To the Loire! - Ho! ho! _Les Noces Républicaines!_ - - [_The mob surges forward, but with his sword_ DE - VARDES _keeps a clear space about him and_ THE - MARQUISE. _They move slowly backward to the - church steps, which they mount._ - - DE VARDES (_to_ THE MARQUISE) - - We’ll smile and die! - - THE MARQUISE - - Together, yes! - - THE MOB - - Down! Down! Aristocrats! - - [DE VARDES _sends a knife whirling from the hand of - a red cap_. - - DE VARDES - - Follow! Follow! - (_To_ THE MARQUISE.) I have been long in prison. - - THE MARQUISE - - In England I!—And there I pined for France— - This sunshine dazzles me— - - DE VARDES - - Clarice-Marie! - - [_Trumpets within._ - - SÉRAPHINE - - Hark! Hark, Citoyens, to the trumpets blowing! - - THE MOB - - She comes! Nantes’ goddess comes! - - [_Faces appear at the windows of the tall houses._ - - A TRICOTEUSE - - The windows fill! - - [_The rolling of drums._ - - ANOTHER TRICOTEUSE - - The drums begin to roll! - - A MAN - - Citoyens, all! - We’ll see best by the statue there! - - ANOTHER (_pointing to_ DE VARDES _and_ THE - MARQUISE) - - But these?— - - THE FIRST - - They’re safe! Let them await our pleasure! Peste! - We waited once on theirs! - - A THIRD - - That’s true! - - [_The mob divides. Men and women cluster about - the base of the statue or upon the doorsteps of the - surrounding houses. Enter men with banners._ - - THE MOB - - Look! Look! - The painted banners! _Vive la patrie!_ - - SÉRAPHINE (_to_ THE MARQUISE) - - Hist! - Hist, madame! behind the pillar there! - - [_She points to the pillar of the church._ - - DE VARDES - - Go! - - [THE MARQUISE _conceals herself behind the pillar. - A crash of music._ - - _Enter_ LALAIN _and_ NANON. - - LALAIN - - No blood to-day! I’d have clean sleep to-night, - Pure sleep and sweet, in which to dream of love!— - Hast seen her in her mantle blue? - - NANON - - Who stands - So steadfast there with a drawn sword? - - LALAIN - - Diable! - - [_He makes as if to cross to the church steps, where_ - DE VARDES, _sword in hand, stands with his back - against a pillar. The crowd comes between._ - - NANON - - Patience, he’ll not escape! - - LALAIN (_with affected indifference_) - - It is as well,— - To her he’s but a ci-devant, and he, - O fool! shall see in her the Revolution! - Then, then, when she has passed, I’ll deal with him! - - [_Singing within._ - - A VOICE - - _With sandals on her feet, - The Phrygian cap so red - Upon her sunny head, - She comes, she’s coming sweet! - Reason, to whom we pay - All homage on this day!_ - - THE CROWD - - The singers! The actors! - - [_Enter actors and actresses of the Theatre of Nantes, dressed - as for the stage, and carrying garlands of paper flowers._ - - AN ACTOR - - Way for Tartufe! - The Citizen Jourdain, Phèdre, Célimène, - Acaste, Armide, Aucassin, Nicolette! - Make way! Make way! - - THE SINGER - - _Upon her lofty car - She sits in solemn state! - Of day the lovely mate, - Of night the shining star! - Reason, to whom we pay - All homage on this day!_ - - THE CROWD - - Brava! What now? - - THE ACTOR - - Voltaire, Rousseau, Franklin, Robespierre! - - [_Enter a band of students drawing a garlanded float. - Upon the float the busts of Voltaire, Rousseau, Franklin, - and Robespierre._ - - THE CROWD - - _Vive Robespierre!_ - - [_The Marseillaise. Enter Republican soldiers._ - - DE VARDES - - Oh, for the red Hussars! - - [_Enter four men wearing tricolour scarfs and plumes, - huge cockades, pistols and sabres._ - - THE CROWD - - The Commissioners! - - DE VARDES - - Hooded crows! - - [_There crosses the stage a float upon which is fixed a - miniature guillotine._ - - THE CROWD - - Ha! ha! - _Vive la Guillotine!_ - - A MAN - - _Vive les noyades!_ - - DE VARDES - - Cold - Are thy baths, O Apollo! - - [_Enter red-bonneted men and women dragging a tumbril - in which are heaped spoils of the church,—broken - images, crucifixes, candelabra, chalices, patens, - etc._ - - THE CROWD - - Ha—h—h! - - DE VARDES - - Jesu! - - [_He crosses himself._ - -[_Music. The great tricolour flag of the Republic is borne across the -stage._ - - THE CROWD - - _La patrie! Vive la patrie!_ - - DE VARDES - - France! France! - - [_Stately music. Enter young men in Greek dress, - bearing a gilded framework upon which is fixed a - tall flambeau, wreathed with flowers. They advance - and place the structure before the church - steps._ - - A PEASANT - - Brave! But what is it? - - ANOTHER - - The torch of Reason! - The Goddess lights it,—then we worship her! - - A THIRD - - No, we worship Reason! - - THE SECOND - - ‘Tis the same thing! - - [_Enter young girls clad in white, linked together - with tricolour ribbons and carrying osier baskets - from which they scatter flowers. They are followed - by children swinging censers, then by a shouting - throng drawing a triumphal car upon which sits the - Goddess of Reason. She is clothed in a white tunic - and a blue mantle; upon her loosened hair is a - wreath of oak leaves and she has in her hand a - light spear._ - - THE CROWD - - Reason! Reason!—Yvette! Yvette! - - DE VARDES - - Mon Dieu! - - [_The car stops._ YVETTE _rises_. - - THE CROWD - - _Vive la déesse! Vive Yvette!_ (LALAIN _comes forward_.) _Vive Lalain!_ - - LALAIN - - People of Nantes! Citoyens! Patriots! - Old things are past. To-day we welcome new. - Gone are the priests, gone is the crucifix; - Chalice and paten whelmed beneath the Loire! - Kings, princes, nobles, priests, all crumbled down! - Death on a pale horse hath ridden o’er them, - The ravens and the sea mews pick their bones. - Theirs are the yesterdays, the ci-devants! - The red to-day is ours, the purple morrow!— - Liberty, Equality, Fraternity! - We worship Thee, Triune and Indivisible!— - O Mother Nature, pure, beneficent, - Redeemed from darkness of the centuries, - Smile on thy children, come to worship thee! - And thou, supernal Reason, Crown of Man, - Eyes of the blind, divine, ascending flame, - Pearl without price, rose, light, music, warmth!— - O gushing spring where else were desert waste! - O flooding light, celestial melody! - O flower that blooms on either side the grave! - O steadfast star that burns the night away! - We worship thee! - - [_He takes the censer from a boy and swings it to and - fro before the standing goddess. Clouds of incense - arise. The trumpets sound._ - - THE CROWD (_with ecstasy_) - - We worship thee, Yvette! - Yvette! Yvette! Reason! Yvette Charruel! - - YVETTE - - O God! I knew not ‘twas like this! - - LALAIN - - Reason, descend! - Illume thy torch, among us mortals dwell. - O sweetest Reason! ne’er regret the skies! - Descend— - - [_He gives his hand to_ YVETTE. _She descends from - the car._ - - A MAN - - She is the fairest Reason! - - ANOTHER - - Now - She’ll light the torch! - - [_A boy brings her lighted touchwood._ LALAIN _fastens - it to the point of her spear, and kneeling presents it - to her. She advances to the church steps and raises - the flaming lance in order to light the torch. She - sees_ DE VARDES. _The spear falls to the earth. The - flame goes out._ - - YVETTE - - O Our Lady! - - THE CROWD - - Light the torch! Light the torch! - - LALAIN - - What witchcraft’s this? - - YVETTE - - None, none!—Oh, see the heavens open! - - [_Murmurs of the crowd._ - - ANGÉLIQUE - - Goddess! - Goddess! - - CÉLESTE - - She hears not! - - THE CROWD - - Light the torch! - - LALAIN - - I see - Hell gaping! What’s that man to thee? - Death and damnation! Dost still gaze at him? - Then to the winds, Irresolution! - - [_He turns to the crowd._ - - See, - Patriots, see! The light of Reason dies! - Out went the sacred flame beneath the eyes, - The basilisk eyes of an Aristocrat! - - THE CROWD - - Away with him to prison! Death! The Loire! - Death to the emigré! - - [_A rush toward the church steps._ DE VARDES - _throws himself on guard_. YVETTE _comes between - him and the mob_. - - YVETTE - - Back! - - THE MOB - - Ah—h—h! - - LALAIN - - Art mad? - Stand from between the lion and his prey! - - DE VARDES (_to the mob_) - - Men of Nantes! leave women to one side! - (_To_ YVETTE _with a gesture toward the car_.) Goddess of Reason! Mount - Olympus waits! - (_To_ LALAIN.) At last, Rémond Lalain! - - LALAIN - - René de Vardes! - - [_A man strikes at_ DE VARDES _with a long pike. - His sword arm falls, and the sword rattles to the - ground. A shout of triumph from the mob._ THE - MARQUISE’S _cry from the pillar is not heard. The - mob moves forward._ - - YVETTE - - Back, back, I say! You’ll do no murder here! - What! One man against a score!—All Bretons! - - THE MOB - - Death to the emigré! - - DE VARDES - - Not emigré! - Good folk, I’ve been in prison in La Force. - Released, I journeyed home to Brittany! - - A MAN - - Thou’lt journey farther yet, Aristocrat! - - ANGÉLIQUE - - Thy boat shall travel down the Loire! - - YVETTE - - Shall it? - Shall it, indeed, thou gold-locked leprous woman! - _Thy_ bark shall be sucked down by black Ahès! - I see three Vannetois!—big Rubik, Yann, - And Rivarol who won the singer’s prize! - À moi, Vannetois!—Who is that standing there? - Huon! Rememberest thou the fields at dawn? - Rememberest thou the dim green hazel copse? - Rememberest thou one Pardon of Sainte Anne? - - A PEASANT - - Yvette! - - YVETTE - - The sun went down, the stars shone out; - We wandered round the wreckage of a ship; - Beneath a shell we found a golden coin. - Rememberest thou, Hervé the Cornouillaise? - - A BRETON SAILOR - - Yvette! - - YVETTE - - Baptiste! Michael! Monik! Ronan! - How loudly rang the bells of Quiberon! - To beat of drum we danced beside the sea! - - YOUNG MEN - - Ho, ho! That day! - - YVETTE - - Eh, who spoke to us there, - Of glory, of France, and of Liberty? - Citoyen Deputy Rémond Lalain! - Red wine he gave to you, to me a flower! - Mon Dieu! I was so proud— - - LALAIN - - Yvette! - - YVETTE (_to an old woman_) - - Margot! - ‘Twas I who watched with thee one stormy night - When all thy seven sons were out at sea! - - THE OLD WOMAN - - Ay, ay, and they came safely home to me! - - YVETTE (_to a child_) - - O little Jeanne, where is the doll I gave thee? - - THE CHILD - - Here!—‘tis named ‘Toinette! - - A WOMAN (_with the child_) - - She has another - Named Yvette! - - YVETTE (_to a band of young women_) - - Fifine, Laure, and Veronique! - The moon shone bright, there was no wind at all, - Below the heights the violet shadows slept, - All sweetly smelled the gorse and white buckwheat, - And dewy was the grass beneath our feet, - And wet with dew the poppies in our hair! - There came a sound of singing from the sea, - Our hands we linked, we sped around Tantad, - Fair shone the moon— - - A YOUNG GIRL - - Oh, Eves of Saint John! - - A BRETON - - _Iou! Iou! An Tan! An Tan! An Tan!_ - - SÉRAPHINE - - Saint Ronan! Saint Primel! - - THE CROWD - - Yvette! Yvette! - Yvette Charruel! - - YVETTE - - O folk of Nantes! - There is a thing I want so badly, I! - Call it a fairing from the Fête of Reason, - And give the trifle to the poor Yvette, - The poor Yvette who’s done her best to please you! - Oh, I’ve music made for you to dance by, - And for you held on high the great tricolour; - And in the night-time sung to you of dawn! - And for you, too, I’ve plucked the lilies up, - Fast locked a door and flung away the key, - And left the ravished garden evermore!— - A priest would say my soul I had imperilled. - - THE CROWD - - No, no! No priests! Reason! Reason! Yvette. - - YVETTE - - This mantle blue, these oak leaves in my hair, - These sandals and this spear, this tunic white, - The wreathèd car, the music and the song! - All, all a mockery, unless, unless— - There is a thing I want so badly, I! - - A COMMISSIONER - - It is thine! - - THE CROWD - - Thine! Thine! Yvette Charruel! - - YVETTE - - Ah, I would play the goddess, that I would! - I’d have my pardon like a Breton saint, - And what I bound, it should be bound indeed! - And what I loosed, it should be loosed indeed! - - A COMMISSIONER - - Fast bind or freely loose, thy surety, I! - - ANOTHER - - Command me, and the silver moon I’ll bring thee! - - YVETTE - - With what a sudden glory shines the sun! - It gilds the streets, it gilds the running Loire! - And from them both the blood-stains fade away! - Ah, let us rest from death in Nantes to-day, - And think how falls the eve in Bethlehem!— - There is a little village that I know, - A hungry village by a hungry sea, - As worn and grey as any calvary! - The hungry shadows ate the sunshine up; - The children cried, the women wailed at morn; - The very Christ looked hungry on the Cross; - When lo! a miracle! for suddenly - The starving, haggard folk began to laugh, - The tender green put forth, the flowers bloomed, - Blue shone the sky, the lark sang overhead, - And mild the face of Christ and heavenly kind! - The little village had its fill of bread, - Yea, wine it drank, and cheerful breath it drew, - And, by the well, of this strange plenty talked, - Of tolls withdrawn, of perfect friendliness! - - [_She moves from before_ DE VARDES. - - And then it blessed the man who gave it bread, - Who had a heart to feel with wretchedness, - And a strong arm to drive the hunger forth - As Arthur drove the giants from the land! - O men of Nantes! you’ll keep your oath to me! - In Nantes to-day ‘tis mine to loose or bind!— - I loose this man— - - LALAIN - - Out, witch! - (_To_ DE VARDES.) Think not, think not, - René de Vardes, that she shall save thee thus!— - Mine, mine she is, she shall be, soul and all! - - DE VARDES - - Rémond Lalain— - - LALAIN (_to the mob_) - - It is an emigré! - A traitor and a black Aristocrat, - The ci-devant De Vardes! - - THE CROWD - - De Vardes! De Vardes! - - YVETTE - - Rémond Lalain, stand from my path, I say! - (_To the crowd._) Not emigré, but prisoner in La Force! - Not traitor! That’s a wretch who doth betray! - Aristocrat?—Who chooseth his birth star? - Crieth at Life’s gate, “Of such an house I’m heir!” - But in we drift from the great sea without; - A current takes us—“Of my house are ye!” - So you, so I, so this citoyen here, - Rémond Lalain, who is Lalain by chance, - And might have been Capet or Mirabeau! - And so this other, standing gravely there - Alone, a man alone upon a rock, - And the tide mounts!—The current swept him there! - Another drift, and he had been Lalain, - Orator and idol of the Jacobins!— - Names! They are the mist through which the man - Is scarce discerned, the sea-drift hides the pearl. - Ghosts of the past the present spurns! Dead leaves! - Masks for the pauper and the prince! Mere names! - I would not have them rule my spirit thus!— - Aristocrat! I know not, but I know - The man’s been known to lift a peasant’s load - And gather seaweed with a fisher’s child! - - A BRETON SAILOR - - ‘Tis true! And in my boat he’s been with me, - When Ahès and the storm made black the sea! - - A PEASANT - - He walked beside me in the field and told - Name of the silver star above the fold! - - A SOLDIER - - I was a red Hussar! He fought like Mars. - Eh, my Colonel— - - A WOMAN - - We know, we Morbec folk! - _Vive Baron René!_ - - SÉRAPHINE - - Eh, eh, monseigneur! - - YVETTE - - Nantes! Nantes! you’ll keep the oath you’ve made to me! - My fairing I shall have this holiday, - And what I bind it shall be bound indeed, - And what I loose is loosed to me for aye! - I ask one gift—I shall not ask again! - This is my hour, no other hour I want. - I ask one life—is’t mine, is’t mine, Citoyens? - - THE CROWD - - Yes, yes! ‘Tis thine! - - A COMMISSIONER - - Thine, Goddess! - (_To_ DE VARDES.) Citoyen, thou art free! - - LALAIN - - Diable! - - YVETTE - - I’m faint.— - - SÉRAPHINE - - Saint Iguinou! What of the pillar there? - - A COMMISSIONER - - Make way for the Citoyen Vardes! - - THE CROWD - - Make way! - - SÉRAPHINE - - Eh, eh, monseigneur; thou hadst best begone! - - DE VARDES (_to the Commissioner_) - - Citoyen, thanks! but here I’ll watch awhile - These pleasing rites, this worship new of Reason! - - THE COMMISSIONER - - ‘Twill do thee good, Aristocrat! - - DE VARDES - - No doubt, - Citoyen! - - LALAIN - - Oh, depth of hell! - - NANON - - Oh, patience! - - LALAIN - - Why takes he not his liberty? He stays! - To feast his eyes upon her face he stays! - Diable! He speaks to her— - - NANON - - Patience! Patience!— - What flutters there behind the pillar? - - LALAIN - - Where? - - [_She points. They move together to the base of the - statue._ - - DE VARDES (_to_ YVETTE) - - I owe my life to thee, thou hapless child! - Ah, couldst thou make this throng depart the place! - - YVETTE - - Monseigneur— - - THE CROWD - - Goddess of Reason! light the torch! - - YVETTE - - I’m faint!—The houses all are dancing there!— - Give me drink! - - A MAN - - Here’s wine! - - [_He pours wine into a great gold cup._ - - YVETTE - - ‘Tis in a chalice! - - THE CROWD - - Drink! - - [YVETTE _drinks_. - - YVETTE - - Nom de Dieu! ‘Tis right good wine, indeed!— - Not now I’ll light the torch—‘Tis out for good! - And while we linger here the sunlight goes! - Let’s to the quai, let’s to the quai and dance— - And dance the Carmagnole! - - THE CROWD - - The Carmagnole! - - [_Men and women take hands and begin to dance._ - - YVETTE - - Away! Down the long street, and to the quai! - Take hands! Away! _Dansons la Carmagnole!_ - - [_She snatches from a boy a tambourine and strikes it._ - - _Vive le son, vive le son, - Vive le son du canon!_ - - [_The crowd disperses._ DE VARDES _remains standing - before the pillar behind which crouches_ THE MARQUISE. - SÉRAPHINE _watches from the church steps_; - LALAIN _and_ NANON _from the base of the Statue - of Liberty_. - - Monseigneur! - - DE VARDES - - Ay. - - YVETTE - - Now, now while the lark sings, - And while the fairy wood is green, begone! - Oh, ‘tis not safe in Nantes! They gave thy life, - But oh, they’re fierce and fickle! Back they’ll come! - I’ve enemies in Nantes, and there’s Lalain, - Rémond Lalain who’ll work me woe at last! - Thou must begone, but list, ah, list to me! - I know a secret place where thou mayst bide, - So safe! so safe! and I will bring thee food, - White bread and wine, and find for thee a way - Forth from the town— - - DE VARDES - - Ah, I may trust thee, sure! - - YVETTE - - I never knew thou wast in prison there! - So sad, so dark the prison life, they say! - My cagèd bird I freed the other day. - There are so many prisoners in Nantes, - I would not have it one!— - - DE VARDES - - My life I owe— - - YVETTE - - The spring draws on; ‘twill soon be June again! - - DE VARDES - - Now for another life I make my suit— - - YVETTE - - In Paimpont Wood the trees are greening now, - In sun and shade the purple violets blow! - - DE VARDES - - In those old convent days, ah, ages gone! - Beneath the fruit trees, by the fountain there, - I’ve seen thee nurse a little fluttering bird, - Wounded and frightened, fallen from the blue, - But yet God’s bird, and with a life to save! - And thou didst stroke its plumage tenderly, - And gently fostered it between thy hands - Awhile, and up it soared into the blue; - A moment since and thou didst save my life. - Lo now, there is another thing to do! - Before my own life, I’ve a life in charge, - And to thee now I turn, and plead for help. - In this wild town thou rulest o’er the hour; - Be now the goddess and the woman too, - Pitiful, tender, generous, and true!— - Lo! here a wounded bird— - - [_He moves aside._ THE MARQUISE _leaves the shadow - of the pillar_. - - YVETTE - - Death of my life! - - THE MARQUISE - - Oh, guard me, all ye saints! - - DE VARDES - - Yvette! Yvette! - - [LALAIN _comes forward from the statue_. - - LALAIN (_to_ YVETTE) - - Right of the Seigneur! - - YVETTE - - So! Thou hast returned, - Beneath the trees, along the moonlit road! - And in thine arms the rose and eglantine, - And on thy lips the song of all the birds! - Back! There is a furze field bars thy way! - - THE MARQUISE - - Mon Dieu! - - YVETTE - - Hast thou another fan to break? - Ha! shrinkest thou? - - THE MARQUISE - - Sainte Geneviève! - - YVETTE (_raising her voice_) - - Nantes! Nantes! - - DE VARDES - - By all the gods!— - - YVETTE - - À moi! À moi! Nantes! - - [_An answering cry from within._ - - DE VARDES - - Herd girl of Morbec— - - LALAIN - - Right of the Seigneur! - - YVETTE - - À moi! Citoyens! Patriots! - - _Reënter mob._ - - DE VARDES - - Courage, - Clarice! - - THE MARQUISE - - O all ye saints! - - YVETTE - - Citoyens! - This ci-devant, this black Aristocrat! - Oh! all this while she was in hiding here! - Beside the pillar there she kneeled and laughed. - Do I not know her laughter, rippling sweet - Or o’er a broken fan or broken heart, - Or in green Morbec and a garden fair, - Or on the moonlit road to ancient Vannes?— - She, she the ci-devant, the emigrée! - Who to false England with her jewels fled,— - Rubies, emeralds, and long strings of pearls! - The while in barren fields her peasants starved!— - I denounce the Citoyenne Blanchefôret! - - THE CROWD - - Ah—h—h! - - THE MARQUISE - - O terror! - - DE VARDES - - Thy hand in mine, Clarice! - - YVETTE - - What of, what of the dark line of De Vardes? - What tales are told of Morbec’s black château? - More wicked and more lost than sunken Ys! - Wolves were they all, the seigneurs of Morbec! - Henri, Philippe, Gil, René, Amaury— - All, all were wolves who lurked, who sprang, who tore, - No heart of lamb, but just the heart of man! - Heart of a man, heart of a woman too! - Morbec! De Vardes! No direr names in France! - Right hands of kings, priests, soldiers, cardinals, - Courtiers and lovers of the fleur-de-lis! - Passionate, proud, a whirlwind and a flame! - Morbec! De Vardes! ‘Ware all who came between - The whirlwind and its goal, the stubble and the flame! - - DE VARDES - - Thou lost soul! - - LALAIN - - Thou lovely fiend! - - YVETTE - - De Vardes! De Vardes! The name comes on the blast - Up from the gulf where lie the thrones of kings. - Battle, oppression, tyranny and wrong— - Miramand, Blanchefôret! on sea winds in they float - From that dim palace where that lost Ahès - Down to her emerald windows beckons man - And spreads the bridal bed in sunken Ys! - - NANON - - Mon Dieu! The bridal bed! - - YVETTE - - By all the wrongs - That both their houses through the ages long - Have wrought us! By the blood that they have shed, - The tears, the groans, the sweat, the servile knees, - The bitter bread they gave us, and the cry - From lonely graves of anguish and of wrath! - By all the hunger and the freezing cold! - By all the toil and all the hopelessness, - The smitten cheek, the taunt, the burning heart! - By all the Rights of all the Lords of Wrong! - By _Corvée_ and _Gabelle_ and _Gibier_, - _Quintaines_, _Milods_, _Ban d’Août_ and _Bordelage_, - _Fouage_, _Leide_, _Corvée à miséricorde_, - _Banvin_, _Chansons_, _Baiser des Mariées_! - I do denounce these two Aristocrats: - La Force’s prisoner, and the emigrée, - La belle Marquise, the Hussar of the King, - Citoyen Vardes, Citoyenne Blanchefôret! - - LALAIN - - So! - - THE MOB - - Away! Away! Prison! Death! The Loire! - Down, down, Aristocrats. - - [_They close around_ DE VARDES _and_ THE MARQUISE. - - SÉRAPHINE - - Saint Maturin! - Saint Corentin! Saint Jean! - - THE MARQUISE - - O bitter death! - - DE VARDES - - I am thy death, who thought to save thee so! - - [_The soldiers lay hands upon_ DE VARDES _and_ THE - MARQUISE _and force them from the church steps - and across the square_. - - THE MOB - - Away! - - A COMMISSIONER - - The nearest prison! - - A MAN - - That’s the Church - Of Saint Eustache! - - A COMMISSIONER - - Away! They shall be judged - By Carrier! - - THE MOB - - Carrier!—The Loire! - - YVETTE - - Ah! - - ANGÉLIQUE - - Ha, ha! _Le Mariage Républicain!_ - - YVETTE - - Quoi! - - ANGÉLIQUE - - Eh, they’re lovers, are they not? - - CÉLESTE - - The Loire shall marry them, the ci-devants! - - ANGÉLIQUE - - Yvette has made the wedding, eh, Yvette? - - THE MOB - - Ha, ha! _Le Mariage Républicain!_ - - [_Exeunt the mob, soldiers_, DE VARDES, _and_ THE - MARQUISE, _guarded, etc._ - - VOICES (_within_) - - _Le Mariage Républicain!_ Ha, ha! - - YVETTE - - What have I done?— - - VOICES (_dying away_) - - Ha, ha! ha, ha! The Loire! - - YVETTE - - The Loire!—O God! - - _CURTAIN_ - -[Illustration] - -[Illustration] - - - - - _ACT IV_ - - - _The interior of a church in Nantes used as a prison. Great broken - windows of stained glass, purple and crimson, through which - streams the sunlight. Prisoners of both sexes and all ages and - conditions of life move to and fro, or lean against the pillars - which support the vaulted roof. Some rest or kneel upon the steps - before the altar rail. Three children play beside a broken font. - Against a door at the left of the great altar lounge several - turnkeys dressed in blue woollen with red liberty caps._ THE - MARQUISE _sits beside a pillar. She talks with_ DE BUC _and_ - ENGUERRAND LA FÔRET. _Near her are_ COUNT LOUIS _and_ MLLE. DE - CHÂTEAU-GUI. DE L’ORIENT _stands upon a bench beneath a shattered - window_. DE VARDES _sits at a rude table writing_. - - _A butterfly enters at the broken window and flutters through the - church._ - - A CHILD - - The butterfly! The butterfly! - - MLLE. DE CHÂTEAU-GUI - - Oh, see - Its painted wings! - - A CHILD - - There! There! - - MLLE. DE CHÂTEAU-GUI - - It comes my way!—I’ve caught it!—No! - - AN ACTRESS (_dressed as a shepherdess_) - - I! - I have it fast, the pretty prisoner! - - DE L’ORIENT - - It will not stay— - - COUNT LOUIS - - It soars into the roof! - No! down again on yon long ray of light!— - Give chase! - - DE L’ORIENT - - Here! - - MLLE. DE CHÂTEAU-GUI - - There! - - THE ACTRESS - - Oh, oh! It sails this way, - The fairy boat— - - DE L’ORIENT - - With freight of heart’s desire! - - THE ACTRESS - - I have it! - - COUNT LOUIS - - No, I! - - [_The butterfly lights upon his hand._ - - ‘Tis youth! - - DE L’ORIENT - - ‘Tis gone!— - - [_The butterfly brushes his shoulder._ - - ‘Tis joy! - - THE ACTRESS - - Fled!—Ah, ah!—‘Tis hope! - - [_The butterfly touches her outstretched arm, then - rises again._ - - No longer! - - [_The butterfly rests upon the fair hair of_ THE MARQUISE. - - THE MARQUISE - - As I was saying, then I felt despair— - - [_The butterfly rises, flutters in a shaft of sunshine, - then passes out of the window. The prisoners watch - its flight._ - - A CHILD - - The butterfly has gone! - - MLLE. DE CHÂTEAU-GUI - - Whither! - - DE L’ORIENT - - ‘Tis for - The blue skies and the sunny fields! - - THE ACTRESS - - The flowers - We shall not gather any more! - - DE L’ORIENT - - High hills, - The water running in the sun and shade! - - MME. DE MALESTROIT - - A garden old beside a winding stream— - Oh, death in life! - - A NUN - - It was a soul set free. - By now a thousand shining leagues it’s mounted! - - [_The door at the left of the altar opens._ - - _Enter_ GRÉGOIRE. - - MLLE. DE CHÂTEAU-GUI - - Here is Grégoire! - - GRÉGOIRE - - Good-morrow, Citoyens! - - COUNT LOUIS - - Good-morrow, Gaoler. - - MLLE. DE CHÂTEAU-GUI - - Ah, this place, Grégoire! - It is so triste! Shall we forever stay - Imprisoned in a church? - - LA FÔRET - - Oh, gayer far - The Bastille or Vincennes! - - THE ACTRESS - - These frowning saints! - The wind that whistles in! - - MME. DE MALESTROIT - - The stones so cold! - - COUNT LOUIS - - The Church will make us martyrs ere our time! - - MLLE. DE CHÂTEAU-GUI - - And did you buy, Grégoire, the cards for ombre? - - THE ACTRESS - - Masks for our play? - - DE L’ORIENT - - A violin? - - THE ACTRESS - - Wax-lights? - - DE BUC - - The foils? - - A CHILD - - My ball, Grégoire? - - GRÉGOIRE - - I’ve nothing bought— - The judges sit to-day. Complain to them. - The church is cold! ‘Tis not so cold as Loire! - The prisons are too crowded! Well, to-day - We’ll weed them out! - - DE BUC - - So! - - GRÉGOIRE - - You are warned! Prepare! - Make your farewells—the time is very short! - - [_Exit_ GRÉGOIRE. - - DE BUC - - Strike camp! - - DE L’ORIENT - - The open road! - - COUNT LOUIS - - Who goes? - - LA FÔRET - - Who stays? - - MLLE. DE CHÂTEAU-GUI - - Our comedy!—we cannot have it now! - - THE ACTRESS - - Oh, we will rearrange the parts! - - [DE VARDES _folds his letter and rises from the table_. - - DE VARDES - - We’ll play, - Though all the world is sliding ‘neath our feet! - - DE BUC - - The world’s a stage— - - THE NUN - - _De profundis clamavi - Ad te Domine!_ - - _Enter the_ ABBÉ JEAN DE BARBASAN, _pale, wounded, and with - disordered dress_. - - MLLE. DE CHÂTEAU-GUI - - Monsieur l’Abbé! - - DE VARDES - - Ah! - De Barbasan, we feared for you! - - THE ABBÉ - - Morbleu! - I am reprieved! Lambertye proved my friend! - It seems that once I saved the villain’s life!— - Pure accident!—stumbled on him in a ditch, - Played the Samaritan!—so now I’m spared, - Come forth like Daniel from the lions’ den, - That Judgment Hall of theirs across the way! - Lions! They are not lions, they are wolves, - Hyenas, tigers, and baboons. Faugh! - - DE BUC - - So! - They are hungry yet? - - THE ABBÉ - - Oh, they are portents! - And portents are the folk that fill that hall! - Not women they who sit aloft and knit; - Not men, those scarecrow visages below; - For robed judges, wolves at Lammas tide, - And Nantes the winter forest for the pack!— - But ah, the deer at bay, the little lambs!— - The earth gives ‘neath their feet, they face the Loire! - - [_A confused sound from the square without the window; - voices, menacing and execrating, a cry, then - silence._ - - DE VARDES - - One has not gained the Loire! - - THE ABBÉ - - Ah, oftentimes, - They fall before they reach the Judgment Hall! - There in the street, before that fatal door— - Both youth and age, fair women and brave men. - Their blood cries to another judgment seat! - From yonder window you may see it all! - - THE MARQUISE - - We will not look! - - COUNT LOUIS - - Fie, fie, De Barbasan! - There is a time for everything! Not now, - Nor in this place is’t meet or debonair - To speak of ravening wolves or stricken deer! - To work, my friend! You find us much concerned - About this play of Molière’s! We give - _Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme_. - - THE MARQUISE - - You’ll play Jourdain? - Béjart had promised us, but then he went. - He’s not returned. - - THE ABBÉ - - Nor will, I think. But, yes, - I’ll take the part; I’ll speak in prose to you - To whom I else would speak in poetry! - - THE MARQUISE (_with a curtesy_) - - Monsieur Jourdain, your prose is ravishing!— - I’m Dorimène. - - DE BUC - - And I Dorante! - - MLLE. DE CHÂTEAU-GUI - - Lucille. - - MME. DE MALESTROIT - - Nicole! - - THE ACTRESS - - I am, Monsieur Jourdain, your wife! - - LA FÔRET - - Your son-in-law the Turk! - - DE VARDES - - Behold, monsieur, - Your fencing master! - - DE L’ORIENT - - Your _maître de danse_. - Imagine, pray, you hear my violin: - La, la—The minuet!—La, la, la! - - [_He plays an imaginary violin. The prisoners hesitate, - laugh, then begin to step a minuet. The children - and the gaolers watch them._ DE VARDES _does - not dance. He leans against a pillar to the left_. - - _Enter a turnkey_, CÉLESTE, ANGÉLIQUE, NANON, _and_ - SÉRAPHINE. - - SÉRAPHINE (_crossing herself_) - - Eh! Eh! They dance!—Well, what a thing it is - To be a noble born! - - CÉLESTE (_jealously_) - - We dance as well! - - SÉRAPHINE - - Ay, the Carmagnole! - - ANGÉLIQUE - - ‘Tis a swifter dance! - Why came we here? I never liked this church, - They are too gay of heart, these ci-devants! - Let’s to the Judgment Hall, or to the Loire. - - CÉLESTE - - Séraphine would come— - - SÉRAPHINE - - Patience, Citoyennes, - No haste! I’ve just a little word to speak - Unto monseigneur there. - - CÉLESTE - - Monseigneur! - - SÉRAPHINE - - Oh, - The Citoyen Vardes! You know my tripping tongue. - - NANON (_to the turnkey_) - - Where is that ci-devant men once did call - La belle Marquise? - - THE TURNKEY - - ‘Tis she who dances there, - Fair-haired and dressed in violet. - - NANON - - Awhile - I’ll watch her dance. - - CÉLESTE - - Their cheeks are pale. - - ANGÉLIQUE - - They smile. - I would not smile if I were they. - - [NANON, CÉLESTE, _and_ ANGÉLIQUE _watch the - dancers_. SÉRAPHINE _approaches_ DE VARDES. - - SÉRAPHINE (_in a low voice_) - - Monseigneur! - - DE VARDES - - Séraphine Robin, I believe? - - SÉRAPHINE - - Saint Yves! - Now just to think! Monseigneur knows my name!— - Eh! Morbec was my home for many a year. - When all is said and done, Home is just Home, - Hut or château—and always the De Vardes - Were lords of Morbec did they good or ill! - Most like ‘twas ill—but they were proper men! - And when they smiled we always said ‘twas day; - And old men say—but it was long ago— - A baron lived was named René the Good! - Saint Gil! Monseigneur gave us back Lisette. - Saint Maudez! ‘Tis a dangerous thing, but see! - - [_She takes from her bosom a silken purse._ - - Eh, monseigneur, ‘tis yours! Take it! Quick, quick, - Before Céleste—the baggage!—turns her head! - - [_She thrusts the purse into his hand._ - - DE VARDES - - From whom? - - SÉRAPHINE - - Look in it! You will see. ‘Tis gold. - - DE VARDES - - Gold! - - SÉRAPHINE - - And something more.—Here is Angélique! - - ANGÉLIQUE - - Aristocrat—That ring upon thy finger— - - SÉRAPHINE - - Out! - - DE VARDES - - Not yet, Citoyenne! - - ANGÉLIQUE - - Then afterwards! - I’ll have it at the trenches or the Loire! - - [_She rejoins_ CÉLESTE _and_ NANON. _They watch the - dancers._ - - DE L’ORIENT - - Nicole—Lucille—Cléonte— - - SÉRAPHINE - - My errand’s done— - Look in the purse, monseigneur, look at once! - - DE L’ORIENT - - La, la, la, la! - - DE VARDES - - I have no need of gold. - - SÉRAPHINE - - Look, monseigneur! - - DE VARDES - - Again, from whom? - - SÉRAPHINE - - A friend. - - DE VARDES - - I have no friend in Nantes. Take back thy purse! - - SÉRAPHINE - - It is not mine, the pretty, silken thing! - I swore that I would leave it, so I will! - And I was told to tell you, “Look within.” - - [NANON _approaches_. - - NANON - - In Nantes one is Suspect when one is seen - Whispering in shadows with Aristocrats! - - SÉRAPHINE - - Nothing I said you might not hear, Nanon! - Come, come away! - (_To_ DE VARDES _as she turns from him_.) Monseigneur, have a care! - - [SÉRAPHINE, NANON, CÉLESTE, _and_ ANGÉLIQUE - _watch the dancers. A grating sound is heard without - the door to the left of the altar. The turnkeys - move aside, the door opens and discloses a passage - lined with gaolers and soldiers._ - - _Enter_ GRÉGOIRE _with three or four Patriots. They wear - great boots, plumed hats, sashes of tricolour, sabres and - pistols._ - - DE L’ORIENT - - La, la, la, la, la! - - GRÉGOIRE - - The list for the day. - - [_The dance ceases._ - - CÉLESTE - - Now, now we’ll see the birds drop one by one! - - ANGÉLIQUE - - It is what I love! - - GRÉGOIRE (_He descends the step from the choir_) - - The list, Citoyens! - You whom I name pass out at yonder door. - Across the square the judges sit— - - DE BUC - - Just so! - Who leads? - - GRÉGOIRE - - Citoyen, you! - - DE BUC - - Promotion, by God!— - Messieurs, mesdames, I have marching orders! - (_To the Actress and_ MLLE. DE CHÂTEAU-GUI.) I cannot play Dorante! - Is’t not a shame? - De L’Orient there must take my part—Adieu! - (_To_ THE MARQUISE.) Ah, Dorimène, you’ll let me kiss your hand? - - THE MARQUISE - - Monsieur, monsieur— - - DE BUC (_to_ DE VARDES) - - I’m breaking camp. - - DE VARDES - - Ma foi! - We’ll meet at the end of the march, my friend! - Meantime I’ll tell thee that Bouillé once said, - “Brave as a Gascon, or Fauquemont de Buc!” - - DE BUC - - Did he so? Old Bouillé! - - [_He salutes._ - - My Colonel! - - DE VARDES - - Captain de Buc! - - [DE BUC _mounts the step into the choir and passes - out of the door, between the lines of soldiers. There - is heard the voice of the mob in the square without._ - - DE L’ORIENT - - Away with Melancholy! - The curtain’s up, the play begins! Grégoire, - My name is Thalia! Is’t on thy list? - - GRÉGOIRE (_his eyes upon the paper in his hand_) - - No, Citoyen. - - DE L’ORIENT - - Another lifetime here! - - COUNT LOUIS - - A golden louis to a paper franc, - The next is Château-Gui!— - - GRÉGOIRE - - No, Château-Gui, - You are reserved. - - COUNT LOUIS (_taking snuff_) - - Why, that is welcome news! - Eh, my daughter, we will not miss the play! - - GRÉGOIRE - - The Citoyen Charles Le Blanc. - - LE BLANC - - What damned star - Flared and went out the night that I was born? - - [_Exit_ LE BLANC. - - GRÉGOIRE - - Hervé Rauderendec, called the Breton! - - THE BRETON - - Good people all, it has been pleasant here, - But now the tide draws to the full—Adieu! - I must make sail! - - [_Exit the Breton._ - - GRÉGOIRE - - The Citoyenne Gérard. - - THE ACTRESS - - I? - - GRÉGOIRE - - Delphine Gérard. - - THE ACTRESS - - Oh, I knew, I knew - The butterfly that touched me was ill luck! - I named it Hope,—it fled, it fled away! - - THE ABBÉ - - We’re loth to let you go, Delphine Gérard. - - THE ACTRESS - - There is no choice—I have my cue, you see!— - And after all the play’s a tragedy. - - [_Exit the Actress._ - - CÉLESTE - - ‘Tis better worth our while across the square! - - ANGÉLIQUE - - ‘Tis so! Let’s to the Judgment Hall. - - NANON - - Agreed. - Come, Séraphine! - - SÉRAPHINE - - I’ll follow presently. - - ANGÉLIQUE - - Do not delay. We’ll keep a place for you! - - [_Exeunt_ NANON, CÉLESTE, _and_ ANGÉLIQUE. - - GRÉGOIRE - - The Citoyenne Vaucourt. - - MME. DE VAUCOURT - - Children, children! - Your father’s calling me from Paradise!— - Thérèse, Philippe, farewell, farewell, farewell! - Oh, clasp me close and kiss!—Forget me not!— - Yes, yes, I’ll buy the bonbons and the doll! - I’ll not forget— - - GRÉGOIRE - - The boy goes with you. - - MME. DE VAUCOURT (_wildly_) - - With me! He’s but a babe! Not eight till June! - - THE BOY (_clinging to her_) - - To the toy-shop, mother! - - MME. DE VAUCOURT - - Oh, yes, child, yes! - To the toy-shop! - - [_They go out together._ - - GRÉGOIRE - - Maria Innocenta Sombreuil! - - [_A young girl in the habit of a Carmelite novice - leaves the shadow of a pillar, with raised face and - hands crossed upon her breast mounts the step and - passes out between the soldiers._ - - Gaspard Le Borgne! - - LE BORGNE - - An angel leads me on. - - [_He follows the novice._ - - GRÉGOIRE - - Enguerrand La Fôret! - - LA FÔRET - - Ha, ha!—ha, ha! - Ha, ha!— - - [_Hysterical and continued laughter._ GRÉGOIRE _and - the turnkeys look stolidly on, but the prisoners are - disturbed_. - - COUNT LOUIS - - For shame, Enguerrand La Fôret! - Before women!—Die like a gentleman! - - LA FÔRET (_He leans against the balustrade of the choir_) - - Ha, ha! - - COUNT LOUIS - - Fie, fie! You shame us all! - - LA FÔRET - - Ha, ha! - I laugh because—ha, ha!—‘tis such a joke! - - [_He mounts the step still laughing, then suddenly - recovers himself and turns with fury._ - - Who calls me coward? I laughed because I laughed! - - [_He wrests a musket from the nearest soldier and - stabs him with the bayonet._ - - Take that!—There’s one at least will laugh no more! - - [_Oaths and confusion among the gaolers and soldiers. - A sigh of satisfaction from the prisoners._ LA FÔRET - _is dragged out_. GRÉGOIRE _looks at his list, then at_ - DE VARDES. _The latter advances._ - - GRÉGOIRE (_hurriedly to himself_) - - To-morrow—not to-day! I’ll risk that much,— - Just for the way he fought that Morbec night! - (_Aloud._) Stand back, Citoyen Vardes! Your time’s not yet. - - [_A murmur of pleasure and congratulation from the - prisoners._ - - MLLE. DE CHÂTEAU-GUI - - We are so pleased, Monsieur le Baron! - - GRÉGOIRE - - Citoyens Rochedagon and Pincornet! - - [_The men named go out. There is heard from the - square without and from the passage a sound of - acclamation. The door is flung open and the Actress - enters._ - - THE ACTRESS - - They harmed me not! “No, no!” they said. “No, no! - Delphine Gérard must play for us in Nantes.” - Oh, the people! Oh, the dear good people! - Oh, blessed fortune! - - DE VARDES - - We are most happy! - - THE ABBÉ - - Delphine Gérard! - - COUNT LOUIS - - Welcome, mademoiselle! - You see the play is still a comedy! - - GRÉGOIRE - - Marneil, Delille! - - [_Exeunt the men named._ - - DE L’ORIENT - - The leaves fall fast, - The tree will soon be bare! - - GRÉGOIRE - - The Citoyenne - Clarice-Marie Miramand Blanchefôret. - - DE VARDES - - Oh, wretch! - - THE PRISONERS - - La belle Marquise! - - THE MARQUISE - - It is my name!— - I had no thought I would be called to-day!— - Unwarned! That’s horrible! Ah, good Grégoire! - A little while— - - GRÉGOIRE (_stolidly_) - - Citoyenne Blanchefôret. - - THE MARQUISE - - Ah, villain! - - DE VARDES (_to_ GRÉGOIRE) - - Five minutes! - - [_He slips into_ GRÉGOIRE’S _hand the purse of gold_. - GRÉGOIRE _hesitates a moment, then his hand closes - upon the purse. He thrusts it into his bosom._ - - SÉRAPHINE - - Saint Michel! - - [DE VARDES _comes to_ THE MARQUISE _and they speak - together_. GRÉGOIRE _turns to another group of prisoners_. - - GRÉGOIRE - - Montfauçon and Guistelles. - - SÉRAPHINE - - Saint Guenolé! - He hath the purse! The paper in it too! - He’s rock; he, black Grégoire! Alack the day! - Saint Huon! What’s to do?— - - GRÉGOIRE - - Sorel and Mornay! - - SÉRAPHINE - - Saint Yves le Véridique! I will away! - - [_Exit_ SÉRAPHINE. - - DE VARDES (_to_ THE MARQUISE) - - Would I might die for thee! - - THE MARQUISE - - ‘Tis but a dream! - - DE VARDES - - Clarice! Clarice! - - THE MARQUISE - - A vision of the night! - - DE VARDES - - Clarice-Marie! - - THE MARQUISE - - I will awake! - - DE VARDES - - My friend! - - THE MARQUISE - - Ah, only that! - - DE VARDES - - La belle Marquise! - - THE MARQUISE - - No more! - - DE VARDES - - How long have we been friends! And now— - - THE MARQUISE - - And now!— - - DE VARDES - - My friend, my friend! - - THE MARQUISE - - Alas! Alas, ‘tis true - We are good friends—in life and death good friends! - ‘Tis much—though there are lovers too in Nantes, - And when one loves ‘tis not so hard to die! - Or so I’ve heard, monsieur. - - DE VARDES - - O destiny! - - THE MARQUISE - - The jasmine is my flower—a luckless bloom! - Wear not the too-sweet jasmine flower, - For then one loves, but is not loved again! - - DE VARDES - - No, no! the rose— - - THE MARQUISE - - The rose unloved! Ay, ay! - Last night I dreamed of roses and of lights, - Beside a water still they burned and bloomed— - Lit candles and pale roses with gold hearts, - Like those that bloomed within my garden once, - When you rode by, when you rode by, my friend! - - DE VARDES - - Alas! - - THE MARQUISE - - They’re dead, my garden roses, dead! - They’ll bloom no more, nor wilt thou ride that way; - Nor, Sieur de Morbec, dost thou love the rose. - For once thou said’st to me upon a day - When I did find the Morbec roses fair, - “I better love the heartsease at thy feet.” - The peasant flower! Rememb’rest thou that day? - ‘Twas Saint John’s Eve— - - DE VARDES - - Would I remembered not! - - THE MARQUISE - - The heartsease— - - DE VARDES - - The heartsease withered. - - [_A roar from the square._ DE L’ORIENT _turns from - the window_. - - DE L’ORIENT - - Ah! - - COUNT LOUIS - - What do you see? - - DE L’ORIENT - - Too much! - - [_A turnkey laughs._ - - THE TURNKEY - - Carrier! Lalain! - Oh, they judge quickly! _Vive la République!_ - - THE MARQUISE - - It was a summer day when first we met, - And now we part within a prison here, - And never shall we see each other more! - - DE VARDES - - Oh, briefer than the fairest summer day - The little hour before we meet again! - Soon, soon I’ll follow thee, and all of these! - The reaper hath his sickle in the corn. - He is a madman, but the field is God’s, - And God will garner up the fallen ears, - And in another life we two shall meet! - - THE MARQUISE - - And wilt thou love me then? Ah, no! Ah, no! - - DE VARDES - - Thou art a lady brave and fair— - - THE MARQUISE - - Alas! - - GRÉGOIRE - - The Nun Benôite, an Ursuline! - - [_A nun rises from her knees, makes the sign of the - cross, and passes out between the soldiers._ - - THE MARQUISE - - Ah me! - The unknown land, just guessed at and no more, - To which this loud wind sends my cockle boat!— - Where are my beads? Lost, lost with all things else! - Jewels and gold and friends and lovers too!— - Ah, short my shrift with Grégoire glowering there. - My hatred of Madame la Maréchale, - I’m sorry for’t. The Captal de Montgis - Once did me wrong. Well, well, I can forgive!— - Sieur de Morbec, where’s she that flung us down, - Lifted her finger and behold us here! - Her face is fair—ah, very fair her face. - She was your mistress, yes? - - DE VARDES - - No! - - THE MARQUISE - - What then? - - DE VARDES - - Cold that I warmed, and hunger that I fed. - - THE MARQUISE - - O strike her, Frost! O Hunger, with her wed! - - DE VARDES - - Ah, curse her not! She knew not what she did! - - THE MARQUISE - - Alas! Alas! - - GRÉGOIRE - - The Citoyenne L’Esparre! - - THE MARQUISE - - The women go—He’ll call my name! Ah, look! - The purple saints within the windows there, - See how they wave their palms and smile at me! - They wave their palms, they strike their golden harps, - Their aureoles are brighter than the sun! - - GRÉGOIRE - - The Citoyenne Blanchefôret! - - THE MARQUISE - - The clock has struck! - - DE VARDES - - All angels guard thee! - - THE MARQUISE - - Fatal is my name - And hated through long years in Brittany. - Perhaps I shall not live to cross the square! - - [_The noise of the mob without._ - - Oh, hear! - - DE VARDES - - Take courage! - - THE MARQUISE - - From the window there, - Wilt watch me on my way? - - DE VARDES - - Ay! - - GRÉGOIRE - - Citoyenne! - - THE MARQUISE - - Farewell! Ah, not my hand, my friend! - - DE VARDES (_He kisses her upon the brow_) - - Farewell! - Farewell— - - [THE MARQUISE _turns to the remaining prisoners_. - - THE MARQUISE - - Messieurs, mesdames, ‘tis with regret - I take my leave of this fair company! - My part of Dorimène—it must be played - By some more able, not more willing, one; - For me—I’m bidden to a wider stage. - Adieu! Adieu! Adieu! - - THE PRISONERS - - La belle Marquise! - - [_Exit_ THE MARQUISE. DE VARDES _crosses to the - window_. DE L’ORIENT _gives him place, and he - stands upon the bench and watches the square without_. - - COUNT LOUIS - - There are three names that most of all they hate: - De Vardes and Château-Gui and Blanchefôret! - - GRÉGOIRE - - Pasquier, Harlebeque, and Damazan. - - [_There is heard from the street without a confused - sound of execration and triumph. The now small - company of prisoners exchange glances._ - - DE VARDES (_at the window_) - - Grand Dieu! - - DE L’ORIENT (_beside him_) - - They dare not!—Ah! - - [_The sound without grows to a roar._ - - COUNT LOUIS - - What seest thou? - - DE L’ORIENT - - Malediction! - - [_A cry without._ DE VARDES, _at the window, raises - his voice_. - - DE VARDES - - Clarice! Clarice! - - [_There is a faint answering cry, followed by a roar - from the mob, then silence._ - - MLLE. DE CHÂTEAU-GUI - - O Ciel! - - THE ACTRESS - - Miséricorde! - - DE VARDES - - ‘Tis done—‘tis past—she’s dead. - O God who makest man, forbear, forbear! - - [_He covers his face with his hands. There is a - silence._ GRÉGOIRE _folds his papers_. - - COUNT LOUIS (_with a shaking voice_) - - ‘Tis well with her at last; we need not weep. - We all must die, for so the play goes on! - Her father was a lord of Gascony; - A golden spur he wore, and loved the chase! - Her mother was more fair than Montespan. - A thousand times we’ve hunted with the King, - De Miramand and I; a thousand times - We’ve watched the moon, that first Clarice and I! - - GRÉGOIRE - - To-morrow, at this hour, another list! - Meantime, Citoyens, you and you and you, - And you, Citoyennes, who petitioned so, - Your prayer is heard. Lalain is merciful! - You shall not sleep on these cold stones to-night, - Another gaol’s provided. Follow me! - - MLLE. DE CHÂTEAU-GUI - - O welcome change! - - COUNT LOUIS - - The stones were very cold! - - THE ACTRESS - - And can we have our play there just the same? - - GRÉGOIRE - - Just the same. - - [_The prisoners move toward the door._ DE VARDES - _touches_ GRÉGOIRE _on the arm_. - - DE VARDES - - I find the stones no colder than their wont, - Time moves no heavier here than everywhere, - And here, Grégoire, I will remain. The Church - Will give me up when Carrier calls my name! - - DE L’ORIENT - - I will keep you company— - - GRÉGOIRE - - As you will— - To-morrow you’ll be called—you have one night. - (_To the other prisoners._) Follow me. - - [_Exeunt all but_ DE VARDES _and_ DE L’ORIENT. - _The latter flings himself upon the bench beneath the - window_; DE VARDES _paces to and fro. A silence, - then_ DE L’ORIENT _sings_. - - DE L’ORIENT - - _There is an herb, they say, - Gives light to all the blind. - ’Twill be a gracious day - When I that herb shall find. - And lighten all the blind!_ - - _There is a leaf that springs. - Will heal the very sad. - Ah, would that I had wings - To find that leaf so glad, - And heal the very sad!_ - - _There is a bloom o’ grace - Will bring the dead again. - Ah, for the flowret’s face! - Ah, for an end to pain! - Ah, for the dead again!_ - - DE VARDES - - Why, that’s a mournful thing! - - DE L’ORIENT - - It was so meant. - Oh, happy days we sing the saddest things!— - My heart is eased. I’ll sleep awhile and dream. - - [_He pillows his head upon his arm and sleeps._ DE - VARDES _walks slowly to and fro_. - - DE VARDES - - Sleep!—How long has it been since Sleep and I - Met in the heavy road and laid us down, - Took our dear ease, and let the world go by?— - I well remember in the north one time,— - Beside Moselle, where all the live-long day - Upon a stairway old we stood on guard, - De Buc and I, and looked on Mutiny, - Brazen and bold, Death visible and dark!— - And all the night before in council spent, - After a day’s forced march from Lunéville, - And a wild night of wine and rapiers drawn.— - As the sun set we heard a bugle blown, - Beat of the drums, and thunder of the guns, - And Bouillé’s voice, assurance of relief!— - Another night of council, then at dawn - We slept. The moon was crescent and a star - Shone on to guide the white, enchanted boat - Through seas of ether coloured like a shell; - The trees were dark beneath; there was no sound; - The air was cold,—we laid us down and slept. - Saint Gris! No dreams did trouble us that day!— - - [_He rests upon the choir step._ - - To bring the dead again! No flowret blooms, - No herb, no leaf, shall bring the dead again. - No garden is there where for all one’s gold, - The weightiest sceptre or the keenest sword, - Might one obtain the happy gardener’s place, - And find the bloom that brings the dead again. - It grows not here, and there is naught will serve, - No rain of tears, no delving earnestly, - No lift of hope, no squandered treasury, - Love nor remorse, nor longing nor great pain. - The star has shot. The dead come not again. - - [_He rises and again walks to and fro._ - - Happy the dead.—Ah, what of one who lives? - What of that mask in this fantastic dance - Who crowned herself with poison flowers and laughed - To see the lilies fade before her breath?— - O death! O love! O blasting treachery! - O face that in the prison of La Force - Visited my dreams— - - [_The door opens._ YVETTE _leans against it, panting, - then comes forward_. - - YVETTE - - Where is the paper? - - DE VARDES - - The paper? - - YVETTE - - The letter to the judges! - Folded and hidden in the purse I sent— - - DE VARDES - - You sent?— - - YVETTE - - By Séraphine! You have it, sure? - - [_She looks about her._ - - Where is she?—The Citoyenne Blanchefôret? - - DE VARDES - - She’s dead. - - YVETTE - - No. - - DE VARDES - - Yes. - - YVETTE - - All is black before me! - - DE VARDES - - They called her name—She said adieu and went. - They slew her in the street. - - YVETTE - - Alas! - - DE VARDES - - She’s dead, - Who was so fair. Why do you say alas? - - YVETTE - - Too late!—O God, I thought that all was well! - - DE VARDES - - Why, so it is! With her ‘tis well. She’s dead. - They say the dead are happy. - - YVETTE - - You loved her! - - DE VARDES - - Goddess of Reason, no! Mere friends were we. - But I’ve a preference for my friends alive! - - YVETTE - - Oh, woe is me! - - DE VARDES - - Thou hast what thou didst seek. - Return to Olympus and hear “All hail, - Well done, and like a deity!” - - YVETTE - - The paper! - - DE VARDES - - Thou dream of Paimpont Wood!— - - YVETTE - - The purse of gold! - - DE VARDES - - Thou picture of the Duchess Jeanne! - - YVETTE - - The purse! - Give, give! - - DE VARDES - - The purse!—I gave it to Grégoire. - - YVETTE - - What! - - DE VARDES - - It bought five minutes—I did not know - ‘Twas thine. - - YVETTE - - To Grégoire! You did not open it! - - DE VARDES - - No! - - YVETTE - - Oh, woe, woe is me! - - DE VARDES - - Thou standest there! - Still, still the herd girl on the green cliff head - Who waves her hand to a lost boat at sea! - Still, still the vision of a haunted wood - Soulless as is the stone thou leanest on,— - Vivien musing on the thing she’s done! - - YVETTE - - A slip of paper in a silken purse— - - DE VARDES - - Wilt thou begone? The Mountain waits. - - YVETTE - - Too late! - - Where is Grégoire? - - DE VARDES - - I know not. He’s away; - He has thy gold—I’m sorry for’t. - - YVETTE - - No hope?— - I thought the bridge was built and both were o’er. - Then as I passed I heard “To-morrow morn - Carrier himself will judge that ci-devant” - - DE VARDES - - The Mountain waits— - - YVETTE - - I’ll to Lalain again. - - DE VARDES - - Ha! - - YVETTE - - She is dead; I’m lost. But thou—But thou— - Farewell! Farewell! - - DE VARDES - - Thou said’st, _I’ll to Lalain_. - I do forbid it utterly. - - YVETTE - - Oh! - - DE VARDES - - Obey! - It is thy seigneur’s last command. - (_To himself._) Thou fool! - Touch not her hand. ‘Tis red! - - YVETTE - - Monseigneur! - - DE VARDES - - Why art thou both so fair and foul a thing? - - YVETTE - - Ay, call me that—I care not! - - DE VARDES - - I’ll call thee “Death, - Sweet Death—fair Treachery!” - - YVETTE - - Forgive, forgive! - - DE VARDES - - There’s blood upon thy hand. - - YVETTE - - Forgive! - - DE VARDES - - Alas! - Thou didst betray! - - YVETTE - - I would that I were dead - In Paimpont Wood, beside the Druid Stone! - - DE VARDES - - I would that I had never strayed that way! - - YVETTE - - I won that paper in that purse of gold! - And it was life, I tell thee, life for both! - O God! how all things here miscarry! - - DE VARDES - - I would that I had never seen thy face! - - YVETTE - - Oh, much I hated her, la belle Marquise, - And yester morn I did betray her there, - Just in the moment God gave o’er my soul! - And she is dead—I cannot bring her back. - Oh, swift the madness passed and came remorse, - And I did hate myself, and strove to save!— - Oh, woe, and double woe! He promised me! - Oh, I have striven with a fiend from hell - And not prevailed, though sorely I did strive! - O God! O God! I’m weary of the light! - Now, now thou too wilt die unless—unless— - Ah, let me go—Farewell, a little while! - - DE VARDES - - Not till I know where thou dost go, and why. - - YVETTE - - Rémond Lalain gave me that paper. - It was an order, written by himself, - Whom even Carrier would not offend— - A secret paper not for every eye. - Reward he asked for certain services,— - Two lives, your life and hers—and hers, I swear! - He does not leave his villa all this day, - But at the judgment bar you were to show - That paper to Lambertye or Sarlat, - And both were saved—both, both, I swear it, both! - And now she’s dead—‘Twas life you flung away - Shut in that purse! You gave it to Grégoire! - Grégoire! He serves the Revolution, - Is flint to all beside! Oh me! Oh me! - I could not come myself, I could but send. - I won it not till cockcrow of this morn! - - DE VARDES - - Till cockcrow! - - YVETTE - - The dawn came slowly on. - The cock crew and I drew the curtain by - And saw the morning star above the Loire! - - DE VARDES - - The morning star! - - YVETTE - - ‘Twas like the eye of God! - I used to watch it from the fields at dawn; - This morn ‘twas watching me! - - DE VARDES - - Rémond Lalain! - - YVETTE - - ‘Twas all in vain. She’s dead—ah, ages since! - You’ll not forgive—So fare you well again! - - DE VARDES - - Where goest thou, Yvette? - - YVETTE - - To Séraphine, - Beneath the Lanterne, Sign of the Hour Glass! - - DE VARDES - - Hear and obey! It is a dying man - Speaks to thee now and with authority!— - Thy seigneur too, and head of all thy house. - When I am dead, the last of the De Vardes - Will be thyself, my cousin!—All song doth say - That Duchess Jeanne who lived so long ago, - Whose pictured face and thine are counterparts, - E’en to the shadowy hair, the cheek’s soft curve, - The light of eye, the slow, enchanting smile,— - All song doth say she had a bruisèd heart, - But in God’s sight a height of soul! So thou. - Go thou to Morbec. Leave this Babylon. - Back! from the travelled road thy foot’s upon! - List not unto the music that is played; - Touch not the scarlet flowers, the honey-sweet, - They’ll poison thee! Think not the light is fair, - It is false dawn. Take thou the darkling way - Shall lead thee to white light and lasting bloom! - Go thou to Morbec. Take thy distaff up, - Spin thou thy flax and listen to old tales, - Peacefully, with that smile upon thy lip! - Or in the dewy dawn lift up thy head - From dreamless sleep and drive thy cows afield, - Stand mid the golden broom and mark the mist - Rise from the hidden sea, and hear the lark - Singing afar his strain of heavenly hope,— - So wear thy years away, ah, tranquilly!— - Thou art so young—All this will come to seem - A dream of yesternight— - - YVETTE - - Dost thou forgive? - - DE VARDES - - And at the last when Death shall take thy hand, - Smile at the due caress, and lightly come— - If I am I, I’ll meet thee on the strand! - - YVETTE - - Dost thou forgive? - - DE VARDES - - I love! - - YVETTE - - _Me?_ - - DE VARDES - - Thou sayest. - - YVETTE - - Where is the music playing? - - DE VARDES - - Long ago, - To Paris and my King I rode away, - Long ago, in the freshness of the world! - I left thee there, all safe in convent fold— - Fair were the fruit trees in that garden old, - Warm shone the sun, the silver fountain played. - I left thee there and thought to find again, - When King and Crown were saved and devoir done, - The battle o’er, the bugles sounding peace!— - The King he is in heaven, the Crown is lost, - The battle’s to the strong, the war drum rattles on. - Long lay I in the prison of La Force; - A dream I had that thou wouldst wait for me, - Beside the fountain, by the bright fruit trees. - Thou must have known that bars kept me from thee! - Thou must have known that I did love thee true! - Thou must have known that I did longing wait - The rainbow after storm, the halcyon time - When, stilled the jar and discord of the mind, - The all unfettered heart might speak of love! - But ah, the garden’s sealed. Thou art not there! - Thou wouldst not wait the while— - - YVETTE - - Outside I kneel; - Outside the garden, outside Paradise! - Oh, woe! Oh, bliss! - - DE VARDES - - Weep not! - - YVETTE - - I love thee so! - - DE VARDES - - Paimpont! Paimpont! I feel thy magic wind! - - _Reënter_ GRÉGOIRE. - - GRÉGOIRE - - Citoyen Vardes— - - YVETTE - - Grégoire, Grégoire! the purse— - The purse of gold!— - - GRÉGOIRE - - Hein? - - DE VARDES - - Let be! Let be! - No purse was there! Dost hear, dost hear, Yvette? - No purse, no gold, no paper, no Lalain! - Thou dost not think that I would take my life? - - YVETTE - - No! - - DE VARDES - - Well said, and like the Duchess Jeanne! - Let not Grégoire mistake thee either! - - YVETTE - - I said I know not what, Grégoire, nor why! - Sometimes a woman says she knows not what. - Why should I talk of purses, faith, now why! - - GRÉGOIRE - - What do you here, Citoyenne? - - YVETTE - - I know not. - I strayed this way, a gaoler let me in. - ‘Tis of the sights of Nantes, this church, this gaol! - - GRÉGOIRE (_to_ DE VARDES) - - I have in charge to guard you through the street - To the old Prison of the Séminaire. - They who lodge there go onward to the Loire! - - [_He turns to_ DE L’ORIENT. - - DE VARDES (_to_ YVETTE) - - Oh, sunken eyes! Oh, cheek so deadly pale! - Oh, rest thee, rest thee, child, in still Morbec! - Our Lady guard thee, guide thee with her hand. - Farewell— - - YVETTE - - I’ll walk upon the banks of Loire. - - DE VARDES - - No; come not there! - - YVETTE - - I must. It is my road. - - GRÉGOIRE (_He touches_ DE L’ORIENT _upon the shoulder_) - - Awake, poet, and go along with us! - - DE L’ORIENT - - I am awake! ‘Tis trudge again, De Vardes! - - _Come, Fanchon and Babette, - Olympe and Joséphine! - The dancers all are met - Within the forest green! - Cerise to me, - Denise to thee, - But none to Léontine!_ - - [_He turns with_ GRÉGOIRE _to the door at left of the - altar_. - - DE VARDES - - Farewell—my _douce_! - - YVETTE - - Farewell—my fisherman! - Oh— - - GRÉGOIRE - - Come! - - DE L’ORIENT - - _The dancers all are met - Within the forest green!_ - - [_Exeunt_ DE VARDES, DE L’ORIENT, _and_ GRÉGOIRE. - _The church darkens._ YVETTE _moves to the choir - step_. - - YVETTE - - Oh, love in my heart! Oh, splendour and light! - The bow in the sky, the bird at its height! - The glory and state of the angels bright! - - [_She kneels and stretches out her arms to the altar._ - - Oh, mother of sorrows! - - _CURTAIN_ - -[Illustration] - -[Illustration] - - - - - _ACT V_ - - - SCENE I - - _A Judgment Hall in Nantes. A dais upon which at a heavy table sit - several members of the Revolutionary Committee. Behind them - soldiers and a great tricolour flag. To one side a tribune draped - with tricolour; opposite the tribune a gallery filled with women - of the Revolution. Upon the floor of the hall a throng of - red-capped men. To the right of the dais a number of the accused, - men and women. To the left a small group of the condemned._ - - _Uproar in the hall. An accused who has been standing before the - judges rejoins the right-hand group of prisoners. One of the - judges rings the bell on the table before him._ - - THE JUDGE - - Silence, Citoyennes in the gallery! - You disturb judgment! - - CÉLESTE (_leaning from the gallery_) - - We would know up here - Why you did free that man? - - THE JUDGE (_soothingly_) - - Ah, Citoyenne! - He’s not free—he’s but acquitted! - - CÉLESTE - - Ah, well! - That’s different! - (_To the women about her._) He’s but acquitted! - - THE WOMEN (_They nod their heads_) - - Ah! - - _Enter_ LALAIN _with_ NANON _and_ ANGÉLIQUE. - - CÉLESTE - - Hé! Angélique! Nanon! - - [NANON _and_ ANGÉLIQUE _make their way through - the press to the gallery stairs_. - - THE CROWD - - Rémond Lalain. - - A JUDGE - - Thy place is here, Lalain! - - LALAIN - - Make way, my friends. - The Levée’s thronged to-day. - - THE CROWD - - Ha, ha, ‘tis so! - Levée of the Citoyen Carrier! - _Vive la République! Vive Rémond Lalain!_ - - [LALAIN _sits beside the judges_. - - A JUDGE (_to a gaoler_) - - The next. - - THE GAOLER - - Dog of a priest! - - [THE ABBÉ _approaches the bar_. - - THE ABBÉ - - On yesterday, - Messieurs the Judges, you acquitted me. - - A JUDGE - - It is to-day. - - THE ABBÉ - - Citoyen Lambertye— - - LAMBERTYE (_hastily_) - - I give thee o’er—I give thee o’er— - - THE ABBÉ - - Parbleu! - Samaritan! Would I had played Levite! - And left thee in the ditch with every wound - Till Satan came to hale his minion forth!— - Well, with this life I’ve done! - - FIRST JUDGE - - Thou art a priest - - THE ABBÉ - - Granted. - - SECOND JUDGE - - Death! - - A TRICOTEUSE (_from the gallery_) - - Hé! Citoyen, below there! - I’ve dropped my knitting. Throw it here to me! - - THIRD JUDGE - - Thou hast aided emigrés. - - THE ABBÉ - - Granted. - - SECOND JUDGE - - Death! - - FIRST JUDGE - - And written unto exiles. - - THE ABBÉ - - Granted. - - SECOND JUDGE - - Death! - - THIRD JUDGE - - Thou hast been heard to scorn and to lament - That which the Revolution hath achieved! - - THE ABBÉ - - Scorn and lament! Why, no, I’ve wept with joy - To see the things the Revolution hath achieved! - As— - - FIRST JUDGE - - As what? - - THE ABBÉ - - Why, thou death’s-head, many things! - It did achieve, for one, my brother’s death! - - THIRD JUDGE - - Dost thou mourn for him? - - THE ABBÉ - - Ay! - - SECOND JUDGE - - Death! - - THE ABBÉ - - Achieve! I like the word. Achieve, achieve! - Ruin and downfall, death and waste of fame! - Achievement of the Revolution! Ha, - I’ll tell thee, farceur, what it hath achieved: - It hath achieved the death of the Gironde, - Death of Marat, and death of D’Orléans, - Death of great part of its abhorrèd brood! - It hath achieved the Company of Marat; - It hath achieved Jacques Carrier in Nantes; - It shall achieve more death and infamy! - Death! The word you are so fond of. Death! - And Infamy, the thing you can’t bestow! - It shall achieve the death of Carrier, - The death of Lambertye and of Lalain, - The death of Danton and of Robespierre!— - Nature will give a grave obscene and dark, - And Time will see that docks and darnels grow! - - [_Uproar._ - - THE FIRST JUDGE - - Death,—stand aside, condemned. - - _Enter_ SÉRAPHINE. - - CÉLESTE - - Ah, Séraphine, - Come up here, Séraphine! - - [SÉRAPHINE _mounts the stair and sits beside_ CÉLESTE, - ANGÉLIQUE, _and_ NANON. - - NANON - - Where is Yvette? - - SÉRAPHINE - - I know not, I! - - ANGÉLIQUE - - I saw her gliding by, - Beneath the moon, last night when all was still. - Against a cannon in the empty square - She leaned, and on the river looked. - - SÉRAPHINE - - What harm? - - ANGÉLIQUE - - Why, none! - - CÉLESTE (_her eyes upon the prisoners below_) - - Ha, ha! it is the old man’s turn! - - A GAOLER - - Château-Gui! - - THE WOMAN - - Ah, Château-Gui! - - FIRST JUDGE - - Château-Gui! - - MLLE. DE CHÂTEAU-GUI - - O my father! - - COUNT LOUIS - - Unclasp thy hands, my child! - What is it, Lambertye? - - FIRST JUDGE - - Thou ci-devant, - Thou art accused, imprimatur, of this: - Once thou didst serve Capet! - - COUNT LOUIS - - The King? - - FIRST JUDGE - - Capet. - - COUNT LOUIS - - I served the King of France. - - FIRST JUDGE - - Twice over, death! For thou didst serve Capet; - For thou dost dare say the King of France! - - COUNT LOUIS - - The King of France! - - THE CROWD - - Ah!— - - COUNT LOUIS - - Son of Saint Louis! - - THE CROWD - - Ah!— - - COUNT LOUIS - - Royal Martyr! - - THE CROWD - - Ah—h—h. - - MLLE. DE CHÂTEAU-GUI - - O my father! - - THIRD JUDGE - - All titles, terms of honour and of state, - Majesty and reverence are forbid, - Not to be spoken! They are ci-devants, - They are condemned. - - THE CROWD - - Condemned! - - COUNT LOUIS - - Ha, ci-devants, - Titles and symbols, names and attributes, - Condemned for splendour and for high estate! - Ha, Croix de Saint Louis! Ha, Château-Gui! - Thou goest to heaven in famous company: - King, Saint, Martyr, Reverence, Majesty.— - Best make the company a regiment— - Regiment du Roi, in vestments gorgeous! - Forbidden words! Who says to me “forbid”? - Ye sans-culottes, ye bourgeois, creeping things, - Adders and asps that slew a king and queen! - I am a courtier of the olden time - Who served le Grand Monarque, knew Mazarin, - And in a Court shall still be courtier, - Croix de Saint Louis, with the _grande entrée_, - While ye do prowl in filthy ways of hell, - Nor hardly see its red-lit Œil-de-bœuf - Where everlasting Terror, groaning, reigns,— - But, being lackeys, keep the lackeys’ place! - - FIRST JUDGE - - Enough! - - SECOND JUDGE - - Death! - - THE CROWD - - Death! The Loire! - - COUNT LOUIS - - O Kings of France! - O sons of Clovis and of Charlemagne! - Louis the Pious and the Debonair! - Philippe August and Fair, and Charles the Wise! - And thou the sainted King, the Blessed Louis! - And Charles Bien-Aimé, Victorieux, - Crowned by the maiden of Domrémy! - And the good King Henri, Henri the Great! - Louis the Just, Louis le Grand Monarque! - Louis the Loved, and Louis lately dead, - The Martyr King, the Martyr, Martyr King!— - O Kings of France in that fair land ye be, - To your châteaux and to your palaces - Prepare to welcome dying loyalty! - For knightly faith is marching forth from France. - Throne, sceptre, orb, and majesty have passed, - Ermine and coronet and spur of gold, - Renown and splendid honour, valiant sway, - Ancien Régime, noblesse of old France! - The oriflamme upon its golden stem, - The banner of the lilies waving high!— - - THE CROWD - - Ah— - - COUNT LOUIS - - The lily banner and the oriflamme! - Forgotten yonder stripes of shame and woe! - - THE CROWD - - The tricolour! Death! The Loire! - - FIRST JUDGE - - Death to-night! - - COUNT LOUIS - - Nightshade, mandrake, and hemlock o’er ye wave!— - But I am going where, I make no doubt, - The favourite flower is still the fleur-de-lis! - - THE CROWD - - Ah! - - COUNT LOUIS - - And the word forbid is _république_! - - THE CROWD - - Down! down! - - COUNT LOUIS - - Princes and peers of France! - - FIRST JUDGE - - Have done! - - COUNT LOUIS - - Anjou, Lorraine! - - THE CROWD - - Ah—h—h! - - COUNT LOUIS - - Bourbon and Valois! - - [_Uproar in the hall._ MLLE. DE CHÂTEAU-GUI - _clings to her father’s arm_. - - Forbidden words! Well, well, my child, I’m done! - My breath is out.