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Adrienne Lecouvreur - Ernest Legouve Eugene Scribe · In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway

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  Speaker 1: Act one of Adrienne Le Couvreur by Gabrielle Legouve and
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  Speaker 1: Eugene Scribe, translated by H. Hermann. This is a LibriVox recording.
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  Speaker 1: Maurice de Sachs read by Andrew leiter On, Prance.
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  Speaker 2: De Bouillon read by Jake Militia.
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  Speaker 1: Abbe de Chazoi read by Alum Mapstone, Michonet Prompter.
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  Speaker 3: Read by Adrian Stephens.
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  Speaker 1: Poisson Societaire read by Greg Giordano. Quino Societaire read by
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  Speaker 1: Jim Hedrick of the Comedy. Francaise Servant read by David Purdy,
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  Speaker 1: Call Boy read by Jim law. Prancess de Bouillon.
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  Speaker 4: Read by Wendy Catseller, Duchees.
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  Speaker 3: D'au mont read by Mate Brachitt.
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  Speaker 1: Marquise de Sancerre read by Michelle Eaton, Countess de Beauvaux.
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  Speaker 5: Read Ballonette Corkins.
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  Speaker 1: Adrienne Lecouvrere.
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  Speaker 6: Read by Kelly Taylor.
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  Speaker 1: Mademoiselle Juveno read Baduanna Michael Hood. Mademoiselle doe Ville.
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  Speaker 7: Read by Rebecca Brown.
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  Speaker 6: Made read by Jen Broda.
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  Speaker 1: Stage directions read by Tchaikowsky. Scenes Act one, The Princess's Boudoir,
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  Speaker 1: Act two, Green Room of the Comedy Francaise, Act three,
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  Speaker 1: The Villa at Lagrange Battallier, Act four, The Princesses Salon,
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  Speaker 1: Act five, Adrienne's home time seventeen thirty Adrienne le Couvreur.
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  Speaker 1: Act one, Scene an elegantly furnished boudoir doors, center and
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  Speaker 1: write three right, Princess and Abbe discovered. Princess seated before
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  Speaker 1: glass wright an Abbe behind her chair, attending what abbe?
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  Speaker 4: No news whatever, not a little wee bit of scandal. Alas, No,
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  Speaker 4: your occupation's gone. It is your profession to know all
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  Speaker 4: the news. Give me that box. Come try I see
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  Speaker 4: by the air of mystery. You assume that you know
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  Speaker 4: more than you pretend.
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  Speaker 8: Trifle certainly, will it be worth your while to know
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  Speaker 8: that Mademoiselle Lecoupra and Mademoiselle Duclaux will play in the
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  Speaker 8: same piece tonight in Bachusette. The house will be crowded.
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  Speaker 4: Stop one moment. Abbe would place this spot on the
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  Speaker 4: cheek or at the corner of the left act.
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  Speaker 1: Abbe at back of chair.
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  Speaker 8: If I were sure, Plancess, that you would pardon the liberty,
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  Speaker 8: I might find courage to tell you that I am
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  Speaker 8: openly heretically opposed to the system of spots.
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  Speaker 4: Why it as a revolution you would attempt you with
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  Speaker 4: your soft and timid air. I should never have thought
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  Speaker 4: you so courageous a.
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  Speaker 8: Priest timid I am timid in your presence only nonsense.
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  Speaker 4: Well you were saying, just now, go on.
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  Speaker 8: That the performance this evening will be all the more
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  Speaker 8: interesting as Mademoiselle Lecouvre and Declo are rivals, Andreeae has
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  Speaker 8: the entire public on her side, whilst Mademoiselle du Cloux
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  Speaker 8: is openly protected by certain great noblemen, and even by
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  Speaker 8: certain noble ladies among them, by by her highness the
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  Speaker 8: Prancess de Boulon, by me yes, and everybody is astonished
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  Speaker 8: at it. And they commence in our world even to smile.
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  Speaker 4: And why pray for.
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  Speaker 8: Reasons which I neither can nor dare mention, because my
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  Speaker 8: delicacy and my scruples.
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  Speaker 4: Scruples you abbe, And you were saying just now there
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  Speaker 4: was nothing new finish.
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  Speaker 8: Go on, well, Madame Prancess, since you insist that I
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  Speaker 8: should tell you the granddaughter of Sobieski, the cousin of
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  Speaker 8: our queen, you have for rival, Mademoiselle Duclou of the
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  Speaker 8: comedy Francille.
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  Speaker 4: You don't mean to say so.
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  Speaker 8: It's the news of the day. All our world knows it,
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  Speaker 8: excepting you, and as you might appear ridiculous in our
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  Speaker 8: world were you to remain ignorance of it, I found
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  Speaker 8: the courage to inform.
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  Speaker 4: You that the princess given her a carriage and diamonds,
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  Speaker 4: quite true, and a villa true again, just beyond the
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  Speaker 4: boulevards at Lagrange Battellier.
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  Speaker 8: What process you knew it.
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  Speaker 4: Then, long before you rises, long before your world. Listen
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  Speaker 4: to me, my pretty abbe this for your instruction. Monsieur
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  Speaker 4: de Bouillon. My husband, although a great nobleman, is a
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  Speaker 4: learned man the arts, and he revels in the sciences.
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  Speaker 4: He acquired this practice under the last regime, from inclination
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  Speaker 4: no to pay his court to the regent, whose exact
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  Speaker 4: counterpart he strove to become, and in his efforts to
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  Speaker 4: imitate as faithfully as possible, he took care not to
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  Speaker 4: forget the gallantry of his hero. I was not excessively
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  Speaker 4: displeased at this. A lady can always call her time
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  Speaker 4: much more her own when her husband is occupied, and
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  Speaker 4: so that mine, though faithless, should still remain dependent upon me.