—Forbidden words! Ma foi! - ‘Tis to my taste to deal in contraband! - - [_The First Judge rings the bell violently. The tumult - subsides._ - - A GAOLER - - Château-Gui, take place beside the priest! - - THE ABBÉ - - Ah, - Monsieur le Comte! - - COUNT LOUIS - - Monsieur l’Abbé! - - [_He offers his snuff-box._ - - FIRST JUDGE - - The next. - - _Enter_ YVETTE. _The crowd murmurs as it makes way._ - - THE CROWD - - Yvette Charruel! - - A MAN - - Goddess of Reason! - - [YVETTE _mounts the stair to the gallery and sits beside_ - SÉRAPHINE. - - CÉLESTE - - So pale! - - ANGÉLIQUE - - No rose? - - NANON - - Only her lips are red. - - CÉLESTE - - So heavy-eyed? - - YVETTE - - I have not slept. - - A YOUNG GIRL (_near her_) - - Oh, oh, - Thy voice! ‘Tis like a violin playing! - - ANGÉLIQUE - - I know thou didst not sleep.—How looked the Loire - Beneath the moon last night? - - YVETTE - - Much as ‘twill look - Beneath the moon to-night. - - [_With her chin upon her hand she studies the throng - below._ - - SÉRAPHINE - - The prisoners— - - YVETTE - - Who rises there? - - FIRST JUDGE - - Thou ci-devant, De Vardes! - - THE CROWD - - De Vardes! De Vardes! Aristocrat! De Vardes! - - DE VARDES - - Rémond Lalain— - - LALAIN - - René de Vardes. - - DE VARDES - - This court— - Pray you conceive it is some greensward trim, - My cartel sent, received, the duel fought, - And thou the victor, since so wags the world, - Heart’s blood of mine upon thy rapier dark! - And I the vanquished in the sight of men, - Drowsing to death upon the bloody sod. - And all this folk but seconds, witnesses, - They are not here, nor there; we are the men! - Now, seeing death hath some prerogative, - I charge thee stand, antagonist! nor leave - This sunny field with thy triumphant friends - Until I bid thee go! - - LALAIN - - I hear! - (_To the crowd._) Silence! - - DE VARDES - - When I do think that once I called thee friend, - My wonder grows! The orchard’s blooming now - Where we did lie at length on summer eves - The while the mavis sang and sea winds blew, - And to the nodding clover droned the bee,— - Two striplings couched beneath an apple tree, - Talking of knights at arms and paladins - And what we each would dare in worthy cause! - That brow of thine was not so swarthy then, - Thine eyes were frank, we read from the same book - The deeds of Palmerin and Amadis. - Then up we lightly rose and went our way, - Hand touching hand,—Orestes, Pylades! - I, Jonathan the Prince, and David thou! - The figure holds, for Jonathan will die, - But wilt thou mourn him, David? No, I say!— - Nor o’er his kingdom shalt thou reign, Rémond! - - LALAIN - - René— - - DE VARDES - - I am, monsieur, the Baron of Morbec! - - THE CROWD - - Ah! - - LALAIN - - Silence! - (_To_ DE VARDES.) As thou wilt! He is long dead - That youth thou namest David. - - DE VARDES - - Ay, Citoyen, - He slew himself. I see his punishment. - - LALAIN - - Oh!— - - DE VARDES - - Wretched man! What hast thou done? I know, - And thou, Rémond, dost know I know! Enough. - O better far to lie upon this sod - And hear the wings of death above my head, - Than to be thou, thou stainèd conqueror! - Dishonoured thou from helm to bloody heel! - Enough! When the cock crows and the morning star - Shines steadfast over Loire I shall be gone. - One stays, that’s God. Do thou beware, Rémond, - For God will hearken unto Jonathan— - Thou canst not hurt a flower that he loved! - - LALAIN - - No? - - DE VARDES - - No! - - LALAIN - - Thou mightst have had thy life— - - DE VARDES - - I? - - [_He laughs._ - - YVETTE - - Air! - You hem me in, Citoyennes! Air! _De grâce!_ - - NANON - - The air is good enough for us, Yvette! - - ANGÉLIQUE - - Why do you grow so pale, so pale, Yvette? - - [YVETTE _takes from her hair the bonnet-rouge_. - - SÉRAPHINE - - Psst! Little fool! Put on the cap again! - - YVETTE - - It is too heavy! - - SÉRAPHINE - - Saint Yves! Put it on! - - DE VARDES - - The duel’s o’er; the night is drawing on; - Dark is thy form against the crimson sky, - Rémond Lalain! Stand further off, my foe! - And now I think I see thee not at all, - And that is well! I would forget thee quite. - Live out thy life unto its sordid close! - Live on, and in the future find the past! - But while thou treadest earth touch not again - That flower I spoke of! Touch it not, Lalain! - - LALAIN - - Draws on the night— - - DE VARDES - - I’ll bathe me in the Loire! - Death has been ever called a River wide. - This ford I fear not!—Soldier of the King, - I’ll pass the stream, though cold, though cold and dark! - The bivouac lights are shining through the trees, - He waits within my tent, my General! - - FIRST JUDGE - - Death! - - SECOND JUDGE - - Death! - - DE VARDES - - Now sheath thy sword, Rémond! - The field of honour leave to death and me! - - [_He crosses to the condemned._ - - COUNT LOUIS - - Monsieur le Baron! - - THE ABBÉ - - René de Vardes! - - DE VARDES - - Monsieur le Comte, Monsieur l’Abbé, again - I find myself in best of company! - - [_The judges whisper together._ LALAIN, _his eyes - upon the floor, drums upon the table with his hand_. - YVETTE _unpins the tricolour cockade from her breast, - gazes upon it for a moment, then throws it from her. - The women about her watch her greedily._ - - SÉRAPHINE - - Name of a name! Yvette! - - YVETTE - - I like white best. - - SÉRAPHINE - - Saint Gildas! Saint Maudez! - - YVETTE - - I ever loved - The fleur-de-lis! - - SÉRAPHINE - - Saint Yves le Véridique! - - YVETTE (_She rises_) - - _God and the King!_ - - [_Uproar in the hall. All turn toward the gallery._ - - A JUDGE - - Who cried that? - - A BRETON SAILOR - - Sainte Vierge! - Yvette Charruel! - - LALAIN - - No! - - DE VARDES - - Mon Dieu! - - THE CROWD - - Yvette— - Yvette Charruel! - - SÉRAPHINE - - Saint Servan! Saint Linaire! - - YVETTE - - I denounce the Citoyen Rémond Lalain! - - THE CROWD - - Ah!— - - NANON - - Ah, let me get at her! - - LALAIN - - Citoyens! - Heed her not—she’s mad!—The next prisoner! - - YVETTE - - I denounce Carrier and Lambertye! - Chicanneau, Sarlat, Petit-Pierre, and Gaye, - The Company of Marat, the hideous deaths, - The Noyades and the Dragonades of Nantes! - I tell you that the blood you shed must stop! - One cannot sleep at night with thinking on’t. - You put to sleep, O God! too many! - - THE CROWD - - Ah!— - - A VOICE - - There is no God! nor ever was in Nantes! - - ANOTHER VOICE - - She has spoken against the Republic! - - YVETTE - - There was a glory in the morning sky, - Where now is naught but miserable red! - A trumpet blew, but we have listened since - To the false jingle of a tambourine! - There stood a mighty judge, robed, calm and proud, - Where is he now? I see but murderers! - - A VOICE - - But murderers! - - YVETTE - - I denounce the Republic! - - [_Uproar._ - - THE CROWD - - Oh, harlotry!—No, blasphemy!—Down, down! - The Bar! the Judgment Bar!—The river!—Death! - The Loire! - - YVETTE - - I am coming. - - [_She descends the stair. Men and women clutch her - and thrust her forward to the bar._ - - I am here! - I am Yvette, called Right of the Seigneur. - My mother was the peasant girl, Yvonne; - My father was the Baron of Morbec. - I am tired of _Ça ira, Carmagnole_, - I would sleep with the Loire for my pillow! - - THE CROWD - - Ah—h—h! - - LALAIN - - A head beside thine on that pillow! - - DE VARDES - - Mon Dieu! - - YVETTE - - Perhaps, Citoyen! - - A VOICE - - I denounce - Yvette Charruel! - - OTHER VOICES - - And I!—And I!—And I! - - _CURTAIN_ - - - SCENE II - - _The banks of the Loire. Night. Branching trees; between their - trunks is seen the river. There is a full moon, but a drifting - mist obscures the scene. In the background, upon the river bank, - dimly appears a crowd of the condemned, men, women, and children, - soldiers and executioners of the Company of Marat. From this - throng comes a low, continued, confused sound of command, - entreaty, distress, and lamentation. In the foreground the - condemned form into groups or move singly to and fro._ - - _Enter_ YVETTE _from the shadow of the trees_. - - A SOLDIER (_following her_) - - Holà! Give us not the slip! - - YVETTE - - Thou soldier! - There is no gold could make me flee this place! - How long dost think before they throw me in? - - THE SOLDIER - - A little while! - - [_He returns to the river._ YVETTE _sits upon the - earth at the foot of a tree, and with her chin upon - her hand watches those who come and go_. - - YVETTE - - He comes not yet! O Our Lady! - I would not drown till I have seen him once! - - A WOMAN (_passing with a man_) - - How shines the moon! Did we not always say, - We two would die by such a moon as this? - Rememberest thou— - - THE MAN - - Rememberest thou that night, - That Versailles night within the Orangerie? - - THE WOMAN - - Rememberest thou— - - [_They pass._ - - A SOLDIER (_calling to another_) - - To bind them hand and foot, - We need more rope! - - THE SECOND SOLDIER - - Just thrust them in the stream - With bayonets! - - A CRY FROM THE RIVER - - Miséricorde! - - [_A child with flowers in her hand speaks to_ YVETTE. - - THE CHILD - - I’m tired— - - YVETTE - - Rest here, thou little bird! - - THE CHILD - - My name’s Aimée. - I did not know that flowers grew at night. - Is that the moon? - - YVETTE - - It is the silver moon! - Aimée’s a pretty name. My name’s Yvette. - - THE CHILD - - Kiss me, Yvette—I’ll look now for Ursule! - - YVETTE - - Who is Ursule? - - THE CHILD - - My _bonne_—Adieu, Yvette! - - [_The child passes on._ - - VOICES FROM THE RIVER - - Hélas! Hélas! Miséricorde! - - [_A nun advances from the shadow. She is in ecstasy, - her hands clasped, her eyes raised._ - - THE NUN - - The skies open: heaven appears! - Heaven my home! - O for the wings of the dove, - The eagle’s speed! - The gates of pearl are opening, - My harp is strung. - The Virgins come to meet me. - Sainte Agnès, Sainte Claire! - Our Lady stoops to greet me. - My father smiles. - My brothers two I see there! - Who is that one - Who kneels and to me beckons? - ‘Tis he I loved! - What radiance grows, what splendour? - Who waiting stands? - Light! O Light! O Christ my Lord! - Heaven my home! - O Love! O Death, come quickly! - I would be gone! - - [_A soldier touches her on the arm._ - - THE SOLDIER - - Thy time it is! - - [_The nun regards him with a radiant and dazzling - smile, then turns and moves swiftly before him to the - river._ - - THE VOICES - - Woe, woe! Miséricorde! - - YVETTE - - Heaven my home! Shall I see heaven then? - Oh me! so much of ill thou’st done, Yvette! - Alas! Alas! What if I cannot win - To heaven! but must ever weeping stand - With all the lost and strain my eyes to see - The form I love move ‘neath the living trees, - And all in vain, so great the distance is!— - Not see him! O Our Lady, let me in! - - THE VOICES - - Woe, woe!—I die!—I die!—O countrymen! - - YVETTE - - O God, and is it true I murdered her, - That lady high, that fair, so fair Clarice? - O God! I would that she were happy here, - Alive and laughing, gay of heart again! - O God! I do repent me of my sin! - - THE VOICES - - Ayez pitié! - - [_From a group of the condemned is heard the voice - of_ THE ABBÉ. - - THE ABBÉ - - _Miserere mei Deus - Secundum magnam misericordiam tuam!_ - - THE CONDEMNED (_kneeling_) - - Have mercy, O God! - - VOICES FROM THE RIVER - - Miséricorde! - - [YVETTE _kneels_. - - THE ABBÉ - - _In manus tuas Domine commendo spiritum meum, - Redemisti me Domine Deus veritatis!_ - - THE CONDEMNED - - O God, receive our souls! - - VOICES FROM THE RIVER - - Woe, woe! We die! - - SOLDIERS - - That one is swimming there! Your musket! Fire!— - - [_A musket shot._ - - Ha, ha! Ha, ha! - - THE ABBÉ - - _Dulcissime Domine Jesu Christe, - Per virtutem sanctissimae Passionis tuae - Recipe me in numerum electorum tuorum!_ - - THE CONDEMNED - - O Christ, receive our souls! O Christ who died! - - THE ABBÉ - - _Maria, Mater gratiae, Mater misercordiae, - Tu me ab hoste protege, et hora mortis suscipe!_ - - THE CONDEMNED - - O mother of God! - - VOICES - - Miséricorde! - - THE ABBÉ - - _Omnes sancti Angeli, et omnes Sancti - Intercedite pro me, et mihi succurrite!_ - - VOICES - - Miséricorde! - - SOLDIERS - - Petit-Pierre!—André! - ‘Tis time for yonder folk beneath the trees! - - THE ABBÉ - - _Ego te absolvo a peccatis tuis, - In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. - Amen!_ - - [_The condemned arise from their knees._ - - THE SOLDIERS - - Come your ways! - - [THE ABBÉ _and the condemned vanish into the mist - upon the river bank_. - - VOICES - - Ayez pitié! - - [YVETTE _rises from her knees. She plucks the yellow - broom that grows beneath the trees._ - - YVETTE - - And if I may I will her servant be, - And I will bring her posies every day! - - THE VOICES - - We die! - - SOLDIERS - - So, two and two! Ha, ha! - - [_There appears in mid-stream on the river Carrier’s - festal barge. It is lit from stem to stern. There is - music aboard, singing and revelry of men and women._ - - LAUGHTER FROM THE RIVER - - Ha, ha! Ha, ha! Ha, ha! - - THE VOICES - - They laugh! They sing! - - [_A sound of singing from the passing barge._ - - A WOMAN’S VOICE - - _Fair Chloris bathed her in the flood, - Young Damon watching, trembling stood, - Behind the frailest hawthorn wall! - The month was May—_ - - A MAN’S VOICE - - No, Prairial! - - THE WOMAN’S VOICE - - _Her ivory limbs they gleamed and turned, - Young Damon’s heart so hotly burned, - Into the stream he leaped therefor! - It seemed July—_ - - THE MAN’S VOICE - - No, Thermidor! - - [_The barge passes._ - - VOICES FROM THE RIVER - - O hearts so hard! - - OTHER VOICES - - Oh, woe! Adieu! Adieu! - - [_An old woman speaks to_ YVETTE. - - THE OLD WOMAN - - They’ve drowned my son, my sailor son Michel! - Oh, oh, my heart! he’s drifting out to sea! - - YVETTE - - Poor mother! - - THE OLD WOMAN - - Oh, to and fro he sailed, he sailed! - The Indies knew him and the Northern Seas! - He’d bide at home a bit, then off he’d go, - Another voyage make, strange things to see! - Then home he’d come and of his travels tell. - Oh, oh, my son, my sailor son Michel! - - [_The old woman passes on._ - - _Enter_ SÉRAPHINE. - - SÉRAPHINE - - I’ve sought her here, I’ve sought her there, in vain! - And perilous it is to seek one here! - - YVETTE - - Séraphine! - - SÉRAPHINE - - Yvette! - - YVETTE - - Where is monseigneur? - - SÉRAPHINE (_weeping_) - - I know not, I!—Saint Lazaire and Saint Jean! - I nursed thee ere thou wast so high! - - YVETTE - - Poor Séraphine! Dear Séraphine! - - SÉRAPHINE - - Alack! - They’re watching there! - - YVETTE - - Oh, then away! - ‘Tis death to weep for one who dies! Away! - - SÉRAPHINE (_weeping_) - - Oh, oh! When thou wast but a little thing - Thou hadst the coaxing ways! Alack! Alack! - - YVETTE - - Poor Séraphine! - - SÉRAPHINE - - Dost mind the sunny path - Up the steep cliff to chapel in the woods? - - YVETTE - - I mind—I mind—To thy warm hand I clung, - A little child. Now I must walk alone! - - SÉRAPHINE - - Oh, oh! And thou wast Goddess yesterday, - The fairest Goddess ever seen, they say! - - YVETTE - - Speak not of that! - - A VOICE (_calling_) - - Séraphine! Séraphine! - - YVETTE - - It warns, that voice! Adieu, adieu, adieu! - Thou must begone! - - SÉRAPHINE - - If I do look at thee - I’ll stay forever here! Adieu! Adieu!— - Oh well-a-day! Oh well, oh well-a-day! - - [_Exit_ SÉRAPHINE. - - YVETTE - - So late it grows, so long I’ve waited here! - I feel the morning air!—Will he not come? - O God! what if they’ve slain him otherwhere? - Ha! Death is busy far and near to-night! - They may have shot him yonder by the sea! - He may have sunk above, below this place! - Though Grégoire swore to me it would be here, - Here where they brought me would they bring him too, - And ere the set of moon we would be gone!— - O God! The cries of drowning men I’ve heard, - But not his voice among them! No, no, no! - He’ll make no moan, he will die loftily!— - Ah, God! only to see him ere I drown! - - THE VOICES - - Miséricorde! - - SOLDIERS - - Prenez garde! Halte là! - - A MAN’S VOICE - - I die who fought for France in bloody fields; - At Lille I fought, at Bordeaux, Avignon! - - YVETTE - - A soldier! - - [_Another voice sings hoarsely._ - - THE VOICE - - _Tremblez, tyrans! et vous perfides, - L’opprobre de tous les partis! - Tremblez, vos projets parricides - Viennent enfin recevoir leur prix! - Tout est soldat pour vous combattre—_ - - [_The voice dies._ - - YVETTE - - A soldier! - - ANOTHER VOICE - - Diantre! A whiff of grapeshot now, - A sabre-cut, or e’en a trampling charge! - But this cold death— - - [_The voice dies._ - - YVETTE - - A soldier! - - ANOTHER VOICE - - Baste! I’ll tell - The Duc de Biron— - - YVETTE - - All soldiers! - - _Enter_ DE VARDES _and_ GRÉGOIRE. - - GRÉGOIRE - - I tell you truth, monsieur— - - DE VARDES - - So dense the throng - I have looked up and down for this long hour,— - This hour so long, this hour so fatal short, - Seeing it is my latest hour of life, - And that I cannot find her whom I seek! - - GRÉGOIRE - - She is not dead, monsieur! - - DE VARDES - - So many are! - - GRÉGOIRE - - I would have known. - - DE VARDES - - Some æons past thou wast - A serviceable fellow! Get thee gone! - And if thou findest her, I’ll give thee thanks, - I have no gold— - - GRÉGOIRE - - Monsieur le Baron— - - DE VARDES - - Go! - - [_Exit_ GRÉGOIRE. - - And if I find her not, if time shall fail, - Then through thy labyrinth, Eternity, - Love’s silken clue shall lead me safe at last— - - YVETTE - - Monseigneur! - - [DE VARDES _turns_. - - DE VARDES - - Yvette! - - [_Two soldiers of the Company of Marat pass beneath - the trees._ - - THE FIRST SOLDIER - - ‘Tis near the cockcrow! - What devil’s work we’ve had, and have! - - THE SECOND SOLDIER - - Courage! - There are not so many now! Then home and sleep! - - [_They pass._ - - DE VARDES - - Oh, rest thee on thy lover’s breast, my heart! - My life, my love, my dear, my Duchess Jeanne! - Oh, ‘neath the moon thou’rt like a lily flower! - - YVETTE - - René, René! - - DE VARDES - - Thy lips! - - [_They kiss._ - - No, no, thou’rt not - That Vivien whom I did call thee once. - She was an evil fay; thou’rt pure and good! - Nor art thou that fair piteous Duchess Jeanne - Who died for love, whose look thou wearest now! - Thou never wast that woman star-begirt, - Whom they did hail as Goddess here in Nantes. - No Goddess thou, thou wan and broken flower!— - This is green Morbec, thou’rt the herd girl there - And I thy fisher, home from out the west. - My heart, my love, my silver rose, my _douce_! - - YVETTE - - The flowers drifting from the fragrant trees! - Unearthly light— - - [_They kiss._ - - DE VARDES - - Now come, Eternity! - - VOICES FROM THE RIVER - - It is so sad to die!—No, no, ‘tis sweet! - Adieu, adieu! - - SOLDIERS - - So, down! Ha, ha! _Les Noces - Républicaines!_ - - DE VARDES - - _Les Noces Républicaines!_ - - YVETTE - - ‘Tis what they call this death— - - SOLDIERS - - So near the dawn! - Here are the _tricoteuses_. - - VOICES OF WOMEN - - Not yet they’ve done! - Diantre! So many weddings in one night! - Here are the girls from Carrier’s barge at last! - - OTHER VOICES - - Petit-Pierre! André! - - SOLDIERS - - Céleste—Nanon! - Zephine, ‘Toinette! - - THE WOMEN - - _Vive le son! vive le son! - Dansons la Carmagnole!_ - - A TRICOTEUSE - - ‘Tis light enough to knit! I’ll sit me down. - Fi! how the grass is trampled here! - - A SOLDIER - - Lalain and Lambertye— - - A WOMAN - - We left them there - Upon the barge, Lalain and Lambertye; - And they were drinking deep, and dicing too, - And Lalain had his arm round Angélique! - - [_They laugh._ - - DE VARDES - - Seest thou not through yonder trees the stone, - The Druid Stone where I did see thee first - When thou didst lie asleep upon the grass? - How long I stood and looked, thou dost not know! - - YVETTE - - Beside the stream I slept and dreamed of thee! - I knew it not, but sure I dreamed of thee, - For in my sleep I thought I saw a king! - - DE VARDES - - O love!— - - YVETTE - - It is Morbec arises there! - The sands that stretch above the idle waves, - And all the little shells upon the shore! - - DE VARDES - - The convent bell is ringing! Seest thou not - The fountain old, the fruit trees in the sun? - - YVETTE - - Oh, life was never made for happiness! - The hour’s too short, the wine spills from the cup, - The blossom’s shaken ere we know ‘tis sweet! - - VOICES FROM THE RIVER - - Miséricorde! - - A SOLDIER - - Those two have waited long! - Hi! Petit-Pierre, ‘tis time to marry them— - - DE VARDES - - This Saint John’s Eve we’ll walk in other woods! - And we will find and name a castle fair, - And rose and heartsease we will plant thereby! - Here ends this road, but we must onward go. - There is a longer hour, a deeper cup! - The blossom’s gone, but we shall see the fruit. - And life was made for happiness, my _douce_! - - A VOICE FROM THE RIVER - - _Mourir pour la patrie, - Mourir pour la France._ - - DE VARDES - - It is a hymn of Chénier’s.—France! France! - Not since the days of Clovis hast thou lacked - Strong sons to die for thee, thou Lioness! - But now thy own brood hast thou eaten up, - And in the desert shalt thou roar alone, - Seeing the hunters nearer, nearer creep! - They’ll snare thee fast, they’ll make of thee a show! - France, France!—and yet thy sons shall ransom thee! - - A SOLDIER - - A length of rope, André! - - ANOTHER - - Petit-Pierre— - - YVETTE - - They come! - - DE VARDES - - I will go first. - - YVETTE - - ‘Tis not their way! - They’ll bind us fast together, throw us in - Bound fast together— - - DE VARDES - - Is it so? Why, then - We are together still, my heart, my life! - We will not struggle as we sink to rest. - - A SOLDIER - - Man and woman, come your ways! - - SECOND SOLDIER - - The river - Waits, your marriage bed is spread! - - [_The knitting women sing from the river bank._ - - THE WOMEN - - _We are the tricoteuses! - Our wool we knit beneath the sun and moon! - Knit! knit! knitting every one!_ - - _We are the tricoteuses! - The skein we knit is ravelled out full soon! - Knit! knit! the knitting now is done!_ - - YVETTE - - The light is growing in the east! My heart - It is so full I cannot speak to thee! - - DE VARDES - - Put thou thine arms about my neck, Yvette, - And lay thy head upon thy lover’s heart, - And veil thine eyes with all thy shadowy hair. - Now let them bind us with what cords they will, - The spirit moves unbound, triumphant, free, - Not through the Loire, but through a vaster stream! - Oh, it is something dimly great to die! - And then to die together, is’t not sweet? - And not through illness, age, decrepitude, - But the armed man is ready for new wars. - And thou— - - YVETTE - - I hear the lark! - - A SOLDIER - - Come, come away! - - [YVETTE _and_ DE VARDES _move together towards - the river, into the mist and the shadow of the trees_. - - A VOICE FROM THE RIVER - - _Vive la République!_ - - _CURTAIN_ - -[Illustration] - - - - - The Riverside Press - CAMBRIDGE · MASSACHUSETTS - U · S · A - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- - - By Mary Johnston - - - THE GODDESS OF REASON. _A Drama._ - Tall 12mo, $2.00, _net_. 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If you are not -located in the United States, you'll have to check the laws of the -country where you are located before using this ebook.</p> -<p>Title: The Goddess of Reason</p> -<p> A Drama in Five Acts</p> -<p>Author: Mary Johnston</p> -<p>Release Date: December 27, 2016 [eBook #53817]</p> -<p>Language: English</p> -<p>Character set encoding: UTF-8</p> -<p>***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE GODDESS OF REASON***</p> -<p> </p> -<h4>E-text prepared by Richard Tonsing, MFR,<br /> - and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team<br /> - (<a href="http://www.pgdp.net">http://www.pgdp.net</a>)<br /> - from page images generously made available by<br /> - Internet Archive<br /> - (<a href="https://archive.org">https://archive.org</a>)</h4> -<p> </p> -<table border="0" style="background-color: #ccccff;margin: 0 auto;" cellpadding="10"> - <tr> - <td valign="top"> - Note: - </td> - <td> - Images of the original pages are available through - Internet Archive. See - <a href="https://archive.org/details/goddessofreason00johnuoft"> - https://archive.org/details/goddessofreason00johnuoft</a> - </td> - </tr> -</table> -<p> </p> -<div class='tnotes covernote'> - -<p class='c000'><strong>Transcriber's Note:</strong></p> - -<p class='c000'>The cover image was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.</p> - -</div> -<hr class="full" /> -<p> </p> - -<div class='ph1'> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> -<div class='nf-center c001'> - <div><em>THE GODDESS OF REASON</em></div> - <div class='c002'><em>A DRAMA IN FIVE ACTS</em></div> - </div> -</div> - -</div> - -<div class='figcenter id001'> -<img src='images/title_page.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' /> -</div> - -<div> - <h1 class='c003'><span class='xlarge'>THE</span><br /> <span class='color_red'>GODDESS</span><br /> <span class='large'>OF</span><br /> <span class='color_red'>REASON</span></h1> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> -<div class='nf-center c002'> - <div>BY</div> - <div><span class='xlarge'>MARY JOHNSTON</span></div> - <div class='c004'>BOSTON AND NEW YORK</div> - <div>HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY</div> - <div>MDCCCCVII</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='pbb'> - <hr class='pb c002' /> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> -<div class='nf-center c001'> - <div>COPYRIGHT 1907 BY MARY JOHNSTON</div> - <div>ALL RIGHTS RESERVED</div> - <div class='c002'><em>Published May 1907</em></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='pbb'> - <hr class='pb c002' /> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> -<div class='nf-center c001'> - <div>TO</div> - <div>THE HOUSEHOLD AT WOODLEY</div> - <div>THIS DRAMA</div> - <div>IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='figcenter id002'> -<img src='images/i_008.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' /> -</div> - -<div class='chapter'> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_vii'>vii</span> - <h2 class='c005'><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">DRAMATIS PERSONÆ</span></i></h2> -</div> - -<ul class='index c004'> - <li class='c006'><span class='sc'>René-Amaury de Vardes</span>, <em>Baron of Morbec</em></li> - <li class='c006'><span class='sc'>Rémond Lalain</span>, <em>Deputy from Vannes</em></li> - <li class='c006'><span class='sc'>The Abbé Jean de Barbasan</span></li> - <li class='c006'><span class='sc'>Count Louis de Château-Gui</span></li> - <li class='c006'><span class='sc'>Captain Fauquemont de Buc</span></li> - <li class='c006'><span class='sc'>Melipars de L’Orient</span></li> - <li class='c006'><span class='sc'>Enguerrand La Fôret</span></li> - <li class='c006'><span class='sc'>The Vidame de Saint-Amour</span></li> - <li class='c006'><span class='sc'>The Englishman</span></li> - <li class='c006'><span class='sc'>Grégoire</span></li> - <li class='c006'><span class='sc'>Raôul the Huntsman</span></li> - <li class='c006'><span class='sc'>A Sergeant of Hussars</span></li> - <li class='c004'><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></li> - <li class='c006'><span class='sc'>The Marquise de Blanchefôret</span></li> - <li class='c006'><span class='sc'>Mlle. de Château-Gui</span></li> - <li class='c006'><span class='sc'>Mme. de Vaucourt</span></li> - <li class='c006'><span class='sc'>Mme. de Malestroit</span></li> - <li class='c006'><span class='sc'>Mme. de Pont à L’Arche</span></li> - <li class='c006'><span class='pageno' id='Page_viii'>viii</span><span class='sc'>Sister Fidelis</span></li> - <li class='c006'><span class='sc'>Sister Simplicia</span></li> - <li class='c006'><span class='sc'>Sister Benedicta</span></li> - <li class='c006'><span class='sc'>Nanon</span></li> - <li class='c006'><span class='sc'>Céleste</span></li> - <li class='c006'><span class='sc'>Angélique</span></li> - <li class='c006'><span class='sc'>Séraphine</span></li> - <li class='c006'><span class='sc'>An Actress</span></li> -</ul> - -<p class='c000'><em>Guests of De Vardes; Peasants; Lackeys; Soldiers; -Nuns; Young Girls; The Mob at Nantes; Participants -in the Fête of the Goddess of Reason; Republican -Commissioners; National Soldiers; Women of the Revolution; -Royalist Prisoners; Gaolers; Judges; Executioners; -etc., etc.</em></p> - -<div class='chapter'> - <h2 class='c005'><em>TIME 1791–1794</em></h2> -</div> - -<table class='table0' summary='TIME 1791–1794'> - <tr> - <td class='c007'><span class='sc'>Act</span></td> - <td class='c008'><a href='#ACT_I'>I.</a></td> - <td class='c009'>The Château of Morbec in Brittany.</td> - </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr> - <td class='c007'><span class='sc'>Act</span></td> - <td class='c008'><a href='#ACT_II'>II.</a></td> - <td class='c009'>The Garden of the Convent of the Visitation in Nantes.</td> - </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr> - <td class='c007'><span class='sc'>Act</span></td> - <td class='c008'><a href='#ACT_III'>III.</a></td> - <td class='c009'>A Square in Nantes.</td> - </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr> - <td class='c007'><span class='sc'>Act</span></td> - <td class='c008'><a href='#ACT_IV'>IV.</a></td> - <td class='c009'>A Church in Nantes used as a Prison.</td> - </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr> - <td class='c007'><span class='sc'>Act</span></td> - <td class='c008'><a href='#ACT_V'>V.</a></td> - <td class='c009'><em><a href='#SCENE_I'>Scene I.</a></em> A Judgment Hall in Nantes.</td> - </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr> - <td class='c007'> </td> - <td class='c008'> </td> - <td class='c009'><em><a href='#SCENE_II'>Scene II.</a></em> The Banks of the Loire.</td> - </tr> -</table> - -<div class='figcenter id002'> -<img src='images/i_010.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' /> -</div> - -<div class='ph1'> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> -<div class='nf-center c001'> - <div>THE</div> - <div class='c002'>GODDESS OF REASON</div> - </div> -</div> - -</div> - -<div class='chapter'> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_1'>1</span> - <h2 id='ACT_I' class='c005'><em>ACT I</em></h2> -</div> - -<p class='c010'><em>The Château of Morbec in Brittany. A formal garden and a -wide terrace with stone balustrade. In the background the -château, white and peak-roofed, with great arched doors. -Beyond it a distant prospect of a Breton village and of the -sea beating against a dangerous coast. To the left a thick -wood, to the right a perspective of garden alleys, fountains, -and flowering trees. On the terrace a small table set with -bread, fruit, and wine. In the angle formed by the level -of the terrace and the wide stone steps leading into the -garden the statue of a nymph, its high and broad pedestal -draped with ivy. Scattered on the terrace and steps a -litter of stones, broken cudgels, rusty and uncouth weapons. -The sun shines, the trees wave in the wind, the birds -sing, the flowers bloom. It is a summer morning in the -year 1791.</em></p> - -<p class='c011'><em>Enter from one of the garden paths a lackey and</em> <span class='sc'>Rémond -Lalain</span>. <span class='sc'>Lalain</span> <em>wears a riding dress with a tricolour -cockade</em>.</p> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Lalain</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='linedc drop-capanf0_0'>Say to Monsieur the Baron of Morbec,</div> - <div class='line'>Rémond Lalain, the Deputy from Vannes,</div> - <div class='line'>In haste is riding north, but hath drawn rein—</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_2'>2</span>Hearing to-day of Baron Henri’s death—</div> - <div class='line'>And audience craves that he may homage pay</div> - <div class='line'>To Morbec’s latest lord!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Lackey</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in25'>I go, monsieur!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>Exit the lackey.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Lalain</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>These gloomy towers!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>He muses as he paces the garden walk before the</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>terrace.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in21'>Mirabeau is dead!</div> - <div class='line'>Gabriel Riquetti, dead, I salute thee,</div> - <div class='line'>Great gladiator! Who treads now the sand</div> - <div class='line'>That yesterday was trod by Mirabeau?</div> - <div class='line'>Barnave, Lameth, ye are too slight of frame!</div> - <div class='line'>There’s Lafayette. No, no, <i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">mon général</span></i>!</div> - <div class='line'>Robespierre? Go to, thou little man!</div> - <div class='line'>Jean Paul Marat, dog leech and People’s Friend?</div> - <div class='line'>Wild beast to fight with beast! Faugh! Down, Marat!</div> - <div class='line'>Who stands this course, why, that man’s emperor!</div> - <div class='line'>Now how would purple look upon Marat?</div> - <div class='line'>Jacques Danton?—Danton! Hot Cordelier!</div> - <div class='line'>Dark Titan forging to a Titan’s end!</div> - <div class='line'>Shake not thy black locks from the tribune there,</div> - <div class='line'>Nor rend the heavens with thy mighty voice!</div> - <div class='line'>‘Tis not for thee, the victor’s golden crown,</div> - <div class='line'>The voice of France—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>The doors of the château open. Enter three lackeys</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>bearing a great gilt chair, which they place with</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>ceremony at the head of the steps which lead from</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>the terrace into the garden.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_3'>3</span><span class='sc'>First Lackey</span> (<em>stamping with his foot upon the terrace</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'>The gilded chair place here!</div> - <div class='line'>We always judge our peasants from this chair,</div> - <div class='line'>We lords of Morbec! North terrace, gilt chair!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Second Lackey</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Baron Henri sat here the day he died!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>First Lackey</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Now Baron René takes his turn!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>They place the chair.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Lalain</span> (<em>as before</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in30'>Danton!</div> - <div class='line'>Why not Lalain? It is as good a name!</div> - <div class='line'>Mirabeau’s dead! Out of my way, Danton!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Third Lackey</span> (<em>gathering up the stones which lie</em></div> - <div><em>upon the terrace</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>I’ll throw these stones into the shrubbery!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Second Lackey</span> (<em>lifting a rusty scythe from the steps</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>This scythe I’ll fling into the fountain!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>First Lackey</span> (<em>his hands in his pockets</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in42'><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Hé!</span></div> - <div class='line'>One sees quite well that we have stood a siege!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>The lackeys gather up the stones, the sticks, the broken</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>and rusty tools and weapons.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Lalain</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Where lives the man who doth not worship Might?</div> - <div class='line'>O Goddess All-in-All! make me thine own,</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_4'>4</span>As the bright moon did make Endymion;</div> - <div class='line'>And I will rim thy Phrygian cap with stars,</div> - <div class='line'>And give thee for thy cestus the tricolour!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><em>Enter</em> <span class='sc'>Grégoire</span>.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Grégoire</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Monsieur Lalain!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Lalain</span> (<em>waving his hand</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in17'>My good Grégoire!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Grégoire</span> (<em>to the lackeys</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in35'>Despatch!</div> - <div class='line'>Monseigneur will be here anon!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>He glances at the stones, etc.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in31'>Rubbish!</div> - <div class='line'>Away with’t!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>Passing the statue of the nymph, he strikes it with</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>his hand.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in14'>Will you forever smile?</div> - <div class='line'>Stone lips that long have smiled at bitter wrong!</div> - <div class='line'>You might, my dear, have lost that smile last night!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>First Lackey</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Last night was something like!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Second Lackey</span> (<em>throwing the stones one by one into</em></div> - <div><em>the shrubbery</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in30'>Sangdieu! last night</div> - <div class='line'>My heart was water!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Grégoire</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in20'>Ah, poltroon; your heart!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_5'>5</span><span class='sc'>Third Lackey</span> (<em>making play with a broken stick</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Our baron’s a swordsman! His rapier flashed!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>First Lackey</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><em>Keen as the blade of the Sieur de Morbec!</em></div> - <div class='line'>—And that is a saying old as the sea!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Second Lackey</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><em>Hard as the heart of the Sieur de Morbec!</em></div> - <div class='line'>—And that was said before the sea was made!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>They laugh.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Third Lackey</span> (<em>pointing to</em> <span class='sc'>Lalain</span>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>What’s he?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Grégoire</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in11'>The advocate Rémond Lalain.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Third Lackey</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>A patriot?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Grégoire</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in11'>Hotter than Lanjuinais!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Third Lackey</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>What does he at Morbec?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Grégoire</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in24'>How should I know?</div> - <div class='line'>His home was once within the village there,</div> - <div class='line'>And now and then he visits the curé.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>First Lackey</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The curé! He visits Yvette Charruel!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Lalain</span> (<em>as before</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Mirabeau and I were born in the south.</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_6'>6</span>Oh, the orange flower beside the wall!</div> - <div class='line'>And the shaken olives when Mistral wakes!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Grégoire</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Once they were friends, Baron René and he;</div> - <div class='line'>The Revolution came between—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>First Lackey</span> (<em>He sends a pike whirling into the</em></div> - <div><em>shrubbery</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in30'>Long live</div> - <div class='line'>The Revolution!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Grégoire</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in16'>My friend, ‘twill live</div> - <div class='line'>Without thy bawling!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Third Lackey</span> (<em>arranging the bottles upon the small</em></div> - <div><em>table</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in21'>So! The red wine here,</div> - <div class='line'>The white wine there!</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>(<em>To a fallen bottle.</em>) Stand up, Aristocrat!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Lalain</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The sun is high!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>He approaches the terrace and addresses the nearest</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>lackey.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in17'>How long must I await</div> - <div class='line'>The pleasure of Monsieur the Baron here?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Lackey</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Monsieur?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Lalain</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in10'>Go, fellow, go! and to him say,</div> - <div class='line'>Rémond Lalain—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_7'>7</span><span class='sc'>The Lackey</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in16'>I go, monsieur!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>Exit the lackey.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Lalain</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in32'>‘Tis well,</div> - <div class='line'>René de Vardes, to keep me waiting thus!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<span class='sc'>Grégoire</span> <em>pours wine into a glass and descending</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>the steps offers it to</em> <span class='sc'>Lalain</span>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Grégoire</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The old vintage, Monsieur Lalain!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Lalain</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in34'>Thanks, friend.</div> - <div class='line'>The day is warm.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>He raises the glass to his lips. Laughter and voices</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>from the winding garden paths.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in17'>What’s that?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Grégoire</span> (<em>shrugging</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in30'>More guests, no doubt!</div> - <div class='line'>The count, the vidame, and the young marquise!</div> - <div class='line'>All Morbihan felicitates Morbec,</div> - <div class='line'>And brings our baron bonbons and bouquets,</div> - <div class='line'>As if there were no hunger and no frost!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>A distant sound from the wood of harsh and complaining</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>voices.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Lalain</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>And that?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Grégoire</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in10'>Soldiers and huntsmen beat the woods;</div> - <div class='line'>For half the village is in hiding there,</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_8'>8</span>Having assayed last night to burn Morbec!</div> - <div class='line'>As if ‘twould burn! This time the soldiers came!</div> - <div class='line'>Mon Dieu! the times are bad.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Lalain</span> (<em>abruptly</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in29'>All the village!</div> - <div class='line'>Did Yvette Charruel—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Grégoire</span> (<em>shrugging</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in22'>Yvette!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>First Lackey</span> (<em>from the terrace</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in30'>Yvette!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Second Lackey</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>I warrant monseigneur will hang Yvette!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<span class='sc'>Lalain</span> <em>pours the wine upon the ground and throws</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>the glass from him. It shatters against the balustrade.</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>Laughter and voices. Guests appear in the garden</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>walks, the women in swelling skirts of silk or muslin,</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>powdered hair and large hats; the men in brocade</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>and silk with cane swords, or in hunting dress.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>A Lady</span> (<em>curtseying</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Monsieur le Vicomte!</span></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>A Gentleman</span> (<em>bowing</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in21'><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Madame la Baronne!</span></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Mme. de Malestroit</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>A heavenly day.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Enguerrand La Fôret</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in16'>No cloud in the sky.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_9'>9</span><span class='sc'>The Vidame</span> (<em>saluting a gentleman</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Count Louis de Château-Gui!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Count Louis</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in28'>Ah, monsieur!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>Presents his snuff-box.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Mme. de Pont à L’Arche</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>For laces I advise Louise. Fichus?</div> - <div class='line'>The Bleeding Heart above the flower shop.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Vidame</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>—A <i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">lettre de cachet</span></i>. To Vincennes he went!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Mme. de Malestroit</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>But ah! what use of laces or fichus!</div> - <div class='line'>We emigrate so fast there’s none to see!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Englishman</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>I quote a great man—my Lord Chesterfield:</div> - <div class='line'>“Exist in the unhappy land of France</div> - <div class='line'>All signs that history hath ever shown”—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Mme. de Pont à L’Arche</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The Queen wore carnation, Madame, pale rose,</div> - <div class='line'>The Dauphin—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Lalain</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in14'>What do I in this galley?</div> - <div class='line'>(<em>To</em> <span class='sc'>Grégoire</span>.) I’ll walk aside!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>Exit</em> <span class='sc'>Lalain</span>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Count Louis</span> (<em>to</em> <span class='sc'>Grégoire</span>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in34'>Was that Rémond Lalain?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_10'>10</span><span class='sc'>Grégoire</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>It was, Monsieur le Comte.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Count Louis</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in27'><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Ah, scélérat!</span></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Vidame</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The talked-of Deputy for Vannes?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>La Fôret</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in33'>Tribune</div> - <div class='line'>Eloquent as Antony!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Count Louis</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in20'>Demagogue!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Englishman</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>I heard him in the Jacobins. He spoke,</div> - <div class='line'>And then they went and tore a palace down!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Count Louis</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Stucco!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><em>Enter, laughing</em>, <span class='sc'>Mlle. de Château-Gui</span>, <span class='sc'>Melipars de</span></div> - <div><span class='sc'>L’Orient</span>, <em>and</em> <span class='sc'>Captain Fauquemont de Buc</span>. <span class='sc'>De</span></div> - <div><span class='sc'>L’Orient</span> <em>has in his hand a paper of verses</em>.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in8'>My daughter and De L’Orient,</div> - <div class='line'>Captain Fauquemont de Buc!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Mlle. de Château-Gui</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in27'>Messieurs, mesdames!</div> - <div class='line'>The poet and his verses!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Company</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in25'>Ah, verses!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_11'>11</span><span class='sc'>Count Louis</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Who is the fair, Monsieur de L’Orient?</div> - <div class='line'>Lalage or Laïs or little Fleurette?</div> - <div class='line'>Men sang of Célestine when I was young,—</div> - <div class='line'>Ah, Célestine, behind thy white rose tree!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De L’Orient</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>I do not sing of love, Monsieur le Comte!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Mlle. de Château-Gui</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>He sings of this day—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Buc</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in23'>The Eve of Saint John.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De L’Orient</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>It is a Song of Welcome to De Vardes!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Buc</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>But yesterday poor Colonel of Hussars!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Mlle. de Château-Gui</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>To-day Monsieur the Baron of Morbec!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De L’Orient</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><em>Mars to Bellona leaves the tented field.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Buc</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>That’s Bouillé at Metz! Kling! rang our spurs—</div> - <div class='line'>De Vardes’ and mine—from Verdun to Morbec!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De L’Orient</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><em>The warrior hastens to his native weald.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_12'>12</span><span class='sc'>Count Louis</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Would I might see again Henri de Vardes!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Buc</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>It would affright you, sir! The man is dead.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Count Louis</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Ah, while he lived it was as did become</div> - <div class='line'>A nobleman of France and Brittany!</div> - <div class='line'>He was my friend; together we were young!</div> - <div class='line'>From dawn to dusk, from dusk to dawn again,</div> - <div class='line'>We searched for pleasure as for buried gold,</div> - <div class='line'>And found it, too, in days when we were young!</div> - <div class='line'>From every flint we struck the golden sparks,</div> - <div class='line'>We plucked the thistle as we plucked the rose,</div> - <div class='line'>And battle gave for every star that shone!</div> - <div class='line'>O nymphs that laughing fled while we pursued!</div> - <div class='line'>O music that was made when we were young!</div> - <div class='line'>O gold we won and duels that we fought!</div> - <div class='line'><em>On guard, monsieur, on guard! <span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Sa! sa!</span> A touch!</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>What shall we drink? Where shall we dine? Ma foi!</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>There’s a melting eye at the Golden Crown!</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>The Angel pours a Burgundy divine!</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>Come, come, the quarrel’s o’er! So, arm in arm!</em></div> - <div class='line'>O worlds we lost and won when we were young!</div> - <div class='line'>O lips we kissed within the jasmine bower!</div> - <div class='line'>O sirens singing in the clear moonlight!—</div> - <div class='line'>With Bacchus we drank, with Apollo loved,</div> - <div class='line'>With Actæon hunted when we were young!</div> - <div class='line'>The wax-lights burned with softer lustre then.</div> - <div class='line'>The music was more rich when we were young.</div> - <div class='line'>Violet was the perfume for hair powder,</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_13'>13</span>Ruffles were point and buckles were brilliant</div> - <div class='line'>And lords were lords in the old land of France!</div> - <div class='line'>We did what we would, and <i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">lettres de cachet</span></i>,</div> - <div class='line'>Like cooing doves they fluttered from our hands!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De L’Orient</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><em>Our tribute take, last of a noble line!</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Count Louis</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Women! There will come no more such women!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De L’Orient</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><em>The laurel and the empress rose we twine.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Count Louis</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>And Henri’s gone! And now his cousin reigns,—</div> - <div class='line'>René de Vardes that hath been years away!</div> - <div class='line'>The King is dead. Well, well, long live the King!</div> - <div class='line'>They say he’s brave as Crillon, handsome too,</div> - <div class='line'>With that <i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">bel air</span></i> that no De Vardes’s without!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><em>Enter</em> <span class='sc'>Mme. de Vaucourt</span> <em>followed by the</em> <span class='sc'>Abbé Jean de</span></div> - <div><span class='sc'>Barbasan</span>.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Mlle. de Château-Gui</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Monsieur l’Abbé!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Buc</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in17'>Madame de Vaucourt!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Mme. de Vaucourt</span> (<em>with outspread hands</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>You’ve heard? Last night they strove to burn Morbec!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>All</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>What?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_14'>14</span><span class='sc'>Mme. de Vaucourt</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in6'>The peasants!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Count Louis</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in20'>Again!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Buc</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in27'>Ah, I am vexed.</div> - <div class='line'>Messieurs, mesdames, the Baron of Morbec</div> - <div class='line'>Silence enjoined, or the tale I’d have told!</div> - <div class='line'>The abbé is so bold—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Abbé</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in22'>De Buc’s so proud!</div> - <div class='line'>And just because he brought us help from Vannes!</div> - <div class='line'>The red Hussars to hive the bees again!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Englishman</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The seigneur and his peasants are at odds?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Abbé</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Slightly!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Count Louis</span> (<em>complacently</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in10'>Henri was hated! Hate descends</div> - <div class='line'>With the land.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De L’Orient</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in15'>There is a girl of these parts—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Count Louis</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Eh?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De L’Orient</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in4'>She plays the firebrand.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_15'>15</span><span class='sc'>Count Louis</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in29'>Bah!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De L’Orient</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in34'>She hath</div> - <div class='line'>The loveliest face!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Count Louis</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in20'>Hm!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Abbé</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in24'>I am unscathed.</div> - <div class='line'>De Vardes is slightly wounded!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>All</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in31'>Oh!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Count Louis</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in35'>Morbleu!</div> - <div class='line'>And how did it happen, Monsieur l’Abbé?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Abbé</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Behold us at our ease in the great hall,</div> - <div class='line'>De Vardes and I, a-musing o’er <span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">piquet</span>!</div> - <div class='line'>Voltaire beside us, for we read “Alzire,”</div> - <div class='line'>A wine as well, more suave than any verse;</div> - <div class='line'>A still and starlit night, soft, fair, and warm;</div> - <div class='line'>Wax-lights, and roses in a china bowl.</div> - <div class='line'>He laid aside his sword and I my cap,</div> - <div class='line'>All tranquilly at home, the Two Estates!</div> - <div class='line'>He held <span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">carte blanche</span>, I followed with <span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">quatorze</span>.</div> - <div class='line'>The roses sweetly smelled, the candles burned,</div> - <div class='line'>At peace we were with nature and mankind.—</div> - <div class='line'>A crash of painted glass! a whirling stone!</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_16'>16</span>A candle out! the roses all o’erturned!</div> - <div class='line'>The thunder of a log against our doors!</div> - <div class='line'>A clattering of sabots! a sudden shout!</div> - <div class='line'><em>Morbec, Morbec, it is thy Judgment Night!</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>Admission, admission, Aristocrats!</em></div> - <div class='line'>Red turns the night, the servants all rush in.</div> - <div class='line'><i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Sieur! Sieur!</span></i> the lackeys moan and wring their hands.</div> - <div class='line'><em>Give, give!</em> the terrace croaks. <em>Burn, Morbec, burn!</em></div> - <div class='line'>The great bell swings in the windy tower</div> - <div class='line'>Till the wolves in the forest pause to hear.</div> - <div class='line'><em>Fall, Morbec, fall! France has no need of thee!</em></div> - <div class='line'>Upsprings a rosy light! a smell of smoke!</div> - <div class='line'>Mischief’s afoot! The Baron of Morbec</div> - <div class='line'>Lays down his cards and takes his rapier up,</div> - <div class='line'>Hums <i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Le Sein de sa Famille</span></i>, shuts <cite>Alzire</cite>,</div> - <div class='line'>Resignedly rises—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Count Louis</span> (<em>rubbing his hands</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in19'>Expresses regret</div> - <div class='line'>That monsieur his guest—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Abbé</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'>Should be incommoded</div> - <div class='line'>And turns to the door. I levy the tongs.</div> - <div class='line'>The seneschal Grégoire hauls from the wall</div> - <div class='line'>An ancient arquebus! The lackeys wail,</div> - <div class='line'>And nothing do, as is the lackey’s wont!</div> - <div class='line'>Again the peasants thunder at the door!</div> - <div class='line'><em>Open, De Vardes! Oh, hated of all names!</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>The new is as the old! Death to De Vardes!</em></div> - <div class='line'>The log strikes full, and now a panel breaks;</div> - <div class='line'>In comes a hand that brandishes a pike;</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_17'>17</span>A voice behind, <em>We’ve come to sup with thee!</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>For thou hast bread and we have none, De Vardes!</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Englishman</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Ha, ha! ha, ha! ha, ha!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Count Louis</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in24'>You laugh, monsieur?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Abbé</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>I like calmness myself. Calm of the sea,</div> - <div class='line'>Calm skies, the calm spring, and calmness of mind!</div> - <div class='line'>A tempest’s plebeian! So I admired</div> - <div class='line'>René de Vardes when he walked to the door</div> - <div class='line'>And opened it! Behold the whole wolf pack,</div> - <div class='line'>As lean as ‘twere winter! canaille all!</div> - <div class='line'>Sans-culottes and tatterdemalions,</div> - <div class='line'>Mere dust of the field and sand of the shore;</div> - <div class='line'>Humanity’s shreds would follow the mode,</div> - <div class='line'>And burn the château of their rightful lord!</div> - <div class='line'>De Vardes’ peasants in fine. <i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Mort aux tyrans!</span></i></div> - <div class='line'><i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">À bas Aristocrat! Vive la patrie!</span></i></div> - <div class='line'><i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Vive la Révolution!</span></i> In they pressed,</div> - <div class='line'>Gaunt, haggard, and shrill, and full in the front—</div> - <div class='line'>Young and fair, conceive! dark-eyed and red-lipped—</div> - <div class='line'>A fury, a mænad, a girl called—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De L’Orient</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in33'>Yvette!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Abbé</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>So they named her, the peasants of Morbec,</div> - <div class='line'>Named and applauded the dark-eyed besom!</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_18'>18</span>When, De Vardes’ drawn rapier just touching</div> - <div class='line'>Her breast-knot of blue as she stood in his path,</div> - <div class='line'>Up went her brown hand, armed with a sickle!—</div> - <div class='line'>De Vardes is a known fencer,—‘tis lucky!</div> - <div class='line'>His wound is not deep, and in the left arm!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Vidame</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>She may hang for that! How high I forget</div> - <div class='line'>The gallows should be—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Count Louis</span> (<em>offering his snuff-box</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in24'>Monsieur le Vidame,</div> - <div class='line'>Thirty feet, I believe!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Vidame</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in24'>But not in chains—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Count Louis</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>No! It was the left arm.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De L’Orient</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in25'>What did De Vardes?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Abbé</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>De Vardes, with Liancourt and Rochefoucauld,</div> - <div class='line'>Holds that the peasant doth possess a soul!</div> - <div class='line'>I think it hurt him to the heart that he,</div> - <div class='line'>New come to Morbec, and unknown to these,</div> - <div class='line'>His vassals of the village, field, and shore,</div> - <div class='line'>Should be esteemed by them an enemy,</div> - <div class='line'>A Baron Henri come again, forsooth!</div> - <div class='line'>But since ‘twas so, out rapier! parry! thrust!</div> - <div class='line'>Diable! he’s a swordsman to my mind!</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_19'>19</span>The mænad with the sickle he puts by;</div> - <div class='line'>Runs through the arm a clamourer of <span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">corvée</span>,</div> - <div class='line'>Brings howling to his knees a sans-culotte,</div> - <div class='line'>And strikes a flail from out a claw-like hand!</div> - <div class='line'>They falter, they give way, the craven throng!</div> - <div class='line'>The women cry them on; they swarm again.</div> - <div class='line'>His bright steel flashes, rise and fall my tongs!</div> - <div class='line'>But the lackeys are naught, and Grégoire finds</div> - <div class='line'>A flaw in his musket; he will not fire!</div> - <div class='line'><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Pardieu!</span> the things this Revolution kills!</div> - <div class='line'>There is no faithfulness in service now!</div> - <div class='line'>Our peasants grow bold. Ma foi! we’re at bay!</div> - <div class='line'>De Vardes and De Barbasan, rapier, tongs!</div> - <div class='line'>Wild blows and wild cries, blown smoke and a glare,</div> - <div class='line'>And the girl Yvette with her reaping hook</div> - <div class='line'>Still pushed to the front by the women there!</div> - <div class='line'>Upon De Vardes’ white sleeve the blood is dark,</div> - <div class='line'>And his breath comes fast! I see the event</div> - <div class='line'>As ‘twill look in print in Paris next week,</div> - <div class='line'>In <cite>L’Ami du Peuple or Journal du Roi</cite>!</div> - <div class='line'>“The Vain Defence of an Ancient Château!</div> - <div class='line'>When we Burn so Much, why not Burn the Land?”</div> - <div class='line'>And I break with my tongs a young death’s-head</div> - <div class='line'>That’s bawling—What think you?—<i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Vive la République.</span></i></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Count Louis</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Death and damnation!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Abbé</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in21'>So I said! And then,</div> - <div class='line'>Quite, I assure you, in time’s very nick,</div> - <div class='line'>The saint De Vardes prays to smiled on him!</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_20'>20</span>A thunder clap!—<i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Pas de charge! En avant!</span></i></div> - <div class='line'>Captain Fauquemont de Buc and his Hussars!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Buc</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Warned by the saint, we galloped from Auray!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Abbé</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Like the dead leaves borne afar on the blast,</div> - <div class='line'>Or like the sea mist when the sun rises,</div> - <div class='line'>Or like the red deer when the horn’s sounded,—</div> - <div class='line'>Like anything in short that’s light o’ heel,—</div> - <div class='line'>Vanished our peasants! The women went last;</div> - <div class='line'>And last of all the mænad with the eyes!</div> - <div class='line'>Jesu! She might have been Jeanne d’Arc, that girl!</div> - <div class='line'>The man who captures her has a hand full!—</div> - <div class='line'>To the deep woods they fled, are hunted now.—</div> - <div class='line'>De Vardes and I gave welcome to De Buc,</div> - <div class='line'>Put out the fire, attended to our wounds,</div> - <div class='line'>Resumed our cards, and finished our <cite>Alzire</cite>—</div> - <div class='line'>The Château of Morbec stands, you observe!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>The company applauds.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Mlle. de Château-Gui</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>But who was the saint?—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Buc</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in25'>Ah, here is De Vardes!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><em>Enter</em> <span class='sc'>De Vardes</span>. <em>He is dressed in slight mourning and</em></div> - <div><em>carries his arm in a sling.</em></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Guests</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Monsieur the Baron of Morbec!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_21'>21</span><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in30'>Welcome,</div> - <div class='line'>The brave and the fair, my old friends and new!</div> - <div class='line'>Welcome to Morbec!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Count Louis</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in19'>Ah, your wounded arm!—</div> - <div class='line'>Our regret is profound!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in24'>It is nothing.</div> - <div class='line'>The fraternal embrace of the people!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Count Louis</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Oh, the people!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Mme. de Vaucourt</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in16'>The people!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De L’Orient</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in28'>The people!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Count Louis</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>My friend, permit us to hope you will make</div> - <div class='line'>Of the people a signal example!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>They are misguided.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Count Louis</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in20'>Misguided! Morbleu!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>I will talk to them.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_22'>22</span><span class='sc'>Count Louis</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in21'>Monsieur le Baron,</div> - <div class='line'>Let your soldiers talk with a bayonet’s point,</div> - <div class='line'>Your bailiffs with a rope—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Mme. de Vaucourt</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in28'>But what good saint</div> - <div class='line'>Brought warning to Auray?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De L’Orient</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'>I guess that saint!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>A lackey appears upon the terrace.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Lackey</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Madame la Marquise de Blanchefôret!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Guests</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in36'>Ah!</div> - <div class='line'>La belle marquise!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><em>Enter</em> <span class='sc'>The Marquise</span>.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Buc</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in19'>The saint!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in30'>My neighbour fair,</div> - <div class='line'>And to De Barbasan and me last night</div> - <div class='line'>A guardian angel—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>He greets</em> <span class='sc'>The Marquise</span>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in19'>Madame la Marquise!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Marquise</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Monsieur le Baron!</div> - <div class='line in2'>(<em>To the company.</em>) Messieurs, mesdames!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_23'>23</span><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>From Blanchefôret to Auray through the night</div> - <div class='line'>This lady rode—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Marquise</span> (<em>with gayety</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in17'>Ah, how I rode last night,</div> - <div class='line'>To Auray through the dark! This way it was:</div> - <div class='line'>I overheard two peasants yestereve</div> - <div class='line'>As in a lane I sought for eglantine.</div> - <div class='line'>“How long hath Morbec stood?” said one. “Too long!</div> - <div class='line'>But when to-morrow dawns ‘twill not be there!</div> - <div class='line'>And we were born, I think, to burn châteaux!—</div> - <div class='line'>Ten, by the village clock—forget it not!”</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Abbé</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Ah, ay, the while I dealt the clock struck ten.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Marquise</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>It was already dusk.—Like grey death moths</div> - <div class='line'>They slipped away! I knew not whom to trust,</div> - <div class='line'>For in these times there’s no fidelity,</div> - <div class='line'>No faithful groom, no steadfast messenger!</div> - <div class='line'>My little page brought me my Zuleika.</div> - <div class='line'>I knew the red Hussars were at Auray,</div> - <div class='line'>And that ‘twas said they loved their colonel well!</div> - <div class='line'>So to Auray came Zuleika and I!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Buc</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>We thought it was Dian in huntress dress!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>How deeply am I, Goddess, in thy debt!</div> - <div class='line'>No gold is coined wherewith I may repay!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>Music within.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_24'>24</span><span class='sc'>The Marquise</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Give me a rose from yonder tree!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>Laughing voices within.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Mlle. de Château-Gui</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in33'>More guests,</div> - <div class='line'>They’re on the south terrace!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De L’Orient</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in30'>Violins too!</div> - <div class='line'>Ah, the old air—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>He sings.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><em>There lived a king in Ys,</em></div> - <div class='line in2'><em>In Ys the city old!</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>Beside the sounding sea</em></div> - <div class='line in2'><em>He counted o’er his gold.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in18'>Let us meet them.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>He gives his hand to</em> <span class='sc'>The Marquise</span>. <em>Exeunt</em></div> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Count Louis</span>, <span class='sc'>The Abbé</span>, <span class='sc'>De Buc</span>, <span class='sc'>De L’Orient</span>,</div> - <div class='line'><em>etc.</em> <span class='sc'>Grégoire</span> <em>approaches</em> <span class='sc'>De Vardes</span>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Grégoire</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Monseigneur—Monsieur the Deputy!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in34'>Ah!</div> - <div class='line'>Say to monsieur I’m not at leisure now.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>Exeunt</em> <span class='sc'>De Vardes</span> <em>and</em> <span class='sc'>The Marquise</span>. <em>The</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>terrace and garden are deserted save for</em> <span class='sc'>Grégoire</span>,</div> - <div class='line'><em>who seats himself in the shadow of the balustrade</em>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_25'>25</span><span class='sc'>Grégoire</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Humph!—Monseigneur’s not at leisure.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>He draws a Paris journal from his pocket and</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>reads, following the letters with his forefinger.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in38'>What news?</div> - <div class='line'>What says Jean Paul Marat, the People’s Friend?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>A cry from the wood and the sound of breaking</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>boughs.</em> <span class='sc'>Yvette</span> <em>and</em> <span class='sc'>Séraphine</span> <em>enter the garden</em>.</div> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Raôul the Huntsman’s</span> <em>voice within</em>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Huntsman</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Hilloa!—Hilloa!—Hilloa!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<span class='sc'>Yvette</span> <em>and</em> <span class='sc'>Séraphine</span> <em>turn towards one of the</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>garden alleys. Laughter and voices.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'>Go not that way!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Séraphine</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>There is no way!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Huntsman</span> (<em>within</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in17'>Hilloa!—Hilloa!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Séraphine</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in34'>We’re caught!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The terrace there! Behind the stone woman!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>They cross the garden to the terrace.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Séraphine</span> (<em>She stops abruptly and points to the table</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Bread!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_26'>26</span><span class='sc'>The Huntsman</span> (<em>nearer</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in7'>Hilloa!—Hilloa!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<span class='sc'>Yvette</span> <em>and</em> <span class='sc'>Séraphine</span> <em>turn from the table and</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>hide behind the tall, ivy-draped pedestal of the</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>statue</em>. <span class='sc'>Grégoire</span> <em>looks up from his paper and sees</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>them</em>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><em>Enter</em> <span class='sc'>Raôul the Huntsman</span>.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Huntsman</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in24'>This way they came!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Grégoire</span> (<em>jerking his thumb over his shoulder</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Down yonder path!—plump to the woods again!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Huntsman</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The Hussars from Auray have twenty rogues!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Grégoire</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Indeed!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Huntsman</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in8'>These two and my bag’s full!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>Exit</em> <span class='sc'>The Huntsman</span>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Grégoire</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in37'>Diable!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>He reads aloud.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><em>Weary at last of intolerable wrong,</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>The peasants of Goy in Normandy rose</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>And burned the château. Who questions their right?</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>He folds his paper.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Saint Yves! this stone is much harder than Goy!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>He looks fixedly at the statue and raises his voice.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Ma’m’selle who would smile at the trump of doom,</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_27'>27</span>I think that all the village will be hanged!</div> - <div class='line'>And at its head that brown young witch they call</div> - <div class='line'>Yvette—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><em>Reënter</em> <span class='sc'>De Vardes</span> <em>and</em> <span class='sc'>The Marquise</span>.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span> (<em>to</em> <span class='sc'>Grégoire</span>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in9'>Begone!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>Exit</em> <span class='sc'>Grégoire</span>. <span class='sc'>De Vardes</span> <em>and</em> <span class='sc'>The Marquise</span></div> - <div class='line'><em>rest beside the statue</em>, <span class='sc'>Yvette</span> <em>listening</em>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in17'>Why, what’s a soldier for?</div> - <div class='line'>But pity me, pity me, belle Marquise!</div> - <div class='line'>Since pity is so sweet!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Marquise</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in24'>I’m sure it is</div> - <div class='line'>A fearful wound!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in17'>A fearful wound indeed!</div> - <div class='line'>But ‘tis not in the arm!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Marquise</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in25'>No, monsieur?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in39'>No!</div> - <div class='line'>The heart! I swear that it is bleeding fast!</div> - <div class='line'>And I have naught wherewith to stanch the wound.</div> - <div class='line'>Your kerchief—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Marquise</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in16'>Just a piece of lace!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_28'>28</span><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in38'>‘Twill serve.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Marquise</span> (<em>giving her handkerchief</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Well, there!—Now tell me of last night.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in41'>Last night!</div> - <div class='line'>Why, all this tintamarre was but a dream,</div> - <div class='line'>Fanfare of fairy trumpets while we slept.</div> - <div class='line'>A night it was for love-in-idleness,</div> - <div class='line'>And fragrant thoughts and airy phantasy!</div> - <div class='line'>There was no moon, but Venus shone as bright;</div> - <div class='line'>The honeysuckle blew its tiny horn</div> - <div class='line'>To tell the rose a moth was coming by.</div> - <div class='line'><em>Clarice-Marie!</em> sang all the nightingales,</div> - <div class='line'>Or would have sung were nightingales abroad!</div> - <div class='line'><em>Hush, hush!</em> the little waves kept whispering.</div> - <div class='line'>The ivy at your window still was peeping;</div> - <div class='line'>You lay in dreams, that gold curl on your breast!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Marquise</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>No, no! You cheat me not, monsieur! Last night</div> - <div class='line'>I did not sleep!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in17'>Nor I!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Marquise</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in24'>Miserable brigands!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>No, not brigands! Just wretched flesh and blood.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Marquise</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>You pity them?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_29'>29</span><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in15'>Ay.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Marquise</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in19'>Were I a seigneur,</div> - <div class='line'>Lord of Morbec—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in17'>Were I a poor fisher,</div> - <div class='line'>Sailing at sunrise home from the islands,</div> - <div class='line'>Over the sea, and all my heart singing!</div> - <div class='line'>And you were a herd girl slender and sweet,</div> - <div class='line'>With the gold of your hair beneath your cap,</div> - <div class='line'>And you kept the cows and you were my <i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">douce</span></i>,</div> - <div class='line'>And you waved your hand from the green cliff head</div> - <div class='line'>When the sun and I came up from the sea!—</div> - <div class='line'>And there was a seigneur so great and grim</div> - <div class='line'>Who walked in his garden and said aloud,</div> - <div class='line'>“How many fish has he taken for me?</div> - <div class='line'>Which of her cows shall I keep for myself?</div> - <div class='line'>I leave him enough to pay for the Mass</div> - <div class='line'>The day he is drowned, and the girl shall have</div> - <div class='line'>The range of the hills for her one poor cow!</div> - <div class='line'>Why should the fisher fret, the herd girl weep?</div> - <div class='line'>There is no reason in a serf’s dull heart!</div> - <div class='line'>I might have taken all. It is my right!”</div> - <div class='line'>La belle Marquise, what would the herd girl do?</div> - <div class='line'>And should the fisher suffer and say naught?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Marquise</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>There is no fisher nor no herd girl here.</div> - <div class='line'>How fair the roses of Morbec, monsieur!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_30'>30</span><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Ay, they are lovely queens. They know it too!</div> - <div class='line'>I better like the heartsease at your feet.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Marquise</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>It is a peasant flower!—Sieur de Morbec,</div> - <div class='line'>Have you never loved?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in22'>How fair is the day!</div> - <div class='line'>For loving how fit! ‘Tis the Eve of Saint John.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Marquise</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Yes.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in5'>Last year I loved on this very day.</div> - <div class='line'>Take the omen, madame!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Marquise</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in23'>We had not met,</div> - <div class='line'>You and I!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in11'>Ah, ‘tis true! We had not met!—</div> - <div class='line'>And so, fair as you are, you were not there,</div> - <div class='line'>In Paimpont Wood, on the Eve of Saint John?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Marquise</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>No!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in4'>I wonder who was!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Marquise</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in22'>In Paimpont Wood!</div> - <div class='line'>It is haunted!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_31'>31</span><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in15'>On the Eve of Saint John</div> - <div class='line'>I rode from Morbec here to Chatillon,</div> - <div class='line'>And through the wood of Paimpont fared alone.</div> - <div class='line'>It is a forest where enchantments thrive,</div> - <div class='line'>And a fair dream doth drop from every tree!</div> - <div class='line'>The old, old world of bitterness and strife</div> - <div class='line'>Is remote as winter, remote as death.</div> - <div class='line'>It was high noon in the turbulent town;</div> - <div class='line'>But clocks never strike in the elfin wood,</div> - <div class='line'>And the sun’s ruddy gold is elsewhere spent.</div> - <div class='line'>The light was dim in the depths of Paimpont,</div> - <div class='line'>Green, reverend, and dim as the light may be</div> - <div class='line'>In a sea king’s palace under the sea.</div> - <div class='line'>The wind did not blow; the flowering bough</div> - <div class='line'>Was still as the rose on a dead man’s breast.</div> - <div class='line'>On velvet hoof the doe and fawn went by;</div> - <div class='line'>In other woods the lark and linnet sang;</div> - <div class='line'>A stealthy way was taken by the fox;</div> - <div class='line'>The badger trod upon the softest moss;</div> - <div class='line'>And like a shadow flitted past the hare.</div> - <div class='line'>Without a sound the haunted fountain played.</div> - <div class='line'>The oak boughs dreamed; the pine was motionless;</div> - <div class='line'>Its silver arms the beech in silence spread;</div> - <div class='line'>The poplar had forgot its lullaby.</div> - <div class='line'>It was as still as cloudland in the wood,</div> - <div class='line'>For in a hawthorn brake old Merlin sleeps,</div> - <div class='line'>And every leaf is hushed for love of him.</div> - <div class='line'>There through the years they sleep and listless dream,</div> - <div class='line'>The wood of Paimpont and the wizard old.</div> - <div class='line'>They dream of valleys where the lilies blow;</div> - <div class='line'>They dream of woodland gods and castles high,</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_32'>32</span>Of faun and Pan and of the Table Round,</div> - <div class='line'>Of dryad trees and of a maiden dark—</div> - <div class='line'>That Vivien whom old Merlin once did love,</div> - <div class='line'>Vivien le Gai whose love was poisonous!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Marquise</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>I’ve heard it said by women spinning flax,</div> - <div class='line'>“Who wanders in Paimpont wanders in love;</div> - <div class='line'>Let him who loves in Paimpont Wood beware!”</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Ah, idle word! Oh, many silver bells</div> - <div class='line'>Since Vivien’s day have rung, Beware, beware!</div> - <div class='line'>And rung in vain, for in every clime</div> - <div class='line'>Lies Paimpont Wood, dawns the Eve of Saint John!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Marquise</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>And in the forest there whom did you love?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>I do not know. I have not seen her since,</div> - <div class='line'>Unless—unless I saw her face last night!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span> (<em>behind the base of the statue</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Oh!—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in6'>Did you not hear a voice?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Marquise</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in32'>‘Tis the wind.—</div> - <div class='line'>You’re riding through the wood to Chatillon.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>It was a lonely forest, deep and vast,</div> - <div class='line'>A secret and a soundless trysting-place,</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_33'>33</span>Where one might meet, nor be surprised to meet,</div> - <div class='line'>From out his past, or from his life to come,</div> - <div class='line'>A veilèd shape, a presence bitter-sweet,</div> - <div class='line'>A thing that was, a thing was yet to be!</div> - <div class='line'>It seemed a fatal place, a destined day.</div> - <div class='line'>Down a long aisle of beechen trees I rode,</div> - <div class='line'>And came upon a small and sunny vale,</div> - <div class='line'>And there I met a face from out a dream,</div> - <div class='line'>An ancient dream, a dark and lovely face.—</div> - <div class='line'>Give me your fan of pearl and ivory!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>He takes the fan from</em> <span class='sc'>The Marquise</span>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>I’ll turn enchanter, use it for my rod,</div> - <div class='line'>And make you see, Marquise, the very place!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>He points with the fan.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Here sprang the silver column of a beech;</div> - <div class='line'>There, mossy knees of a most ancient oak;</div> - <div class='line'>Yonder a wall of thickest foliage rose;</div> - <div class='line'>And here a misty streamlet flowed</div> - <div class='line'>With a voice more low than the dying fall</div> - <div class='line'>Of a trouvère’s lute in Languedoc,</div> - <div class='line'>And on its shore the slender flowers grew;</div> - <div class='line'>Upon a foxglove bell hung <i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">papillon</span></i>;</div> - <div class='line'>And all around the grass was long and fine.</div> - <div class='line'>Within this sylvan space, ah, ages since!</div> - <div class='line'>The white-robed Druids in the cold moonlight</div> - <div class='line'>Had reared an altar stone of wondrous height;</div> - <div class='line'>The <span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">fane</span> was there, the Druids were away.</div> - <div class='line'>All fragrant was the air, and sunny still,—</div> - <div class='line'>On the Eve of Saint John ‘tis ever so!</div> - <div class='line'>Above, the sky was blue without a cloud;</div> - <div class='line'>The sun stood sentinel o’er the haunted wood.</div> - <div class='line'>And there she lay, the woman of a dream,</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_34'>34</span>Against the Druid Stone, amid the bloom;</div> - <div class='line'>Her eyes were on the stream; she leaned her ear;</div> - <div class='line'>From far away the trouvère played to her;</div> - <div class='line'>In flakes of gold the sunlight blessed her hair;</div> - <div class='line'>Her lips were red; she seemed a princess old;</div> - <div class='line'>Mid purple bloom she lay and gazed afar,</div> - <div class='line'>In the magic wood on a magic day,</div> - <div class='line'>Listening to hear the mighty trouvère play.</div> - <div class='line'>Was she a princess or a peasant maid?</div> - <div class='line'>I do not know, pardie! She may have been</div> - <div class='line'>That Vivien who wrought old Merlin wrong.</div> - <div class='line'>I cannot tell if she were rich or poor;</div> - <div class='line'>I only saw her face; I only know</div> - <div class='line'>I loved the dream I met in Paimpont Wood</div> - <div class='line'>As I did ride last year to Chatillon</div> - <div class='line'>On Saint John’s Eve.—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>He lays the fan upon the table.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in23'>So I have loved, Marquise!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Marquise</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>What did your pretty dream?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in28'>As other dreams;</div> - <div class='line'>She fled!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Marquise</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in10'>And you pursued?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in27'>Yes, but in vain!</div> - <div class='line'>Trouble no dream that is dreamed in Paimpont!</div> - <div class='line'>The wood closed around her; she vanished quite.</div> - <div class='line'>It must have been that evil Vivien,</div> - <div class='line'>Since you, Marquise, have never trod the wood!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_35'>35</span><span class='sc'>The Marquise</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Would I have fled?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in19'>Why, then, without doubt</div> - <div class='line'>It was Vivien! But yet do you know</div> - <div class='line'>‘Tis the Eve of Saint John, and here, last night,</div> - <div class='line'>I dreamed that I saw my dream again!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>The hand and arm of the statue fall, broken, to the</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>ground at the feet of</em> <span class='sc'>The Marquise</span>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Marquise</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in37'>Ah!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span> (<em>pushes the marble aside with his foot</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>It is nothing! The stone was cracked last night.</div> - <div class='line'>Some crack-brained peasant had no better mark!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Marquise</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>‘Tis a <i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">présigne</span></i>!—I feel it.—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in33'>You shudder!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Marquise</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>One trod near my grave! I’m suddenly cold!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The sun never shines on this terrace!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Marquise</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in38'>No!</div> - <div class='line'>‘Twas an air from the Forest of Paimpont</div> - <div class='line'>Came over me!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>Voices within.</em> <span class='sc'>De L’Orient</span> <em>sings</em>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_36'>36</span><span class='sc'>De L’Orient</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><em>In Ys they did rejoice,</em></div> - <div class='line in2'><em>In Ys the wine was free;</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>The Ocean lent its voice</em></div> - <div class='line in2'><em>Unto that revelry!</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Marquise</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in14'>Oh, come away!</div> - <div class='line'>Let us find the violins and the sun!</div> - <div class='line'>There are other woods than Paimpont. Come away!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>Exeunt</em> <span class='sc'>De Vardes</span> <em>and</em> <span class='sc'>The Marquise</span>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span> (<em>leaves the shadow of the statue</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>‘Twas he! That horseman who did waken me</div> - <div class='line'>That Saint John’s Eve I strayed in Paimpont Wood!</div> - <div class='line'>O Our Lady—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Séraphine</span> (<em>from the statue</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in13'>Saint Yves! There is bread!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<span class='sc'>Yvette</span> <em>takes from the table a loaf of bread and</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>throws it to</em> <span class='sc'>Séraphine</span>, <em>who springs upon it like a</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>famished wolf</em>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Ah—h—h!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>Setting her teeth in the loaf.</em></div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<span class='sc'>Yvette</span>, <em>about to lay her hand upon another round of</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>bread, sees the fan lying upon the cloth. She leaves</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>the bread and takes up the fan. It opens in her hand.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in10'>Oh!—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>She sits in the great chair and waves the fan slowly</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>to and fro.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in16'>Were I a lady fair and free,</div> - <div class='line'>I would powder my hair with dust of gold,</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_37'>37</span>I would clasp a necklace around my throat,</div> - <div class='line'>Of jewels rare, and a gown I would wear,</div> - <div class='line'>Blue silk like Our Lady of <span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Toute Remède</span>!</div> - <div class='line'>My shoes should be made of golden stuff,</div> - <div class='line'>And a broidered glove should dress my hand,</div> - <div class='line'>My hand so white that a lord might kiss!</div> - <div class='line'>I would spin fine flax from a silver wheel,</div> - <div class='line'>I would weave a web for my bridal sheets,</div> - <div class='line'>I would sing of King Gradlon under the sea,</div> - <div class='line'>Were I a lady fair and free!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><em>Enter</em> <span class='sc'>Grégoire</span>.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Séraphine</span> (<em>from the statue</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in29'>Yvette!</div> - <div class='line'>Yvette!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in8'>Peace, peace!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Grégoire</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in22'>What have you there?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in43'>A fan.</div> - <div class='line'>So long I’ve wanted one!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Grégoire</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in25'>A fan, forsooth!</div> - <div class='line'>You cannot eat a fan, drink it, wear it!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>I would look on’t.</div> - <div class='line'>One day at Vannes the deputy’s sister</div> - <div class='line'>Showed me a fan, but it was not like this!</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_38'>38</span>Oh, not like this with these wreaths of roses,</div> - <div class='line'>These painted clouds, this fairy ship!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Grégoire</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in39'>The price</div> - <div class='line'>Would keep a peasant from starvation!</div> - <div class='line'>And belike it fell from the lifted hand</div> - <div class='line'>Of Madame la Marquise de Blanchefôret!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>The fan breaks in</em> <span class='sc'>Yvette’s</span> <em>hand</em>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Séraphine</span> (<em>leaving the statue</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Thou evil-starred!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in19'>What have I done?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Grégoire</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in37'>Diantre!</div> - <div class='line'>Now you will be beaten as well as hanged!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>She called us miserable brigands!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><em>Enter</em> <span class='sc'>De Vardes</span>.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Séraphine</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Saint Yves! Saint Hervé! Saint Herbot!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span> (<em>to</em> <span class='sc'>Grégoire</span>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in39'>Voices?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Grégoire</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Monseigneur?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in13'>The fan of Madame la Marquise.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_39'>39</span><span class='sc'>Grégoire</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Monseigneur?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span> (<em>perceiving</em> <span class='sc'>Yvette</span> <em>and</em> <span class='sc'>Séraphine</span>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in13'>What will you have, good people?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Séraphine</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Saint Guenolé! Saint Thromeur! Saint Sulic!—</div> - <div class='line'>He did not see us in the dark last night!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<span class='sc'>De Vardes</span> <em>regards them more closely</em>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Grégoire</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Séraphine Robin—Yvette Charruel—</div> - <div class='line'>They are not bad folk, monseigneur!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Séraphine</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in36'>No, faith!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<span class='sc'>De Vardes</span> <em>studies the name written upon a playing</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>card which he holds in his hand</em>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span> (<em>to</em> <span class='sc'>Grégoire</span>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Say to Monsieur the Deputy from Vannes</div> - <div class='line'>That I await him here.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>Exit</em> <span class='sc'>Grégoire</span>. <span class='sc'>De Vardes</span> <em>looks intently at</em></div> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Yvette</span>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in23'>It was so beautiful,</div> - <div class='line'>The fan—I took it in my hand—it broke!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Séraphine</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>All that she touches breaks!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span> (<em>to</em> <span class='sc'>Yvette</span>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in29'>Wast ever thou</div> - <div class='line'>In the Forest of Paimpont?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_40'>40</span><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in27'>Oh, monseigneur!</div> - <div class='line'>Last Eve of Saint John, by the Druid Stone!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Ah!—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>He takes the fan from</em> <span class='sc'>Yvette’s</span> <em>hand and examines it</em>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in6'>Beyond all remedy!—Well, ‘tis done.</div> - <div class='line'>Do not tremble so!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in19'>I tremble not!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><em>Enter</em> <span class='sc'>Lalain</span>.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Séraphine</span> (<em>to</em> <span class='sc'>Yvette</span>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Here’s Monsieur Lalain!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in24'>I care not, I!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in39'>Ah,</div> - <div class='line'>Rémond Lalain!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Lalain</span> (<em>stiffly</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in15'>Monsieur—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'>A moment, pray,</div> - <div class='line'>Until I’ve spoken with these worthy folk!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Lalain</span> (<em>coldly</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Monsieur the Baron’s pleasure!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>He moves aside, but in passing speaks to</em> <span class='sc'>Yvette</span>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in31'>Yvette! Yvette!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_41'>41</span><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Monsieur the Deputy?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Lalain</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in21'>Too fair art thou!</div> - <div class='line'>Beware! This is the Seigneur of Morbec!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>I know.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Lalain</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in8'>He is the foe of France!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in33'>I know.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span> (<em>to</em> <span class='sc'>Séraphine</span>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Your business, well?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Séraphine</span> (<em>stammering</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in21'>Our business, monseigneur?—</div> - <div class='line'>Oh, give me help, Saint Yves le Véridique!—</div> - <div class='line'>Our business?—Saint Michel!—Well, since we’re here!—</div> - <div class='line'>Monseigneur, was the pullet plump and sweet?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The pullet?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in12'>Our pullet, monseigneur.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Lalain</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Distrained for rent!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Séraphine</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in21'>And Lisette, monseigneur?</div> - <div class='line'>May we enquire for Lisette’s health?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in37'>Lisette?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_42'>42</span><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Our cow, monseigneur.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Lalain</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in22'>Taken for taxes!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Séraphine</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>It was the best Lisette!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in25'>She followed me</div> - <div class='line'>Through the green lanes, and o’er the meadows salt.</div> - <div class='line'>Her breath was sweet as May!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in29'>It would please you</div> - <div class='line'>To have your cow again?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in24'>Oh, monseigneur!</div> - <div class='line'>Monseigneur, I’m the herd girl of Morbec!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Lalain</span> (<em>aside</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>They gaze into each other’s eyes!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in34'>What is</div> - <div class='line'>Thy name?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in10'>Yvette.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Séraphine</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in18'>Ay, ay, ‘tis so!—Yvette.</div> - <div class='line'>Called also The Right of the Seigneur!—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_43'>43</span><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The Right of the Seigneur!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Séraphine</span> (<em>nodding</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in27'>Just so.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Lalain</span> (<em>aside</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in36'>Recall</div> - <div class='line'>Just one of a great seigneur’s privileges!</div> - <div class='line'><i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Baiser des mariées</span></i>, in short, my friend!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Séraphine</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>O holy Saints! the night that she was born!</div> - <div class='line'>The thunder pealed, the sea gave forth a cry,</div> - <div class='line'>The forked lightnings played, the winds were out</div> - <div class='line'>And in the hut her mother lay and wailed,</div> - <div class='line'>And called on all the saints, the while Jehan</div> - <div class='line'>(That was her mother’s husband, monseigneur),</div> - <div class='line'>He stood and struck his heel against the logs.</div> - <div class='line'>Up flew the sparks, for all the wood was drift,</div> - <div class='line'>Salt with the sea, and every flame was blue.</div> - <div class='line'>I held the babe—Yvette, show monseigneur</div> - <div class='line'>The mark beneath the ear!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'>No!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Séraphine</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in30'>Stubbornness!</div> - <div class='line'>‘Tis there!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Lalain</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in12'>A birthmark—a small blue flower!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_44'>44</span><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Ah!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Séraphine</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in4'>Ay! a little mark.—Jehan Charruel!</div> - <div class='line'>He was a violent man,—the sea breeds such!</div> - <div class='line'>He cursed Yvonne upon her pallet there,</div> - <div class='line'>So pale she was, and dying with the tide!</div> - <div class='line'>He cursed the saints, the purple mark, the babe,</div> - <div class='line'>And some one else I dare not name—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Lalain</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in36'>I dare!</div> - <div class='line'>Henri-Etienne-Amaury de Vardes,</div> - <div class='line'>Late Baron of Morbec!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Séraphine</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in22'>Then out he goes,</div> - <div class='line'>A-weeping hard—Jehan—into the night.</div> - <div class='line'><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Ouf!</span> how it blew!—</div> - <div class='line'>The sea ran high, he met it in the dark,</div> - <div class='line'>Was drowned! Yvonne went with the ebb. Behold</div> - <div class='line'>Yvette!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<span class='sc'>Séraphine</span> <em>retreats to the table, where she furtively</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>drinks from a half-emptied wineglass</em>. <span class='sc'>Lalain</span> <em>follows</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>her and the two talk together</em>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in8'>That purple flower, that violet</div> - <div class='line'>By nature limned upon thy slender throat,—</div> - <div class='line'>From north to south, from east to west ‘tis known!</div> - <div class='line'>A De Vardes bore that mark at Poitiers.</div> - <div class='line'>The marshal, Hugues the Fair, and black Arnaud,</div> - <div class='line'>The late baron—Why, what hast thou to do</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_45'>45</span>With burning down châteaux to make a light</div> - <div class='line'>To show the Morbihan that purple flower?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>O Our Lady of Thorns!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in22'>Herd girl too fair!</div> - <div class='line'>And vision of Paimpont, fair as I dreamed!</div> - <div class='line'>How fair was thy errand last night?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in36'>Monseigneur!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>In the ashes of Morbec what shouldst thou find?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>We only wished to make a little light—</div> - <div class='line'>A little light to let the neighbours know</div> - <div class='line'>That we were hungry!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in21'>What neighbours hast thou?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Normandy and Maine, Anjou and Poitou,</div> - <div class='line'>The sea, the sky, and somewhat far away,</div> - <div class='line'>The Club of the Jacobins at Paris.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Thy father was a nobleman of France!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>I never had a father, monseigneur!</div> - <div class='line'>I had a mother, and she loved, they say,</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_46'>46</span>She dearly loved the fisherman Jehan!</div> - <div class='line'>When for the dead I pray, I pray for them.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>How old art thou?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in18'>How old? Ah, let me see!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>She counts upon her fingers.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The year the hailstones fell and killed the wheat;</div> - <div class='line'>The year the flax failed and we made no songs;</div> - <div class='line'>The year I begged for bread; the bitter year</div> - <div class='line'>We buried Louison who died of cold,</div> - <div class='line'>And Jacques was hanged who shot the seigneur’s deer;</div> - <div class='line'>The Pardon of Sainte Anne I had a gown;</div> - <div class='line'>Came Angélique from Paris, told us how</div> - <div class='line'>The wicked Queen was smiling, smiling there;</div> - <div class='line'>Justine pined away, they shot Michel If,</div> - <div class='line'>Down fell the Bastille, I learned <i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Ça ira</span></i>;</div> - <div class='line'>The deputy came to the curé’s house,</div> - <div class='line'>Beside the deep blue sea I walked with him.</div> - <div class='line'>A day there was at Vannes, a glorious day,</div> - <div class='line'>When music played, and every banner waved,</div> - <div class='line'>And all the folk went mad and rang the bells!</div> - <div class='line'><i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Vive la Révolution! Vive Mirabeau!</span></i></div> - <div class='line'><i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Vive Rémond Lalain!</span></i> I wept when ‘twas o’er,</div> - <div class='line'>Last summer was so fair! I wandered far,</div> - <div class='line'>One day I wandered through a darksome wood—</div> - <div class='line'>‘Twas on the Eve of good Saint John, I know!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Ah—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in5'>The summer fled, the light, the warmth did go,</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_47'>47</span>The winter came that was so cruel cold,</div> - <div class='line'>Cold as the dead! And hunger, monseigneur,</div> - <div class='line'>With bread at the château!—Died Baron Henri.—</div> - <div class='line'>The summer came again, the roses bloomed,</div> - <div class='line'>The roses bloomed, but they were not for us!</div> - <div class='line'>For us the dank seaweed, the thorny furze.</div> - <div class='line'>The lark sang well, but ah, it sang too high!</div> - <div class='line'>We could not lift our hearts to heaven’s gate;</div> - <div class='line'>We only heard the wind moan at our door.</div> - <div class='line'>We cried to the saints, but they took no heed!</div> - <div class='line'>One told us what they did at Goy and Vannes,</div> - <div class='line'>At Goy and Vannes, pardieu! they helped themselves!</div> - <div class='line'>We heard there had come a new lord to Morbec,</div> - <div class='line'>A soldier and a stranger to us all!</div> - <div class='line'>Three days have gone since I did sit alone</div> - <div class='line'>Upon the cliff edge in the waving grass;</div> - <div class='line'>The mew and curlew cried, the night wind blew,</div> - <div class='line'>And in the sunset glow red turned Morbec!</div> - <div class='line'>I thought of my mother, I thought of France,</div> - <div class='line'>I looked at the château cruel and high,</div> - <div class='line'>And as I was hungry I ate my black bread!—</div> - <div class='line'>I think, monseigneur, that I am nineteen.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Pauvre petite!</span></i></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in17'>Ah, poor indeed!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in34'>How dark</div> - <div class='line'>Thine eyes!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in12'>My mother’s were darker, they say!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_48'>48</span><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Thy face is the face of a picture there.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>I know—the Duchess Jeanne, who died for love.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Did Vivien teach thee magic in the wood?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Monseigneur?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in13'><i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Pauvre petite!</span></i></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in30'>O Our Lady!</div> - <div class='line'>The roses smell so sweet—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<span class='sc'>Lalain</span> <em>comes forward</em>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Lalain</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in27'>I pardon crave,</div> - <div class='line'>But I must sup to-night at Rennes. Please you,</div> - <div class='line'>Release this peasant girl! Affairs there are</div> - <div class='line'>Of which I’d speak—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in21'>Ay, presently!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Lalain</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in36'>Now!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Monsieur!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Lalain</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in10'>Citoyen René-Amaury Vardes—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_49'>49</span><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Is that, monsieur, the latest Paris mode?</div> - <div class='line'><i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Citoyen René-Amaury Vardes</span></i>,</div> - <div class='line'>The <em>De</em> left off, our hats (<em>Glances at</em> <span class='sc'>Lalain</span>) left on!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Lalain</span> (<em>removing his hat</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in59'>Monsieur</div> - <div class='line'>The Baron of Morbec!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span> (<em>bowing</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in21'>Monsieur</div> - <div class='line'>The Deputy for Vannes!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>Laughter and voices within.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><em>Enter from the château</em> <span class='sc'>The Marquise</span> <em>and</em> <span class='sc'>Mlle. de</span></div> - <div><span class='sc'>Château-Gui</span> <em>with</em> <span class='sc'>De L’Orient</span> <em>and</em> <span class='sc'>De Buc</span>.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De L’Orient</span> (<em>sings</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><em>Then spake the king of Ys</em></div> - <div class='line in2'><em>Above the song and shout,</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>Bring here the golden key</em></div> - <div class='line in2'><em>That keeps the ocean out!</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Marquise</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in23'>Monsieur le Baron,</div> - <div class='line'>My lost fan!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span> (<em>aside</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in13'>Oh me!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in20'>Madame la Marquise,</div> - <div class='line'>I will give you a fan that’s to my taste;</div> - <div class='line'>By Watteau painted, mounted by Laudet,</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_50'>50</span>Fragile and fine, an Adonis of fans!</div> - <div class='line'>This that I broke I will keep for myself.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>Pockets the fan.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Forgive the mere accident!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in27'>Ah!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Séraphine</span> (<em>from the table</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in31'>Ah—h—h!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Lalain</span> (<em>aside</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in41'>Gods!</div> - <div class='line'>If <em>I</em> forgive!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Marquise</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in16'>At Blanchefôret, monsieur,</div> - <div class='line'>The Watteau, Laudet, Adonis of fans,</div> - <div class='line'>I’ll take from your hand—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in27'>I ride there anon,</div> - <div class='line'>(<em>Aside.</em>) But not through the Forest of Paimpont</div> - <div class='line'>And not on the Eve of Saint John.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Marquise</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in34'>Come soon,</div> - <div class='line'>My garden is sweetest in June.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De L’Orient</span> (<em>sings</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><em>In Ys they sing no more,</em></div> - <div class='line in2'><em>In Ys the city old!</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>The waves are rolling o’er</em></div> - <div class='line in2'><em>The king and all his gold.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_51'>51</span><span class='sc'>Mlle. de Château-Gui</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Look at <em>my</em> fan, Monsieur le Baron!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<span class='sc'>Lalain</span> <em>crosses to</em> <span class='sc'>Yvette</span>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Lalain</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Hast thou forgot, hast thou forgot, Yvette,</div> - <div class='line'>Thy part, thy lot, the very name they give thee?</div> - <div class='line'>This is Morbec, this is the brazen castle!</div> - <div class='line'>There are no roses here.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in25'>So generous</div> - <div class='line'>He was!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Lalain</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in8'>Generous! Oh, well are you called</div> - <div class='line'>The Right of the Seigneur!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span> (<em>passionately</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in27'>Give me not that</div> - <div class='line'>Detestable name!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Lalain</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in17'>So meek under wrongs—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Oh!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Lalain</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in4'>So quick to forget—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in25'>Oh!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Lalain</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in29'><i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">La patrie</span></i>—</div> - <div class='line'>Sworn oaths—the tricolour—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_52'>52</span><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in30'>Anger me not!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Lalain</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>On your lips <i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Ça Ira</span></i>! but in your heart</div> - <div class='line'><i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">O Richard, O mon Roi!</span></i></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in24'>‘Tis false!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Lalain</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>And I—and I—Yvette!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in22'>Speak not to me!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Lalain</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>You gaze at that man! I tell you he wooes</div> - <div class='line'>Madame la Marquise de Blanchefôret!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<span class='sc'>Yvette</span> <em>crosses to</em> <em>The Marquise</em>, <span class='sc'>De Vardes</span>,</div> - <div class='line'><em>and the guests</em>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span> (<em>to</em> <span class='sc'>The Marquise</span>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in36'>Madame!</div> - <div class='line'>I broke the fan! I would pay if I might.</div> - <div class='line'>I would keep your cows, or spin your flax—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Marquise</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in44'>The fan!</div> - <div class='line'>You broke the fan—not monsieur there!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in39'>No, I!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Marquise</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Sainte Geneviève!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_53'>53</span><em>Enter</em> <span class='sc'>Count Louis</span>, <span class='sc'>The Vidame</span>, <span class='sc'>Mme. de Vaucourt</span>,</div> - <div><em>etc.</em></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Séraphine</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in18'>Yvette!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Count Louis</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'>La belle Marquise!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<span class='sc'>Séraphine</span> <em>draws</em> <span class='sc'>Yvette</span> <em>back to the base of the</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>statue</em>. <span class='sc'>Count Louis</span>, <span class='sc'>The Marquise</span>, <em>and the</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>guests talk together</em>. <span class='sc'>Lalain</span> <em>crosses to</em> <span class='sc'>De Vardes</span>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Lalain</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>René de Vardes!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in16'>Rémond Lalain!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Lalain</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>This day I bury our friendship of old!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>So!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Lalain</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in4'>I owe to you a thousand louis</div> - <div class='line'>Which I’ll repay, monsieur!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in28'>I doubt it not.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Lalain</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Touch not the girl Yvette!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>At last the heart of the matter! I see</div> - <div class='line'>You have been through the Forest of Paimpont.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_54'>54</span><span class='sc'>Lalain</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Or touch at your peril!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in24'>Monsieur!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Lalain</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in34'>Oh, if</div> - <div class='line'>You lay your hand upon your sword, monsieur,</div> - <div class='line'>I’m for you there!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in19'>Art mad, or drunk with power,</div> - <div class='line'>Monsieur the favourite of the Jacobins?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Lalain</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>There’ll come a day when to be Jacobin</div> - <div class='line'>Is something more, monsieur, than to be king!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Indeed!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>A Sergeant of Hussars appears on the terrace and</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>salutes.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in8'>Sergeant!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Sergeant</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in18'>My Colonel!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in30'>Well, your report.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Sergeant</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>My Colonel, wood and shore we’ve searched since dawn,</div> - <div class='line'>And twenty bitter rogues we’ve found, no less!</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_55'>55</span>They crouched behind the tall grey stones, or lay</div> - <div class='line'>Prone in the furze, or knelt at Calvaries!</div> - <div class='line'>Two women remain—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>He stares at</em> <span class='sc'>Yvette</span> <em>and</em> <span class='sc'>Séraphine</span>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Séraphine</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in19'>O Saint Thégonnec!</div> - <div class='line'>Saint Guirec! Saint Servan!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in28'>O Our Lady!