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  Speaker 4: I forgave Mademoiselle Duclaux, who did nothing without my orders
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  Speaker 4: and kept me informed of everything. These were the terms
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  Speaker 4: on which she enjoyed my protection. You see that I
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  Speaker 4: kept my.
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  Speaker 8: Word excellent, admirable. But princess, what do you gain by it?
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  Speaker 4: What do I gain by it? My husband, the fearing
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  Speaker 4: discovery trembles before the granddaughter of Sobieski, in case she
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  Speaker 4: might suspect. And I do suspect when I want to?
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  Speaker 4: What do I gain by it? Formerly? He was very niggardly,
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  Speaker 4: Now he refuses me.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing, sits on couch.
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  Speaker 4: Does a light dawn upon you?
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  Speaker 7: Oh?
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  Speaker 8: Yes, yes, I see your world.
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  Speaker 4: Then may pity me and sigh about my position? And now,
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  Speaker 4: my dear abbe, if you have nothing else to tell.
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  Speaker 8: Me, Oh yes, madam, something else, something else, something that
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  Speaker 8: concerns me personally. At this time, I am quite sure
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  Speaker 8: that you have not the slightest I diad it.
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  Speaker 3: It is that you love me.
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  Speaker 8: You knew that too? Is it possible? And you didn't
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  Speaker 8: tell me a word about it.
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  Speaker 4: Surely I wasn't obliged to harold it.
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  Speaker 1: Ah, Yes, certainly about nil. She stops him.
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  Speaker 8: It was for you that I became the intimate friend
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  Speaker 8: of your husband, and for you I listened to his
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  Speaker 8: chemical discussions, although I always fall asleep in doing so,
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  Speaker 8: Poor Abbey, Ah, those are the happiest moments of my life.
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  Speaker 8: I then hear him no more, and I dream of you.
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  Speaker 8: Surely you will confess that such devotion merit some reward.
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  Speaker 4: Oh yes, I have been told that success has often
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  Speaker 4: crowned less deserving efforts. But at the risk of appearing ungrateful,
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  Speaker 4: even to so much unselfish merit, I cannot listen to
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  Speaker 4: you now.
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  Speaker 1: Cross is to wright Prince outside.
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  Speaker 2: My dear duchess, you are quite.
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  Speaker 1: Right, Duchess laughs outside.
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  Speaker 4: Silence, somebody comes. It is my husband and the duchess
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  Speaker 4: do mont netherbye? Did you not try your fortune there?
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  Speaker 3: Also?
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  Speaker 8: Alas, yes, but I have been forestalled.
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  Speaker 4: That was unlucky. Aside, the poor abbe is always too late.
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  Speaker 1: Enter Prince and Duchess. The Princess meets the duchess and
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  Speaker 1: they shake hands.
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  Speaker 4: What good fairy brings you?
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  Speaker 2: So early the duchess comes to ask you to render
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  Speaker 2: her a service.
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  Speaker 4: One pleasure the more. And where did you meet my husband,
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  Speaker 4: whom I have not seen since the day before yesterday.
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  Speaker 9: At my uncle's house? The cardinals.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, the great Prime Minister is, like myself, a member
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  Speaker 2: of the Academy of Sciences. Therefore I dedicated to him
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  Speaker 2: my new treatise on chemistry, the book which astonished Monsieur
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  Speaker 2: de Valdaire himself. Never before said he to me, has
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  Speaker 2: such a work been written? These are his own words,
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  Speaker 2: and I believe every syllable of them.
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  Speaker 4: So do I. But the Cardinal Prime Minister, I am.
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  Speaker 1: Coming to it into a servant, bringing a small casket.
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  Speaker 2: Place that casket there.
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  Speaker 1: Servant places casket on table and exits.
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  Speaker 2: The Cardinal, who knows my talents both as a statesman
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  Speaker 2: and a savant, has confided to me a commission as
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  Speaker 2: honorable as it is terrible.
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  Speaker 4: And what may that be?
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  Speaker 2: Pray the analysis, both from a judicial and scientific point
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  Speaker 2: of view of the substance contained in that casket, A
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  Speaker 2: mysterious powder of deadly properties, which has been found in
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  Speaker 2: the house of a lady of high birth accused of attempted.
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  Speaker 1: Murder, Princess stepping.
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  Speaker 4: Forward, how interesting advances?
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  Speaker 1: Do little food advances?
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  Speaker 2: Be careful ladies, they retire if I am told truly,
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  Speaker 2: one grain of this powder thrown into a pair of
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  Speaker 2: gloves or sprinkled over a flour is sufficient to produce
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  Speaker 2: at first a vague stupor, then strong aberration on the cerebrum,
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  Speaker 2: and finally a delirium which ends in death.
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  Speaker 1: Places casket on small table at back.
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  Speaker 2: All this, however, will be scientifically demonstrated, for I will
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  Speaker 2: analyze this powder, make my experiments, and after that my
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  Speaker 2: report very well.
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  Speaker 4: But all this scientific analysis does not explain to me
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  Speaker 4: your absence yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: Prince Aside to Abbe, Now I'm in for it, jealousy,
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  Speaker 1: Abbe Aside.
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  Speaker 8: Yes, the storm has been brewing.
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  Speaker 1: Prince Aside, you will see how I will weather it.
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  Speaker 1: Allowed to Princess, you ask, Madam, what I did yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: I was preparing a surprise.
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  Speaker 1: For you, hence her a jewel case. What is this,
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  Speaker 1: Prince Aside to Abbe, you see.
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  Speaker 4: What superb diamonds.