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><em>Enter</em> <span class='sc'>The Abbé</span>.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Abbé</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>De Vardes, your precious peasants—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>He sees</em> <span class='sc'>Yvette</span>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in36'>Who is here?</div> - <div class='line'>The De Méricourt, the mænad, I swear!</div> - <div class='line'>Who wounded De Vardes!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in23'>Oh!—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Mme. de Vaucourt</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in29'>The Egyptian!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Séraphine</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Monseigneur, monseigneur, she’s none of mine!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Mlle. de Château-Gui</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The poor girl!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Séraphine</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in15'>Ah, mademoiselle, it is</div> - <div class='line'>The innocentest creature!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_56'>56</span><span class='sc'>The Abbé</span> (<em>touches</em> <span class='sc'>Yvette</span> <em>upon the cheek</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'>Good-morning,</div> - <div class='line'>My dear!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Count Louis</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in9'>Hm—m—m!—pretty!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Vidame</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in28'>Certainly the gallows</div> - <div class='line'>Should be thirty feet high.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Count Louis</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in28'>Hm—m—m! Something less,</div> - <div class='line'>Monsieur le Vidame!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Lalain</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Diable!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span> (<em>to the sergeant</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in8'>Where are your captives?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Sergeant</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in33'>My Colonel,</div> - <div class='line'>I have them safely here! Ha! you within!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>Enter from the hall of the château soldiers and</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>huntsmen with peasants, men and women; some</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>sullenly submissive, others struggling against their</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>bonds. They crowd the terrace before the great</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>doors. The guests of</em> <span class='sc'>De Vardes</span> <em>to the right and</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>left upon the terrace, the stairs, and in the garden</em>.</div> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Yvette</span> <em>and</em> <span class='sc'>Séraphine</span> <em>beside the statue</em>; <span class='sc'>Lalain</span></div> - <div class='line'><em>near them</em>; <span class='sc'>De Vardes</span> <em>with his hand upon the</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>great chair</em>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Mme. de Vaucourt</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Oh, the brigands!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_57'>57</span><span class='sc'>Count Louis</span> (<em>rubbing his hands</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in18'>Here, Sergeant, range them here,</div> - <div class='line'>Upon the terrace! And take the great chair,</div> - <div class='line'><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">De Vardes! Ma foi!</span> We will teach them, the rogues!</div> - <div class='line'><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Monsieur l’Anglais</span>, have you peasants at home</div> - <div class='line'>Plague you at times?—Word of a gentleman!</div> - <div class='line'>It seems like old days and Henri again!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>The soldiers thrust their prisoners forward with</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>the butts of their muskets.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>A Man</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Monseigneur!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Another</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in13'>Monseigneur!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>A Woman</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'>Madame la Marquise!</div> - <div class='line'>My father was your father’s foster brother!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Marquise</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Is that a reason you should burn châteaux?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>A Young Woman</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Where’s Yvette Charruel?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in25'>Here, Angélique!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Séraphine</span> (<em>aside to</em> <span class='sc'>Angélique</span>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Of course! Betray the girl! I knew you would.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>An Old Woman</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Yvette said God would have mercy! I faint—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_58'>58</span><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span> (<em>to</em> <span class='sc'>Grégoire</span>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Give her wine!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>A Peasant</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in15'>See! There is Rémond Lalain!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Lalain</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Patience, compatriot! Thursday I speak</div> - <div class='line'>In the Jacobins!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Angélique</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in17'>Ah, monseigneur!</div> - <div class='line'>Ah, monseigneur, there’s she who led us here!</div> - <div class='line'>There’s she who said the shadow of Morbec</div> - <div class='line'>Blackened the land as sin blackens the soul!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Guests</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Ah!—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Angélique</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in6'>That same Yvette, who said, monseigneur,</div> - <div class='line'>That delving the earth, the peasants of France</div> - <div class='line'>In a long age had delved up a thought!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Guests</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in39'>Ah!—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Angélique</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>She said that we were never born to starve!</div> - <div class='line'>She said the seigneur’s dues were all <i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">infâme</span></i>!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Guests</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Ah!—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Vidame</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in6'>Burn the witch!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in22'>Have you done?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_59'>59</span><span class='sc'>Angélique</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in37'>Monseigneur,</div> - <div class='line'>She said the forest deer, the hare, the birds,</div> - <div class='line'>Were just as much the peasant’s as the lord’s!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Englishman</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>What? What?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Angélique</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in12'>She said the saints they wished no tithes!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Abbé</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>I give her up!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Angélique</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in15'>Monseigneur, monseigneur,</div> - <div class='line'>She said that all our hope was the tricolour!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Buc</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>O lilies of Bourbon!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Séraphine</span> (<em>to</em> <span class='sc'>Angélique</span>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in21'>Thou little beast!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Angélique</span> (<em>shrilly</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Yvette said bitter hunger, cold, and want</div> - <div class='line'>Came with <i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">noblesse</span></i> and with <i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">noblesse</span></i> would go!</div> - <div class='line'>Yvette said the Queen was an Austrian!</div> - <div class='line'>Yvette said the King was a <span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">fainéant</span>!</div> - <div class='line'>Yvette said the princes were traitors!</div> - <div class='line'>Yvette said the armies would turn to us!</div> - <div class='line'>Yvette heard the drums of the Republic!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Guests</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Out!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_60'>60</span><span class='sc'>Count Louis</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in5'>Enough!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Séraphine</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in13'>Thou hellicat!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>A Peasant</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in28'>Monseigneur!</div> - <div class='line'>Saint Yves le Véridique knows it is truth!</div> - <div class='line'>She ever rings the tocsin in our hearts!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Another</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Yvette Charruel!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>A Woman</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in17'>She led us here!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Another Woman</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in34'>Yvette!</div> - <div class='line'>Yvette Charruel!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Angélique</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in17'>Yvette?—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>Several of the women laugh.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in27'>Why, you are all cowards!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Séraphine</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>So they are, monseigneur, so they are!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span> (<em>to the peasants</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Who speaks for you?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>A silence.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Peasants</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in20'>Monseigneur—monseigneur—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>They break off.</em> <span class='sc'>De Vardes</span> <em>stands waiting for</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>them to speak, his hand upon the chair</em>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_61'>61</span><span class='sc'>An Old Woman</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Yvette—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>An Old Man</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in9'>Yvette—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Peasants</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in18'>Monseigneur—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>They break off. They make a sighing sound. The</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>old woman begins to say her beads.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in32'>Monseigneur,</div> - <div class='line'>They are so hungry! Monseigneur, ‘tis said</div> - <div class='line'>You are a soldier and have been to war!</div> - <div class='line'>Oh, to us all there comes one battle-field</div> - <div class='line'>When we must look into a conqueror’s eyes!</div> - <div class='line'>Think then upon that last dark plain and show</div> - <div class='line'>Mercy to us who in the shadow stand!</div> - <div class='line'>We are your enemies!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Buc</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in21'>Faith of an officer!</div> - <div class='line'>De Vardes—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in12'>The children are crying at home,</div> - <div class='line'>Monseigneur!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>A Woman</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in13'>O Sainte Vierge, have pity!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>With bowed heads the old men wait!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_62'>62</span><span class='sc'>A Woman</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in35'>Oh, my father!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The young men hear the ravens crying!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Peasants</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in38'>Aie!—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The nets are dry, the red sails laid away,</div> - <div class='line'>And all the boats lie idle by the shore.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>A Fisherman</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Star of the Sea! Pray for poor fisherfolk!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>A Peasant</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>I left my sickle in the standing corn.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The wheat must fall, the flax be gathered soon,</div> - <div class='line'>Or else we’ll sing no songs in Morbihan!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Peasants</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Aie! The songs of the <i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">diskanerien</span></i>!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The hearths are cold and the wheels turn not,</div> - <div class='line'>And Hunger sits on every doorstep!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Peasants</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in35'>Aie!—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>To-morrow is the Pardon of the Birds.</div> - <div class='line'>The birds go free—the birds go free, monseigneur!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_63'>63</span><span class='sc'>De Buc</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>And so I swear should you!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Peasants</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in27'>The birds go free!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>A Woman</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>My little bird at home!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Marquise</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in24'>Give her, monsieur,</div> - <div class='line'>Another fan to break!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in22'>Not one of yours,</div> - <div class='line'>Madame la Marquise!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span> (<em>to the sergeant</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in20'>Give them liberty.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Sergeant</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>My Colonel?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in12'>Cut their bonds; set them free!</div> - <div class='line'>Make way for them there!</div> - <div class='line in6'>(<em>To the peasants.</em>) Peasants of Morbec!</div> - <div class='line'>Last night you rose against your lord and strove</div> - <div class='line'>To burn his house, to slay his guest and him.</div> - <div class='line'>How shall he speak to you to-day? Poor fools!</div> - <div class='line'>Distraught and blind you struck ere that you looked,</div> - <div class='line'>And struck at one who fain would be your friend,</div> - <div class='line'>Who has his vision of a seigneur’s right!</div> - <div class='line'>These are the towers of Morbec, but I</div> - <div class='line'>Am not Baron Henri, blind that ye are!</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_64'>64</span>I am Baron René, remember my name.</div> - <div class='line'>Bread you shall have, I will think of your wrongs.</div> - <div class='line'>No foe am I! There are the open doors.</div> - <div class='line'>Back to the village go! but look you well.</div> - <div class='line'>Mistake no more, it will be dangerous!</div> - <div class='line'>Creep not this way again in the dark night,</div> - <div class='line'>Or you may meet an ancient Lord of Morbec!</div> - <div class='line'>More loyal grow, cease all your traitorous talk,</div> - <div class='line'>Raise not Rebellion’s head or it will find</div> - <div class='line'>A soldier of the King with armèd heel!</div> - <div class='line'>Mistake no more! This once I pardon you.</div> - <div class='line'>Begone! The fields await you and the wind</div> - <div class='line'>Sits fair for Quiberon! Begone.</div> - <div class='line in2'>(<em>To</em> <span class='sc'>Yvette</span> <em>and</em> <span class='sc'>Séraphine</span>.) Stay!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>The peasants press in confusion toward the doors</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>of the château.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Peasants</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Live Baron René!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Lalain</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in17'>O Breton fools!—Yvette!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<span class='sc'>Yvette</span> <em>does not answer. She looks at</em> <span class='sc'>De Vardes</span>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Marquise</span> (<em>with strained laughter</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>High justice at Morbec!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Vidame</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in24'><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Mille diables!</span></div> - <div class='line'>The wretches all go free!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Count Louis</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'>Is this Morbec?</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_65'>65</span>Mort de ma vie! What is it that you do,</div> - <div class='line'>Monsieur le Baron de Morbec?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in29'>My pleasure,</div> - <div class='line'>Monsieur le Comte de Château-Gui, upon</div> - <div class='line'>My peasants of Morbec!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><em>CURTAIN</em></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='figcenter id003'> -<img src='images/i_074.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' /> -</div> - -<div class='figcenter id002'> -<span class='pageno' id='Page_67'>67</span> -<img src='images/i_076.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' /> -</div> - -<div class='chapter'> - <h2 id='ACT_II' class='c005'><em>ACT II</em></h2> -</div> - -<p class='drop-capanf0_0 c010'><em>The garden of the Convent of the Visitation at Nantes. -Long lines of fruit trees which appear to sleep in the sunshine. -In the middle of the garden a stone fountain, where -rises and falls a little jet of water. To the left the white -buildings of the convent; in the background, between the -convent and the street, a high garden wall, the tops of -trees, and the roof and spire of a church. There is a -barred door in the wall. The doors and windows of the -convent parlour giving upon the garden are open. It is -the summer of 1792.</em></p> - -<p class='c011'><em>A nun appears for a moment at the door of the convent, -then vanishes, and</em> <span class='sc'>De Vardes</span> <em>and</em> <span class='sc'>Yvette</span> <em>enter the -garden</em>.</p> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='linedc drop-capanf0_0'>What hast thou learned to-day?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in31'>In history:</div> - <div class='line'>The battles of Rossbach and of Minden!</div> - <div class='line'>The Peace of Paris—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in21'>Indeed!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in29'>Philosophy:</div> - <div class='line'>Man is born free—but who will break his chains?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_68'>68</span><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>It is a question truly!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in24'>Theology:</div> - <div class='line'>God is the father of us all—and yet</div> - <div class='line'>I think I know how feels an orphan child!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Defeat of France, Rousseau, and Modern Doubt!</div> - <div class='line'>And hast thou learnt all this in convent walls?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>No!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in4'>They are good to thee, the Sisters all?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Monseigneur, yes!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in18'>When I did place thee here</div> - <div class='line'>After that day thou didst not burn Morbec!</div> - <div class='line'>I gave the Reverend Mother straitest charge,—</div> - <div class='line'>This convent oweth much to the De Vardes.</div> - <div class='line'>They have enriched it oft, and it in turn</div> - <div class='line'>Refuge hath given unto noble dames.</div> - <div class='line'>Oft did she sit beside the fountain there,</div> - <div class='line'>That Duchess Jeanne whose look thou wearest now!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Oh!—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in6'>How mournfully thou sighest! Yet</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_69'>69</span>How glorious are thine eyes this lovely day!</div> - <div class='line'>Thou’rt well, and thou art happy, art thou not?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>There is no hunger here, no cold, no care!</div> - <div class='line'>I ever wished to learn and here I learn,</div> - <div class='line'>Here where the Duchess Jeanne did sit forlorn,—</div> - <div class='line'>And then I pray within the chapel there,</div> - <div class='line'>And then I count the stars as they are lit,—</div> - <div class='line'>And then I think of all the lights of Nantes!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>It hath been many days I’ve been away,</div> - <div class='line'>To Morbec and to Vannes and to Vitré.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>I thought that thou wouldst never come again!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Didst think the night had ceased to long for day?</div> - <div class='line'>Didst think the tide no more obeyed the moon?</div> - <div class='line'>The reed no longer bowed unto the wind?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Ah, do not jest!—There’s blood upon thy coat!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>‘Tis nothing!—We have had hard words to-day,</div> - <div class='line'>My men and I!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>He gazes around at the quiet garden.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in14'>O holy peace! O balm!</div> - <div class='line'>O green and sunny quietude! Outside</div> - <div class='line'>There’s tumult, heat, confusion, enmity!</div> - <div class='line'>Here is a haven, here ‘tis blissful sweet!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>They sit upon the marge of the fountain.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_70'>70</span>All is dismay and doubt in France to-day.</div> - <div class='line'>With troubled eyes men question destiny!</div> - <div class='line'>Outside I front the storm as best I may,</div> - <div class='line'>But here is anchorage profound and fair—</div> - <div class='line'>There fruit trees drifting bloom, this fountain marge!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>I better love the wild and desolate shore!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>What is that ribbon closed within thy hand?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>Yvette opens her hand and shows a ribbon cockade.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The tricolour!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in15'>Wilt thou not wear it?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in38'>No!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>It was my favour—Fare you well, monsieur!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>I might not wear that ribbon, no, not if</div> - <div class='line'>It were thy favour truly, Vivien!</div> - <div class='line'>Ah, when will cease this discord of our minds?</div> - <div class='line'>Wilt thou forever be a Jacobin?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>A distant bugle, followed by a roll of drums and</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>martial music.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Aux armes, Citoyens!</span></i></div> - <div class='line'><i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Formez vos bataillons!</span></i></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_71'>71</span><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Where learned’st thou the Marseillaise?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>‘Tis in the air! Oh, on these moonlight nights</div> - <div class='line'>I dream of France and how he spoke to me</div> - <div class='line'>Of all the wrongs of France we should redress!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Who spoke to thee?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in19'>Rémond Lalain.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Rémond Lalain was once my closest friend.</div> - <div class='line'>He travels now a dark and winding way!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Where is she now, that lady bright and fair</div> - <div class='line'>Who’s named La Belle Marquise in Morbihan?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>She is in Nantes.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in18'>Ah!—Is she not fair?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Most fair.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in11'>And nobly born?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in27'>And nobly born.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_72'>72</span><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Alas!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><em>Enter</em> <span class='sc'>Sister Benedicta</span>.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Sister Benedicta</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in6'>Monsieur le Baron de Morbec,—</div> - <div class='line'>A courier, in haste, foam-flecked and spent,</div> - <div class='line'>Demands to speak with you.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in27'>What tidings now?</div> - <div class='line'>Ill news like ravens to a cumbered field!</div> - <div class='line'>I come, my Sister!</div> - <div class='line in4'>(<em>To</em> Yvette.) I’ll return.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>Exeunt</em> <span class='sc'>De Vardes</span> <em>and</em> <span class='sc'>Sister Benedicta</span>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in32'>Alas!</div> - <div class='line'>She is in Nantes! He sees her every day.</div> - <div class='line'>What is this pain that’s tearing at my heart?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>Laughing voices of young girls. Enter from the</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>convent</em> <span class='sc'>Sister Fidelis</span> <em>and</em> <span class='sc'>Sister Simplicia</span></div> - <div class='line'><em>with a cluster of young girls, pupils of the nuns or</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>refugees from Royalist families. They seat themselves</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>upon the wide steps of the fountain.</em> <span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - <div class='line'><em>leans against the basin and plays in the water with</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>her hand</em>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>A Young Girl</span> (<em>to</em> <span class='sc'>Yvette</span>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>We’re telling stories!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Another</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in23'>Finish thine, Louise!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_73'>73</span><span class='sc'>Louise</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>‘Tis told. The beau prince wed the belle princesse,</div> - <div class='line'>And they lived happily ever after!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>A Young Girl</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Whose turn now?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Another</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in16'>Tell us a story, Yvette!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span> (<em>turning from the fountain</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><em>Beneath the halfway tree,</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>‘Tween Josselin and Pontivy,</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>Suddenly, out of the dark,</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>I heard a grey wolf bark!</em></div> - <div class='line in12'><em>Hoée! Hoée! Hoée!</em></div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><em>The snow was on the ground,</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>The shadows all around,</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>Laid a finger on my lip,</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>As I stood, hand on hip,</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>Listening the grey wolf bark.</em></div> - <div class='line in12'><em>Hoée! Hoée! Hoée!</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>Beneath the halfway tree,</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>‘Tween Josselin and Pontivy!</em></div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><em>A little child came by.</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>“Yvette, the wolf is nigh!</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>Yvette, take thou me up,</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>I’ve neither bite nor sup!”</em></div> - <div class='line in12'><em>Hoée! Hoée! Hoée!</em></div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><em>The child came to my arm.</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>He was so fair and warm!</em></div> - <div class='line'><em><span class='pageno' id='Page_74'>74</span>The child came to my arm,</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>I kept him safe from harm!</em></div> - <div class='line in12'><em>Hoée! Hoée! Hoée!</em></div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><em>A light grew round his head,</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>I felt all cheered and fed.</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>“Yvette, have thou no fear!</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>Who giveth aid, to me is dear!”</em></div> - <div class='line in12'><em>Hoée! Hoée! Hoée!</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>The child no longer pressed,</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>White snow lay on my breast!</em></div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><em>The grey wolf ran away,</em></div> - <div class='line in12'><em>Hoée! Hoée! Hoée!</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>There broke a splendid day,</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>Beneath the halfway tree,</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>‘Tween Josselin and Pontivy!</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Sister Fidelis</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>A miracle?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in11'>I do not know.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>A Young Girl</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'>I liked best</div> - <div class='line'>The beau prince and the belle princesse.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Another Girl</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in41'>Oh,</div> - <div class='line'>Thou’rt an Aristocrat!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>The young girls return to their embroidery.</em> <span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - <div class='line'><em>plays in the water of the fountain with her hand</em>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_75'>75</span><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in23'>Gold fish, gold fish,</div> - <div class='line'>How are the fish of Quiberon?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>A Young Girl</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in30'>Were I</div> - <div class='line'>A fairy prince, then my princess should be</div> - <div class='line'>Madame la Marquise de Blanchefôret!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Another</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in36'>If I</div> - <div class='line'>Were a princess, I would have for my prince</div> - <div class='line'>Monsieur le Baron de Morbec.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<span class='sc'>Yvette</span> <em>turns from the fountain</em>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>A Third Girl</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in29'>They say</div> - <div class='line'>That in all France there’s none more brave than he!</div> - <div class='line'>And far and near she’s called La Belle Marquise!</div> - <div class='line'>A little while and there’ll a wedding be!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The First</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>But then, the poor Yvette! He is, you know,</div> - <div class='line'>Her prince!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>They laugh.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in12'>Oh, mockery!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Sister Fidelis</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in25'>Hush, children, hush!</div> - <div class='line'>Monsieur le Baron is her benefactor!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Sister Simplicia</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>He plucked her from the dreadful world outside!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_76'>76</span><span class='sc'>Sister Fidelis</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>He placed her here beneath Our Lady’s care.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Sister Simplicia</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>In everything he is her truest friend!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Sister Fidelis</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>But for his condescension, ah, who knows</div> - <div class='line'>What in these fearful days might be her lot!</div> - <div class='line'>Here in this fold she’s safe.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span> (<em>aside</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in30'>Alas! alas!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>A Young Girl</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Oh, she is fairer than the fairy queen!</div> - <div class='line'>Clarice de Miramand and Blanchefôret!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span> (<em>aside</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Is she so fair? Is she so fair indeed?</div> - <div class='line'>I broke her fan—now she will break my heart!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>A Young Girl</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>He is a knight like Lancelot!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in30'>Oh me!</div> - <div class='line'>She is the Queen, she is that Guinevere!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>Distant music. The noise of footsteps and voices in</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>the street beyond the wall.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>A Young Girl</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Oh, outside the wall what is there passing?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_77'>77</span><span class='sc'>Sister Fidelis</span> (<em>severely</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>We have nothing to do with outside the wall.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>A Young Girl</span> (<em>indicating the door in the wall</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Might we open the door a little way?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Sister Fidelis</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The blessed saints forbid!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>From the street are heard the drums and fifes of</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>passing National troops. The bayonets of the soldiers</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>are visible above the wall.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Voices</span> (<em>in the street</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Allons, enfants de la patrie,</span></i></div> - <div class='line'><i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Le jour de gloire est arrivé!</span></i></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>A Young Girl</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in27'>Oh, soldiers!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Another</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Were the wall only down!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>The circle about the fountain breaks. The young</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>girls walk up and down beneath the trees. The Sisters</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>watch them from a garden bench. The music</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>dies away.</em> <span class='sc'>Yvette</span> <em>sits upon the stone marge of the</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>fountain</em>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>What is this pain that’s tearing at my heart?</div> - <div class='line'>What matters it to me whom he doth love?</div> - <div class='line'>And what concern of mine that she is fair?</div> - <div class='line'>I would she were not so!—Oh, misery!</div> - <div class='line'>She is in Nantes, she is La Belle Marquise!</div> - <div class='line'>I would that she were dead!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>The chapel bell rings.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in28'>O Seigneur Dieu!</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_78'>78</span>Her death! I do not wish her death! Not I!</div> - <div class='line'>O Our Lady! let not ill thoughts possess me!</div> - <div class='line'>I would I were at Morbec this still eve,</div> - <div class='line'>Herding the cows amid the golden broom,</div> - <div class='line'>Above a sea of glass without a wind,</div> - <div class='line'>As stagnant calm as is this prisoned water!</div> - <div class='line'>I would gather the musk rose in the lane,</div> - <div class='line'>I would tread the wet sand and count the ships,</div> - <div class='line'>My brow would not burn, my heart would not ache,</div> - <div class='line'>No tears from my eyes would I wipe away!</div> - <div class='line'>Why should they not fall like the winter rain?</div> - <div class='line'>I am the herd girl here as at Morbec,</div> - <div class='line'>And she’s a great lady, loved for herself!</div> - <div class='line'>O love! is it love that stifles me so?</div> - <div class='line'>O love! is it love that makes me weep?</div> - <div class='line'>I thought that love was all splendour and light,</div> - <div class='line'>The bow in the sky, the bird at its height,</div> - <div class='line'>The glory and state of an angel bright!</div> - <div class='line'>What is this pain that burdens all my heart?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>She bows her head upon her knees. The hum of the</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>street deepens to a continuous and sinister sound.</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>In the distance a roll of drums.</em> <span class='sc'>Yvette</span> <em>raises her</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>head</em>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>I sit by this fountain, he’ll not return!</div> - <div class='line'>He cares not for me,—he’s the Sieur de Morbec,</div> - <div class='line'>And I a herd girl wandering through his fields!</div> - <div class='line'>Mother, my mother, did you sit and wait,</div> - <div class='line'>By the wild sea rim on a glowing eve,</div> - <div class='line'>Mid the brown seaweed on the shining sands?</div> - <div class='line'>Your heart did it beat, and your senses swim?—</div> - <div class='line'>But your lover, the fisher, he came, he came!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>The voice of the street deepens.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_79'>79</span>I will not have this pain! I’ll tear it out!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>Her hand touches the purple mark on her throat.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Ha! how burns this hateful mark to-day!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>There comes from the church towers of Nantes a</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>sudden and violent crash of bells.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Sister Fidelis</span> (<em>rising</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The tocsin!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Young Girls</span> (<em>They flutter forward to the</em></div> - <div><em>fountain</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in12'>The tocsin! Oh, the tocsin!</div> - <div class='line'>Like a hive of bees hums the street without!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Oh, all ye iron bells! ring on! ring on!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><em>Enter</em> <span class='sc'>Mlle. de Château-Gui</span> <em>and</em> <span class='sc'>Sister Benedicta</span>.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Young Girls</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Here is Mademoiselle de Château-Gui!</div> - <div class='line'>She’ll tell us why the bells are ringing!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Mlle. de Château-Gui</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in42'>O Ciel!</div> - <div class='line'>Would you believe it? O blessed saints above!</div> - <div class='line'>The country is in danger!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>A Young Girl</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'>Oh! we thought</div> - <div class='line'>You brought us news!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Mlle. de Château-Gui</span> (<em>joyously</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in21'>Do you not hear the bells?</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_80'>80</span>Oh, such a day outside! It is proclaimed!</div> - <div class='line'><i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">La patrie est en danger!</span></i></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>Distant trumpets.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'>Well you may wail,</div> - <div class='line'>You brazen trumpets of the Revolution!</div> - <div class='line'>The Duke of Brunswick he is marching now,</div> - <div class='line'>And with him all our nobles back from Coblentz!</div> - <div class='line'>O bliss! <i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">La patrie est en danger!</span></i></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Sister Fidelis</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in36'>Oh, hush!</div> - <div class='line'>The very walls have ears!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Mlle. de Château-Gui</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'>My father says</div> - <div class='line'>The King shall have his own again, and all</div> - <div class='line'>Will go as merry as a wedding bell!</div> - <div class='line'><i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">La patrie est en danger!</span></i></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><em>Enter</em> <span class='sc'>Count Louis</span>, <span class='sc'>Melipars de L’Orient</span>, <em>and the</em></div> - <div><span class='sc'>Abbé de Barbasan</span>.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in27'>Oh, here are</div> - <div class='line'>My father and Monsieur de L’Orient!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De L’Orient</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>So sweet the flowers here—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Count Louis</span> (<em>to the young girls</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in28'>Mesdemoiselles,</div> - <div class='line'>One garden of rosebuds time hath not touched!</div> - <div class='line'>(<em>To the Sisters.</em>) In your prayers, my Sisters, name Château-Gui!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>The young girls curtesy, then exeunt between the</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>trees.</em> <span class='sc'>Yvette</span> <em>remains beside the fountain</em>. <span class='sc'>Count</span></div> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Louis</span> <em>looks at her through his glass</em>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Ha!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_81'>81</span><span class='sc'>De L’Orient</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in4'>The herd girl of Morbec!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Count Louis</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in29'>I have eyes,</div> - <div class='line'>De L’Orient!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Abbé</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in13'>Hm!—Fair child!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span> (<em>coldly</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in30'>Citoyen!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Mlle. de Château-Gui</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Monsieur de L’Orient, you promised me</div> - <div class='line'>My father should not walk abroad to-day!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De L’Orient</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>What could I do? He is so young and rash!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Count Louis</span> (<em>taking snuff</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>‘Tis true that Nantes is dangerous to-day</div> - <div class='line'>To all save those wild beasts the sans-culottes!</div> - <div class='line'>But that’s no reason I should stay at home.</div> - <div class='line'>Where is De Vardes? His man said he was here.</div> - <div class='line'>It is his wont, pardieu!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Sister Fidelis</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in25'>Monsieur le Comte,</div> - <div class='line'>Monsieur the Baron of Morbec did come</div> - <div class='line'>To see that all was well with this our charge—</div> - <div class='line'>A peasant girl, monsieur, whom he did save</div> - <div class='line'>From cold and hunger and ill company.</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_82'>82</span>But now she prospers and we think that he</div> - <div class='line'>Will come no more.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in19'>Jesu Maria!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Count Louis</span> (<em>with satisfaction</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in31'>Ma foi!</div> - <div class='line'>He is a soldier is De Vardes! He camps</div> - <div class='line'>One day beside the hedgerow in the field!</div> - <div class='line'>The next he’s for some royal mount of love,</div> - <div class='line'>High as the snow and splendid in the sun!</div> - <div class='line'>Since he’s not here I know where else he is!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De L’Orient</span> (<em>sings</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><em>Mignonne, Mignonne!</em></div> - <div class='line in2'><em>Kiss me, rose of to-day!</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>O heart! O world! O hedgerow in the field!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Count Louis</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Well, well, her mother was as fair as she!</div> - <div class='line'>Clarice de Miramand, long-dead Clarice!</div> - <div class='line'>Her hair was golden too.—Old times, old times!</div> - <div class='line'>And now it is De Vardes and the Marquise!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<span class='sc'>Count Louis</span>, <span class='sc'>Mlle. de Château-Gui</span>, <em>and</em> <span class='sc'>De</span></div> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>L’Orient</span> <em>walk up and down beneath the trees</em>. <span class='sc'>De</span></div> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>L’Orient</span> <em>sings</em>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De L’Orient</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><em>Mignonne, Mignonne!</em></div> - <div class='line in2'><em>The red rose fades away!</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>Mignonne, Mignonne!</em></div> - <div class='line in2'><em>The white rose will not stay!</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_83'>83</span><span class='sc'>The Abbé</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>My dear, that is a pretty wrist of thine!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Citoyen!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Abbé</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in9'>Hast said thy rosary to-day?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Citoyen!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Abbé</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in9'>A melting eye!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in24'>Citoyen!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Abbé</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Dame! She is only good to burn châteaux!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>He joins</em> <span class='sc'>Count Louis</span>, <em>etc. They walk and talk</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>beneath the trees.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The high of heart bide no man’s scorning! I</div> - <div class='line'>Will break these bonds! I will be free! I will!</div> - <div class='line'>O royal mount of love, snow-high, sun-kissed,</div> - <div class='line'>Kissed by the sun which once did shine on me!</div> - <div class='line'>If I am of the fields—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>Her hand touches the mark upon her throat. She</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>laughs.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in24'>O hated flower,</div> - <div class='line'>Which grew beneath no hedgerow on this earth!</div> - <div class='line'>Teach me, thou poison blossom, pride of heart!</div> - <div class='line'>Where is that Duchess Jeanne whom I am like?</div> - <div class='line'>They say for love her heart did rive in twain,</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_84'>84</span>But now she smiles beside a shadowy stream</div> - <div class='line'>In some far land where none do die of love!</div> - <div class='line'>And where is he, Jehan the fisherman,</div> - <div class='line'>Who loved Yvonne, who met the sea and died?</div> - <div class='line'>They died for love who should have lived for hate!</div> - <div class='line'>I’ll live—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><em>Enter</em> <span class='sc'>De Vardes</span>. <span class='sc'>Count Louis</span>, <em>etc., come forward</em>.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in12'>Oh, here’s the soldier! Now we’ll know</div> - <div class='line'>How blow the winds around the camp of love!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Count Louis</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>What is it, René de Vardes? What is it, man?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The King hath left the Tuileries! The mob</div> - <div class='line'>Forced the château and put his life in danger.</div> - <div class='line'>The Swiss are murdered, cut down to a man!</div> - <div class='line'>The Grenadiers joined with the Marseillaise!</div> - <div class='line'>De Maillé writes—the courier’s just arrived—</div> - <div class='line'>All is distraction, danger, and despair!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Sister Fidelis</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Alas!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Mlle. de Château-Gui</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in6'>O Ciel!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Abbé</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in14'>The soldiers in revolt.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De L’Orient</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The Swiss all murdered—the stanch Swiss!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Sister Simplicia</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in42'>Alas!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_85'>85</span><span class='sc'>Count Louis</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The King hath left the Tuileries!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in34'>To-night</div> - <div class='line'>I ride to Paris.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in17'>O God!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Abbé</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in24'>To Paris!</div> - <div class='line'>As well say that you ride to death, De Vardes!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Count Louis</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Ah, were I young again, I’d ride with you!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Sister Fidelis</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Alas, they say it is a fearful place!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Sister Simplicia</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>It is so safe in Nantes!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in25'>Ah, my Sister,</div> - <div class='line'>Because it is so safe in Nantes I go!</div> - <div class='line'>Once I did love this people; once I thought</div> - <div class='line'>Beyond this Revolution lay the morn,</div> - <div class='line'>The dewy morn of a most noble day!</div> - <div class='line'>It may be so; I know not; but I am</div> - <div class='line'>A soldier of the King. Needs must I go,</div> - <div class='line'>My bugles call; I’m breaking camp. Farewell!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Sister Fidelis</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>You will return.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_86'>86</span><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in17'>If I’m in life I will!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>O Our Lady! O Our Lady!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>The noise in the street increases. The tocsin rings.</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>The sky begins to darken before an approaching</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>storm.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Count Louis</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in24'>Ring on!</div> - <div class='line'>Ye bells! ring on to the deaf sky! O France,</div> - <div class='line'>Of old thou wast a pleasant land and free,</div> - <div class='line'>In palace and in field a courteous place!</div> - <div class='line'>Now thou art desolate! Come, Austria, come!</div> - <div class='line'>Come, D’Artois, come, Brunswick, and come, Provence!</div> - <div class='line'>Rend the tricolour from the breast of France</div> - <div class='line'>And plant the fleur-de-lis where stood the Jacobins!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Voices</span> (<em>from the street</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Quoi! ces cohortes étrangères</span></i></div> - <div class='line'><i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Feraient la loi dans nos foyers!</span></i></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Mlle. de Château-Gui</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Hast said farewell to the Marquise?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in36'>Not yet,</div> - <div class='line'>As far as Vannes I ride beside her coach.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Oh!—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Mlle. de Château-Gui</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in6'>Soon or late, she’ll draw you back to Nantes!</div> - <div class='line'>Now will she not?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_87'>87</span><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span> (<em>smiling</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in18'>Perhaps.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in27'>Jesu Maria!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Sister Fidelis</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Monsieur, if you must go, oh, rest you sure</div> - <div class='line'>Jealously will we guard and spotless keep</div> - <div class='line'>The soul you stooped and drew from the foul mire!—</div> - <div class='line'>Yvette, come make your reverence to your lord!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>I kiss your hand, monseigneur!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Abbé</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in31'>There will be</div> - <div class='line'>A storm to-night!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Count Louis</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in18'>Come, come, René de Vardes!</div> - <div class='line'>I’d see the courier who brought this news!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>I’ll follow you, Monsieur le Comte!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>Exeunt</em> <span class='sc'>Count Louis</span>, <em>his daughter</em>, <span class='sc'>De L’Orient</span>,</div> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>The Abbé</span>, <em>and the Sisters</em>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Wilt thou go?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in14'>I must.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in22'>Why must thou go?</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_88'>88</span>To-day the kingdom fell! Oh, in the dust</div> - <div class='line'>Of old things let it rest for evermore!</div> - <div class='line'>Take up the Revolution!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>Lightning.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in24'>Oh, see!</div> - <div class='line'>The flaming sword before the gates of Eden!</div> - <div class='line'>Thou’rt safe within the garden! Go not forth.</div> - <div class='line'>Go not to Paris! Stay in Nantes, ah, stay!</div> - <div class='line'>Wear the tricolour—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>Thunder.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in21'>Hark! It is the voice,</div> - <div class='line'>The menacing voice of the Republic!</div> - <div class='line'>It threatens thee, it threatens all who pass</div> - <div class='line'>That flaming sword, to lift the thing that was</div> - <div class='line'>And is not any more! Oh, let it lie!—</div> - <div class='line'>Thou’lt not to Paris?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in22'>To-night, <span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Citoyenne</span>!</div> - <div class='line'>Ah, thou art skilful at betraying!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in35'>Quoi!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><em>Enter</em> <span class='sc'>Sister Benedicta</span>.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Sister Benedicta</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Monsieur le Baron de Morbec, the page</div> - <div class='line'>Of Madame la Marquise de Blanchefôret</div> - <div class='line'>Attends—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in10'>Name of a name!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Abbé</span> (<em>appearing in the door behind</em> <em>Sister</em></div> - <div><em>Benedicta</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'>De Vardes, De Vardes!</div> - <div class='line'>You gather the furze while the red rose waits!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_89'>89</span><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>At once, my Sister!</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in4'>(<em>To</em> <span class='sc'>Yvette</span>.) Ah, not in anger,</div> - <div class='line'>Must thou and I part for this little while!</div> - <div class='line'>If I’m in life I will return, be sure,</div> - <div class='line'>To Nantes and all this garden loveliness,</div> - <div class='line'>Those fruit trees and this fountain!—Fare thee well.</div> - <div class='line'>The nuns will care for thee; I’ve ordered all.</div> - <div class='line'>Too fierce of aspect is the world without!</div> - <div class='line'>Here is fair peace, security, and calm;</div> - <div class='line'>Here thou art fenced from storm and violence.</div> - <div class='line'>Abide thou here until I come again!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>Lightning.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The flaming sword!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in19'>Hearest thou not, Yvette,</div> - <div class='line'>How sings the lark in Paimpont Wood to-day?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>I hear the dirge of the salt sea!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in34'>And there,</div> - <div class='line'>Seest thou not through yonder trees the stone,</div> - <div class='line'>The Druid Stone where thou didst lie in sleep?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>I see a broken fan!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in20'>Abide thou here</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_90'>90</span>And dream of Paimpont Wood until I come.</div> - <div class='line'>I too will dream, I too will dream, Yvette!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Is not Clarice a lovely name?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in30'>Why, yes,</div> - <div class='line'>A very lovely name.—Farewell, farewell!</div> - <div class='line'>I’ll see thy face, be sure, this very night,</div> - <div class='line'>Upon the road before me as I ride.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Oh, fare you well beneath the silver moon</div> - <div class='line'>As slow you ride beside a lady’s coach,</div> - <div class='line'>Discoursing of the dazzling, snowy heights!</div> - <div class='line'>I kiss your hand, monseigneur! Fare you well!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<span class='sc'>The Abbé’s</span> <em>voice is heard from the doorway</em>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Abbé</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>De Vardes! De Vardes!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in22'>I come!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Abbé</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in30'>The rose awaits!—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>It is too much!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in16'>Farewell, thou spirit of Paimpont!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>Distant music.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_91'>91</span><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Ah, ah! ‘tis worth all else—the Marseillaise!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>My Duchess Jeanne—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in20'>She is dead: cold and dead!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><em>Aux armes, Citoyens!</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>Formez vos bataillons!</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Perverse and strange!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in22'>I’ll to my beads. Adieu!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><em>Over Ys, the sunken town,</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>When thou sailest look not down,</em></div> - <div class='line in4'><em>Mariner, mariner!</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>What wine hast thou drunken?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in29'>An old wine—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><em>For there dwells a fairy there</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>Will drag thee down by the long hair,</em></div> - <div class='line in4'><em>Mariner, mariner!</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Oh, thou art too wilful!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Abbé</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in25'>De Vardes! De Vardes!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_92'>92</span><span class='sc'>Yvette</span> (<em>to the fish in the fountain</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Gold fish, gold fish, how are the fish of Quiberon?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Thou sullen witch, adieu!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>Exit</em> <span class='sc'>De Vardes</span>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'>Monseigneur! ah!</div> - <div class='line'>He’s gone! He’s gone to meet the fairy queen!</div> - <div class='line'>He’s for the roses and the dazzling peaks!</div> - <div class='line'>The seaweed and the furze he’s left behind!</div> - <div class='line'>He’s left the storm, he’s left the storm and me!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>The convent bell rings.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Toll, toll! as though thou’d toll my soul away!</div> - <div class='line'>Thou canst not toll him back! Oh, woe is me!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>The nuns sing in the chapel.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Voices</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">O salutaris Hostia!</span></i></div> - <div class='line'><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Quae coeli pandis ostium:</span></i></div> - <div class='line'><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Bella premunt hostilia,</span></i></div> - <div class='line'><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Da robur fer auxilium!</span></i></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>Above the wall where it is shadowed by a fruit</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>tree, appear the head and shoulders of</em> <span class='sc'>Lalain</span>. <em>He</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>draws himself up to the coping, watches</em> <span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - <div class='line'><em>for a moment, then swings himself down to the garden.</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>He has a rose in his hand.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Where is the sunshine gone? Where is the gold?</div> - <div class='line'>It was a lovely day! ‘Tis cold and dead;</div> - <div class='line'>No light, no warmth, no cheer!—Oh, presently</div> - <div class='line'>Those two will take the summer road to Vannes!</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_93'>93</span>Ha! does he think that I will meekly stay</div> - <div class='line'>Within this convent close, will kneel and pray,</div> - <div class='line'>Day in, day out, for all true lovers’ weal?</div> - <div class='line'>What is there now to do?—O Jealousy!</div> - <div class='line'>I dream of Paimpont Wood in June! I’ll dream</div> - <div class='line'>Of sunlit peaks, of roses named Clarice;</div> - <div class='line'>I’ll dream of furze that’s set about with thorns</div> - <div class='line'>And clings unto the common earth which bore it!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>A roll of thunder.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>On, on! It suits my mood, the crashing sound!—</div> - <div class='line'>Jehan the fisherman! rise from the sea,</div> - <div class='line'>Lay thy cold hand upon the heart of her</div> - <div class='line'>Who’s not thy child, and teach her how to hate!</div> - <div class='line'>Yvonne who parted from the earth one night,</div> - <div class='line'>Come through the storm that darkens overhead</div> - <div class='line'>And teach thy daughter how to hate! Thou too,</div> - <div class='line'>Thou other one, thou seigneur high and grand</div> - <div class='line'>Whose signet burns upon my aching throat,</div> - <div class='line'>Whose nature stirs within me suddenly,</div> - <div class='line'>Arise from hell and teach me how to hate!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>Thunder.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Voices from the Chapel</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Tantum ergo sacramentum</span></i></div> - <div class='line'><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Veneremur cernui</span></i>—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>O Our Lady! O Our Lady! O Our Lady!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<span class='sc'>Lalain</span> <em>throws the rose. It falls beside</em> <span class='sc'>Yvette</span>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Oh!—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>She raises the flower to her lips.</em> <span class='sc'>Lalain</span> <em>comes</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>forward</em>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in6'>Thou! I thought it was—I thought it was.</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_94'>94</span>Go! No rose of thine would I have kissed,</div> - <div class='line'>Rémond Lalain!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>With a wild petulance she throws down the flower</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>and treads upon it.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Lalain</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in15'>Now for that deed of thine</div> - <div class='line'>I will not spare him when the day is mine!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Of whom speakest thou?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Lalain</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in23'>The Citoyen Vardes.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Let him be!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Lalain</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in12'>The Citoyenne Blanchefôret.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Again!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Lalain</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in6'>‘Tis said the two will shortly wed—</div> - <div class='line'>A fitting match!—She’s fair and nobly born.</div> - <div class='line'>Thou mightst have seen, thou mightst have seen last night,</div> - <div class='line'>Walking by moonlight beside the Loire,</div> - <div class='line'>A lady the fairest and a great lord!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Say’st thou?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Lalain</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in13'>Beneath the trees, beside the flood,</div> - <div class='line'>Toying and whispering, the sword and fan!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_95'>95</span><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Out and alas! Begone, thou torturer!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Lalain</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Oh, those old days when by the shore we walked</div> - <div class='line'>While sank the sun beneath the emerald waves,</div> - <div class='line'>And wild sea birds flashed all their silver wings,</div> - <div class='line'>And long we talked of France and liberty!</div> - <div class='line'>How thou art tamed, Yvette, Yvette Charruel!</div> - <div class='line'>Thou carest not now for France and liberty!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>It is not true! Thou knowest that I care!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Lalain</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>This sultry night I speak to patriot hearts</div> - <div class='line'>Of War, Dumouriez, Brunswick, Capet!</div> - <div class='line'>All Nantes will throng to hear me where I stand,</div> - <div class='line'>In the Church of Saint Jean, who’s now become,</div> - <div class='line'>From crypt to spire, one mighty Jacobin!</div> - <div class='line'>High in the gilt tribune beneath the roof,</div> - <div class='line'>The starry roof where the archangels live!</div> - <div class='line'>Faces me Michael with his flaming sword,</div> - <div class='line'>And Raphael watches me with widened eyes,</div> - <div class='line'>And Gabriel frowns between his splendid wings</div> - <div class='line'>Because there’s no more incense! When I speak,</div> - <div class='line'>The painted walls all vanish like a mist!</div> - <div class='line'>On distant plains the drum begins to beat,</div> - <div class='line'>The great dome lifts—above the angel heads</div> - <div class='line'>I see the stars—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in18'>There are no stars to-night!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_96'>96</span><span class='sc'>Lalain</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>There are! There are! Eternally they shine</div> - <div class='line'>Beyond this din, beyond these sulphurous clouds!</div> - <div class='line'>And there’s a stairway, red and white and blue,</div> - <div class='line'>By which to climb to some most famous star</div> - <div class='line'>Of glory and of love! Yvette! Yvette!</div> - <div class='line'>Climb thou with me unto that golden star!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Rémond Lalain—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Lalain</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in16'>Come thou with me, Yvette!</div> - <div class='line'>Come thou with me from out this sluggish place!</div> - <div class='line'>Come thou with me into the furious storm!</div> - <div class='line'>What dost thou here, thou spirit of the wind,</div> - <div class='line'>Restless, with deep eyes and with parted lips?</div> - <div class='line'>Thou knowest thou hast naught to do with holy things.</div> - <div class='line'>Tear off that white headdress! Red is thy colour!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Ay, red is my colour!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Lalain</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in22'>Last night, the while</div> - <div class='line'>I spake of War and all the place was still,</div> - <div class='line'>A sudden vision blazed above the lights—</div> - <div class='line'>I saw thee dance the Carmagnole!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in33'>Now, now!</div> - <div class='line'>What whispers he to her upon the road?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Lalain</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>To-night—ah, should I raise my eyes to-night</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_97'>97</span>And see thee smiling there, Yvette, Yvette!</div> - <div class='line'>Beside thy sisters in the galleries!</div> - <div class='line'>Upon thy twilight hair the bonnet-rouge,</div> - <div class='line'>At thy small waist a pistol and a dirk—</div> - <div class='line'>Only the Revolution in thy soul</div> - <div class='line'>And in thy heart my name, my name, Yvette!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>Thunder.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>It thunders now, but ‘twill be clear to-night.</div> - <div class='line'>The moon will shine, the roads will all be white.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The roads will all be white, the moon will shine,</div> - <div class='line'>The poplars quiver and the eglantine,</div> - <div class='line'>The broom and honeysuckle will be sweet,</div> - <div class='line'>Upon the road to Vannes—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>Lightning and thunder.</em> <span class='sc'>Lalain</span> <em>walks to the door</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>in the wall, tries it, then with a stone from the</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>ground beats back the rusty bolt</em>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Lalain</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in27'>An easy door!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The moon will shine—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Lalain</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in22'>I’ll go this way, ma foi!</div> - <div class='line'>Not by the wall!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in17'>The silver poplars sway!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Lalain</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>René de Vardes, once I did call thee friend</div> - <div class='line'>And took a deal of pride in that possession!</div> - <div class='line'>How runs the world away! ‘Twas long ago!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_98'>98</span><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Ah, ah, that fearful dream I had last night!</div> - <div class='line'>And while I dreamed they walked beside the Loire!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Lalain</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>This night he rides away. Didst know?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in38'>I knew!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Lalain</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>He’s said farewell to thee, but not to her!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Wilt thou begone!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Lalain</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in18'>Ay, through this door, Yvette!</div> - <div class='line'>‘Tis easy, as thou seest. And ah, to-night—</div> - <div class='line'>The storm o’er past and shining bright the moon</div> - <div class='line'>And the cold nuns all telling o’er their beads,</div> - <div class='line'>How simple ‘twere—O priceless liberty!</div> - <div class='line'>Thou wouldst not be the only one, I trow,</div> - <div class='line'>Who may not walk beside the silver Loire!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Name of a name!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Lalain</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in16'>Adieu, adieu! To-night</div> - <div class='line'>I’ll see thee sitting in the galleries—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>Exit</em> <span class='sc'>Lalain</span>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Ah, how the thunder shakes the air!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>She moves to the door in the wall and replaces the</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>bolt, then returns to the fountain.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in36'><span class='pageno' id='Page_99'>99</span>‘Tis so!</div> - <div class='line'>He is her lover! Oh, he loves her true!—</div> - <div class='line'>What will they say and whisper all the night</div> - <div class='line'>Through light and shadow on the road to Vannes?</div> - <div class='line'>Despair!—But I’ll not stay within these walls!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>Knocking at the door in the wall.</em> <span class='sc'>Yvette</span> <em>crosses</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>the stage to the door</em>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Who is there?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Séraphine</span> (<em>within</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in14'>Yvette! Yvette!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in30'>Séraphine!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Séraphine</span> (<em>within</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>And Nanon too!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in15'>The deputy’s sister!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Nanon</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Let us in!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in11'>I dare not.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Séraphine</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in23'>What!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in29'>Wait: I dare!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>She draws the bolts. The door opens. Enter</em> <span class='sc'>Séraphine</span></div> - <div class='line'><em>and</em> <span class='sc'>Nanon</span>. <em>The former is dressed in complete</em></div> - <div class='line'><em><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">carmagnole</span>: short skirt, rolled-up sleeves, sash</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>of tricolour, and a bonnet-rouge. Pistols at her belt.</em></div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_100'>100</span><span class='sc'>Nanon</span> <em>is more soberly attired but wears the bonnet-rouge.</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>The door closes behind them.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Séraphine!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Séraphine</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in11'><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Chérie!</span></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in19'>Nanon!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Nanon</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'>Dear Yvette!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>How gay you are! What of the Revolution?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Séraphine</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>It goes.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Nanon</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in9'>It goes well.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Séraphine</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in23'>We have a new song!</div> - <div class='line'>Faith! ‘Tis a greater song than <i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Ça Ira</span></i>!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span> (<em>sings</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><em>Aux armes, Citoyens!</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>Formez vos bataillons!</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Séraphine</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>That’s it!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Nanon</span> (<em>looking about her</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in11'>So very triste it is in here!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Séraphine</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>So gay outside! All Nantes is dressed in red!</div> - <div class='line'>There’s a procession, and then to-night</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_101'>101</span>We sit in the galleries to hear Lalain!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>Distant music.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Hark to the fife! <i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Formez vos bataillons!</span></i>—</div> - <div class='line'>And your feet keep not time to the music!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>But my heart, Séraphine, my heart keeps time.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Séraphine</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Ho! Your heart is in barracks, says Céleste.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Céleste!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Nanon</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in9'>And Angélique.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in24'>Angélique!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Séraphine</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in35'>Faith!</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Angélique is in feather now you’re gone!</div> - <div class='line'>Cries <i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Vive la République!</span></i> here in Nantes.</div> - <div class='line'>Rides on the cannon and handles a pike;</div> - <div class='line'>Thinks she’s in Paris and plays Théroigne,</div> - <div class='line'>And high from the galleries applauds Lalain!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Nanon</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>He thinks not of her; he thinks of Yvette!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>I care not of whom he thinks!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Séraphine</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in30'>On a fête day,</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_102'>102</span>In a car triumphal see her appear!</div> - <div class='line'>Dressed like a goddess just down from the skies,</div> - <div class='line'>All crowned with green oak leaves, borne shoulder high—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Angélique!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Séraphine</span> (<em>nodding</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in11'>Ah, you see you are not there!</div> - <div class='line'>But between you and me, red does not become her!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>I should think not!—little blonde!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Séraphine</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in36'>Ah, but red</div> - <div class='line'>Becomes you!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in13'>Yes!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Séraphine</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in18'>Monseigneur’s gone from Nantes.</div> - <div class='line'>Yes, faith! I saw him ride away—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in34'>He’s gone!</div> - <div class='line'>Rememb’rest thou that lady fair and proud,</div> - <div class='line'>Madame la Marquise de Blanchefôret?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Séraphine</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in36'>Ho!</div> - <div class='line'>(<em>To</em> <span class='sc'>Nanon</span>.) Rememb’rest thou the Citoyenne Blanchefôret?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_103'>103</span><span class='sc'>Nanon</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The proud piece! We are mire beneath her feet!</div> - <div class='line'>Last eve her coach threw mud upon my gown!</div> - <div class='line'>Let her beware! One day she’ll walk afoot.</div> - <div class='line'>Let her beware! And let him too beware</div> - <div class='line'>Who rode last eve beside her golden coach!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Ha, ha! ha, ha!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>Music and voices in the street. Impatient knocking</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>at the door in the wall.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Voices</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in16'>Holà, Aristocrats!</div> - <div class='line'>Nanon! Séraphine!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Nanon</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in18'>Our friends await us.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Séraphine</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>We have business with the smith upon the quai,</div> - <div class='line'>Where by the old dovecot he fashions pikes!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Voices</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Allons, enfants de la patrie!</span></i></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Nanon</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Come, come away! We’ll leave the nun alone</div> - <div class='line'>To say her beads for black Aristocrats!</div> - <div class='line'>How triste to be for aye in prison here!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span> (<em>angrily</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Prison! I am no prisoner, I!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Nanon</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Then come with us into the merry streets!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_104'>104</span><span class='sc'>Séraphine</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>‘Twill be a heavy storm—all are within.</div> - <div class='line'>How easy ‘twere to slip away with us!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>No, no!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Voices</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in8'>Citoyennes! Citoyennes!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Nanon</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in32'>Ma’m’selle!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Ma’m’selle!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Nanon</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in12'>Aristocrat!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in24'>Aristocrat!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Séraphine</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Well—kept by an Aristocrat—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in30'>You lie.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Séraphine</span> (<em>angrily</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Saint Yves! I lie! Do I? O Seigneur Dieu!</div> - <div class='line'>This is Yvette, the herd girl of Morbec!</div> - <div class='line'>This is Yvette, the daughter of Yvonne!</div> - <div class='line'>This is that same Yvette who swore one day</div> - <div class='line'>That rather would she meet the blight of hell</div> - <div class='line'>Than take one favour from a seigneur’s hand!</div> - <div class='line'>Once you were hungry! Go you hungry now?</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_105'>105</span>You went in rags. Where is your ragged gown?</div> - <div class='line'>Barefoot—what’s that about that throat of thine?</div> - <div class='line'>I swear it is a jewel!—and we pine</div> - <div class='line'>For bread, we women of the Revolution!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<span class='sc'>Yvette</span> <em>unclasps the jewel from her neck and lets</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>it fall</em>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>I lie, do I? Diable! Just prove I lie!</div> - <div class='line'>This night we make a little noise in Nantes</div> - <div class='line'>Shall show Aristocrats who is in danger!</div> - <div class='line'>Lalain will speak and all the bells will ring,</div> - <div class='line'>And Angélique will deck herself in red!</div> - <div class='line'>Steal through yon door, be of us evermore!</div> - <div class='line'>I lie, do I? Then show me that I lie!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>In Nantes where do you lodge?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Séraphine</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in30'>With Angélique</div> - <div class='line'>Under the Lanterne, Sign of the Hour Glass.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Voices</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Nanon! Nanon! You are missing the sights!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>Distant music.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Other Voices</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Allons, enfants de la patrie,</span></i></div> - <div class='line'><i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Le jour de gloire est arrivé!</span></i></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Nanon</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Come, come away!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<span class='sc'>Séraphine</span> <em>unbars the door in the wall. It swings</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>open</em>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_106'>106</span><span class='sc'>Séraphine</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in17'>Faith! One can see the Loire!</div> - <div class='line'>‘Tis fine to walk beside it ‘neath the moon!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Oh!—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Voices</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in6'><i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Tremblez, tyrans! et vous perfides</span></i>,—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Nanon</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Away! Away!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in12'>I’ll go—I’ll go with you.</div> - <div class='line'>Ye fruit trees and thou fountain, fare ye well!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>Exeunt</em> <span class='sc'>Yvette</span>, <span class='sc'>Séraphine</span>, <span class='sc'>Nanon</span>. <em>The door</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>swings to. Lightning and thunder.</em> <span class='sc'>Sister Fidelis</span></div> - <div class='line'><em>appears in the convent door</em>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Voices</span> (<em>dying away</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Aux armes, Citoyens!</span></i></div> - <div class='line'><i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Formez vos bataillons!</span></i></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><em>CURTAIN</em></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='figcenter id003'> -<img src='images/i_115.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' /> -</div> - -<div class='figcenter id002'> -<span class='pageno' id='Page_107'>107</span> -<img src='images/i_116.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' /> -</div> - -<div class='chapter'> - <h2 id='ACT_III' class='c005'><em>ACT III</em></h2> -</div> - -<p class='drop-capanf0_0 c010'><em>A square in Nantes. On the left the deep porch of a church -with pillars. To the right and in the background, a perspective -of streets with tall, many-windowed houses. Opposite -the church a great plaster statue of Liberty. Over -the church door is written in white lettering: “The Republic -One and Indivisible. Liberty, Equality, Fraternity -or Death. National Property.” A distant view of the -Loire. Men and women in holiday garb, wearing liberty -caps and great tricoloured cockades, cross and recross the -square. Life, movement, colour. Red the dominant note. -It is the year 1794.</em></p> - -<p class='c011'><em>Hoarse voices within. Hawkers of Revolutionary journals -cross the square.</em></p> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>A Hawker</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='linedc drop-capanf0_0'><i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Le Journal des Jacobins!</span></i></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Another</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in27'><i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Le Discours</span></i></div> - <div class='line'><i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">De la Lanterne!</span></i></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><em>Enter</em> <span class='sc'>Grégoire</span>.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>A Third</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in17'><i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">L’Orateur du Peuple!</span></i></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>A Fourth</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Le père Duchesne! Le Père Duchesne!</span></i></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_108'>108</span><span class='sc'>Grégoire</span> (<em>stopping him</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in38'>Here!—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>He buys a paper.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>And what to-day says Père Duchesne?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Hawker</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in36'>He says</div> - <div class='line'>That Paris envies Nantes her Carrier!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Grégoire</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Humph!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>A Hawker</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in7'><i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">La Bouche de Fer!</span></i></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Another</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in27'><i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Les Actes des Apôtres!</span></i></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>A Citizen</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>I’ll buy the <i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Actes</span></i>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Another</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in22'>I’ll buy the <i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Bouche de Fer</span></i>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>Enter a man with a long brush and a pot of paste.</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>He proceeds to cover the wooden base of the Statue</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>of Liberty with placards.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Crowd</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The placards! The placards!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>A Breton Sailor</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in28'>I cannot read!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>He catches by the arm a man in a long cloak, with</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>a broad hat pulled low over his face.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Prithee, Citizen, what says the placard?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_109'>109</span><span class='sc'>The Man in the Cloak</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>It says Duport is dead; Biron is dead;</div> - <div class='line'>Barnave is dead.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Crowd</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in17'>Ha, ha! Biron! Barnave!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>A Man</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Through the little window they’ve looked at last!</div> - <div class='line'><i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">À bas les Aristocrats! Vive la Guillotine!</span></i></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Another</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Ah, here in Nantes we drown them in the Loire!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Crowd</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Vive Carrier! Vive Lambertye! Vive Lalain!</span></i></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>The man with the brush affixes a second placard.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Breton</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>And this, Citizen?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Man in the Cloak</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in19'>D’Alleray is dead;</div> - <div class='line'>Bailly is dead; Du Barry is dead.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Crowd</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in34'>Ha!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>A Woman</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Ho! ho! The courtesan, she’ll kiss no more!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Crowd</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>She’ll kiss no more!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>The man with the brush affixes the third placard.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_110'>110</span><span class='sc'>The Breton</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in21'>And this one, Citizen?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Man in the Cloak</span> (<em>reads</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><em>The Republic One and Indivisible.</em></div> - <div><em>It is Decreed</em></div> - <div><em>There is no God. To-day we worship Reason.</em></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>The crowd applauds.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>A Man</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>In a red mantle!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Another</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in17'>That’s the Paris Reason!</div> - <div class='line'>Our Reason wears blue.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>A Third</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in23'>And oak leaves in her hair.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Breton</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Is Reason truly a woman?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Man in the Cloak</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in25'>God knows!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>A Man</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Ha! he says God! God is a word forbid!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Man in the Cloak</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Then Reason knows.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>A Man</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in19'>That’s better.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>Singing within. A band of dancers, men and women,</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>whirl into the square.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_111'>111</span><span class='sc'>The Crowd</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in34'>Carmagnole!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Dancers</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Dansons la Carmagnole!</span></i></div> - <div class='line in2'><i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Vive le son, vive le son!</span></i></div> - <div class='line'><i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Dansons la Carmagnole!</span></i></div> - <div class='line in2'><i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Vive le son du canon!</span></i></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>The crowd breaks and joins the dancers. They take</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>hands and with uncouth and extravagant gestures</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>circle once or twice around the statue, then with a</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>long cry exeunt.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>A Woman</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The great procession forms upon the quai!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Another</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>It winds and winds about and comes this way!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>Exeunt men and women.</em> <span class='sc'>Grégoire</span> <em>and the man</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>in the cloak remain</em>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Grégoire</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The priests are gone. It is Reason’s fête day.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Man in the Cloak</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Reason, being a woman, will have her way.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Grégoire</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Still, Monsieur l’Abbé—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Abbé</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in25'>I am known!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_112'>112</span><span class='sc'>Grégoire</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in37'>To serve</div> - <div class='line'>Monsieur, I had the honour at Morbec.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Abbé</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Monsieur le Baron’s seneschal, I think.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Grégoire</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The same,—but I am gaoler now in Nantes.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Abbé</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>That night in June your musket would not fire!</div> - <div class='line'>Diable! I’ve played and lost! Well, fellow?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Grégoire</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in44'>Hein?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Abbé</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The wind blows cold in Nantes, and so I wear</div> - <div class='line'>This cloak! So long I’ve looked on fires of hell</div> - <div class='line'>I needs must have a hat to shade my eyes!—</div> - <div class='line'>But now I’ll cock it in the face of all—</div> - <div class='line'>Cold, wind, darkness, devils, and Republic!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Grégoire</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>I think the citizen has lost his head.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Abbé</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Ay, and my heart as well. Holà! what’s that?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>A noise without. Clash of steel and excited voices.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><em>Enter</em> <span class='sc'>De Vardes</span> <em>and</em> <span class='sc'>Fauquemont de Buc</span> <em>pursued by</em></div> - <div><em>seven or eight red-capped men armed with pikes</em>. <span class='sc'>De</span></div> - <div><span class='sc'>Vardes</span> <em>and</em> <span class='sc'>De Buc</span> <em>use their swords</em>.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Red Caps</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Aristocrats! Aristocrats!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_113'>113</span><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span> (<em>thrusting</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'>Take that,</div> - <div class='line'>Republican!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Buc</span> (<em>thrusting</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in12'>Out, canaille!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Abbé</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in27'>Here’s wine!</div> - <div class='line'>Have at you, brow-bound galley slaves!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span> (<em>over his shoulder</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Ha! De Barbasan!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>Wounds his adversary.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in17'>We’re at our last château!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Abbé</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>I’ve shut Voltaire! Here goes the candle out!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>He throws his long cloak over the head of one of</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>the red caps and makes at another with his dagger.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The window splinters!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>He sends the pike flying from a red cap’s hand.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in22'>Take warning, sans-culottes!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Abbé</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>One, two, three!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Buc</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in17'>My sword arm!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in31'>Fight with your left.</div> - <div class='line'>I saw you do it at Nanci!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_114'>114</span><span class='sc'>Voices</span> (<em>within</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Ah! ça ira, ça ira, ça ira!</span></i></div> - <div class='line'><i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Les Aristocrats à la Lanterne!</span></i></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">O Richard, O mon Roi,</span></i></div> - <div class='line'><i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">L’univers t’abandonne!</span></i></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>A howl from the mob.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Mob</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Aristocrats!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Grégoire</span> (<em>from the statue</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in13'>Desperate!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>The red caps</em>, <span class='sc'>De Vardes</span>, <span class='sc'>The Abbé</span>, <em>and</em> <span class='sc'>De Buc</span></div> - <div class='line'><em>fight across the stage and exeunt</em>. <span class='sc'>Grégoire</span> <em>follows</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>them</em>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Voices</span> (<em>within</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in24'><i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Ça ira!</span></i></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><em>Enter women and children of the Revolution.</em></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>A Woman</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Upon the church steps I will take my stand!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Another</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>I have brought my knitting.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>A Third</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in28'>And I.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>A Fourth</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in35'>And I.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_115'>115</span><span class='sc'>All</span> (<em>singing</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><em>We are the tricoteuses!</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>Dyed wool we knit while rumbles by the cart.</em></div> - <div class='line in4'><em>Knit! knit! all knitting in the sun.</em></div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><em>We are the tricoteuses!</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>Red wool we knit while soul and body part.</em></div> - <div class='line in4'><em>Knit! knit! the knitting now is done!</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>They seat themselves upon the church steps.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>A Child</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Maman! Maman! how many carts will pass?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>A Woman</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>None, sweeting, none! It is a holiday.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><em>Enter</em> <span class='sc'>Céleste</span>, <span class='sc'>Angélique</span>, <em>and</em> <span class='sc'>Nanon</span>.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Nanon</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>It was the very night of the great storm</div> - <div class='line'>From those dull convent walls she ran away!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Céleste</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Two years agone—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Angélique</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in18'>Would she had stayed!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Nanon</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in40'>Ah, then,</div> - <div class='line'>You had been Goddess, Angélique!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Angélique</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in33'>The witch!</div> - <div class='line'>With her dark skin and with her purple flower!</div> - <div class='line'>Let her beware! I know a thing or two!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_116'>116</span><span class='sc'>Céleste</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><em>I</em> know who comes from Paris back to Nantes!</div> - <div class='line'>This morning on the quai I saw him!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Nanon</span> (<em>eagerly</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in36'>Is’t</div> - <div class='line'>That ci-devant, that black Aristocrat,</div> - <div class='line'>De Vardes?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Céleste</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in11'>The man your brother loves? The same.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Nanon</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>I spit upon his name!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Céleste</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in22'>Denounced!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Nanon</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in33'>The set of sun</div> - <div class='line'>Will see him so, or my name’s not Nanon!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Céleste</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The Loire—the Loire will close above his head!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><em>Enter</em> <span class='sc'>Séraphine</span>.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Séraphine</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Whose head?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Nanon</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in12'>The Citizen Vardes.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Séraphine</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in32'>Monseigneur!</div> - <div class='line'>He’s in the prison of La Force at Paris!—</div> - <div class='line'>One truly told me so—He’s not in Nantes.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_117'>117</span><span class='sc'>Nanon</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>And if he were—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Séraphine</span> (<em>stammering</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in17'>Why—why—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Nanon</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in28'>And if he were,</div> - <div class='line'>You would not give him up! I know you well!</div> - <div class='line'>I know you, Séraphine!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Séraphine</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in23'>And if you do,</div> - <div class='line'>You know no ill of me, Citoyenne!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Céleste</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in34'>Yvette</div> - <div class='line'>Would not give him up either.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Angélique</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in30'>No, i’ faith!</div> - <div class='line'>I’ll take my oath on that!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Séraphine</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in27'>Your oath, lint-locks!</div> - <div class='line'>It’s worth a deal, your oath! <em>Your</em> mind I know!</div> - <div class='line'>You would be Goddess, you and not Yvette!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Angélique</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Let her beware!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Séraphine</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in16'>Yvette! She’s coming now!</div> - <div class='line'>Bright as the star that’s highest in the night!</div> - <div class='line'>And all the men have turned astronomers!</div> - <div class='line'>Faith! ‘tis easy work to worship Reason,</div> - <div class='line'>When Reason is a woman, and that fair!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_118'>118</span><span class='sc'>Angélique</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>I’ve seen her gather seaweed on the shore!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Séraphine</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>And now she gathers hearts in her two hands.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Angélique</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Oh! oh!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Nanon</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in8'>Would that my brother hated her!</div> - <div class='line'>Disdainful prude!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Céleste</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in18'>Oh, love may turn to hate.</div> - <div class='line'>She’s Goddess now, but wait, but wait, but wait!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Nanon</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>I join my brother at the Olive Tree.</div> - <div class='line'>Come, Angélique, Céleste!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>Exeunt</em> <span class='sc'>Nanon</span>, <span class='sc'>Angélique</span>, <span class='sc'>Céleste</span>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Séraphine</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'>Were’t not too late,</div> - <div class='line'>I’d warn monseigneur just for old time’s sake!</div> - <div class='line'>When all is said and done, old times are best;</div> - <div class='line'>He gave us back Lisette, he fed us all—</div> - <div class='line'>Eh! ‘twere a pity. What now? Who’s this?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><em>Enter hurriedly</em> <span class='sc'>The Marquise</span>. <em>She looks over her shoulder</em></div> - <div><em>as if fearing pursuit, then, drawing her cloak and hood</em></div> - <div><em>closely about her, attempts to cross the square unobserved.</em></div> - <div><em>Enter a rabble of men and women.</em></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Mob</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Ah! ça ira, ça ira, ça ira!</span></i></div> - <div class='line'><i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Les Aristocrats à la Lanterne.</span></i></div> - <div class='line'><i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr"><span class='pageno' id='Page_119'>119</span>Ah! ça ira, ça ira, ça ira!</span></i></div> - <div class='line'><i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Les Aristocrats on les pendra!</span></i></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>A Tricoteuse</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in34'>She hides</div> - <div class='line'>Her face.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Another</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in10'>She draws her cloak about her!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The First</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in41'>Ho!</div> - <div class='line'>Her hand is white and there’s a jewel on’t!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>A Man</span> (<em>accosting</em> <span class='sc'>The Marquise</span>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Citoyenne!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Marquise</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in11'>Citoyen—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Man</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in21'>Citoyenne, come!</div> - <div class='line'>Join our <i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">ronde patriotique</span></i>, our <i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">carillon</span></i>!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Marquise</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Sainte Geneviève!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Man</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in18'>What?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>A Woman</span> (<em>her hand upon</em> <span class='sc'>The Marquise</span>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in24'>Where’s your cockade?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Another Woman</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Show!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Marquise</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in6'><i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">De grâce, Citoyennes!</span></i></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_120'>120</span><span class='sc'>Third Woman</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in30'>The cloak! The cloak!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>They tear from</em> <span class='sc'>The Marquise</span> <em>her hood and cloak</em>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>A Child</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Oh, the pretty lady!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Marquise</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in21'>I’ll give you gold!</div> - <div class='line'>There, there!—My rings, my brooch—take all!</div> - <div class='line'>Ah! let me peaceably depart—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Mob</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in30'>Ha! ha!</div> - <div class='line'>Aristocrat!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>A Woman</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in12'>It is the emigrée</div> - <div class='line'>Clarice-Marie Miramand Blanchefôret!</div> - <div class='line'>Are not her gold locks known in Brittany?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Another</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>She fled to England.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>A Third</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in21'>She returned.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Marquise</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in35'>O death!</div> - <div class='line'>(<em>To a woman.</em>) Citoyenne, your cockade! I’ll wear it gladly,</div> - <div class='line'>Ay, o’er my heart I’ll pin it—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>She takes the cockade from the woman and with</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>trembling fingers pins it to her gown.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Woman</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in32'>Red cap as well—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_121'>121</span><span class='sc'>The Marquise</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>With pleasure, Citoyenne.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>She places the bonnet-rouge upon her head.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Mob</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'>Ha, ha!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>A Man</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in34'>Now cry</div> - <div class='line'><i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Vive la République!</span></i></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Marquise</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in22'><i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Vive la République!</span></i></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Man</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Mort aux tyrans!</span></i></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Marquise</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in19'><i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Mort aux tyrans!</span></i></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Man</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in38'><i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">À bas</span></i></div> - <div class='line'><i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Les Aristocrats!</span></i></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>Silence.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Mob</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in18'>Ah—h—h!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Man</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in28'><i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Vive la Guillotine!</span></i></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>Silence.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>A Woman</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Take that!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>She strikes at</em> <span class='sc'>The Marquise</span>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Mob</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in11'>Down! Down!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<span class='sc'>The Marquise</span> <em>breaks through the ring of men and</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>women and runs to</em> <span class='sc'>Séraphine</span>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_122'>122</span><span class='sc'>The Marquise</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in23'>I know your face!</div> - <div class='line'>You are a Morbec woman! Save me! Save!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Séraphine</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Saint Servan! Saint Gildas! Saint Mériadek!—</div> - <div class='line'>Ay, madame, you should have stayed in England!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><em>Enter</em> <span class='sc'>De Vardes</span>, <em>torn and bleeding</em>.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>De Buc taken and De Barbasan! Dieu!</div> - <div class='line'>The day’s not old. I’ll see them ere its close.</div> - <div class='line'>We’ll meet, I think, at Carrier’s judgment bar,</div> - <div class='line'>Then the dark river,—and then peace at last—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Marquise</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">À moi, Monsieur le Baron de Morbec!</span></i></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>La belle Marquise!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>He forces his way to the side of</em> <span class='sc'>The Marquise</span>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Séraphine</span> (<em>from the church porch</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in19'>Saint Yves le Véridique!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Mob</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Both! Both!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>A Tricoteuse</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in12'>To prison with them!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Another</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in33'>To the Loire!</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_123'>123</span>Ho! ho! <i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Les Noces Républicaines!</span></i></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>The mob surges forward, but with his sword</em> <span class='sc'>De</span></div> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Vardes</span> <em>keeps a clear space about him and</em> <span class='sc'>The</span></div> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Marquise</span>. <em>They move slowly backward to the</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>church steps, which they mount.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span> (<em>to</em> <span class='sc'>The Marquise</span>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in35'>We’ll smile and die!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Marquise</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Together, yes!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Mob</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in15'>Down! Down! Aristocrats!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<span class='sc'>De Vardes</span> <em>sends a knife whirling from the hand of</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>a red cap</em>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Follow! Follow!</div> - <div class='line'>(<em>To</em> <span class='sc'>The Marquise</span>.) I have been long in prison.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Marquise</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>In England I!—And there I pined for France—</div> - <div class='line'>This sunshine dazzles me—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in27'>Clarice-Marie!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>Trumpets within.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Séraphine</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Hark! Hark, Citoyens, to the trumpets blowing!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Mob</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>She comes! Nantes’ goddess comes!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>Faces appear at the windows of the tall houses.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_124'>124</span><span class='sc'>A Tricoteuse</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in34'>The windows fill!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>The rolling of drums.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Another Tricoteuse</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The drums begin to roll!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>A Man</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in24'>Citoyens, all!</div> - <div class='line'>We’ll see best by the statue there!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Another</span> (<em>pointing to</em> <span class='sc'>De Vardes</span> <em>and</em> <span class='sc'>The</span></div> - <div><span class='sc'>Marquise</span>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in36'>But these?—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The First</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>They’re safe! Let them await our pleasure! <span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Peste!</span></div> - <div class='line'>We waited once on theirs!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>A Third</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'>That’s true!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>The mob divides. Men and women cluster about</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>the base of the statue or upon the doorsteps of the</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>surrounding houses. Enter men with banners.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Mob</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in39'>Look! Look!</div> - <div class='line'>The painted banners! <i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Vive la patrie!</span></i></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Séraphine</span> (<em>to</em> <span class='sc'>The Marquise</span>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in39'>Hist!</div> - <div class='line'>Hist, madame! behind the pillar there!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>She points to the pillar of the church.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_125'>125</span><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in39'>Go!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<span class='sc'>The Marquise</span> <em>conceals herself behind the pillar.</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>A crash of music.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><em>Enter</em> <span class='sc'>Lalain</span> <em>and</em> <span class='sc'>Nanon</span>.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Lalain</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>No blood to-day! I’d have clean sleep to-night,</div> - <div class='line'>Pure sleep and sweet, in which to dream of love!—</div> - <div class='line'>Hast seen her in her mantle blue?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Nanon</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in34'>Who stands</div> - <div class='line'>So steadfast there with a drawn sword?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Lalain</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in39'>Diable!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>He makes as if to cross to the church steps, where</em></div> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span>, <em>sword in hand, stands with his back</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>against a pillar. The crowd comes between.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Nanon</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Patience, he’ll not escape!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Lalain</span> (<em>with affected indifference</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in28'>It is as well,—</div> - <div class='line'>To her he’s but a ci-devant, and he,</div> - <div class='line'>O fool! shall see in her the Revolution!</div> - <div class='line'>Then, then, when she has passed, I’ll deal with him!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>Singing within.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>A Voice</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><em>With sandals on her feet,</em></div> - <div class='line in2'><em>The Phrygian cap so red</em></div> - <div class='line in2'><em>Upon her sunny head,</em></div> - <div class='line'><em><span class='pageno' id='Page_126'>126</span>She comes, she’s coming sweet!</em></div> - <div class='line in2'><em>Reason, to whom we pay</em></div> - <div class='line in2'><em>All homage on this day!</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Crowd</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The singers! The actors!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div>[<em>Enter actors and actresses of the Theatre of Nantes, dressed</em></div> - <div><em>as for the stage, and carrying garlands of paper flowers.</em></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>An Actor</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in25'>Way for Tartufe!</div> - <div class='line'>The Citizen Jourdain, Phèdre, Célimène,</div> - <div class='line'>Acaste, Armide, Aucassin, Nicolette!</div> - <div class='line'>Make way! Make way!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Singer</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><em>Upon her lofty car</em></div> - <div class='line in2'><em>She sits in solemn state!</em></div> - <div class='line in2'><em>Of day the lovely mate,</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>Of night the shining star!</em></div> - <div class='line in2'><em>Reason, to whom we pay</em></div> - <div class='line in2'><em>All homage on this day!