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  Speaker 2: Prince to Abbe, And as to the analysis of this
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  Speaker 2: diabolical powder, this is my argument. Abbe speaks in dumb
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  Speaker 2: show Abbe aside.
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  Speaker 8: Another lecture on chemistry.
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  Speaker 4: Princess to Duchess, do look at this bracelet, my dear?
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  Speaker 4: Is it not an exquisite taste?
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  Speaker 9: And so artistically mounted? It is blend?
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  Speaker 4: Come Abbe, Come and admire.
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  Speaker 8: I admire. I am listening here.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I am explaining, But he does not seem to understand.
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  Speaker 2: I must demonstrate it to him.
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  Speaker 1: Steps to table.
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  Speaker 8: No, no, thank you, quite unnecessary. I prefer the argument
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  Speaker 8: to the demonstration.
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  Speaker 4: Now, whilst these gentlemen continue their scientific discussion, pray tell
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  Speaker 4: me what is the service you require for me?
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  Speaker 9: I must confess to you, Princess, that there is one
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  Speaker 9: person whose genius I admire above all others who might
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  Speaker 9: rave about Mademoiselle Abrienne lecreu Well. Is it true that
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  Speaker 9: she will give a private recitation here tomorrow? The Prince
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  Speaker 9: told me so.
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  Speaker 1: Just now, Prince going to ladies, we have invited her.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, that is true. Although I do not share your enthusiasm,
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  Speaker 4: my dear Duchess, and much prefer Mademoiselle Duclaux. But Mademoiselle
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  Speaker 4: le Creufreur seems to be the idol of the moment,
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  Speaker 4: and her recitations the events of the day.
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  Speaker 8: She is the fashion.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, that word explains all. And since Madame de Noal,
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  Speaker 4: whom I cannot bear, made sure of securing her for
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  Speaker 4: her reception tomorrow, I invited her a week ago, and
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  Speaker 4: here is her answer from her.
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  Speaker 9: Oh, do let me look at her writing.
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  Speaker 2: You were right, duchess. This is adoration.
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  Speaker 9: I never missed one of her performances, but I have
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  Speaker 9: never seen her in private. They say she dresses most becomingly,
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  Speaker 9: and that her manners are so refined, so distinguished.
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  Speaker 2: The Prince de Borbonn said of her the other day
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  Speaker 2: that she looked like a queen amidst comedians.
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  Speaker 4: A compliment which she answered by a turn of phrase
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  Speaker 4: which was impolite, if to the point I alluded to
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  Speaker 4: it in my invitation, hear her reply read, if I
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  Speaker 4: had the imprudence to say before Monsieur de Gentale that
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  Speaker 4: we princesses of the stage had the advantage over those
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  Speaker 4: of the court in playing only at night, whilst they
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  Speaker 4: acted all day. He was very wrong in repeating this
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  Speaker 4: to you, and I still more so for having said
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  Speaker 4: it even in jest. You proved this to me, Madame,
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  Speaker 4: by the kindness and frankness of your letter, it contains
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  Speaker 4: evidence of such dignity, charm, and princely grace that I
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  Speaker 4: have placed it on my writing table to be able
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  Speaker 4: to compare the genuine with the imitation. I had promised
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  Speaker 4: myself not to recite in society again, as I am
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  Speaker 4: far from strong and afraid of the increased fatigue. But
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  Speaker 4: how could a poor girl like myself refuse? When you asked?
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  Speaker 4: You might have thought me proud if I am, madame,
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  Speaker 4: it is only of the honor of being your very
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  Speaker 4: humble and obedient servant, Adrianne Duchess taking letter in excellent taste.
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  Speaker 9: None of us, I think could write a letter better.
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  Speaker 9: May I keep it? I wonder no more that poor
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  Speaker 9: little Dargental, the son I mean, is in love with her.
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  Speaker 8: He has quite lost his head about her.
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  Speaker 4: It's in the family. The father whom you know, with
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  Speaker 4: his old fashioned wig and his coat of a century ago,
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  Speaker 4: went to Adrian to ask her to restore the peace
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  Speaker 4: of mind of his son, and there left his own
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  Speaker 4: how lovely.
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  Speaker 8: And the story about the bishop.
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  Speaker 4: There is a story about a bishop.
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  Speaker 8: Yes, the bishop met a charming young lady at the
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  Speaker 8: bedside of a sick woman he was visiting, and having
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  Speaker 8: offered her his arm to see her to the door,
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  Speaker 8: found it was reigning in Torrance. He therefore insisted on
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  Speaker 8: her getting into the episcopal carriage and drove through Paris
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  Speaker 8: with whom do you think, with Adrienne Leucouvera.
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  Speaker 6: With Mademoiselle Lecouveru, hence the rumor that he was going
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  Speaker 6: to Elope with her.
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  Speaker 8: The Holy Man was furious and threatened to excommunicate her
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  Speaker 8: at the first opportunity. She had therefore better not die
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  Speaker 8: at present.
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  Speaker 9: I hope she does not want to just yet, and
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  Speaker 9: so I invite myself tomorrow.
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  Speaker 6: Night rises to see her, to hear her.
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  Speaker 4: Do come and we will worship Mademoiselle l'ok for your sake.
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  Speaker 9: But you, dear.
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  Speaker 1: Princess gets to door, followed by others, then stops and
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  Speaker 1: retraces her steps.
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  Speaker 9: By the bye. Do you know the ladies news?
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  Speaker 4: Ah? No, The Abbe is my only purveyor of news,
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  Speaker 4: and he never knows anything.
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  Speaker 9: That young stranger in the French service, who last winter
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  Speaker 9: turned the heads of all the ladies, the young son
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  Speaker 9: of the King of Poland and the Countess.