</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Crowd</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in20'><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Brava!</span> What now?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Actor</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Voltaire, Rousseau, Franklin, Robespierre!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>Enter a band of students drawing a garlanded float.</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>Upon the float the busts of Voltaire, Rousseau, Franklin,</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>and Robespierre.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Crowd</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Vive Robespierre!</span></i></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>The Marseillaise. Enter Republican soldiers.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_127'>127</span><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in20'>Oh, for the red Hussars!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>Enter four men wearing tricolour scarfs and plumes,</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>huge cockades, pistols and sabres.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Crowd</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The Commissioners!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in19'>Hooded crows!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>There crosses the stage a float upon which is fixed a</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>miniature guillotine.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Crowd</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in33'>Ha! ha!</div> - <div class='line'><i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Vive la Guillotine!</span></i></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>A Man</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in22'><i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Vive les noyades!</span></i></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in42'>Cold</div> - <div class='line'>Are thy baths, O Apollo!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>Enter red-bonneted men and women dragging a tumbril</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>in which are heaped spoils of the church,—broken</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>images, crucifixes, candelabra, chalices, patens,</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>etc.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Crowd</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in25'>Ha—h—h!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in35'>Jesu!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>He crosses himself.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='drop-capanf0_0 c000'>[<em>Music. The great tricolour flag of the Republic is -borne across the stage.</em></p> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_128'>128</span><span class='sc'>The Crowd</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">La patrie! Vive la patrie!</span></i></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in29'>France! France!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>Stately music. Enter young men in Greek dress,</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>bearing a gilded framework upon which is fixed a</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>tall flambeau, wreathed with flowers. They advance</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>and place the structure before the church</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>steps.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>A Peasant</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Brave! But what is it?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Another</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in23'>The torch of Reason!</div> - <div class='line'>The Goddess lights it,—then we worship her!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>A Third</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>No, we worship Reason!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Second</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in23'>‘Tis the same thing!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>Enter young girls clad in white, linked together</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>with tricolour ribbons and carrying osier baskets</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>from which they scatter flowers. They are followed</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>by children swinging censers, then by a shouting</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>throng drawing a triumphal car upon which sits the</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>Goddess of Reason. She is clothed in a white tunic</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>and a blue mantle; upon her loosened hair is a</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>wreath of oak leaves and she has in her hand a</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>light spear.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Crowd</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Reason! Reason!—Yvette! Yvette!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_129'>129</span><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in33'>Mon Dieu!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>The car stops.</em> <span class='sc'>Yvette</span> <em>rises</em>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Crowd</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Vive la déesse! Vive Yvette!</span></i> (<span class='sc'>Lalain</span> <em>comes forward</em>.) <i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Vive Lalain!</span></i></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Lalain</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>People of Nantes! Citoyens! Patriots!</div> - <div class='line'>Old things are past. To-day we welcome new.</div> - <div class='line'>Gone are the priests, gone is the crucifix;</div> - <div class='line'>Chalice and paten whelmed beneath the Loire!</div> - <div class='line'>Kings, princes, nobles, priests, all crumbled down!</div> - <div class='line'>Death on a pale horse hath ridden o’er them,</div> - <div class='line'>The ravens and the sea mews pick their bones.</div> - <div class='line'>Theirs are the yesterdays, the ci-devants!</div> - <div class='line'>The red to-day is ours, the purple morrow!—</div> - <div class='line'>Liberty, Equality, Fraternity!</div> - <div class='line'>We worship Thee, Triune and Indivisible!—</div> - <div class='line'>O Mother Nature, pure, beneficent,</div> - <div class='line'>Redeemed from darkness of the centuries,</div> - <div class='line'>Smile on thy children, come to worship thee!</div> - <div class='line'>And thou, supernal Reason, Crown of Man,</div> - <div class='line'>Eyes of the blind, divine, ascending flame,</div> - <div class='line'>Pearl without price, rose, light, music, warmth!—</div> - <div class='line'>O gushing spring where else were desert waste!</div> - <div class='line'>O flooding light, celestial melody!</div> - <div class='line'>O flower that blooms on either side the grave!</div> - <div class='line'>O steadfast star that burns the night away!</div> - <div class='line'>We worship thee!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>He takes the censer from a boy and swings it to and</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>fro before the standing goddess. Clouds of incense</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>arise. The trumpets sound.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_130'>130</span><span class='sc'>The Crowd</span> (<em>with ecstasy</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in17'>We worship thee, Yvette!</div> - <div class='line'>Yvette! Yvette! Reason! Yvette Charruel!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>O God! I knew not ‘twas like this!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Lalain</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in35'>Reason, descend!</div> - <div class='line'>Illume thy torch, among us mortals dwell.</div> - <div class='line'>O sweetest Reason! ne’er regret the skies!</div> - <div class='line'>Descend—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>He gives his hand to</em> <span class='sc'>Yvette</span>. <em>She descends from</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>the car.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>A Man</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in10'>She is the fairest Reason!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Another</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in37'>Now</div> - <div class='line'>She’ll light the torch!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>A boy brings her lighted touchwood.</em> <span class='sc'>Lalain</span> <em>fastens</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>it to the point of her spear, and kneeling presents it</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>to her. She advances to the church steps and raises</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>the flaming lance in order to light the torch. She</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>sees</em> <span class='sc'>De Vardes</span>. <em>The spear falls to the earth. The</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>flame goes out.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in24'>O Our Lady!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Crowd</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Light the torch! Light the torch!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Lalain</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in34'>What witchcraft’s this?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_131'>131</span><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>None, none!—Oh, see the heavens open!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>Murmurs of the crowd.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Angélique</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in39'>Goddess!</div> - <div class='line'>Goddess!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Céleste</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in9'>She hears not!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Crowd</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in24'>Light the torch!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Lalain</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in41'>I see</div> - <div class='line'>Hell gaping! What’s that man to thee?</div> - <div class='line'>Death and damnation! Dost still gaze at him?</div> - <div class='line'>Then to the winds, Irresolution!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>He turns to the crowd.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in32'>See,</div> - <div class='line'>Patriots, see! The light of Reason dies!</div> - <div class='line'>Out went the sacred flame beneath the eyes,</div> - <div class='line'>The basilisk eyes of an Aristocrat!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Crowd</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Away with him to prison! Death! The Loire!</div> - <div class='line'>Death to the emigré!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>A rush toward the church steps.</em> <span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - <div class='line'><em>throws himself on guard</em>. <span class='sc'>Yvette</span> <em>comes between</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>him and the mob</em>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in21'>Back!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Mob</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in27'>Ah—h—h!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_132'>132</span><span class='sc'>Lalain</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in37'>Art mad?</div> - <div class='line'>Stand from between the lion and his prey!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span> (<em>to the mob</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Men of Nantes! leave women to one side!</div> - <div class='line'>(<em>To</em> <span class='sc'>Yvette</span> <em>with a gesture toward the car</em>.) Goddess of Reason! Mount Olympus waits!</div> - <div class='line'>(<em>To</em> <span class='sc'>Lalain</span>.) At last, Rémond Lalain!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Lalain</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in39'>René de Vardes!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>A man strikes at</em> <span class='sc'>De Vardes</span> <em>with a long pike.</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>His sword arm falls, and the sword rattles to the</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>ground. A shout of triumph from the mob.</em> <span class='sc'>The</span></div> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Marquise’s</span> <em>cry from the pillar is not heard. The</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>mob moves forward.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Back, back, I say! You’ll do no murder here!</div> - <div class='line'>What! One man against a score!—All Bretons!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Mob</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Death to the emigré!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in21'>Not emigré!</div> - <div class='line'>Good folk, I’ve been in prison in La Force.</div> - <div class='line'>Released, I journeyed home to Brittany!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>A Man</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Thou’lt journey farther yet, Aristocrat!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Angélique</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Thy boat shall travel down the Loire!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_133'>133</span><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in38'>Shall it?</div> - <div class='line'>Shall it, indeed, thou gold-locked leprous woman!</div> - <div class='line'><em>Thy</em> bark shall be sucked down by black Ahès!</div> - <div class='line'>I see three Vannetois!—big Rubik, Yann,</div> - <div class='line'>And Rivarol who won the singer’s prize!</div> - <div class='line'><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">À moi, Vannetois!</span>—Who is that standing there?</div> - <div class='line'>Huon! Rememberest thou the fields at dawn?</div> - <div class='line'>Rememberest thou the dim green hazel copse?</div> - <div class='line'>Rememberest thou one Pardon of Sainte Anne?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>A Peasant</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Yvette!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in8'>The sun went down, the stars shone out;</div> - <div class='line'>We wandered round the wreckage of a ship;</div> - <div class='line'>Beneath a shell we found a golden coin.</div> - <div class='line'>Rememberest thou, Hervé the Cornouillaise?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>A Breton Sailor</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Yvette!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in8'>Baptiste! Michael! Monik! Ronan!</div> - <div class='line'>How loudly rang the bells of Quiberon!</div> - <div class='line'>To beat of drum we danced beside the sea!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Young Men</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Ho, ho! That day!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in18'>Eh, who spoke to us there,</div> - <div class='line'>Of glory, of France, and of Liberty?</div> - <div class='line'>Citoyen Deputy Rémond Lalain!</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_134'>134</span>Red wine he gave to you, to me a flower!</div> - <div class='line'>Mon Dieu! I was so proud—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Lalain</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in27'>Yvette!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span> (<em>to an old woman</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in35'>Margot!</div> - <div class='line'>‘Twas I who watched with thee one stormy night</div> - <div class='line'>When all thy seven sons were out at sea!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Old Woman</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Ay, ay, and they came safely home to me!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span> (<em>to a child</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>O little Jeanne, where is the doll I gave thee?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Child</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Here!—‘tis named ‘Toinette!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>A Woman</span> (<em>with the child</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in29'>She has another</div> - <div class='line'>Named Yvette!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span> (<em>to a band of young women</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in14'>Fifine, Laure, and Veronique!</div> - <div class='line'>The moon shone bright, there was no wind at all,</div> - <div class='line'>Below the heights the violet shadows slept,</div> - <div class='line'>All sweetly smelled the gorse and white buckwheat,</div> - <div class='line'>And dewy was the grass beneath our feet,</div> - <div class='line'>And wet with dew the poppies in our hair!</div> - <div class='line'>There came a sound of singing from the sea,</div> - <div class='line'>Our hands we linked, we sped around Tantad,</div> - <div class='line'>Fair shone the moon—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_135'>135</span><span class='sc'>A Young Girl</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in22'>Oh, Eves of Saint John!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>A Breton</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><em>Iou! Iou! An Tan! An Tan! An Tan!</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Séraphine</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Saint Ronan! Saint Primel!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Crowd</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in27'>Yvette! Yvette!</div> - <div class='line'>Yvette Charruel!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in17'>O folk of Nantes!</div> - <div class='line'>There is a thing I want so badly, I!</div> - <div class='line'>Call it a fairing from the Fête of Reason,</div> - <div class='line'>And give the trifle to the poor Yvette,</div> - <div class='line'>The poor Yvette who’s done her best to please you!</div> - <div class='line'>Oh, I’ve music made for you to dance by,</div> - <div class='line'>And for you held on high the great tricolour;</div> - <div class='line'>And in the night-time sung to you of dawn!</div> - <div class='line'>And for you, too, I’ve plucked the lilies up,</div> - <div class='line'>Fast locked a door and flung away the key,</div> - <div class='line'>And left the ravished garden evermore!—</div> - <div class='line'>A priest would say my soul I had imperilled.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Crowd</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>No, no! No priests! Reason! Reason! Yvette.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>This mantle blue, these oak leaves in my hair,</div> - <div class='line'>These sandals and this spear, this tunic white,</div> - <div class='line'>The wreathèd car, the music and the song!</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_136'>136</span>All, all a mockery, unless, unless—</div> - <div class='line'>There is a thing I want so badly, I!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>A Commissioner</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>It is thine!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Crowd</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in13'>Thine! Thine! Yvette Charruel!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Ah, I would play the goddess, that I would!</div> - <div class='line'>I’d have my pardon like a Breton saint,</div> - <div class='line'>And what I bound, it should be bound indeed!</div> - <div class='line'>And what I loosed, it should be loosed indeed!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>A Commissioner</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Fast bind or freely loose, thy surety, I!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Another</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Command me, and the silver moon I’ll bring thee!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>With what a sudden glory shines the sun!</div> - <div class='line'>It gilds the streets, it gilds the running Loire!</div> - <div class='line'>And from them both the blood-stains fade away!</div> - <div class='line'>Ah, let us rest from death in Nantes to-day,</div> - <div class='line'>And think how falls the eve in Bethlehem!—</div> - <div class='line'>There is a little village that I know,</div> - <div class='line'>A hungry village by a hungry sea,</div> - <div class='line'>As worn and grey as any calvary!</div> - <div class='line'>The hungry shadows ate the sunshine up;</div> - <div class='line'>The children cried, the women wailed at morn;</div> - <div class='line'>The very Christ looked hungry on the Cross;</div> - <div class='line'>When lo! a miracle! for suddenly</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_137'>137</span>The starving, haggard folk began to laugh,</div> - <div class='line'>The tender green put forth, the flowers bloomed,</div> - <div class='line'>Blue shone the sky, the lark sang overhead,</div> - <div class='line'>And mild the face of Christ and heavenly kind!</div> - <div class='line'>The little village had its fill of bread,</div> - <div class='line'>Yea, wine it drank, and cheerful breath it drew,</div> - <div class='line'>And, by the well, of this strange plenty talked,</div> - <div class='line'>Of tolls withdrawn, of perfect friendliness!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>She moves from before</em> <span class='sc'>De Vardes</span>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>And then it blessed the man who gave it bread,</div> - <div class='line'>Who had a heart to feel with wretchedness,</div> - <div class='line'>And a strong arm to drive the hunger forth</div> - <div class='line'>As Arthur drove the giants from the land!</div> - <div class='line'>O men of Nantes! you’ll keep your oath to me!</div> - <div class='line'>In Nantes to-day ‘tis mine to loose or bind!—</div> - <div class='line'>I loose this man—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Lalain</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in19'>Out, witch!</div> - <div class='line'>(<em>To</em> <span class='sc'>De Vardes</span>.) Think not, think not,</div> - <div class='line'>René de Vardes, that she shall save thee thus!—</div> - <div class='line'>Mine, mine she is, she shall be, soul and all!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Rémond Lalain—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Lalain</span> (<em>to the mob</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in16'>It is an emigré!</div> - <div class='line'>A traitor and a black Aristocrat,</div> - <div class='line'>The ci-devant De Vardes!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Crowd</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in25'>De Vardes! De Vardes!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_138'>138</span><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Rémond Lalain, stand from my path, I say!</div> - <div class='line'>(<em>To the crowd.</em>) Not emigré, but prisoner in La Force!</div> - <div class='line'>Not traitor! That’s a wretch who doth betray!</div> - <div class='line'>Aristocrat?—Who chooseth his birth star?</div> - <div class='line'>Crieth at Life’s gate, “Of such an house I’m heir!”</div> - <div class='line'>But in we drift from the great sea without;</div> - <div class='line'>A current takes us—“Of my house are ye!”</div> - <div class='line'>So you, so I, so this citoyen here,</div> - <div class='line'>Rémond Lalain, who is Lalain by chance,</div> - <div class='line'>And might have been Capet or Mirabeau!</div> - <div class='line'>And so this other, standing gravely there</div> - <div class='line'>Alone, a man alone upon a rock,</div> - <div class='line'>And the tide mounts!—The current swept him there!</div> - <div class='line'>Another drift, and he had been Lalain,</div> - <div class='line'>Orator and idol of the Jacobins!—</div> - <div class='line'>Names! They are the mist through which the man</div> - <div class='line'>Is scarce discerned, the sea-drift hides the pearl.</div> - <div class='line'>Ghosts of the past the present spurns! Dead leaves!</div> - <div class='line'>Masks for the pauper and the prince! Mere names!</div> - <div class='line'>I would not have them rule my spirit thus!—</div> - <div class='line'>Aristocrat! I know not, but I know</div> - <div class='line'>The man’s been known to lift a peasant’s load</div> - <div class='line'>And gather seaweed with a fisher’s child!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>A Breton Sailor</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>‘Tis true! And in my boat he’s been with me,</div> - <div class='line'>When Ahès and the storm made black the sea!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>A Peasant</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>He walked beside me in the field and told</div> - <div class='line'>Name of the silver star above the fold!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_139'>139</span><span class='sc'>A Soldier</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>I was a red Hussar! He fought like Mars.</div> - <div class='line'>Eh, my Colonel—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>A Woman</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in17'>We know, we Morbec folk!</div> - <div class='line'><i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Vive Baron René!</span></i></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Séraphine</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in19'>Eh, eh, monseigneur!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Nantes! Nantes! you’ll keep the oath you’ve made to me!</div> - <div class='line'>My fairing I shall have this holiday,</div> - <div class='line'>And what I bind it shall be bound indeed,</div> - <div class='line'>And what I loose is loosed to me for aye!</div> - <div class='line'>I ask one gift—I shall not ask again!</div> - <div class='line'>This is my hour, no other hour I want.</div> - <div class='line'>I ask one life—is’t mine, is’t mine, Citoyens?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Crowd</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Yes, yes! ‘Tis thine!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>A Commissioner</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in22'>Thine, Goddess!</div> - <div class='line'>(<em>To</em> <span class='sc'>De Vardes</span>.) Citoyen, thou art free!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Lalain</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in42'>Diable!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in50'>I’m faint.—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Séraphine</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Saint Iguinou! What of the pillar there?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_140'>140</span><span class='sc'>A Commissioner</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Make way for the Citoyen Vardes!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Crowd</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in33'>Make way!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Séraphine</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Eh, eh, monseigneur; thou hadst best begone!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span> (<em>to the Commissioner</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Citoyen, thanks! but here I’ll watch awhile</div> - <div class='line'>These pleasing rites, this worship new of Reason!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Commissioner</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>‘Twill do thee good, Aristocrat!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in33'>No doubt,</div> - <div class='line'>Citoyen!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Lalain</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in9'>Oh, depth of hell!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Nanon</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in28'>Oh, patience!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Lalain</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Why takes he not his liberty? He stays!</div> - <div class='line'>To feast his eyes upon her face he stays!</div> - <div class='line'>Diable! He speaks to her—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Nanon</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in27'>Patience! Patience!—</div> - <div class='line'>What flutters there behind the pillar?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_141'>141</span><span class='sc'>Lalain</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in39'>Where?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>She points. They move together to the base of the</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>statue.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span> (<em>to</em> <span class='sc'>Yvette</span>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>I owe my life to thee, thou hapless child!</div> - <div class='line'>Ah, couldst thou make this throng depart the place!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Monseigneur—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Crowd</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in14'>Goddess of Reason! light the torch!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>I’m faint!—The houses all are dancing there!—</div> - <div class='line'>Give me drink!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>A Man</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in15'>Here’s wine!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>He pours wine into a great gold cup.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in28'>‘Tis in a chalice!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Crowd</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Drink!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<span class='sc'>Yvette</span> <em>drinks</em>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in7'><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Nom de Dieu!</span> ‘Tis right good wine, indeed!—</div> - <div class='line'>Not now I’ll light the torch—‘Tis out for good!</div> - <div class='line'>And while we linger here the sunlight goes!</div> - <div class='line'>Let’s to the quai, let’s to the quai and dance—</div> - <div class='line'>And dance the Carmagnole!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_142'>142</span><span class='sc'>The Crowd</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'>The Carmagnole!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>Men and women take hands and begin to dance.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Away! Down the long street, and to the quai!</div> - <div class='line'>Take hands! Away! <i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Dansons la Carmagnole!</span></i></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>She snatches from a boy a tambourine and strikes it.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Vive le son, vive le son,</span></i></div> - <div class='line'><i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Vive le son du canon!</span></i></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>The crowd disperses.</em> <span class='sc'>De Vardes</span> <em>remains standing</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>before the pillar behind which crouches</em> <span class='sc'>The Marquise</span>.</div> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Séraphine</span> <em>watches from the church steps</em>;</div> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Lalain</span> <em>and</em> <span class='sc'>Nanon</span> <em>from the base of the Statue</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>of Liberty</em>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Monseigneur!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in13'>Ay.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in17'>Now, now while the lark sings,</div> - <div class='line'>And while the fairy wood is green, begone!</div> - <div class='line'>Oh, ‘tis not safe in Nantes! They gave thy life,</div> - <div class='line'>But oh, they’re fierce and fickle! Back they’ll come!</div> - <div class='line'>I’ve enemies in Nantes, and there’s Lalain,</div> - <div class='line'>Rémond Lalain who’ll work me woe at last!</div> - <div class='line'>Thou must begone, but list, ah, list to me!</div> - <div class='line'>I know a secret place where thou mayst bide,</div> - <div class='line'>So safe! so safe! and I will bring thee food,</div> - <div class='line'>White bread and wine, and find for thee a way</div> - <div class='line'>Forth from the town—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in22'>Ah, I may trust thee, sure!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_143'>143</span><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>I never knew thou wast in prison there!</div> - <div class='line'>So sad, so dark the prison life, they say!</div> - <div class='line'>My cagèd bird I freed the other day.</div> - <div class='line'>There are so many prisoners in Nantes,</div> - <div class='line'>I would not have it one!—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in27'>My life I owe—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The spring draws on; ‘twill soon be June again!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Now for another life I make my suit—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>In Paimpont Wood the trees are greening now,</div> - <div class='line'>In sun and shade the purple violets blow!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>In those old convent days, ah, ages gone!</div> - <div class='line'>Beneath the fruit trees, by the fountain there,</div> - <div class='line'>I’ve seen thee nurse a little fluttering bird,</div> - <div class='line'>Wounded and frightened, fallen from the blue,</div> - <div class='line'>But yet God’s bird, and with a life to save!</div> - <div class='line'>And thou didst stroke its plumage tenderly,</div> - <div class='line'>And gently fostered it between thy hands</div> - <div class='line'>Awhile, and up it soared into the blue;</div> - <div class='line'>A moment since and thou didst save my life.</div> - <div class='line'>Lo now, there is another thing to do!</div> - <div class='line'>Before my own life, I’ve a life in charge,</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_144'>144</span>And to thee now I turn, and plead for help.</div> - <div class='line'>In this wild town thou rulest o’er the hour;</div> - <div class='line'>Be now the goddess and the woman too,</div> - <div class='line'>Pitiful, tender, generous, and true!—</div> - <div class='line'>Lo! here a wounded bird—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>He moves aside.</em> <span class='sc'>The Marquise</span> <em>leaves the shadow</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>of the pillar</em>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'>Death of my life!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Marquise</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Oh, guard me, all ye saints!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in29'>Yvette! Yvette!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<span class='sc'>Lalain</span> <em>comes forward from the statue</em>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Lalain</span> (<em>to</em> <span class='sc'>Yvette</span>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Right of the Seigneur!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in23'>So! Thou hast returned,</div> - <div class='line'>Beneath the trees, along the moonlit road!</div> - <div class='line'>And in thine arms the rose and eglantine,</div> - <div class='line'>And on thy lips the song of all the birds!</div> - <div class='line'>Back! There is a furze field bars thy way!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Marquise</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Mon Dieu!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in10'>Hast thou another fan to break?</div> - <div class='line'>Ha! shrinkest thou?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_145'>145</span><span class='sc'>The Marquise</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in20'>Sainte Geneviève!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span> (<em>raising her voice</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in38'>Nantes! Nantes!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>By all the gods!—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in19'><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">À moi! À moi! Nantes!</span></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>An answering cry from within.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Herd girl of Morbec—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Lalain</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in22'>Right of the Seigneur!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">À moi! Citoyens! Patriots!</span></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><em>Reënter mob.</em></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in27'>Courage,</div> - <div class='line'>Clarice!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Marquise</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in9'>O all ye saints!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'>Citoyens!</div> - <div class='line'>This ci-devant, this black Aristocrat!</div> - <div class='line'>Oh! all this while she was in hiding here!</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_146'>146</span>Beside the pillar there she kneeled and laughed.</div> - <div class='line'>Do I not know her laughter, rippling sweet</div> - <div class='line'>Or o’er a broken fan or broken heart,</div> - <div class='line'>Or in green Morbec and a garden fair,</div> - <div class='line'>Or on the moonlit road to ancient Vannes?—</div> - <div class='line'>She, she the ci-devant, the emigrée!</div> - <div class='line'>Who to false England with her jewels fled,—</div> - <div class='line'>Rubies, emeralds, and long strings of pearls!</div> - <div class='line'>The while in barren fields her peasants starved!—</div> - <div class='line'>I denounce the Citoyenne Blanchefôret!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Crowd</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Ah—h—h!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Marquise</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in10'>O terror!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in20'>Thy hand in mine, Clarice!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>What of, what of the dark line of De Vardes?</div> - <div class='line'>What tales are told of Morbec’s black château?</div> - <div class='line'>More wicked and more lost than sunken Ys!</div> - <div class='line'>Wolves were they all, the seigneurs of Morbec!</div> - <div class='line'>Henri, Philippe, Gil, René, Amaury—</div> - <div class='line'>All, all were wolves who lurked, who sprang, who tore,</div> - <div class='line'>No heart of lamb, but just the heart of man!</div> - <div class='line'>Heart of a man, heart of a woman too!</div> - <div class='line'>Morbec! De Vardes! No direr names in France!</div> - <div class='line'>Right hands of kings, priests, soldiers, cardinals,</div> - <div class='line'>Courtiers and lovers of the fleur-de-lis!</div> - <div class='line'>Passionate, proud, a whirlwind and a flame!</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_147'>147</span>Morbec! De Vardes! ‘Ware all who came between</div> - <div class='line'>The whirlwind and its goal, the stubble and the flame!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Thou lost soul!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Lalain</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in16'>Thou lovely fiend!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>De Vardes! De Vardes! The name comes on the blast</div> - <div class='line'>Up from the gulf where lie the thrones of kings.</div> - <div class='line'>Battle, oppression, tyranny and wrong—</div> - <div class='line'>Miramand, Blanchefôret! on sea winds in they float</div> - <div class='line'>From that dim palace where that lost Ahès</div> - <div class='line'>Down to her emerald windows beckons man</div> - <div class='line'>And spreads the bridal bed in sunken Ys!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Nanon</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Mon Dieu! The bridal bed!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'>By all the wrongs</div> - <div class='line'>That both their houses through the ages long</div> - <div class='line'>Have wrought us! By the blood that they have shed,</div> - <div class='line'>The tears, the groans, the sweat, the servile knees,</div> - <div class='line'>The bitter bread they gave us, and the cry</div> - <div class='line'>From lonely graves of anguish and of wrath!</div> - <div class='line'>By all the hunger and the freezing cold!</div> - <div class='line'>By all the toil and all the hopelessness,</div> - <div class='line'>The smitten cheek, the taunt, the burning heart!</div> - <div class='line'>By all the Rights of all the Lords of Wrong!</div> - <div class='line'>By <i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Corvée</span></i> and <em>Gabelle</em> and <i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Gibier</span></i>,</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_148'>148</span><em>Quintaines</em>, <em>Milods</em>, <i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Ban d’Août</span></i> and <i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Bordelage</span></i>,</div> - <div class='line'><i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Fouage</span></i>, <em>Leide</em>, <i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Corvée à miséricorde</span></i>,</div> - <div class='line'><em>Banvin</em>, <i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Chansons</span></i>, <i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Baiser des Mariées</span></i>!</div> - <div class='line'>I do denounce these two Aristocrats:</div> - <div class='line'>La Force’s prisoner, and the emigrée,</div> - <div class='line'>La belle Marquise, the Hussar of the King,</div> - <div class='line'>Citoyen Vardes, Citoyenne Blanchefôret!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Lalain</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>So!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Mob</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in4'>Away! Away! Prison! Death! The Loire!</div> - <div class='line'>Down, down, Aristocrats.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>They close around</em> <span class='sc'>De Vardes</span> <em>and</em> <span class='sc'>The Marquise</span>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Séraphine</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in25'>Saint Maturin!</div> - <div class='line'>Saint Corentin! Saint Jean!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Marquise</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in28'>O bitter death!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>I am thy death, who thought to save thee so!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>The soldiers lay hands upon</em> <span class='sc'>De Vardes</span> <em>and</em> <span class='sc'>The</span></div> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Marquise</span> <em>and force them from the church steps</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>and across the square</em>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Mob</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Away!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>A Commissioner</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in6'>The nearest prison!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_149'>149</span><span class='sc'>A Man</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'>That’s the Church</div> - <div class='line'>Of Saint Eustache!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>A Commissioner</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in19'>Away! They shall be judged</div> - <div class='line'>By Carrier!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Mob</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in12'>Carrier!—The Loire!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in33'>Ah!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Angélique</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Ha, ha! <i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Le Mariage Républicain!</span></i></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Quoi!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Angélique</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in6'>Eh, they’re lovers, are they not?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Céleste</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The Loire shall marry them, the ci-devants!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Angélique</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Yvette has made the wedding, eh, Yvette?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Mob</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Ha, ha! <i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Le Mariage Républicain!</span></i></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>Exeunt the mob, soldiers</em>, <span class='sc'>De Vardes</span>, <em>and</em> <span class='sc'>The</span></div> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Marquise</span>, <em>guarded, etc.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Voices</span> (<em>within</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Le Mariage Républicain!</span></i> Ha, ha!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_150'>150</span><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>What have I done?—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Voices</span> (<em>dying away</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in20'>Ha, ha! ha, ha! The Loire!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The Loire!—O God!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><em>CURTAIN</em></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='figcenter id003'> -<img src='images/i_159.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' /> -</div> - -<div class='figcenter id002'> -<span class='pageno' id='Page_151'>151</span> -<img src='images/i_160.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' /> -</div> - -<div class='chapter'> - <h2 id='ACT_IV' class='c005'><em>ACT IV</em></h2> -</div> - -<p class='c010'><em>The interior of a church in Nantes used as a prison. Great -broken windows of stained glass, purple and crimson, -through which streams the sunlight. Prisoners of both -sexes and all ages and conditions of life move to and fro, -or lean against the pillars which support the vaulted roof. -Some rest or kneel upon the steps before the altar rail. -Three children play beside a broken font. Against a door -at the left of the great altar lounge several turnkeys -dressed in blue woollen with red liberty caps.</em> <span class='sc'>The Marquise</span> -<em>sits beside a pillar. She talks with</em> <span class='sc'>De Buc</span> <em>and</em> -<span class='sc'>Enguerrand La Fôret</span>. <em>Near her are</em> <span class='sc'>Count Louis</span> -<em>and</em> <span class='sc'>Mlle. de Château-Gui</span>. <span class='sc'>De L’Orient</span> <em>stands -upon a bench beneath a shattered window</em>. <span class='sc'>De Vardes</span> -<em>sits at a rude table writing</em>.</p> - -<p class='c011'><em>A butterfly enters at the broken window and flutters through -the church.</em></p> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>A Child</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='linedc drop-capanf0_0'>The butterfly! The butterfly!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Mlle. de Château-Gui</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in30'>Oh, see</div> - <div class='line'>Its painted wings!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>A Child</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in19'>There! There!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Mlle. de Château-Gui</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>It comes my way!—I’ve caught it!—No!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_152'>152</span><span class='sc'>An Actress</span> (<em>dressed as a shepherdess</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in39'>I!</div> - <div class='line'>I have it fast, the pretty prisoner!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De L’Orient</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>It will not stay—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Count Louis</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in19'>It soars into the roof!</div> - <div class='line'>No! down again on yon long ray of light!—</div> - <div class='line'>Give chase!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De L’Orient</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in12'>Here!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Mlle. de Château-Gui</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in18'>There!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Actress</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in25'>Oh, oh! It sails this way,</div> - <div class='line'>The fairy boat—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De L’Orient</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in17'>With freight of heart’s desire!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Actress</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>I have it!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Count Louis</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in11'>No, I!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>The butterfly lights upon his hand.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in18'>‘Tis youth!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De L’Orient</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in30'>‘Tis gone!—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>The butterfly brushes his shoulder.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>‘Tis joy!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_153'>153</span><span class='sc'>The Actress</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in10'>Fled!—Ah, ah!—‘Tis hope!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>The butterfly touches her outstretched arm, then</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>rises again.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in37'>No longer!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>The butterfly rests upon the fair hair of</em> <span class='sc'>The Marquise</span>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Marquise</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>As I was saying, then I felt despair—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>The butterfly rises, flutters in a shaft of sunshine,</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>then passes out of the window. The prisoners watch</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>its flight.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>A Child</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The butterfly has gone!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Mlle. de Château-Gui</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in24'>Whither!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De L’Orient</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in33'>‘Tis for</div> - <div class='line'>The blue skies and the sunny fields!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Actress</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in37'>The flowers</div> - <div class='line'>We shall not gather any more!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De L’Orient</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in30'>High hills,</div> - <div class='line'>The water running in the sun and shade!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Mme. de Malestroit</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>A garden old beside a winding stream—</div> - <div class='line'>Oh, death in life!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_154'>154</span><span class='sc'>A Nun</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in19'>It was a soul set free.</div> - <div class='line'>By now a thousand shining leagues it’s mounted!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>The door at the left of the altar opens.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><em>Enter</em> <span class='sc'>Grégoire</span>.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Mlle. de Château-Gui</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Here is Grégoire!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Grégoire</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in18'>Good-morrow, Citoyens!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Count Louis</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Good-morrow, Gaoler.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Mlle. de Château-Gui</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in21'>Ah, this place, Grégoire!</div> - <div class='line'>It is so triste! Shall we forever stay</div> - <div class='line'>Imprisoned in a church?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>La Fôret</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in24'>Oh, gayer far</div> - <div class='line'>The Bastille or Vincennes!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Actress</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in27'>These frowning saints!</div> - <div class='line'>The wind that whistles in!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Mme. de Malestroit</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in27'>The stones so cold!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Count Louis</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The Church will make us martyrs ere our time!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_155'>155</span><span class='sc'>Mlle. de Château-Gui</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>And did you buy, Grégoire, the cards for ombre?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Actress</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Masks for our play?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De L’Orient</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in20'>A violin?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Actress</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in30'>Wax-lights?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Buc</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The foils?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>A Child</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in11'>My ball, Grégoire?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Grégoire</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in30'>I’ve nothing bought—</div> - <div class='line'>The judges sit to-day. Complain to them.</div> - <div class='line'>The church is cold! ‘Tis not so cold as Loire!</div> - <div class='line'>The prisons are too crowded! Well, to-day</div> - <div class='line'>We’ll weed them out!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Buc</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in21'>So!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Grégoire</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in25'>You are warned! Prepare!</div> - <div class='line'>Make your farewells—the time is very short!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>Exit</em> <span class='sc'>Grégoire</span>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Buc</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Strike camp!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_156'>156</span><span class='sc'>De L’Orient</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in13'>The open road!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Count Louis</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in28'>Who goes?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>La Fôret</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in38'>Who stays?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Mlle. de Château-Gui</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Our comedy!—we cannot have it now!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Actress</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Oh, we will rearrange the parts!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<span class='sc'>De Vardes</span> <em>folds his letter and rises from the table</em>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in33'>We’ll play,</div> - <div class='line'>Though all the world is sliding ‘neath our feet!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Buc</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The world’s a stage—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Nun</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in22'><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">De profundis clamavi</span></i></div> - <div class='line'><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Ad te Domine!</span></i></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><em>Enter the</em> <span class='sc'>Abbé Jean de Barbasan</span>, <em>pale, wounded, and with</em></div> - <div><em>disordered dress</em>.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Mlle. de Château-Gui</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in15'>Monsieur l’Abbé!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in32'>Ah!</div> - <div class='line'>De Barbasan, we feared for you!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_157'>157</span><span class='sc'>The Abbé</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in32'>Morbleu!</div> - <div class='line'>I am reprieved! Lambertye proved my friend!</div> - <div class='line'>It seems that once I saved the villain’s life!—</div> - <div class='line'>Pure accident!—stumbled on him in a ditch,</div> - <div class='line'>Played the Samaritan!—so now I’m spared,</div> - <div class='line'>Come forth like Daniel from the lions’ den,</div> - <div class='line'>That Judgment Hall of theirs across the way!</div> - <div class='line'>Lions! They are not lions, they are wolves,</div> - <div class='line'>Hyenas, tigers, and baboons. Faugh!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Buc</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in36'>So!</div> - <div class='line'>They are hungry yet?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Abbé</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in21'>Oh, they are portents!</div> - <div class='line'>And portents are the folk that fill that hall!</div> - <div class='line'>Not women they who sit aloft and knit;</div> - <div class='line'>Not men, those scarecrow visages below;</div> - <div class='line'>For robed judges, wolves at Lammas tide,</div> - <div class='line'>And Nantes the winter forest for the pack!—</div> - <div class='line'>But ah, the deer at bay, the little lambs!—</div> - <div class='line'>The earth gives ‘neath their feet, they face the Loire!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>A confused sound from the square without the window;</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>voices, menacing and execrating, a cry, then</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>silence.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>One has not gained the Loire!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Abbé</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in30'>Ah, oftentimes,</div> - <div class='line'>They fall before they reach the Judgment Hall!</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_158'>158</span>There in the street, before that fatal door—</div> - <div class='line'>Both youth and age, fair women and brave men.</div> - <div class='line'>Their blood cries to another judgment seat!</div> - <div class='line'>From yonder window you may see it all!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Marquise</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>We will not look!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Count Louis</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in18'>Fie, fie, De Barbasan!</div> - <div class='line'>There is a time for everything! Not now,</div> - <div class='line'>Nor in this place is’t meet or debonair</div> - <div class='line'>To speak of ravening wolves or stricken deer!</div> - <div class='line'>To work, my friend! You find us much concerned</div> - <div class='line'>About this play of Molière’s! We give</div> - <div class='line'><cite>Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme</cite>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Marquise</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in28'>You’ll play Jourdain?</div> - <div class='line'>Béjart had promised us, but then he went.</div> - <div class='line'>He’s not returned.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Abbé</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in19'>Nor will, I think. But, yes,</div> - <div class='line'>I’ll take the part; I’ll speak in prose to you</div> - <div class='line'>To whom I else would speak in poetry!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Marquise</span> (<em>with a curtesy</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Monsieur Jourdain, your prose is ravishing!—</div> - <div class='line'>I’m Dorimène.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Buc</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in14'>And I Dorante!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Mlle. de Château-Gui</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in29'>Lucille.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_159'>159</span><span class='sc'>Mme. de Malestroit</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Nicole!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Actress</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in8'>I am, Monsieur Jourdain, your wife!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>La Fôret</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Your son-in-law the Turk!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'>Behold, monsieur,</div> - <div class='line'>Your fencing master!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De L’Orient</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in21'>Your <i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">maître de danse</span></i>.</div> - <div class='line'>Imagine, pray, you hear my violin:</div> - <div class='line'>La, la—The minuet!—La, la, la!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>He plays an imaginary violin. The prisoners hesitate,</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>laugh, then begin to step a minuet. The children</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>and the gaolers watch them.</em> <span class='sc'>De Vardes</span> <em>does</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>not dance. He leans against a pillar to the left</em>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><em>Enter a turnkey</em>, <span class='sc'>Céleste</span>, <span class='sc'>Angélique</span>, <span class='sc'>Nanon</span>, <em>and</em></div> - <div><span class='sc'>Séraphine</span>.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Séraphine</span> (<em>crossing herself</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Eh! Eh! They dance!—Well, what a thing it is</div> - <div class='line'>To be a noble born!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Céleste</span> (<em>jealously</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in20'>We dance as well!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Séraphine</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Ay, the Carmagnole!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Angélique</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in20'>‘Tis a swifter dance!</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_160'>160</span>Why came we here? I never liked this church,</div> - <div class='line'>They are too gay of heart, these ci-devants!</div> - <div class='line'>Let’s to the Judgment Hall, or to the Loire.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Céleste</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Séraphine would come—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Séraphine</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in23'>Patience, Citoyennes,</div> - <div class='line'>No haste! I’ve just a little word to speak</div> - <div class='line'>Unto monseigneur there.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Céleste</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in24'>Monseigneur!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Séraphine</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in37'>Oh,</div> - <div class='line'>The Citoyen Vardes! You know my tripping tongue.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Nanon</span> (<em>to the turnkey</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Where is that ci-devant men once did call</div> - <div class='line'>La belle Marquise?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Turnkey</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in19'>‘Tis she who dances there,</div> - <div class='line'>Fair-haired and dressed in violet.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Nanon</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in35'>Awhile</div> - <div class='line'>I’ll watch her dance.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Céleste</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in22'>Their cheeks are pale.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_161'>161</span><span class='sc'>Angélique</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in45'>They smile.</div> - <div class='line'>I would not smile if I were they.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<span class='sc'>Nanon</span>, <span class='sc'>Céleste</span>, <em>and</em> <span class='sc'>Angélique</span> <em>watch the</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>dancers</em>. <span class='sc'>Séraphine</span> <em>approaches</em> <span class='sc'>De Vardes</span>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Séraphine</span> (<em>in a low voice</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in34'>Monseigneur!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Séraphine Robin, I believe?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Séraphine</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in28'>Saint Yves!</div> - <div class='line'>Now just to think! Monseigneur knows my name!—</div> - <div class='line'>Eh! Morbec was my home for many a year.</div> - <div class='line'>When all is said and done, Home is just Home,</div> - <div class='line'>Hut or château—and always the De Vardes</div> - <div class='line'>Were lords of Morbec did they good or ill!</div> - <div class='line'>Most like ‘twas ill—but they were proper men!</div> - <div class='line'>And when they smiled we always said ‘twas day;</div> - <div class='line'>And old men say—but it was long ago—</div> - <div class='line'>A baron lived was named René the Good!</div> - <div class='line'>Saint Gil! Monseigneur gave us back Lisette.</div> - <div class='line'>Saint Maudez! ‘Tis a dangerous thing, but see!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>She takes from her bosom a silken purse.