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  Speaker 4: Kernix Mark, the Count de Sachs.
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  Speaker 9: He has returned to Parrow excuse me.
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  Speaker 8: It is only a rumor, but I do not think
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  Speaker 8: it true.
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  Speaker 9: It is a fact. I know it from my cousin Berlile,
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  Speaker 9: who was with him throughout the call and campaign. You
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  Speaker 9: know we were very anxious about him, even frightened, that
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  Speaker 9: is to say, the Duke my husband was, and I
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  Speaker 9: a little. But he has been in Paris since this morning.
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  Speaker 9: I have seen him, and he told me that his
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  Speaker 9: young general had returned with him.
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  Speaker 4: It would seem, therefore that the General desires to conceal
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  Speaker 4: his return.
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  Speaker 8: Oh very lightly, on account of his debts. He has
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  Speaker 8: so many. To my knowledge, he owes sixty thousand livreer
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  Speaker 8: to a Swede, the Count Carl Krutz, who was going
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  Speaker 8: to have him arrested last year, but did not, because
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  Speaker 8: where there is nothing to take.
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  Speaker 2: Even the king cannot collect his jews.
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  Speaker 9: The Abbe does not like Maurice de Sax and bears
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  Speaker 9: him a grudge because last year the journal interrupted him
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  Speaker 9: in his march of conquert.
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  Speaker 8: You are wrong, du cheres. It is only that I
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  Speaker 8: cannot understand what the ladies can see in him to
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  Speaker 8: read a bounce, unless it be that he has the
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  Speaker 8: honor of being a son of the King of Poland.
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  Speaker 2: That is certainly an introduction to success, to.
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  Speaker 8: Which he owes a great deal.
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  Speaker 9: No, no, he owes everything to his courage, to his daring.
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  Speaker 9: At thirteen he fought at Malplaque under the Prince Ujen,
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  Speaker 9: at fourteen under Peter the Great, at Strausend. Floristan told
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  Speaker 9: me all that. At fourteen, and this is not all.
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  Speaker 9: During this last marvelous campaign, when he had been proclaimed
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  Speaker 9: Duke of Courland, the daughter of the Empress, the heiress
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  Speaker 9: of the Czars, conceived a strong attachment for him, which
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  Speaker 9: one day might have seated him on the throne of Russia.
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  Speaker 4: And, doubt dazzled by so brilliant a conquest, the Count
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  Speaker 4: did all he could.
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  Speaker 9: Not at all, Floristan has told me that he did
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  Speaker 9: absolutely nothing to gain her favor. On the contrary, he
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  Speaker 9: frankly a bow to the Moscovite princess that he had
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  Speaker 9: left his heart in Paris.
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  Speaker 4: Is this really so?
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  Speaker 9: You see then, that even abbas are not always to
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  Speaker 9: be believed. Goodbye, Princess.
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  Speaker 10: Enter servant, the Count Maurice de Sachs, Exit servant.
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  Speaker 9: It seems that I am not to leave this house today.
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  Speaker 8: Enter Maurice stute decorand welcome.
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  Speaker 6: Welcome, conqueror, future emperor.
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  Speaker 11: Welcome, Oh, yes, ladies. A duke without a dukey, a
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  Speaker 11: general without an army, an emperor without subjects. That is
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  Speaker 11: my position.
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  Speaker 2: But the estates of Curland have elected you their.
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  Speaker 11: Master, certainly nominated by the diet proclaimed by the people.
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  Speaker 11: I have my patent of sovereignty in my pocket, but
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  Speaker 11: Russia forbade me to accept it and threatened me with cannon,
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  Speaker 11: and my father, the King of Poland, who wants to
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  Speaker 11: live in peace with his neighbors, ordered me to refuse it.
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  Speaker 4: And what did you do?
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  Speaker 11: I answered the Empress by calling the nobility of Courland
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  Speaker 11: to arms. And I wrote to my father saying that
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  Speaker 11: before being elected sovereign, I was an officer in the
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  Speaker 11: service of the King of France, and that, not having
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  Speaker 11: been taught in the army of his most Christian Majesty
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  Speaker 11: how to retreat, I would go ahead wonderful. And there
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  Speaker 11: was no reply to that argument, of course not, and therefore,
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  Speaker 11: without further ado, my father put me under the ban
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  Speaker 11: of the Empire. The Empress placed a price upon my head,
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  Speaker 11: and her general, Prince Mensakov, entered Mitau without a declaration
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  Speaker 11: of war to take me by surprise in my palace.
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  Speaker 11: He had eighteen hundred Russians. I not a soldier.
• 21:47
  Speaker 8: Well, you had to surrender, not in the.
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: Least you defended yourself against such odds.
• 21:55
  Speaker 11: Yes, like Charles the twelfth at bender. Seeing my palace
• 21:59
  Speaker 11: surrounded by torches and men at arms, I exclaimed, you
• 22:02
  Speaker 11: want to play with powder and fire, very well, you
• 22:06
  Speaker 11: shall have them. I called together the French gentleman who
• 22:09
  Speaker 11: had accompanied me. Besides them, I had people in my household,
• 22:12
  Speaker 11: my secretary, my cook, six ostlers, and a young market
• 22:16
  Speaker 11: woman who happened to be there.
• 22:18
  Speaker 8: Women. Again, you have a way of your own war.
• 22:22
  Speaker 11: Which would suit you exactly. My dear Abbe, we were sixty.
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: In all, thirty to one against you.
• 22:28
  Speaker 11: That was nothing. We soon reduced the difference. I barricaded
• 22:31
  Speaker 11: the doors with furniture at the windows. I placed my
• 22:34
  Speaker 11: people with their muskets, and the young woman with several
• 22:37
  Speaker 11: buckets of boiling water.
• 22:38
  Speaker 8: So you had enlisted her too.
• 22:41
  Speaker 11: Of course, at so short a distance, every shot of
• 22:44
  Speaker 11: my men told and soon disabled one hundred and twenty
• 22:47
  Speaker 11: of the enemy. They therefore decided to storm the palace.
• 22:51
  Speaker 11: That was just what I wanted under the right pavilion,
• 22:54
  Speaker 11: the only part where assault was possible. I had myself
• 22:57
  Speaker 11: placed two barrels of gunpowder, and at the moment when
• 23:00
  Speaker 11: three hundred Cossacks had penetrated into the palace and were
• 23:03
  Speaker 11: shouting hurrahs of victory, I blew them and half the
• 23:06
  Speaker 11: palace into the air together. And you, I stood in
• 23:09
  Speaker 11: the midst of the ruins and called the citizens of
• 23:11
  Speaker 11: Mitau to arms. The bells commenced to toll all round,
• 23:16
  Speaker 11: and the Russians retired in confusion. Oh, had I been
• 23:19
  Speaker 11: able to pursue them if I had two French regiments
• 23:23
  Speaker 11: one only, But that is just what I have come here.
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: To obtain, And this is the object of your journey
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: to Paris.
• 23:30
  Speaker 11: Yes, Madam, I want the Cardinal of de Fleury to
• 23:32
  Speaker 11: give me a few squadrons of Hussars, And by Ourminius,
• 23:36
  Speaker 11: my patron Saint, I hope next year, ladies, to be
• 23:39
  Speaker 11: able to entertain you royally in the Palace of the
• 23:41
  Speaker 11: Dukes of Courland.
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: In the meantime, I hope you will sometimes accept the
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: hospitality of this house we receive.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: Tomorrow night, will you come to Maurice.
• 23:52
  Speaker 9: You shall escort me. I shall be proud to have
• 23:55
  Speaker 9: the Victor of Mittau for my cavalier. Besides that, there
• 23:59
  Speaker 9: is royal pleasure in.
• 24:00
  Speaker 11: Store for you your society.
• 24:02
  Speaker 9: Duchess, you will hear, Mademoiselle Lecouvreux, did you know her count?
• 24:07
  Speaker 11: Yes, slightly admirable.
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: Clock strikes two oh two o'clock.
• 24:13
  Speaker 9: And my husband is waiting for me to go to Versailles.
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: Since when?
• 24:17
  Speaker 6: Since twelve not a bit too long?
• 24:20
  Speaker 9: Are you coming with us?
• 24:21
  Speaker 6: Abbe?
• 24:21
  Speaker 9: We can offer you a seat.
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: Oh no, he stays with me. I have to read
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: him half of the last volume of my.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: Treaties, Abbe. Aside to Princess, do you hear?
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: Impossible to put it off? The printer is waiting. The
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: Abbe must come with me to my study.
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: Exitt Abbe and Prince Adi, gentlemen to Princess poor Abbe,
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: adieu till tomorrow. Exit Duchess, followed up by Princess who
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: returns to Maurice at last.
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: For two months you have not written a line. I
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: had to learn from the Duchess de Mont that you
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: had returned, and I'd almost give up the hope of
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: seeing you.
• 25:01
  Speaker 11: You are the first person I have called upon Princess,
• 25:04
  Speaker 11: I arrived only last night.
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: You have been nowhere but here.
• 25:08
  Speaker 11: I have been only to the war office, where the
• 25:11
  Speaker 11: Cardinal's secretary of state did not receive me too well
• 25:14
  Speaker 11: and gave me but little hope.
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: Others have made amends for him.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: Then what do you mean, Princess, who from the beginning
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: has kept her eyes fixed on the flowers in his
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: button hole?
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: Did the cardinal secretary of state give you these roses?
• 25:28
  Speaker 11: I had forgotten you notice everything?
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: Who gave you these flowers?
• 25:33
  Speaker 11: Who? A flower girl? A pretty one too? I met
• 25:36
  Speaker 11: her at the gate, and she pleaded so.
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: Earnestly that you bought them for me. Yes, Princess, a
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: charming attention I accept with pleasure.
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: Aside it is too bad of him aloud.
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: Although you do not deserve it. Let us think of
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: your interests. First of all, you say that the cardinal
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: did not receive you too well, that he gave you
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: but little and.
• 25:59
  Speaker 11: Curag very little.
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: We will change that. You shall have your two regiments.
• 26:05
  Speaker 11: If that were true, I will.
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: Go to Versailles, and so that you may be kept
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: informed of my progress, I shall come here. No, not here.
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: There are too many inquisitive eyes in this house, not
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: to speak of my husband. No, the Prince has bought
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: for Duclaux a charming villa near the Grange Btelliere, only
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: a few paces from the walls. It is at my disposal,
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: and there only will I see you in the house
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: that belongs to to my husband. What could be more natural?
• 26:37
  Speaker 11: His house is mine, truly, Princess, only you could invent
• 26:41
  Speaker 11: such a combination.
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: Yes, it is rather clever. The appointments will be made
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: by Mademoiselle Duclaux. She will write to you, not I.
• 26:50
  Speaker 11: But do you not fear nothing?
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: Duclaux is devoted.
• 26:54
  Speaker 11: To me, I understand. But as to myself.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: Aside, how can I accept.
• 26:58
  Speaker 11: It when I love another? No better to tell her
• 27:01
  Speaker 11: the truth? Aloud, I really do not know, Princess, how
• 27:05
  Speaker 11: to thank you for your generosity?
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: Another time? Some one is coming. Who can it be?
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: Turning impatiently?