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Eh, monseigneur, ‘tis yours! Take it! Quick, quick,</div> - <div class='line'>Before Céleste—the baggage!—turns her head!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>She thrusts the purse into his hand.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>From whom?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_162'>162</span><span class='sc'>Séraphine</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in11'>Look in it! You will see. ‘Tis gold.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Gold!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Séraphine</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in6'>And something more.—Here is Angélique!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Angélique</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Aristocrat—That ring upon thy finger—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Séraphine</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Out!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in5'>Not yet, Citoyenne!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Angélique</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in25'>Then afterwards!</div> - <div class='line'>I’ll have it at the trenches or the Loire!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>She rejoins</em> <span class='sc'>Céleste</span> <em>and</em> <span class='sc'>Nanon</span>. <em>They watch the</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>dancers.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De L’Orient</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Nicole—Lucille—Cléonte—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Séraphine</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in27'>My errand’s done—</div> - <div class='line'>Look in the purse, monseigneur, look at once!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De L’Orient</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>La, la, la, la!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in16'>I have no need of gold.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_163'>163</span><span class='sc'>Séraphine</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Look, monseigneur!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in19'>Again, from whom?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Séraphine</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in37'>A friend.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>I have no friend in Nantes. Take back thy purse!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Séraphine</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>It is not mine, the pretty, silken thing!</div> - <div class='line'>I swore that I would leave it, so I will!</div> - <div class='line'>And I was told to tell you, “Look within.”</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<span class='sc'>Nanon</span> <em>approaches</em>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Nanon</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>In Nantes one is Suspect when one is seen</div> - <div class='line'>Whispering in shadows with Aristocrats!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Séraphine</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Nothing I said you might not hear, Nanon!</div> - <div class='line'>Come, come away!</div> - <div class='line'>(<em>To</em> <span class='sc'>De Vardes</span> <em>as she turns from him</em>.) Monseigneur, have a care!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<span class='sc'>Séraphine</span>, <span class='sc'>Nanon</span>, <span class='sc'>Céleste</span>, <em>and</em> <span class='sc'>Angélique</span></div> - <div class='line'><em>watch the dancers. A grating sound is heard without</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>the door to the left of the altar. The turnkeys</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>move aside, the door opens and discloses a passage</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>lined with gaolers and soldiers.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><em>Enter</em> <span class='sc'>Grégoire</span> <em>with three or four Patriots. They wear</em></div> - <div><em>great boots, plumed hats, sashes of tricolour, sabres and</em></div> - <div><em>pistols.</em></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De L’Orient</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>La, la, la, la, la!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_164'>164</span><span class='sc'>Grégoire</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in20'>The list for the day.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>The dance ceases.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Céleste</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Now, now we’ll see the birds drop one by one!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Angélique</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>It is what I love!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Grégoire</span> (<em>He descends the step from the choir</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in19'>The list, Citoyens!</div> - <div class='line'>You whom I name pass out at yonder door.</div> - <div class='line'>Across the square the judges sit—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Buc</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in35'>Just so!</div> - <div class='line'>Who leads?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Grégoire</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in11'>Citoyen, you!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Buc</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in25'>Promotion, by God!—</div> - <div class='line'>Messieurs, mesdames, I have marching orders!</div> - <div class='line'>(<em>To the Actress and</em> <span class='sc'>Mlle. de Château-Gui</span>.) I cannot play Dorante! Is’t not a shame?</div> - <div class='line'>De L’Orient there must take my part—Adieu!</div> - <div class='line'>(<em>To</em> <span class='sc'>The Marquise</span>.) Ah, Dorimène, you’ll let me kiss your hand?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Marquise</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Monsieur, monsieur—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Buc</span> (<em>to</em> <span class='sc'>De Vardes</span>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in21'>I’m breaking camp.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_165'>165</span><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in40'>Ma foi!</div> - <div class='line'>We’ll meet at the end of the march, my friend!</div> - <div class='line'>Meantime I’ll tell thee that Bouillé once said,</div> - <div class='line'>“Brave as a Gascon, or Fauquemont de Buc!”</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Buc</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Did he so? Old Bouillé!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>He salutes.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in24'>My Colonel!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Captain de Buc!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<span class='sc'>De Buc</span> <em>mounts the step into the choir and passes</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>out of the door, between the lines of soldiers. There</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>is heard the voice of the mob in the square without.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De L’Orient</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in16'>Away with Melancholy!</div> - <div class='line'>The curtain’s up, the play begins! Grégoire,</div> - <div class='line'>My name is Thalia! Is’t on thy list?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Grégoire</span> (<em>his eyes upon the paper in his hand</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>No, Citoyen.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De L’Orient</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in13'>Another lifetime here!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Count Louis</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>A golden louis to a paper franc,</div> - <div class='line'>The next is Château-Gui!—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Grégoire</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in27'>No, Château-Gui,</div> - <div class='line'>You are reserved.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_166'>166</span><span class='sc'>Count Louis</span> (<em>taking snuff</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in18'>Why, that is welcome news!</div> - <div class='line'>Eh, my daughter, we will not miss the play!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Grégoire</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The Citoyen Charles Le Blanc.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Le Blanc</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in30'>What damned star</div> - <div class='line'>Flared and went out the night that I was born?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>Exit</em> <span class='sc'>Le Blanc</span>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Grégoire</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Hervé Rauderendec, called the Breton!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Breton</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Good people all, it has been pleasant here,</div> - <div class='line'>But now the tide draws to the full—Adieu!</div> - <div class='line'>I must make sail!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>Exit the Breton.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Grégoire</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in18'>The Citoyenne Gérard.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Actress</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>I?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Grégoire</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in3'>Delphine Gérard.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Actress</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in19'>Oh, I knew, I knew</div> - <div class='line'>The butterfly that touched me was ill luck!</div> - <div class='line'>I named it Hope,—it fled, it fled away!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Abbé</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>We’re loth to let you go, Delphine Gérard.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_167'>167</span><span class='sc'>The Actress</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>There is no choice—I have my cue, you see!—</div> - <div class='line'>And after all the play’s a tragedy.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>Exit the Actress.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Céleste</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>‘Tis better worth our while across the square!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Angélique</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>‘Tis so! Let’s to the Judgment Hall.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Nanon</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in37'>Agreed.</div> - <div class='line'>Come, Séraphine!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Séraphine</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in17'>I’ll follow presently.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Angélique</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Do not delay. We’ll keep a place for you!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>Exeunt</em> <span class='sc'>Nanon</span>, <span class='sc'>Céleste</span>, <em>and</em> <span class='sc'>Angélique</span>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Grégoire</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The Citoyenne Vaucourt.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Mme. de Vaucourt</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in24'>Children, children!</div> - <div class='line'>Your father’s calling me from Paradise!—</div> - <div class='line'>Thérèse, Philippe, farewell, farewell, farewell!</div> - <div class='line'>Oh, clasp me close and kiss!—Forget me not!—</div> - <div class='line'>Yes, yes, I’ll buy the bonbons and the doll!</div> - <div class='line'>I’ll not forget—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Grégoire</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in18'>The boy goes with you.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_168'>168</span><span class='sc'>Mme. de Vaucourt</span> (<em>wildly</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>With me! He’s but a babe! Not eight till June!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Boy</span> (<em>clinging to her</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>To the toy-shop, mother!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Mme. de Vaucourt</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in25'>Oh, yes, child, yes!</div> - <div class='line'>To the toy-shop!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>They go out together.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Grégoire</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Maria Innocenta Sombreuil!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>A young girl in the habit of a Carmelite novice</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>leaves the shadow of a pillar, with raised face and</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>hands crossed upon her breast mounts the step and</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>passes out between the soldiers.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Gaspard Le Borgne!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Le Borgne</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in19'>An angel leads me on.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>He follows the novice.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Grégoire</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Enguerrand La Fôret!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>La Fôret</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in21'>Ha, ha!—ha, ha!</div> - <div class='line'>Ha, ha!—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>Hysterical and continued laughter.</em> <span class='sc'>Grégoire</span> <em>and</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>the turnkeys look stolidly on, but the prisoners are</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>disturbed</em>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Count Louis</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in10'>For shame, Enguerrand La Fôret!</div> - <div class='line'>Before women!—Die like a gentleman!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_169'>169</span><span class='sc'>La Fôret</span> (<em>He leans against the balustrade of the choir</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Ha, ha!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Count Louis</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in8'>Fie, fie! You shame us all!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>La Fôret</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in36'>Ha, ha!</div> - <div class='line'>I laugh because—ha, ha!—‘tis such a joke!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>He mounts the step still laughing, then suddenly</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>recovers himself and turns with fury.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Who calls me coward? I laughed because I laughed!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>He wrests a musket from the nearest soldier and</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>stabs him with the bayonet.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Take that!—There’s one at least will laugh no more!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>Oaths and confusion among the gaolers and soldiers.</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>A sigh of satisfaction from the prisoners.</em> <span class='sc'>La Fôret</span></div> - <div class='line'><em>is dragged out</em>. <span class='sc'>Grégoire</span> <em>looks at his list, then at</em></div> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span>. <em>The latter advances.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Grégoire</span> (<em>hurriedly to himself</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>To-morrow—not to-day! I’ll risk that much,—</div> - <div class='line'>Just for the way he fought that Morbec night!</div> - <div class='line'>(<em>Aloud.</em>) Stand back, Citoyen Vardes! Your time’s not yet.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>A murmur of pleasure and congratulation from the</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>prisoners.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Mlle. de Château-Gui</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>We are so pleased, Monsieur le Baron!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Grégoire</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Citoyens Rochedagon and Pincornet!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>The men named go out. There is heard from the</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>square without and from the passage a sound of</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>acclamation. The door is flung open and the Actress</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>enters.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_170'>170</span><span class='sc'>The Actress</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>They harmed me not! “No, no!” they said. “No, no!</div> - <div class='line'>Delphine Gérard must play for us in Nantes.”</div> - <div class='line'>Oh, the people! Oh, the dear good people!</div> - <div class='line'>Oh, blessed fortune!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in21'>We are most happy!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Abbé</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Delphine Gérard!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Count Louis</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in17'>Welcome, mademoiselle!</div> - <div class='line'>You see the play is still a comedy!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Grégoire</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Marneil, Delille!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>Exeunt the men named.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De L’Orient</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in18'>The leaves fall fast,</div> - <div class='line'>The tree will soon be bare!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Grégoire</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in28'>The Citoyenne</div> - <div class='line'>Clarice-Marie Miramand Blanchefôret.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Oh, wretch!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Prisoners</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in12'>La belle Marquise!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Marquise</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in31'>It is my name!—</div> - <div class='line'>I had no thought I would be called to-day!—</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_171'>171</span>Unwarned! That’s horrible! Ah, good Grégoire!</div> - <div class='line'>A little while—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Grégoire</span> (<em>stolidly</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in17'>Citoyenne Blanchefôret.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Marquise</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Ah, villain!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span> (<em>to</em> <span class='sc'>Grégoire</span>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in13'>Five minutes!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>He slips into</em> <span class='sc'>Grégoire’s</span> <em>hand the purse of gold</em>.</div> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Grégoire</span> <em>hesitates a moment, then his hand closes</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>upon the purse. He thrusts it into his bosom.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Séraphine</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in27'>Saint Michel!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<span class='sc'>De Vardes</span> <em>comes to</em> <span class='sc'>The Marquise</span> <em>and they speak</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>together</em>. <span class='sc'>Grégoire</span> <em>turns to another group of prisoners</em>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Grégoire</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Montfauçon and Guistelles.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Séraphine</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in27'>Saint Guenolé!</div> - <div class='line'>He hath the purse! The paper in it too!</div> - <div class='line'>He’s rock; he, black Grégoire! Alack the day!</div> - <div class='line'>Saint Huon! What’s to do?—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Grégoire</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in28'>Sorel and Mornay!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Séraphine</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Saint Yves le Véridique! I will away!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>Exit</em> <span class='sc'>Séraphine</span>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_172'>172</span><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span> (<em>to</em> <span class='sc'>The Marquise</span>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Would I might die for thee!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Marquise</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in28'>‘Tis but a dream!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Clarice! Clarice!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Marquise</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in18'>A vision of the night!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Clarice-Marie!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Marquise</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in15'>I will awake!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in29'>My friend!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Marquise</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Ah, only that!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in15'>La belle Marquise!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Marquise</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in34'>No more!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>How long have we been friends! And now—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Marquise</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in41'>And now!—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>My friend, my friend!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_173'>173</span><span class='sc'>The Marquise</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in22'>Alas! Alas, ‘tis true</div> - <div class='line'>We are good friends—in life and death good friends!</div> - <div class='line'>‘Tis much—though there are lovers too in Nantes,</div> - <div class='line'>And when one loves ‘tis not so hard to die!</div> - <div class='line'>Or so I’ve heard, monsieur.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in28'>O destiny!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Marquise</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The jasmine is my flower—a luckless bloom!</div> - <div class='line'>Wear not the too-sweet jasmine flower,</div> - <div class='line'>For then one loves, but is not loved again!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>No, no! the rose—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Marquise</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in19'>The rose unloved! Ay, ay!</div> - <div class='line'>Last night I dreamed of roses and of lights,</div> - <div class='line'>Beside a water still they burned and bloomed—</div> - <div class='line'>Lit candles and pale roses with gold hearts,</div> - <div class='line'>Like those that bloomed within my garden once,</div> - <div class='line'>When you rode by, when you rode by, my friend!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Alas!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Marquise</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in6'>They’re dead, my garden roses, dead!</div> - <div class='line'>They’ll bloom no more, nor wilt thou ride that way;</div> - <div class='line'>Nor, Sieur de Morbec, dost thou love the rose.</div> - <div class='line'>For once thou said’st to me upon a day</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_174'>174</span>When I did find the Morbec roses fair,</div> - <div class='line'>“I better love the heartsease at thy feet.”</div> - <div class='line'>The peasant flower! Rememb’rest thou that day?</div> - <div class='line'>‘Twas Saint John’s Eve—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in25'>Would I remembered not!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Marquise</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The heartsease—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in17'>The heartsease withered.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>A roar from the square.</em> <span class='sc'>De L’Orient</span> <em>turns from</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>the window</em>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De L’Orient</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in42'>Ah!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Count Louis</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>What do you see?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De L’Orient</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in17'>Too much!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>A turnkey laughs.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Turnkey</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in27'>Carrier! Lalain!</div> - <div class='line'>Oh, they judge quickly! <i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Vive la République!</span></i></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Marquise</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>It was a summer day when first we met,</div> - <div class='line'>And now we part within a prison here,</div> - <div class='line'>And never shall we see each other more!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Oh, briefer than the fairest summer day</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_175'>175</span>The little hour before we meet again!</div> - <div class='line'>Soon, soon I’ll follow thee, and all of these!</div> - <div class='line'>The reaper hath his sickle in the corn.</div> - <div class='line'>He is a madman, but the field is God’s,</div> - <div class='line'>And God will garner up the fallen ears,</div> - <div class='line'>And in another life we two shall meet!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Marquise</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>And wilt thou love me then? Ah, no! Ah, no!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Thou art a lady brave and fair—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Marquise</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in33'>Alas!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Grégoire</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The Nun Benôite, an Ursuline!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>A nun rises from her knees, makes the sign of the</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>cross, and passes out between the soldiers.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Marquise</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in30'>Ah me!</div> - <div class='line'>The unknown land, just guessed at and no more,</div> - <div class='line'>To which this loud wind sends my cockle boat!—</div> - <div class='line'>Where are my beads? Lost, lost with all things else!</div> - <div class='line'>Jewels and gold and friends and lovers too!—</div> - <div class='line'>Ah, short my shrift with Grégoire glowering there.</div> - <div class='line'>My hatred of Madame la Maréchale,</div> - <div class='line'>I’m sorry for’t. The Captal de Montgis</div> - <div class='line'>Once did me wrong. Well, well, I can forgive!—</div> - <div class='line'>Sieur de Morbec, where’s she that flung us down,</div> - <div class='line'>Lifted her finger and behold us here!</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_176'>176</span>Her face is fair—ah, very fair her face.</div> - <div class='line'>She was your mistress, yes?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in28'>No!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Marquise</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in32'>What then?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Cold that I warmed, and hunger that I fed.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Marquise</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>O strike her, Frost! O Hunger, with her wed!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Ah, curse her not! She knew not what she did!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Marquise</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Alas! Alas!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Grégoire</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in12'>The Citoyenne L’Esparre!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Marquise</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The women go—He’ll call my name! Ah, look!</div> - <div class='line'>The purple saints within the windows there,</div> - <div class='line'>See how they wave their palms and smile at me!</div> - <div class='line'>They wave their palms, they strike their golden harps,</div> - <div class='line'>Their aureoles are brighter than the sun!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Grégoire</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The Citoyenne Blanchefôret!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Marquise</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in28'>The clock has struck!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_177'>177</span><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>All angels guard thee!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Marquise</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in23'>Fatal is my name</div> - <div class='line'>And hated through long years in Brittany.</div> - <div class='line'>Perhaps I shall not live to cross the square!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>The noise of the mob without.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Oh, hear!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in10'>Take courage!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Marquise</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in24'>From the window there,</div> - <div class='line'>Wilt watch me on my way?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in25'>Ay!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Grégoire</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in29'>Citoyenne!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Marquise</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Farewell! Ah, not my hand, my friend!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span> (<em>He kisses her upon the brow</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in38'>Farewell!</div> - <div class='line'>Farewell—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<span class='sc'>The Marquise</span> <em>turns to the remaining prisoners</em>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Marquise</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in11'>Messieurs, mesdames, ‘tis with regret</div> - <div class='line'>I take my leave of this fair company!</div> - <div class='line'>My part of Dorimène—it must be played</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_178'>178</span>By some more able, not more willing, one;</div> - <div class='line'>For me—I’m bidden to a wider stage.</div> - <div class='line'>Adieu! Adieu! Adieu!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Prisoners</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in21'>La belle Marquise!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>Exit</em> <span class='sc'>The Marquise</span>. <span class='sc'>De Vardes</span> <em>crosses to the</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>window</em>. <span class='sc'>De L’Orient</span> <em>gives him place, and he</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>stands upon the bench and watches the square without</em>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Count Louis</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>There are three names that most of all they hate:</div> - <div class='line'>De Vardes and Château-Gui and Blanchefôret!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Grégoire</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Pasquier, Harlebeque, and Damazan.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>There is heard from the street without a confused</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>sound of execration and triumph. The now small</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>company of prisoners exchange glances.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span> (<em>at the window</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Grand Dieu!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De L’Orient</span> (<em>beside him</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in12'>They dare not!—Ah!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>The sound without grows to a roar.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Count Louis</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in32'>What seest thou?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De L’Orient</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Malediction!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>A cry without.</em> <span class='sc'>De Vardes</span>, <em>at the window, raises</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>his voice</em>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_179'>179</span><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in13'>Clarice! Clarice!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>There is a faint answering cry, followed by a roar</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>from the mob, then silence.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Mlle. de Château-Gui</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in31'>O Ciel!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Actress</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Miséricorde!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in13'>‘Tis done—‘tis past—she’s dead.</div> - <div class='line'>O God who makest man, forbear, forbear!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>He covers his face with his hands. There is a</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>silence.</em> <span class='sc'>Grégoire</span> <em>folds his papers</em>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Count Louis</span> (<em>with a shaking voice</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>‘Tis well with her at last; we need not weep.</div> - <div class='line'>We all must die, for so the play goes on!</div> - <div class='line'>Her father was a lord of Gascony;</div> - <div class='line'>A golden spur he wore, and loved the chase!</div> - <div class='line'>Her mother was more fair than Montespan.</div> - <div class='line'>A thousand times we’ve hunted with the King,</div> - <div class='line'>De Miramand and I; a thousand times</div> - <div class='line'>We’ve watched the moon, that first Clarice and I!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Grégoire</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>To-morrow, at this hour, another list!</div> - <div class='line'>Meantime, Citoyens, you and you and you,</div> - <div class='line'>And you, Citoyennes, who petitioned so,</div> - <div class='line'>Your prayer is heard. Lalain is merciful!</div> - <div class='line'>You shall not sleep on these cold stones to-night,</div> - <div class='line'>Another gaol’s provided. Follow me!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_180'>180</span><span class='sc'>Mlle. de Château-Gui</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>O welcome change!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Count Louis</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in18'>The stones were very cold!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Actress</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>And can we have our play there just the same?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Grégoire</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Just the same.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>The prisoners move toward the door.</em> <span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - <div class='line'><em>touches</em> <span class='sc'>Grégoire</span> <em>on the arm</em>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>I find the stones no colder than their wont,</div> - <div class='line'>Time moves no heavier here than everywhere,</div> - <div class='line'>And here, Grégoire, I will remain. The Church</div> - <div class='line'>Will give me up when Carrier calls my name!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De L’Orient</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>I will keep you company—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Grégoire</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'>As you will—</div> - <div class='line'>To-morrow you’ll be called—you have one night.</div> - <div class='line'>(<em>To the other prisoners.</em>) Follow me.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>Exeunt all but</em> <span class='sc'>De Vardes</span> <em>and</em> <span class='sc'>De L’Orient</span>.</div> - <div class='line'><em>The latter flings himself upon the bench beneath the</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>window</em>; <span class='sc'>De Vardes</span> <em>paces to and fro. A silence,</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>then</em> <span class='sc'>De L’Orient</span> <em>sings</em>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De L’Orient</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><em>There is an herb, they say,</em></div> - <div class='line in2'><em>Gives light to all the blind.</em></div> - <div class='line'><em><span class='pageno' id='Page_181'>181</span>’Twill be a gracious day</em></div> - <div class='line in2'><em>When I that herb shall find.</em></div> - <div class='line in4'><em>And lighten all the blind!</em></div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><em>There is a leaf that springs.</em></div> - <div class='line in2'><em>Will heal the very sad.</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>Ah, would that I had wings</em></div> - <div class='line in2'><em>To find that leaf so glad,</em></div> - <div class='line in4'><em>And heal the very sad!</em></div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><em>There is a bloom o’ grace</em></div> - <div class='line in2'><em>Will bring the dead again.</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>Ah, for the flowret’s face!</em></div> - <div class='line in2'><em>Ah, for an end to pain!</em></div> - <div class='line in4'><em>Ah, for the dead again!</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Why, that’s a mournful thing!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De L’Orient</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in30'>It was so meant.</div> - <div class='line'>Oh, happy days we sing the saddest things!—</div> - <div class='line'>My heart is eased. I’ll sleep awhile and dream.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>He pillows his head upon his arm and sleeps.</em> <span class='sc'>De</span></div> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Vardes</span> <em>walks slowly to and fro</em>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Sleep!—How long has it been since Sleep and I</div> - <div class='line'>Met in the heavy road and laid us down,</div> - <div class='line'>Took our dear ease, and let the world go by?—</div> - <div class='line'>I well remember in the north one time,—</div> - <div class='line'>Beside Moselle, where all the live-long day</div> - <div class='line'>Upon a stairway old we stood on guard,</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_182'>182</span>De Buc and I, and looked on Mutiny,</div> - <div class='line'>Brazen and bold, Death visible and dark!—</div> - <div class='line'>And all the night before in council spent,</div> - <div class='line'>After a day’s forced march from Lunéville,</div> - <div class='line'>And a wild night of wine and rapiers drawn.—</div> - <div class='line'>As the sun set we heard a bugle blown,</div> - <div class='line'>Beat of the drums, and thunder of the guns,</div> - <div class='line'>And Bouillé’s voice, assurance of relief!—</div> - <div class='line'>Another night of council, then at dawn</div> - <div class='line'>We slept. The moon was crescent and a star</div> - <div class='line'>Shone on to guide the white, enchanted boat</div> - <div class='line'>Through seas of ether coloured like a shell;</div> - <div class='line'>The trees were dark beneath; there was no sound;</div> - <div class='line'>The air was cold,—we laid us down and slept.</div> - <div class='line'>Saint Gris! No dreams did trouble us that day!—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>He rests upon the choir step.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>To bring the dead again! No flowret blooms,</div> - <div class='line'>No herb, no leaf, shall bring the dead again.</div> - <div class='line'>No garden is there where for all one’s gold,</div> - <div class='line'>The weightiest sceptre or the keenest sword,</div> - <div class='line'>Might one obtain the happy gardener’s place,</div> - <div class='line'>And find the bloom that brings the dead again.</div> - <div class='line'>It grows not here, and there is naught will serve,</div> - <div class='line'>No rain of tears, no delving earnestly,</div> - <div class='line'>No lift of hope, no squandered treasury,</div> - <div class='line'>Love nor remorse, nor longing nor great pain.</div> - <div class='line'>The star has shot. The dead come not again.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>He rises and again walks to and fro.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Happy the dead.—Ah, what of one who lives?</div> - <div class='line'>What of that mask in this fantastic dance</div> - <div class='line'>Who crowned herself with poison flowers and laughed</div> - <div class='line'>To see the lilies fade before her breath?—</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_183'>183</span>O death! O love! O blasting treachery!</div> - <div class='line'>O face that in the prison of La Force</div> - <div class='line'>Visited my dreams—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>The door opens.</em> <span class='sc'>Yvette</span> <em>leans against it, panting,</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>then comes forward</em>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in20'>Where is the paper?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The paper?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in11'>The letter to the judges!</div> - <div class='line'>Folded and hidden in the purse I sent—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>You sent?—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in12'>By Séraphine! You have it, sure?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>She looks about her.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Where is she?—The Citoyenne Blanchefôret?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>She’s dead.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in12'>No.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in16'>Yes.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in21'>All is black before me!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_184'>184</span><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>They called her name—She said adieu and went.</div> - <div class='line'>They slew her in the street.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in29'>Alas!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in35'>She’s dead,</div> - <div class='line'>Who was so fair. Why do you say alas?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Too late!—O God, I thought that all was well!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Why, so it is! With her ‘tis well. She’s dead.</div> - <div class='line'>They say the dead are happy.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in29'>You loved her!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Goddess of Reason, no! Mere friends were we.</div> - <div class='line'>But I’ve a preference for my friends alive!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Oh, woe is me!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in15'>Thou hast what thou didst seek.</div> - <div class='line'>Return to Olympus and hear “All hail,</div> - <div class='line'>Well done, and like a deity!”</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in30'>The paper!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_185'>185</span><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Thou dream of Paimpont Wood!—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in32'>The purse of gold!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Thou picture of the Duchess Jeanne!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in36'>The purse!</div> - <div class='line'>Give, give!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in12'>The purse!—I gave it to Grégoire.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>What!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in6'>It bought five minutes—I did not know</div> - <div class='line'>‘Twas thine.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in13'>To Grégoire! You did not open it!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>No!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in4'>Oh, woe, woe is me!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in24'>Thou standest there!</div> - <div class='line'>Still, still the herd girl on the green cliff head</div> - <div class='line'>Who waves her hand to a lost boat at sea!</div> - <div class='line'>Still, still the vision of a haunted wood</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_186'>186</span>Soulless as is the stone thou leanest on,—</div> - <div class='line'>Vivien musing on the thing she’s done!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>A slip of paper in a silken purse—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Wilt thou begone? The Mountain waits.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in38'>Too late!</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Where is Grégoire?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in19'>I know not. He’s away;</div> - <div class='line'>He has thy gold—I’m sorry for’t.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in34'>No hope?—</div> - <div class='line'>I thought the bridge was built and both were o’er.</div> - <div class='line'>Then as I passed I heard “To-morrow morn</div> - <div class='line'>Carrier himself will judge that ci-devant”</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The Mountain waits—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in21'>I’ll to Lalain again.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Ha!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in4'>She is dead; I’m lost. But thou—But thou—</div> - <div class='line'>Farewell! Farewell!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_187'>187</span><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in20'>Thou said’st, <em>I’ll to Lalain</em>.</div> - <div class='line'>I do forbid it utterly.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in24'>Oh!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in28'>Obey!</div> - <div class='line'>It is thy seigneur’s last command.</div> - <div class='line in19'>(<em>To himself.</em>) Thou fool!</div> - <div class='line'>Touch not her hand. ‘Tis red!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in30'>Monseigneur!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Why art thou both so fair and foul a thing?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Ay, call me that—I care not!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in30'>I’ll call thee “Death,</div> - <div class='line'>Sweet Death—fair Treachery!”</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in30'>Forgive, forgive!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>There’s blood upon thy hand.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in29'>Forgive!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_188'>188</span><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in38'>Alas!</div> - <div class='line'>Thou didst betray!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in19'>I would that I were dead</div> - <div class='line'>In Paimpont Wood, beside the Druid Stone!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>I would that I had never strayed that way!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>I won that paper in that purse of gold!</div> - <div class='line'>And it was life, I tell thee, life for both!</div> - <div class='line'>O God! how all things here miscarry!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>I would that I had never seen thy face!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Oh, much I hated her, la belle Marquise,</div> - <div class='line'>And yester morn I did betray her there,</div> - <div class='line'>Just in the moment God gave o’er my soul!</div> - <div class='line'>And she is dead—I cannot bring her back.</div> - <div class='line'>Oh, swift the madness passed and came remorse,</div> - <div class='line'>And I did hate myself, and strove to save!—</div> - <div class='line'>Oh, woe, and double woe! He promised me!</div> - <div class='line'>Oh, I have striven with a fiend from hell</div> - <div class='line'>And not prevailed, though sorely I did strive!</div> - <div class='line'>O God! O God! I’m weary of the light!</div> - <div class='line'>Now, now thou too wilt die unless—unless—</div> - <div class='line'>Ah, let me go—Farewell, a little while!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Not till I know where thou dost go, and why.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_189'>189</span><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Rémond Lalain gave me that paper.</div> - <div class='line'>It was an order, written by himself,</div> - <div class='line'>Whom even Carrier would not offend—</div> - <div class='line'>A secret paper not for every eye.</div> - <div class='line'>Reward he asked for certain services,—</div> - <div class='line'>Two lives, your life and hers—and hers, I swear!</div> - <div class='line'>He does not leave his villa all this day,</div> - <div class='line'>But at the judgment bar you were to show</div> - <div class='line'>That paper to Lambertye or Sarlat,</div> - <div class='line'>And both were saved—both, both, I swear it, both!</div> - <div class='line'>And now she’s dead—‘Twas life you flung away</div> - <div class='line'>Shut in that purse! You gave it to Grégoire!</div> - <div class='line'>Grégoire! He serves the Revolution,</div> - <div class='line'>Is flint to all beside! Oh me! Oh me!</div> - <div class='line'>I could not come myself, I could but send.</div> - <div class='line'>I won it not till cockcrow of this morn!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Till cockcrow!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in15'>The dawn came slowly on.</div> - <div class='line'>The cock crew and I drew the curtain by</div> - <div class='line'>And saw the morning star above the Loire!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The morning star!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in18'>‘Twas like the eye of God!</div> - <div class='line'>I used to watch it from the fields at dawn;</div> - <div class='line'>This morn ‘twas watching me!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_190'>190</span><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in29'>Rémond Lalain!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>‘Twas all in vain. She’s dead—ah, ages since!</div> - <div class='line'>You’ll not forgive—So fare you well again!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Where goest thou, Yvette?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'>To Séraphine,</div> - <div class='line'>Beneath the Lanterne, Sign of the Hour Glass!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Hear and obey! It is a dying man</div> - <div class='line'>Speaks to thee now and with authority!—</div> - <div class='line'>Thy seigneur too, and head of all thy house.</div> - <div class='line'>When I am dead, the last of the De Vardes</div> - <div class='line'>Will be thyself, my cousin!—All song doth say</div> - <div class='line'>That Duchess Jeanne who lived so long ago,</div> - <div class='line'>Whose pictured face and thine are counterparts,</div> - <div class='line'>E’en to the shadowy hair, the cheek’s soft curve,</div> - <div class='line'>The light of eye, the slow, enchanting smile,—</div> - <div class='line'>All song doth say she had a bruisèd heart,</div> - <div class='line'>But in God’s sight a height of soul! So thou.</div> - <div class='line'>Go thou to Morbec. Leave this Babylon.</div> - <div class='line'>Back! from the travelled road thy foot’s upon!</div> - <div class='line'>List not unto the music that is played;</div> - <div class='line'>Touch not the scarlet flowers, the honey-sweet,</div> - <div class='line'>They’ll poison thee! Think not the light is fair,</div> - <div class='line'>It is false dawn. Take thou the darkling way</div> - <div class='line'>Shall lead thee to white light and lasting bloom!</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_191'>191</span>Go thou to Morbec. Take thy distaff up,</div> - <div class='line'>Spin thou thy flax and listen to old tales,</div> - <div class='line'>Peacefully, with that smile upon thy lip!</div> - <div class='line'>Or in the dewy dawn lift up thy head</div> - <div class='line'>From dreamless sleep and drive thy cows afield,</div> - <div class='line'>Stand mid the golden broom and mark the mist</div> - <div class='line'>Rise from the hidden sea, and hear the lark</div> - <div class='line'>Singing afar his strain of heavenly hope,—</div> - <div class='line'>So wear thy years away, ah, tranquilly!—</div> - <div class='line'>Thou art so young—All this will come to seem</div> - <div class='line'>A dream of yesternight—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in25'>Dost thou forgive?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>And at the last when Death shall take thy hand,</div> - <div class='line'>Smile at the due caress, and lightly come—</div> - <div class='line'>If I am I, I’ll meet thee on the strand!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Dost thou forgive?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in19'>I love!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in27'><em>Me?</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in33'>Thou sayest.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Where is the music playing?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in28'>Long ago,</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_192'>192</span>To Paris and my King I rode away,</div> - <div class='line'>Long ago, in the freshness of the world!</div> - <div class='line'>I left thee there, all safe in convent fold—</div> - <div class='line'>Fair were the fruit trees in that garden old,</div> - <div class='line'>Warm shone the sun, the silver fountain played.</div> - <div class='line'>I left thee there and thought to find again,</div> - <div class='line'>When King and Crown were saved and devoir done,</div> - <div class='line'>The battle o’er, the bugles sounding peace!—</div> - <div class='line'>The King he is in heaven, the Crown is lost,</div> - <div class='line'>The battle’s to the strong, the war drum rattles on.</div> - <div class='line'>Long lay I in the prison of La Force;</div> - <div class='line'>A dream I had that thou wouldst wait for me,</div> - <div class='line'>Beside the fountain, by the bright fruit trees.</div> - <div class='line'>Thou must have known that bars kept me from thee!</div> - <div class='line'>Thou must have known that I did love thee true!</div> - <div class='line'>Thou must have known that I did longing wait</div> - <div class='line'>The rainbow after storm, the halcyon time</div> - <div class='line'>When, stilled the jar and discord of the mind,</div> - <div class='line'>The all unfettered heart might speak of love!</div> - <div class='line'>But ah, the garden’s sealed. Thou art not there!</div> - <div class='line'>Thou wouldst not wait the while—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in34'>Outside I kneel;</div> - <div class='line'>Outside the garden, outside Paradise!</div> - <div class='line'>Oh, woe! Oh, bliss!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in20'>Weep not!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in30'>I love thee so!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Paimpont! Paimpont! I feel thy magic wind!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_193'>193</span><em>Reënter</em> <span class='sc'>Grégoire</span>.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Grégoire</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Citoyen Vardes—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in17'>Grégoire, Grégoire! the purse—</div> - <div class='line'>The purse of gold!—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Grégoire</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in21'>Hein?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in27'>Let be! Let be!</div> - <div class='line'>No purse was there! Dost hear, dost hear, Yvette?</div> - <div class='line'>No purse, no gold, no paper, no Lalain!</div> - <div class='line'>Thou dost not think that I would take my life?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>No!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in4'>Well said, and like the Duchess Jeanne!</div> - <div class='line'>Let not Grégoire mistake thee either!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>I said I know not what, Grégoire, nor why!</div> - <div class='line'>Sometimes a woman says she knows not what.</div> - <div class='line'>Why should I talk of purses, faith, now why!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Grégoire</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>What do you here, Citoyenne?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in29'>I know not.</div> - <div class='line'>I strayed this way, a gaoler let me in.</div> - <div class='line'>‘Tis of the sights of Nantes, this church, this gaol!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_194'>194</span><span class='sc'>Grégoire</span> (<em>to</em> <span class='sc'>De Vardes</span>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>I have in charge to guard you through the street</div> - <div class='line'>To the old Prison of the Séminaire.</div> - <div class='line'>They who lodge there go onward to the Loire!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>He turns to</em> <span class='sc'>De L’Orient</span>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span> (<em>to</em> <span class='sc'>Yvette</span>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Oh, sunken eyes! Oh, cheek so deadly pale!</div> - <div class='line'>Oh, rest thee, rest thee, child, in still Morbec!</div> - <div class='line'>Our Lady guard thee, guide thee with her hand.</div> - <div class='line'>Farewell—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in11'>I’ll walk upon the banks of Loire.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>No; come not there!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in20'>I must. It is my road.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Grégoire</span> (<em>He touches</em> <span class='sc'>De L’Orient</span> <em>upon the shoulder</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Awake, poet, and go along with us!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De L’Orient</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>I am awake! ‘Tis trudge again, De Vardes!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><em>Come, Fanchon and Babette,</em></div> - <div class='line in2'><em>Olympe and Joséphine!</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>The dancers all are met</em></div> - <div class='line in2'><em>Within the forest green!</em></div> - <div class='line in6'><em>Cerise to me,</em></div> - <div class='line in6'><em>Denise to thee,</em></div> - <div class='line in2'><em>But none to Léontine!</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>He turns with</em> <span class='sc'>Grégoire</span> <em>to the door at left of the</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>altar</em>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_195'>195</span><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Farewell—my <i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">douce</span></i>!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in22'>Farewell—my fisherman!</div> - <div class='line'>Oh—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Grégoire</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in5'>Come!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De L’Orient</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><em>The dancers all are met</em></div> - <div class='line in2'><em>Within the forest green!</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>Exeunt</em> <span class='sc'>De Vardes</span>, <span class='sc'>De L’Orient</span>, <em>and</em> <span class='sc'>Grégoire</span>.</div> - <div class='line'><em>The church darkens.</em> <span class='sc'>Yvette</span> <em>moves to the choir</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>step</em>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Oh, love in my heart! Oh, splendour and light!</div> - <div class='line'>The bow in the sky, the bird at its height!</div> - <div class='line'>The glory and state of the angels bright!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>She kneels and stretches out her arms to the altar.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Oh, mother of sorrows!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><em>CURTAIN</em></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='figcenter id003'> -<img src='images/i_204.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' /> -</div> - -<div class='figcenter id002'> -<span class='pageno' id='Page_197'>197</span> -<img src='images/i_206.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' /> -</div> - -<div class='chapter'> - <h2 id='ACT_V' class='c005'><em>ACT V</em></h2> -</div> - -<h3 id='SCENE_I' class='c012'>SCENE I</h3> - -<p class='drop-capanf0_0 c013'><em>A Judgment Hall in Nantes. A dais upon which at a heavy -table sit several members of the Revolutionary Committee. -Behind them soldiers and a great tricolour flag. To one -side a tribune draped with tricolour; opposite the tribune -a gallery filled with women of the Revolution. Upon the -floor of the hall a throng of red-capped men. To the right -of the dais a number of the accused, men and women. To -the left a small group of the condemned.</em></p> - -<p class='c011'><em>Uproar in the hall. An accused who has been standing before -the judges rejoins the right-hand group of prisoners. -One of the judges rings the bell on the table before him.</em></p> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Judge</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='linedc drop-capanf0_0'>Silence, Citoyennes in the gallery!</div> - <div class='line'>You disturb judgment!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Céleste</span> (<em>leaning from the gallery</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in22'>We would know up here</div> - <div class='line'>Why you did free that man?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Judge</span> (<em>soothingly</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in27'>Ah, Citoyenne!</div> - <div class='line'>He’s not free—he’s but acquitted!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Céleste</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in35'>Ah, well!</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_198'>198</span>That’s different!</div> - <div class='line'>(<em>To the women about her.</em>) He’s but acquitted!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Women</span> (<em>They nod their heads</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in48'>Ah!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><em>Enter</em> <span class='sc'>Lalain</span> <em>with</em> <span class='sc'>Nanon</span> <em>and</em> <span class='sc'>Angélique</span>.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Céleste</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Hé!</span> Angélique! Nanon!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<span class='sc'>Nanon</span> <em>and</em> <span class='sc'>Angélique</span> <em>make their way through</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>the press to the gallery stairs</em>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Crowd</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in22'>Rémond Lalain.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>A Judge</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Thy place is here, Lalain!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Lalain</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in27'>Make way, my friends.</div> - <div class='line'>The Levée’s thronged to-day.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Crowd</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in29'>Ha, ha, ‘tis so!</div> - <div class='line'>Levée of the Citoyen Carrier!</div> - <div class='line'><i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Vive la République! Vive Rémond Lalain!</span></i></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<span class='sc'>Lalain</span> <em>sits beside the judges</em>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>A Judge</span> (<em>to a gaoler</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The next.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Gaoler</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in10'>Dog of a priest!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<span class='sc'>The Abbé</span> <em>approaches the bar</em>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_199'>199</span><span class='sc'>The Abbé</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in27'>On yesterday,</div> - <div class='line'>Messieurs the Judges, you acquitted me.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>A Judge</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>It is to-day.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Abbé</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in14'>Citoyen Lambertye—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Lambertye</span> (<em>hastily</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>I give thee o’er—I give thee o’er—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Abbé</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in37'><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Parbleu!</span></div> - <div class='line'>Samaritan! Would I had played Levite!</div> - <div class='line'>And left thee in the ditch with every wound</div> - <div class='line'>Till Satan came to hale his minion forth!—</div> - <div class='line'>Well, with this life I’ve done!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>First Judge</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in32'>Thou art a priest</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Abbé</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Granted.