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: Oh, it is that horrid abbe Go.
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: Now gives him her hand to kiss Maurice aside another time, Aloud,
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: adieu till then exit, Princess with flowers.
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: A flower girl who ties her bouquets with cord of
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: silk and gold. How uneasy, how cool? He seemed like
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: a man who has ceased to love that passion which
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: they spoke of just now, which made him refuse the
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: daughter of the Czar. Suppose it were not for me,
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: but for another, a rival, a favored rival. But I
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: must not lose my temper, I must not compromise myself.
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: But I must know it. I will know it.
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: Enter Abbe, with smelling salt bottle, Abbe, inhaling.
• 28:03
  Speaker 8: Sixty pages of chemistry. It's more than I can endure.
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: I resign looking towards princess.
• 28:14
  Speaker 8: Especially as there is not the slightest hope of indemnity.
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: What makes you think, so, Abbe?
• 28:22
  Speaker 12: What do you mean here?
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: A lady friend of mine, an intimate.
• 28:27
  Speaker 8: Friend the duchestment.
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: Perhaps I mention no names, wishes passionately, as only a
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: woman can desire to discover a secret which is very
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: closely kept. And that is who is the mysterious unknown
• 28:45
  Speaker 4: beauty whom the Count de Sax loves at present. For
• 28:49
  Speaker 4: there is one you, Abbe, who know everything, who profess
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: to know everything.
• 28:56
  Speaker 8: Certainly, I thought.
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: You might perhaps unveil the for her.
• 29:01
  Speaker 8: It will be very difficult.
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: I do not admit of such a word.
• 29:06
  Speaker 8: But it will be difficult, especially for me, whom Dame
• 29:11
  Speaker 8: Fortune seems to have quite deserted.
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: Luck mostly follows skill. The cleverest are generally the most fortunate.
• 29:21
  Speaker 8: And suppose I were clever enough to unravel this secret.
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: Then perhaps I might disclose to you another Which.
• 29:31
  Speaker 8: Is it possible?
• 29:32
  Speaker 4: You see, you were wrong to complain. Help yourself, and
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: Heaven will help you. Everything now depends on yourself.
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: Goodbye, Exit, Princess.
• 29:45
  Speaker 8: Am I dreaming? But how to do it? The Count
• 29:50
  Speaker 8: de Sacks is discreet. I shall learn nothing from him.
• 29:56
  Speaker 8: To whom then shall I apply?
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: Enter Prince? During above speech.
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: Wonders will never cease. The Abbe is really thinking.
• 30:07
  Speaker 8: Yes I am. I am thinking over a problem that
• 30:12
  Speaker 8: is not easy to solve.
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: A problem that's my business?
• 30:17
  Speaker 8: Oh why not? Certainly it is your business in one sense?
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: Well, Abbe, what puzzles you?
• 30:26
  Speaker 8: I was just thinking that the counter sets about whom
• 30:31
  Speaker 8: the women are raving must have a preference for some lady.
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: Prince laughing, well, Abbe, and how does that concern you?
• 30:41
  Speaker 8: But it does concern me for reasons, important reasons, personal reasons.
• 30:50
  Speaker 8: I cannot explain them to you just now. But I
• 30:54
  Speaker 8: must discover who is the reigning beauty.
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: Prince good need.
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: I will find it out for you. You I yes,
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: at once this evening.
• 31:06
  Speaker 8: Come now, that would be peculiar.
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: Will you get two hundred louis about it?
• 31:12
  Speaker 8: Abbe Aside is a lot of money, but it's worth it.
• 31:17
  Speaker 8: What do you intend to do.
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: Prince calling to servant at door my carriage to Abbe?
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: Will you come to the Comedy of Francais with me?
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: Duclau and Lecouvreur both play in Baja's tonight with pleasure.
• 31:33
  Speaker 8: But what has that to do with what I want
• 31:36
  Speaker 8: to learn.
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: Mademoiselle Duclau can tell you what you are so anxious
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: to know. The other night, as I was entering her room,
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: they were speaking about Desas, and she said laughingly, I
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: know a great lady whom he adores. She stopped when
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: she saw me, but you can understand when I ask her,
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: and you know she refuses me nothing. She will tell
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: me the name of a lady, and then you shall
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: know it too.
• 32:01
  Speaker 8: Then you will tell it to me. This will be
• 32:05
  Speaker 8: worth more money than I can pay.
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: No, it will be worth just two hundred louis. Now
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: to the Comedy Francis.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: Act drop, end of act one, Act two of Adrienne
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: le Couvreur by Gabrielle Legouvet and Eugene Scribe, translated by H. Hermann.
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: visit LibriVox dot org. Scene the green room of the
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: Comedy Francais, paneled Oak Louis fourteenth. Scene two doors right,
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: one door leading to auditorium, door left to the stage
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: showing portion of the wings. Center back occupied by a
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: large chimney piece surmounted by bust of Moliere, portraits and
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: busts of other comedians. All about the room, large looking glass.
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: Write Mademoiselle Juvenon in Turkish costume, arranging her dress before glass.
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: Write Mademoiselle d'Angeville in fancy dress costume. Other actors and
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: actresses in Turkish and fancy costumes at a table. Right,
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: Quinault in the costume of Acuma and Poisson in the
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: costume of Crispin in Bajazette playing chess. Other actors and
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: actresses studying their parts and walking about. Missionette playing call
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: for rehearsal on callboard.
• 33:44
  Speaker 12: Missonette, Can you tell me where I can find some rouge.
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: Yes, Mademoiselle Inzacro Missionette. Yes, Monsieur Posson good house tonight,
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: I should think so. Atrian and Touclou play for the
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: first time together in Baiassa over five thousand livres.
• 34:01
  Speaker 13: De deuce their will.
• 34:03
  Speaker 7: Missionary, When are you going to commence the second piece.
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: At eight o'clock, Mademoiselle Missionaire, Yes, Monsieur Canno.
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: You what for the get of my dagger?
• 34:11
  Speaker 3: Will you? It is all right there it is, Monsieur.
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: Missionaire, places it on table aside.
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: When will it end? Missionaire? Missionaiseeer, mission I have everywhere.
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: They won't give me a moment of peace? And whose
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: fault is it? Why? Mine? What a fool I must
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: have been to undertake to see everything right, even the
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: hand properties. But after all I should not sleep well
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: if anybody but I who were to give Hippolyte his
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: sword or Cleopatra her asp to think of the wealth
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: I distribute every night, in rubies and diamonds and purses
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: of gold, and my salary is fifteen hundred livres a year.
• 34:56
  Speaker 11: What aroney of it?
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: I wouldn't mind if I were only a cecia taire,
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: not that it pays over well, But then one belongs
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: to the Come di francaise. How well would it look
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: on paper, missionary Cecia taire of the Come di Francis?
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: Instead of that, I am a paid servant, first utility
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: and principal prompter. That is to say, her bleach, to
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: do as they all beat me, and to swallow their insults.
• 35:29
  Speaker 12: Is Adrienne going to wear her diamonds this evening?
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: And her other actors and actresses ready to go on stage?
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: They move about? Does that the queen gave her goes
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: up crosses to chess table?
• 35:40
  Speaker 12: If what she says is true?
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: Ah, those diamonds, they have made her many enemies.
• 35:47
  Speaker 12: Hardly worthwhile I should fancy no great difficulty in getting diamonds.
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: No, not to you, ladies.
• 35:54
  Speaker 11: What do you mean?
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: Oh nothing, mademoiselle, nothing aside. Ah, if you didn't belong
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: to the Commie de francis, if it were not convenient
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: for me to make use of you, to become a
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: ciciertel myself one of these days, wouldn't I give you
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: your answer epigrammatically sweetly and well pepper check, sir mate, Sir,
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: you do not play well tonight, sir.
• 36:21
  Speaker 13: Just listen to this.
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: He is serrying me, Mademoiselle Dongeville at chess table.
• 36:28
  Speaker 7: That is certainly very disrespectful.
• 36:30
  Speaker 13: Oh I remember since Mademoiselle Carnaud, his sister who played
• 36:37
  Speaker 13: chambermaids with us, was married to the Duke de Nevere.
• 36:41
  Speaker 13: He thinks himself a marquis. At last, come say, perhaps
• 36:45
  Speaker 13: you would like me to call you my lord? You've
• 36:48
  Speaker 13: only got to say so, you know.
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: Enough, sir to mischonie.
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: Well, now are you going to begin? Don't fear, I
• 36:56
  Speaker 3: will let you know in good time. I'm the Korean
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: room class.
• 37:00
  Speaker 12: And the clock it's never late up right center.
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: True. The slightest break in the performance makes me uncomfortable,
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: And when the house is shut for a day, I
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: feel that I have lost twenty four hours of my existence.
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: Enter Prince and Abbey by door left, coming from the house,
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: Mademoiselle d'aneville, Mademoiselle Juvenal, and other ladies at back. Missioney
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: in front.
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: It is tassome more strangers to fill up the green
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: room and block up the wings.
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: Prince and Abbe have gone center to the ladies and
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: are speaking to them. Missioney recognizes them and salutes Ah.
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: His reference the Abbe de Chassi and his highness of Boyle.
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: When I think that that man could, by a single word,
• 37:48
  Speaker 3: procure my nomination, I can't help looking upon him with respect. Missionary, Missionary,
• 37:55
  Speaker 3: you are a ruffian, you who were just now speaking
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: so bitterly of those ladies and their diamonds. Would you
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: sell your self respect for a title? But sen it
• 38:09
  Speaker 3: is the comedy Francis abbe.
• 38:12
  Speaker 8: A good evening bizire. They tell me that you will
• 38:17
  Speaker 8: play admirably in.
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: And so will Mademoiselle Duclau.
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: And Adrienne she will be sublime. Yes, she has got
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: on the right way at last, and it was not easy.
• 38:31
  Speaker 3: I am not addicted to boasting. But there is not
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: an emphasis or accentuation in her part that I have
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: not taught her well, I never What was that? Oh? Nothing,
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: nothing a sign that's anore who has a vote, or
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: else wouldn't I Ah, There is Adrienne coming from her
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: dressing room.
• 38:51
  Speaker 8: Here she is, Yes, she's studying her part.
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: Quite alone, looking at Quino out monsieur KENO.
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: It is strange enter Adrienne left to right studying Adrienne
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: reading her part.
• 39:08
  Speaker 6: I recognize the reign of Sultan Amarat. Now leave me.
• 39:12
  Speaker 6: Let the palace gates be closed at once. No, that
• 39:15
  Speaker 6: isn't right. Now leave me. Let the palace gates be
• 39:19
  Speaker 6: closed at once in their accustomed order. Let all men return.
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: Abbi left center, Magnificent Adrienne right center.
• 39:30
  Speaker 6: Ah Abbe de chauseule superb.
• 39:33
  Speaker 12: Are you speaking of the diamonds?
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: You mean those that belong to the queen. Yes, they
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: are very handsome, and I shall be happy to give
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: Mademoiselle le Couvre sixty thousand livres for them, should she
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: care to sell them. And so you are still studying,
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: what are you trying to learn?
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: Truth, Abbi looking at Quino.
• 39:50
  Speaker 8: But you have had lessons from a great master.