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Second Judge</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in9'>Death!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>A Tricoteuse</span> (<em>from the gallery</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in16'><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Hé!</span> Citoyen, below there!</div> - <div class='line'>I’ve dropped my knitting. Throw it here to me!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Third Judge</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Thou hast aided emigrés.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Abbé</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in25'>Granted.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_200'>200</span><span class='sc'>Second Judge</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in34'>Death!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>First Judge</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>And written unto exiles.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Abbé</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in25'>Granted.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Second Judge</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in34'>Death!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Third Judge</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Thou hast been heard to scorn and to lament</div> - <div class='line'>That which the Revolution hath achieved!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Abbé</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Scorn and lament! Why, no, I’ve wept with joy</div> - <div class='line'>To see the things the Revolution hath achieved!</div> - <div class='line'>As—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>First Judge</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in5'>As what?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Abbé</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in14'>Why, thou death’s-head, many things!</div> - <div class='line'>It did achieve, for one, my brother’s death!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Third Judge</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Dost thou mourn for him?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Abbé</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in25'>Ay!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Second Judge</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in29'>Death!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_201'>201</span><span class='sc'>The Abbé</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Achieve! I like the word. Achieve, achieve!</div> - <div class='line'>Ruin and downfall, death and waste of fame!</div> - <div class='line'>Achievement of the Revolution! Ha,</div> - <div class='line'>I’ll tell thee, farceur, what it hath achieved:</div> - <div class='line'>It hath achieved the death of the Gironde,</div> - <div class='line'>Death of Marat, and death of D’Orléans,</div> - <div class='line'>Death of great part of its abhorrèd brood!</div> - <div class='line'>It hath achieved the Company of Marat;</div> - <div class='line'>It hath achieved Jacques Carrier in Nantes;</div> - <div class='line'>It shall achieve more death and infamy!</div> - <div class='line'>Death! The word you are so fond of. Death!</div> - <div class='line'>And Infamy, the thing you can’t bestow!</div> - <div class='line'>It shall achieve the death of Carrier,</div> - <div class='line'>The death of Lambertye and of Lalain,</div> - <div class='line'>The death of Danton and of Robespierre!—</div> - <div class='line'>Nature will give a grave obscene and dark,</div> - <div class='line'>And Time will see that docks and darnels grow!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>Uproar.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The First Judge</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Death,—stand aside, condemned.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><em>Enter</em> <span class='sc'>Séraphine</span>.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Céleste</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in32'>Ah, Séraphine,</div> - <div class='line'>Come up here, Séraphine!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<span class='sc'>Séraphine</span> <em>mounts the stair and sits beside</em> <span class='sc'>Céleste</span>,</div> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Angélique</span>, <em>and</em> <span class='sc'>Nanon</span>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Nanon</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in25'>Where is Yvette?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Séraphine</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>I know not, I!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_202'>202</span><span class='sc'>Angélique</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in15'>I saw her gliding by,</div> - <div class='line'>Beneath the moon, last night when all was still.</div> - <div class='line'>Against a cannon in the empty square</div> - <div class='line'>She leaned, and on the river looked.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Séraphine</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in37'>What harm?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Angélique</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Why, none!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Céleste</span> (<em>her eyes upon the prisoners below</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in11'>Ha, ha! it is the old man’s turn!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>A Gaoler</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Château-Gui!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Woman</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in13'>Ah, Château-Gui!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>First Judge</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in30'>Château-Gui!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Mlle. de Château-Gui</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>O my father!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Count Louis</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in13'>Unclasp thy hands, my child!</div> - <div class='line'>What is it, Lambertye?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>First Judge</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in23'>Thou ci-devant,</div> - <div class='line'>Thou art accused, imprimatur, of this:</div> - <div class='line'>Once thou didst serve Capet!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Count Louis</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in29'>The King?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_203'>203</span><span class='sc'>First Judge</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in39'>Capet.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Count Louis</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>I served the King of France.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>First Judge</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Twice over, death! For thou didst serve Capet;</div> - <div class='line'>For thou dost dare say the King of France!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Count Louis</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The King of France!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Crowd</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in20'>Ah!—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Count Louis</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'>Son of Saint Louis!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Crowd</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Ah!—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Count Louis</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in6'>Royal Martyr!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Crowd</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in20'>Ah—h—h.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Mlle. de Château-Gui</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in30'>O my father!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Third Judge</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>All titles, terms of honour and of state,</div> - <div class='line'>Majesty and reverence are forbid,</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_204'>204</span>Not to be spoken! They are ci-devants,</div> - <div class='line'>They are condemned.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Crowd</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in20'>Condemned!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Count Louis</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in31'>Ha, ci-devants,</div> - <div class='line'>Titles and symbols, names and attributes,</div> - <div class='line'>Condemned for splendour and for high estate!</div> - <div class='line'>Ha, Croix de Saint Louis! Ha, Château-Gui!</div> - <div class='line'>Thou goest to heaven in famous company:</div> - <div class='line'>King, Saint, Martyr, Reverence, Majesty.—</div> - <div class='line'>Best make the company a regiment—</div> - <div class='line'>Regiment du Roi, in vestments gorgeous!</div> - <div class='line'>Forbidden words! Who says to me “forbid”?</div> - <div class='line'>Ye sans-culottes, ye bourgeois, creeping things,</div> - <div class='line'>Adders and asps that slew a king and queen!</div> - <div class='line'>I am a courtier of the olden time</div> - <div class='line'>Who served le Grand Monarque, knew Mazarin,</div> - <div class='line'>And in a Court shall still be courtier,</div> - <div class='line'>Croix de Saint Louis, with the <i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">grande entrée</span></i>,</div> - <div class='line'>While ye do prowl in filthy ways of hell,</div> - <div class='line'>Nor hardly see its red-lit Œil-de-bœuf</div> - <div class='line'>Where everlasting Terror, groaning, reigns,—</div> - <div class='line'>But, being lackeys, keep the lackeys’ place!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>First Judge</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Enough!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Second Judge</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in8'>Death!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Crowd</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in15'>Death! The Loire!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_205'>205</span><span class='sc'>Count Louis</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in33'>O Kings of France!</div> - <div class='line'>O sons of Clovis and of Charlemagne!</div> - <div class='line'>Louis the Pious and the Debonair!</div> - <div class='line'>Philippe August and Fair, and Charles the Wise!</div> - <div class='line'>And thou the sainted King, the Blessed Louis!</div> - <div class='line'>And Charles Bien-Aimé, Victorieux,</div> - <div class='line'>Crowned by the maiden of Domrémy!</div> - <div class='line'>And the good King Henri, Henri the Great!</div> - <div class='line'>Louis the Just, Louis le Grand Monarque!</div> - <div class='line'>Louis the Loved, and Louis lately dead,</div> - <div class='line'>The Martyr King, the Martyr, Martyr King!—</div> - <div class='line'>O Kings of France in that fair land ye be,</div> - <div class='line'>To your châteaux and to your palaces</div> - <div class='line'>Prepare to welcome dying loyalty!</div> - <div class='line'>For knightly faith is marching forth from France.</div> - <div class='line'>Throne, sceptre, orb, and majesty have passed,</div> - <div class='line'>Ermine and coronet and spur of gold,</div> - <div class='line'>Renown and splendid honour, valiant sway,</div> - <div class='line'><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Ancien Régime</span>, noblesse of old France!</div> - <div class='line'>The oriflamme upon its golden stem,</div> - <div class='line'>The banner of the lilies waving high!—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Crowd</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Ah—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Count Louis</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in5'>The lily banner and the oriflamme!</div> - <div class='line'>Forgotten yonder stripes of shame and woe!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Crowd</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The tricolour! Death! The Loire!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_206'>206</span><span class='sc'>First Judge</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in33'>Death to-night!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Count Louis</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Nightshade, mandrake, and hemlock o’er ye wave!—</div> - <div class='line'>But I am going where, I make no doubt,</div> - <div class='line'>The favourite flower is still the fleur-de-lis!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Crowd</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Ah!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Count Louis</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in4'>And the word forbid is <i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">république</span></i>!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Crowd</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Down! down!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Count Louis</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in12'>Princes and peers of France!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>First Judge</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in41'>Have done!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Count Louis</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Anjou, Lorraine!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Crowd</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in17'>Ah—h—h!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Count Louis</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in27'>Bourbon and Valois!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>Uproar in the hall.</em> <span class='sc'>Mlle. de Château-Gui</span></div> - <div class='line'><em>clings to her father’s arm</em>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Forbidden words! Well, well, my child, I’m done!</div> - <div class='line'>My breath is out.—Forbidden words! Ma foi!</div> - <div class='line'>‘Tis to my taste to deal in contraband!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>The First Judge rings the bell violently. The tumult</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>subsides.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_207'>207</span><span class='sc'>A Gaoler</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Château-Gui, take place beside the priest!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Abbé</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in43'>Ah,</div> - <div class='line'>Monsieur le Comte!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Count Louis</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in19'>Monsieur l’Abbé!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>He offers his snuff-box.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>First Judge</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in36'>The next.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><em>Enter</em> <span class='sc'>Yvette</span>. <em>The crowd murmurs as it makes way.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Crowd</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Yvette Charruel!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>A Man</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in17'>Goddess of Reason!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<span class='sc'>Yvette</span> <em>mounts the stair to the gallery and sits beside</em></div> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Séraphine</span>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Céleste</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>So pale!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Angélique</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in9'>No rose?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Nanon</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in18'>Only her lips are red.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Céleste</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>So heavy-eyed?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in15'>I have not slept.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>A Young Girl</span> (<em>near her</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in33'>Oh, oh,</div> - <div class='line'>Thy voice! ‘Tis like a violin playing!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_208'>208</span><span class='sc'>Angélique</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>I know thou didst not sleep.—How looked the Loire</div> - <div class='line'>Beneath the moon last night?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in29'>Much as ‘twill look</div> - <div class='line'>Beneath the moon to-night.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>With her chin upon her hand she studies the throng</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>below.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Séraphine</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in27'>The prisoners—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Who rises there?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>First Judge</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in17'>Thou ci-devant, De Vardes!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Crowd</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>De Vardes! De Vardes! Aristocrat! De Vardes!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Rémond Lalain—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Lalain</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in16'>René de Vardes.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in32'>This court—</div> - <div class='line'>Pray you conceive it is some greensward trim,</div> - <div class='line'>My cartel sent, received, the duel fought,</div> - <div class='line'>And thou the victor, since so wags the world,</div> - <div class='line'>Heart’s blood of mine upon thy rapier dark!</div> - <div class='line'>And I the vanquished in the sight of men,</div> - <div class='line'>Drowsing to death upon the bloody sod.</div> - <div class='line'>And all this folk but seconds, witnesses,</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_209'>209</span>They are not here, nor there; we are the men!</div> - <div class='line'>Now, seeing death hath some prerogative,</div> - <div class='line'>I charge thee stand, antagonist! nor leave</div> - <div class='line'>This sunny field with thy triumphant friends</div> - <div class='line'>Until I bid thee go!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Lalain</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in21'>I hear!</div> - <div class='line in11'>(<em>To the crowd.</em>) Silence!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>When I do think that once I called thee friend,</div> - <div class='line'>My wonder grows! The orchard’s blooming now</div> - <div class='line'>Where we did lie at length on summer eves</div> - <div class='line'>The while the mavis sang and sea winds blew,</div> - <div class='line'>And to the nodding clover droned the bee,—</div> - <div class='line'>Two striplings couched beneath an apple tree,</div> - <div class='line'>Talking of knights at arms and paladins</div> - <div class='line'>And what we each would dare in worthy cause!</div> - <div class='line'>That brow of thine was not so swarthy then,</div> - <div class='line'>Thine eyes were frank, we read from the same book</div> - <div class='line'>The deeds of Palmerin and Amadis.</div> - <div class='line'>Then up we lightly rose and went our way,</div> - <div class='line'>Hand touching hand,—Orestes, Pylades!</div> - <div class='line'>I, Jonathan the Prince, and David thou!</div> - <div class='line'>The figure holds, for Jonathan will die,</div> - <div class='line'>But wilt thou mourn him, David? No, I say!—</div> - <div class='line'>Nor o’er his kingdom shalt thou reign, Rémond!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Lalain</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>René—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in7'>I am, monsieur, the Baron of Morbec!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_210'>210</span><span class='sc'>The Crowd</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Ah!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Lalain</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in4'>Silence!</div> - <div class='line'>(<em>To</em> <span class='sc'>De Vardes</span>.) As thou wilt! He is long dead</div> - <div class='line'>That youth thou namest David.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in30'>Ay, Citoyen,</div> - <div class='line'>He slew himself. I see his punishment.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Lalain</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Oh!—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in6'>Wretched man! What hast thou done? I know,</div> - <div class='line'>And thou, Rémond, dost know I know! Enough.</div> - <div class='line'>O better far to lie upon this sod</div> - <div class='line'>And hear the wings of death above my head,</div> - <div class='line'>Than to be thou, thou stainèd conqueror!</div> - <div class='line'>Dishonoured thou from helm to bloody heel!</div> - <div class='line'>Enough! When the cock crows and the morning star</div> - <div class='line'>Shines steadfast over Loire I shall be gone.</div> - <div class='line'>One stays, that’s God. Do thou beware, Rémond,</div> - <div class='line'>For God will hearken unto Jonathan—</div> - <div class='line'>Thou canst not hurt a flower that he loved!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Lalain</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>No?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in4'>No!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Lalain</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in8'>Thou mightst have had thy life—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_211'>211</span><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in41'>I?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>He laughs.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in44'>Air!</div> - <div class='line'>You hem me in, Citoyennes! Air! <i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">De grâce!</span></i></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Nanon</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The air is good enough for us, Yvette!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Angélique</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Why do you grow so pale, so pale, Yvette?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<span class='sc'>Yvette</span> <em>takes from her hair the bonnet-rouge</em>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Séraphine</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Psst! Little fool! Put on the cap again!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>It is too heavy!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Séraphine</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in17'>Saint Yves! Put it on!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The duel’s o’er; the night is drawing on;</div> - <div class='line'>Dark is thy form against the crimson sky,</div> - <div class='line'>Rémond Lalain! Stand further off, my foe!</div> - <div class='line'>And now I think I see thee not at all,</div> - <div class='line'>And that is well! I would forget thee quite.</div> - <div class='line'>Live out thy life unto its sordid close!</div> - <div class='line'>Live on, and in the future find the past!</div> - <div class='line'>But while thou treadest earth touch not again</div> - <div class='line'>That flower I spoke of! Touch it not, Lalain!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Lalain</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Draws on the night—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_212'>212</span><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in21'>I’ll bathe me in the Loire!</div> - <div class='line'>Death has been ever called a River wide.</div> - <div class='line'>This ford I fear not!—Soldier of the King,</div> - <div class='line'>I’ll pass the stream, though cold, though cold and dark!</div> - <div class='line'>The bivouac lights are shining through the trees,</div> - <div class='line'>He waits within my tent, my General!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>First Judge</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Death!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Second Judge</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in7'>Death!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in14'>Now sheath thy sword, Rémond!</div> - <div class='line'>The field of honour leave to death and me!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>He crosses to the condemned.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Count Louis</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Monsieur le Baron!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Abbé</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in19'>René de Vardes!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Monsieur le Comte, Monsieur l’Abbé, again</div> - <div class='line'>I find myself in best of company!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>The judges whisper together.</em> <span class='sc'>Lalain</span>, <em>his eyes</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>upon the floor, drums upon the table with his hand</em>.</div> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Yvette</span> <em>unpins the tricolour cockade from her breast,</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>gazes upon it for a moment, then throws it from her.</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>The women about her watch her greedily.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Séraphine</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Name of a name! Yvette!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_213'>213</span><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in24'>I like white best.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Séraphine</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Saint Gildas! Saint Maudez!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in28'>I ever loved</div> - <div class='line'>The fleur-de-lis!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Séraphine</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in18'>Saint Yves le Véridique!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span> (<em>She rises</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><em>God and the King!</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>Uproar in the hall. All turn toward the gallery.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>A Judge</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in20'>Who cried that?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>A Breton Sailor</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in36'>Sainte Vierge!</div> - <div class='line'>Yvette Charruel!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Lalain</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in17'>No!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in21'>Mon Dieu!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Crowd</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in31'>Yvette—</div> - <div class='line'>Yvette Charruel!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Séraphine</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in17'>Saint Servan! Saint Linaire!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_214'>214</span><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>I denounce the Citoyen Rémond Lalain!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Crowd</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Ah!—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Nanon</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in6'>Ah, let me get at her!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Lalain</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in29'>Citoyens!</div> - <div class='line'>Heed her not—she’s mad!—The next prisoner!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>I denounce Carrier and Lambertye!</div> - <div class='line'>Chicanneau, Sarlat, Petit-Pierre, and Gaye,</div> - <div class='line'>The Company of Marat, the hideous deaths,</div> - <div class='line'>The Noyades and the Dragonades of Nantes!</div> - <div class='line'>I tell you that the blood you shed must stop!</div> - <div class='line'>One cannot sleep at night with thinking on’t.</div> - <div class='line'>You put to sleep, O God! too many!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Crowd</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in35'>Ah!—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>A Voice</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>There is no God! nor ever was in Nantes!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Another Voice</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>She has spoken against the Republic!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>There was a glory in the morning sky,</div> - <div class='line'>Where now is naught but miserable red!</div> - <div class='line'>A trumpet blew, but we have listened since</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_215'>215</span>To the false jingle of a tambourine!</div> - <div class='line'>There stood a mighty judge, robed, calm and proud,</div> - <div class='line'>Where is he now? I see but murderers!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>A Voice</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>But murderers!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in15'>I denounce the Republic!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>Uproar.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Crowd</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Oh, harlotry!—No, blasphemy!—Down, down!</div> - <div class='line'>The Bar! the Judgment Bar!—The river!—Death!</div> - <div class='line'>The Loire!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in11'>I am coming.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>She descends the stair. Men and women clutch her</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>and thrust her forward to the bar.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in24'>I am here!</div> - <div class='line'>I am Yvette, called Right of the Seigneur.</div> - <div class='line'>My mother was the peasant girl, Yvonne;</div> - <div class='line'>My father was the Baron of Morbec.</div> - <div class='line'>I am tired of <i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Ça ira, Carmagnole</span></i>,</div> - <div class='line'>I would sleep with the Loire for my pillow!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Crowd</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Ah—h—h!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Lalain</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in10'>A head beside thine on that pillow!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Mon Dieu!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in10'>Perhaps, Citoyen!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_216'>216</span><span class='sc'>A Voice</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in28'>I denounce</div> - <div class='line'>Yvette Charruel!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Other Voices</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in17'>And I!—And I!—And I!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><em>CURTAIN</em></div> - </div> -</div> - -<h3 id='SCENE_II' class='c012'>SCENE II</h3> - -<p class='drop-capanf0_0 c013'><em>The banks of the Loire. Night. Branching trees; between -their trunks is seen the river. There is a full moon, but a -drifting mist obscures the scene. In the background, upon -the river bank, dimly appears a crowd of the condemned, -men, women, and children, soldiers and executioners of the -Company of Marat. From this throng comes a low, continued, -confused sound of command, entreaty, distress, and -lamentation. In the foreground the condemned form into -groups or move singly to and fro.</em></p> - -<p class='c011'><em>Enter</em> <span class='sc'>Yvette</span> <em>from the shadow of the trees</em>.</p> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>A Soldier</span> (<em>following her</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Holà! Give us not the slip!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in28'>Thou soldier!</div> - <div class='line'>There is no gold could make me flee this place!</div> - <div class='line'>How long dost think before they throw me in?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Soldier</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>A little while!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>He returns to the river.</em> <span class='sc'>Yvette</span> <em>sits upon the</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>earth at the foot of a tree, and with her chin upon</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>her hand watches those who come and go</em>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_217'>217</span><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in16'>He comes not yet! O Our Lady!</div> - <div class='line'>I would not drown till I have seen him once!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>A Woman</span> (<em>passing with a man</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>How shines the moon! Did we not always say,</div> - <div class='line'>We two would die by such a moon as this?</div> - <div class='line'>Rememberest thou—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Man</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in19'>Rememberest thou that night,</div> - <div class='line'>That Versailles night within the Orangerie?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Woman</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Rememberest thou—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>They pass.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>A Soldier</span> (<em>calling to another</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in19'>To bind them hand and foot,</div> - <div class='line'>We need more rope!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Second Soldier</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in19'>Just thrust them in the stream</div> - <div class='line'>With bayonets!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>A Cry from the River</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in15'>Miséricorde!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>A child with flowers in her hand speaks to</em> <span class='sc'>Yvette</span>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Child</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in28'>I’m tired—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Rest here, thou little bird!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_218'>218</span><span class='sc'>The Child</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in29'>My name’s Aimée.</div> - <div class='line'>I did not know that flowers grew at night.</div> - <div class='line'>Is that the moon?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in18'>It is the silver moon!</div> - <div class='line'>Aimée’s a pretty name. My name’s Yvette.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Child</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Kiss me, Yvette—I’ll look now for Ursule!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Who is Ursule?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Child</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in15'>My <i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">bonne</span></i>—Adieu, Yvette!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>The child passes on.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Voices from the River</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Hélas! Hélas! Miséricorde!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>A nun advances from the shadow. She is in ecstasy,</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>her hands clasped, her eyes raised.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Nun</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The skies open: heaven appears!</div> - <div class='line'>Heaven my home!</div> - <div class='line'>O for the wings of the dove,</div> - <div class='line'>The eagle’s speed!</div> - <div class='line'>The gates of pearl are opening,</div> - <div class='line'>My harp is strung.</div> - <div class='line'>The Virgins come to meet me.</div> - <div class='line'>Sainte Agnès, Sainte Claire!</div> - <div class='line'>Our Lady stoops to greet me.</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_219'>219</span>My father smiles.</div> - <div class='line'>My brothers two I see there!</div> - <div class='line'>Who is that one</div> - <div class='line'>Who kneels and to me beckons?</div> - <div class='line'>‘Tis he I loved!</div> - <div class='line'>What radiance grows, what splendour?</div> - <div class='line'>Who waiting stands?</div> - <div class='line'>Light! O Light! O Christ my Lord!</div> - <div class='line'>Heaven my home!</div> - <div class='line'>O Love! O Death, come quickly!</div> - <div class='line'>I would be gone!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>A soldier touches her on the arm.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Soldier</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Thy time it is!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>The nun regards him with a radiant and dazzling</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>smile, then turns and moves swiftly before him to the</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>river.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Voices</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in16'>Woe, woe! Miséricorde!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Heaven my home! Shall I see heaven then?</div> - <div class='line'>Oh me! so much of ill thou’st done, Yvette!</div> - <div class='line'>Alas! Alas! What if I cannot win</div> - <div class='line'>To heaven! but must ever weeping stand</div> - <div class='line'>With all the lost and strain my eyes to see</div> - <div class='line'>The form I love move ‘neath the living trees,</div> - <div class='line'>And all in vain, so great the distance is!—</div> - <div class='line'>Not see him! O Our Lady, let me in!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Voices</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Woe, woe!—I die!—I die!—O countrymen!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_220'>220</span><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>O God, and is it true I murdered her,</div> - <div class='line'>That lady high, that fair, so fair Clarice?</div> - <div class='line'>O God! I would that she were happy here,</div> - <div class='line'>Alive and laughing, gay of heart again!</div> - <div class='line'>O God! I do repent me of my sin!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Voices</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Ayez pitié!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>From a group of the condemned is heard the voice</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>of</em> <span class='sc'>The Abbé</span>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Abbé</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in12'><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Miserere mei Deus</span></i></div> - <div class='line'><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Secundum magnam misericordiam tuam!</span></i></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Condemned</span> (<em>kneeling</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Have mercy, O God!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Voices from the River</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in19'>Miséricorde!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<span class='sc'>Yvette</span> <em>kneels</em>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Abbé</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><em>In manus tuas Domine commendo spiritum meum,</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>Redemisti me Domine Deus veritatis!</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Condemned</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>O God, receive our souls!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Voices from the River</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in26'>Woe, woe! We die!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Soldiers</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>That one is swimming there! Your musket! Fire!—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>A musket shot.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_221'>221</span>Ha, ha! Ha, ha!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Abbé</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Dulcissime Domine Jesu Christe,</span></i></div> - <div class='line'><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Per virtutem sanctissimae Passionis tuae</span></i></div> - <div class='line'><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Recipe me in numerum electorum tuorum!</span></i></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Condemned</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>O Christ, receive our souls! O Christ who died!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Abbé</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Maria, Mater gratiae, Mater misercordiae,</span></i></div> - <div class='line'><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Tu me ab hoste protege, et hora mortis suscipe!</span></i></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Condemned</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>O mother of God!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Voices</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in17'>Miséricorde!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Abbé</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Omnes sancti Angeli, et omnes Sancti</span></i></div> - <div class='line'><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Intercedite pro me, et mihi succurrite!</span></i></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Voices</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Miséricorde!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Soldiers</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in13'>Petit-Pierre!—André!</div> - <div class='line'>‘Tis time for yonder folk beneath the trees!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Abbé</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Ego te absolvo a peccatis tuis,</span></i></div> - <div class='line'><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.</span></i></div> - <div class='line'><i><span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Amen!</span></i></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>The condemned arise from their knees.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_222'>222</span><span class='sc'>The Soldiers</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in7'>Come your ways!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<span class='sc'>The Abbé</span> <em>and the condemned vanish into the mist</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>upon the river bank</em>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Voices</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in23'>Ayez pitié!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<span class='sc'>Yvette</span> <em>rises from her knees. She plucks the yellow</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>broom that grows beneath the trees.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>And if I may I will her servant be,</div> - <div class='line'>And I will bring her posies every day!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Voices</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>We die!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Soldiers</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in8'>So, two and two! Ha, ha!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>There appears in mid-stream on the river Carrier’s</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>festal barge. It is lit from stem to stern. There is</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>music aboard, singing and revelry of men and women.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Laughter from the River</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Ha, ha! Ha, ha! Ha, ha!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Voices</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in24'>They laugh! They sing!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>A sound of singing from the passing barge.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>A Woman’s Voice</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><em>Fair Chloris bathed her in the flood,</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>Young Damon watching, trembling stood,</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>Behind the frailest hawthorn wall!</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>The month was May—</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_223'>223</span><span class='sc'>A Man’s Voice</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in21'>No, Prairial!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Woman’s Voice</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><em>Her ivory limbs they gleamed and turned,</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>Young Damon’s heart so hotly burned,</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>Into the stream he leaped therefor!</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>It seemed July—</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Man’s Voice</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in18'>No, Thermidor!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>The barge passes.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Voices from the River</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>O hearts so hard!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Other Voices</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in18'>Oh, woe! Adieu! Adieu!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>An old woman speaks to</em> <span class='sc'>Yvette</span>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Old Woman</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>They’ve drowned my son, my sailor son Michel!</div> - <div class='line'>Oh, oh, my heart! he’s drifting out to sea!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Poor mother!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Old Woman</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in13'>Oh, to and fro he sailed, he sailed!</div> - <div class='line'>The Indies knew him and the Northern Seas!</div> - <div class='line'>He’d bide at home a bit, then off he’d go,</div> - <div class='line'>Another voyage make, strange things to see!</div> - <div class='line'>Then home he’d come and of his travels tell.</div> - <div class='line'>Oh, oh, my son, my sailor son Michel!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>The old woman passes on.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_224'>224</span><em>Enter</em> <span class='sc'>Séraphine</span>.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Séraphine</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>I’ve sought her here, I’ve sought her there, in vain!</div> - <div class='line'>And perilous it is to seek one here!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Séraphine!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Séraphine</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in11'>Yvette!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in19'>Where is monseigneur?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Séraphine</span> (<em>weeping</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>I know not, I!—Saint Lazaire and Saint Jean!</div> - <div class='line'>I nursed thee ere thou wast so high!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Poor Séraphine! Dear Séraphine!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Séraphine</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in32'>Alack!</div> - <div class='line'>They’re watching there!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in24'>Oh, then away!</div> - <div class='line'>‘Tis death to weep for one who dies! Away!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Séraphine</span> (<em>weeping</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Oh, oh! When thou wast but a little thing</div> - <div class='line'>Thou hadst the coaxing ways! Alack! Alack!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Poor Séraphine!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_225'>225</span><span class='sc'>Séraphine</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in16'>Dost mind the sunny path</div> - <div class='line'>Up the steep cliff to chapel in the woods?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>I mind—I mind—To thy warm hand I clung,</div> - <div class='line'>A little child. Now I must walk alone!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Séraphine</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Oh, oh! And thou wast Goddess yesterday,</div> - <div class='line'>The fairest Goddess ever seen, they say!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Speak not of that!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>A Voice</span> (<em>calling</em>)</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in19'>Séraphine! Séraphine!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>It warns, that voice! Adieu, adieu, adieu!</div> - <div class='line'>Thou must begone!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Séraphine</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in18'>If I do look at thee</div> - <div class='line'>I’ll stay forever here! Adieu! Adieu!—</div> - <div class='line'>Oh well-a-day! Oh well, oh well-a-day!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>Exit</em> <span class='sc'>Séraphine</span>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>So late it grows, so long I’ve waited here!</div> - <div class='line'>I feel the morning air!—Will he not come?</div> - <div class='line'>O God! what if they’ve slain him otherwhere?</div> - <div class='line'>Ha! Death is busy far and near to-night!</div> - <div class='line'>They may have shot him yonder by the sea!</div> - <div class='line'>He may have sunk above, below this place!</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_226'>226</span>Though Grégoire swore to me it would be here,</div> - <div class='line'>Here where they brought me would they bring him too,</div> - <div class='line'>And ere the set of moon we would be gone!—</div> - <div class='line'>O God! The cries of drowning men I’ve heard,</div> - <div class='line'>But not his voice among them! No, no, no!</div> - <div class='line'>He’ll make no moan, he will die loftily!—</div> - <div class='line'>Ah, God! only to see him ere I drown!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Voices</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Miséricorde!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Soldiers</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in13'><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Prenez garde! Halte là!</span></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>A Man’s Voice</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>I die who fought for France in bloody fields;</div> - <div class='line'>At Lille I fought, at Bordeaux, Avignon!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>A soldier!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>Another voice sings hoarsely.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Voice</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Tremblez, tyrans! et vous perfides,</span></i></div> - <div class='line'><i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">L’opprobre de tous les partis!</span></i></div> - <div class='line'><i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Tremblez, vos projets parricides</span></i></div> - <div class='line'><i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Viennent enfin recevoir leur prix!</span></i></div> - <div class='line'><i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Tout est soldat pour vous combattre—</span></i></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>The voice dies.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>A soldier!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Another Voice</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in11'>Diantre! A whiff of grapeshot now,</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_227'>227</span>A sabre-cut, or e’en a trampling charge!</div> - <div class='line'>But this cold death—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>The voice dies.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in22'>A soldier!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Another Voice</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in33'>Baste! I’ll tell</div> - <div class='line'>The Duc de Biron—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in19'>All soldiers!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><em>Enter</em> <span class='sc'>De Vardes</span> <em>and</em> <span class='sc'>Grégoire</span>.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Grégoire</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>I tell you truth, monsieur—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in29'>So dense the throng</div> - <div class='line'>I have looked up and down for this long hour,—</div> - <div class='line'>This hour so long, this hour so fatal short,</div> - <div class='line'>Seeing it is my latest hour of life,</div> - <div class='line'>And that I cannot find her whom I seek!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Grégoire</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>She is not dead, monsieur!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in27'>So many are!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Grégoire</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>I would have known.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_228'>228</span><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in20'>Some æons past thou wast</div> - <div class='line'>A serviceable fellow! Get thee gone!</div> - <div class='line'>And if thou findest her, I’ll give thee thanks,</div> - <div class='line'>I have no gold—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Grégoire</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in17'>Monsieur le Baron—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in37'>Go!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>Exit</em> <span class='sc'>Grégoire</span>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>And if I find her not, if time shall fail,</div> - <div class='line'>Then through thy labyrinth, Eternity,</div> - <div class='line'>Love’s silken clue shall lead me safe at last—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Monseigneur!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<span class='sc'>De Vardes</span> <em>turns</em>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in13'>Yvette!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>Two soldiers of the Company of Marat pass beneath</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>the trees.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The First Soldier</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in21'>‘Tis near the cockcrow!</div> - <div class='line'>What devil’s work we’ve had, and have!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Second Soldier</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in39'>Courage!</div> - <div class='line'>There are not so many now! Then home and sleep!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>They pass.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Oh, rest thee on thy lover’s breast, my heart!</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_229'>229</span>My life, my love, my dear, my Duchess Jeanne!</div> - <div class='line'>Oh, ‘neath the moon thou’rt like a lily flower!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>René, René!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in12'>Thy lips!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>They kiss.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in22'>No, no, thou’rt not</div> - <div class='line'>That Vivien whom I did call thee once.</div> - <div class='line'>She was an evil fay; thou’rt pure and good!</div> - <div class='line'>Nor art thou that fair piteous Duchess Jeanne</div> - <div class='line'>Who died for love, whose look thou wearest now!</div> - <div class='line'>Thou never wast that woman star-begirt,</div> - <div class='line'>Whom they did hail as Goddess here in Nantes.</div> - <div class='line'>No Goddess thou, thou wan and broken flower!—</div> - <div class='line'>This is green Morbec, thou’rt the herd girl there</div> - <div class='line'>And I thy fisher, home from out the west.</div> - <div class='line'>My heart, my love, my silver rose, my <i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">douce</span></i>!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The flowers drifting from the fragrant trees!</div> - <div class='line'>Unearthly light—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>They kiss.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in18'>Now come, Eternity!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Voices from the River</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>It is so sad to die!—No, no, ‘tis sweet!</div> - <div class='line'>Adieu, adieu!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Soldiers</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in14'>So, down! Ha, ha! <i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Les Noces</span></i></div> - <div class='line'><i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Républicaines!</span></i></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_230'>230</span><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in16'><i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Les Noces Républicaines!</span></i></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>‘Tis what they call this death—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Soldiers</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in33'>So near the dawn!</div> - <div class='line'>Here are the <em>tricoteuses</em>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Voices of Women</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in28'>Not yet they’ve done!</div> - <div class='line'>Diantre! So many weddings in one night!</div> - <div class='line'>Here are the girls from Carrier’s barge at last!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Other Voices</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Petit-Pierre! André!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Soldiers</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in21'>Céleste—Nanon!</div> - <div class='line'>Zephine, ‘Toinette!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Women</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Vive le son! vive le son!</span></i></div> - <div class='line in2'><i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Dansons la Carmagnole!</span></i></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>A Tricoteuse</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>‘Tis light enough to knit! I’ll sit me down.</div> - <div class='line'>Fi! how the grass is trampled here!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>A Soldier</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Lalain and Lambertye—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>A Woman</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in23'>We left them there</div> - <div class='line'>Upon the barge, Lalain and Lambertye;</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_231'>231</span>And they were drinking deep, and dicing too,</div> - <div class='line'>And Lalain had his arm round Angélique!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>They laugh.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Seest thou not through yonder trees the stone,</div> - <div class='line'>The Druid Stone where I did see thee first</div> - <div class='line'>When thou didst lie asleep upon the grass?</div> - <div class='line'>How long I stood and looked, thou dost not know!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Beside the stream I slept and dreamed of thee!</div> - <div class='line'>I knew it not, but sure I dreamed of thee,</div> - <div class='line'>For in my sleep I thought I saw a king!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>O love!—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in10'>It is Morbec arises there!</div> - <div class='line'>The sands that stretch above the idle waves,</div> - <div class='line'>And all the little shells upon the shore!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The convent bell is ringing! Seest thou not</div> - <div class='line'>The fountain old, the fruit trees in the sun?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Oh, life was never made for happiness!</div> - <div class='line'>The hour’s too short, the wine spills from the cup,</div> - <div class='line'>The blossom’s shaken ere we know ‘tis sweet!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Voices from the River</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Miséricorde!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_232'>232</span><span class='sc'>A Soldier</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in13'>Those two have waited long!</div> - <div class='line'>Hi! Petit-Pierre, ‘tis time to marry them—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>This Saint John’s Eve we’ll walk in other woods!</div> - <div class='line'>And we will find and name a castle fair,</div> - <div class='line'>And rose and heartsease we will plant thereby!</div> - <div class='line'>Here ends this road, but we must onward go.</div> - <div class='line'>There is a longer hour, a deeper cup!</div> - <div class='line'>The blossom’s gone, but we shall see the fruit.</div> - <div class='line'>And life was made for happiness, my <i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">douce</span></i>!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>A Voice from the River</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Mourir pour la patrie,</span></i></div> - <div class='line'><i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Mourir pour la France.</span></i></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>It is a hymn of Chénier’s.—France! France!</div> - <div class='line'>Not since the days of Clovis hast thou lacked</div> - <div class='line'>Strong sons to die for thee, thou Lioness!</div> - <div class='line'>But now thy own brood hast thou eaten up,</div> - <div class='line'>And in the desert shalt thou roar alone,</div> - <div class='line'>Seeing the hunters nearer, nearer creep!</div> - <div class='line'>They’ll snare thee fast, they’ll make of thee a show!</div> - <div class='line'>France, France!—and yet thy sons shall ransom thee!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>A Soldier</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>A length of rope, André!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Another</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in25'>Petit-Pierre—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>They come!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_233'>233</span><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in11'>I will go first.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in28'>‘Tis not their way!</div> - <div class='line'>They’ll bind us fast together, throw us in</div> - <div class='line'>Bound fast together—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in22'>Is it so? Why, then</div> - <div class='line'>We are together still, my heart, my life!</div> - <div class='line'>We will not struggle as we sink to rest.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>A Soldier</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Man and woman, come your ways!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Second Soldier</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in31'>The river</div> - <div class='line'>Waits, your marriage bed is spread!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<em>The knitting women sing from the river bank.</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>The Women</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><em>We are the tricoteuses!</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>Our wool we knit beneath the sun and moon!</em></div> - <div class='line in4'><em>Knit! knit! knitting every one!</em></div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><em>We are the tricoteuses!</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>The skein we knit is ravelled out full soon!</em></div> - <div class='line in4'><em>Knit! knit! the knitting now is done!</em></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The light is growing in the east! My heart</div> - <div class='line'>It is so full I cannot speak to thee!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_234'>234</span><span class='sc'>De Vardes</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Put thou thine arms about my neck, Yvette,</div> - <div class='line'>And lay thy head upon thy lover’s heart,</div> - <div class='line'>And veil thine eyes with all thy shadowy hair.</div> - <div class='line'>Now let them bind us with what cords they will,</div> - <div class='line'>The spirit moves unbound, triumphant, free,</div> - <div class='line'>Not through the Loire, but through a vaster stream!</div> - <div class='line'>Oh, it is something dimly great to die!</div> - <div class='line'>And then to die together, is’t not sweet?</div> - <div class='line'>And not through illness, age, decrepitude,</div> - <div class='line'>But the armed man is ready for new wars.</div> - <div class='line'>And thou—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Yvette</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in11'>I hear the lark!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>A Soldier</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in28'>Come, come away!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>[<span class='sc'>Yvette</span> <em>and</em> <span class='sc'>De Vardes</span> <em>move together towards</em></div> - <div class='line'><em>the river, into the mist and the shadow of the trees</em>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>A Voice from the River</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><i><span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Vive la République!</span></i></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><em>CURTAIN</em></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='figcenter id003'> -<img src='images/i_243.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' /> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> -<div class='nf-center c001'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_236'>236</span>The Riverside Press</div> - <div>CAMBRIDGE · MASSACHUSETTS</div> - <div>U · S · A</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='pbb'> - <hr class='pb c002' /> -</div> -<div class='bbox'> - -<div class='ph2'> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div>By Mary Johnston</div> - </div> -</div> - -</div> -<ul class='index c004'> - <li class='c006'>THE GODDESS OF REASON. <em>A Drama.</em> Tall 12mo, $2.00, <em>net</em>. 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