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: Quino rises about to go. Nichione to Quino, who is
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: trying to leave.
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: Sir is no hurry, monsieur, colonel, do stay. You are
• 40:04
  Speaker 3: not wanted for a long while yet on sir, stage.
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: Abbe to Adrienne.
• 40:10
  Speaker 8: The part of rock Sana for instance.
• 40:14
  Speaker 6: Unfortunately I had none seeing missioney, But I am wrong
• 40:18
  Speaker 6: in saying that I had had no teacher. I was
• 40:21
  Speaker 6: about to be ungrateful to him, a man of true heart,
• 40:25
  Speaker 6: a sincere and disinterested friend whose counsel has ever guided me,
• 40:31
  Speaker 6: whose encouragement has never failed me. Here he is, and
• 40:37
  Speaker 6: I am never sure of success until I have heard
• 40:40
  Speaker 6: his kind, honest voice say, yes, that's it.
• 40:46
  Speaker 3: That's right, Oh, Adrienne, this is too much.
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: I am choking Abbe right center.
• 40:54
  Speaker 8: How is it, Monsieur mischionee, that you, who give such
• 41:00
  Speaker 8: good advice, are yourself.
• 41:03
  Speaker 3: Such a bad actor. That's what you mean, sir? Is
• 41:07
  Speaker 3: it not well? I have often asked myself that question.
• 41:11
  Speaker 3: I really think it must be because I'm not a
• 41:14
  Speaker 3: secietaire of the common.
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: De Francis enter, cowboy, right downstage.
• 41:20
  Speaker 11: Beginners please, Ladies.
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: And gentlemen exit right downstage.
• 41:25
  Speaker 3: The ladies are not lady yet, of course I am.
• 41:29
  Speaker 7: I also, although I only play in the second piece,
• 41:31
  Speaker 7: sits up left center.
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: But Mademoiselle Duclaux, she was dressed a quarter of ner ago.
• 41:37
  Speaker 3: She was writing in her dressing room.
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: Prince right center, she was writing, then niche center.
• 41:44
  Speaker 3: Yes, and she seemed to be in a critory.
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: I wondered to whom Mademoiselle juvenal aside to Prince.
• 41:51
  Speaker 12: I'll tell you her maid Penelope. Yes, Penelope, she showed
• 41:55
  Speaker 12: me a letter just now saying, here is a scrap
• 41:57
  Speaker 12: of people to read which the Prince would give a
• 41:59
  Speaker 12: good I that made me think it could not be
• 42:02
  Speaker 12: for you, But it's only a supposition. I wonder whom
• 42:06
  Speaker 12: that letter could have been written to.
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: I will soon find out.
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: I will ask Penelope aside to Abbe.
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: I'm going to attend to your business.
• 42:13
  Speaker 8: Now, how kind of you? Where shall I meet you?
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: Here? After the third act?
• 42:20
  Speaker 3: Agreed, Mademoiselle Chauveno mons Keno, you are wanted.
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: Exit Quino and ladies. Quino is being hurried by Quino
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: to Abbey after.
• 42:31
  Speaker 8: You, Sir, after your Turkish.
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: Excellency, Exit Abbe and Quino. Prince Aside.
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: I always mistrusted that little Penelope. It is an unlucky name,
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: especially in a theater.
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: Exit downstage right. Michonee crosses behind table to left center.
• 42:50
  Speaker 3: To think that she is so good to me, and
• 42:54
  Speaker 3: that for five years I have never found college to
• 42:57
  Speaker 3: avow what I feel for her. It's quite natural, though
• 43:02
  Speaker 3: she is a sociata and I'm not. She is young
• 43:07
  Speaker 3: and I am not. And then today, oh, it seems
• 43:10
  Speaker 3: to me to be an unlucky day. And I wait
• 43:14
  Speaker 3: until tomorrow and tomorrow never comes. Oh, but then her
• 43:20
  Speaker 3: heart is free. She loves only her profession. To Adrianne,
• 43:26
  Speaker 3: still studying your part, Yes, well, if I don't disturb you,
• 43:32
  Speaker 3: I've been wanting to tell you something for ever so
• 43:35
  Speaker 3: long to me. Yes, my uncle the Crosser is dead.
• 43:40
  Speaker 6: I am very sorry.
• 43:42
  Speaker 3: I am his heir. He has left me ten thousand livres.
• 43:46
  Speaker 6: Oh, then I am glad.
• 43:48
  Speaker 3: Now that I have got the money. I don't know
• 43:50
  Speaker 3: what to do with it, and I am bothered about it.
• 43:54
  Speaker 3: Then I am sorry again, No cause for that, because
• 43:58
  Speaker 3: it has given me an idea that would never have
• 44:01
  Speaker 3: struck me otherwise. Marriage.
• 44:04
  Speaker 6: You are right, I would do the same if I
• 44:07
  Speaker 6: could royally?
• 44:08
  Speaker 3: Would you?
• 44:09
  Speaker 6: Have you not remarked that everybody says of late, what
• 44:13
  Speaker 6: a change in Adrianne's talent.
• 44:16
  Speaker 3: True, it is quieter than ever. Last night you played
• 44:20
  Speaker 3: Fetra as you never did before.
• 44:23
  Speaker 6: Ah. I was suffering that day. I was so unhappy.
• 44:28
  Speaker 6: One's fortune does not bring many such evenings, and so
• 44:32
  Speaker 6: reason they were all speaking of a battle, and I
• 44:36
  Speaker 6: had no news of him. Perhaps he was wounded, killed.
• 44:40
  Speaker 6: Perchance My heart was full of its measure, of fear,
• 44:45
  Speaker 6: of pain, of despair. Oh, how I suffered my every
• 44:50
  Speaker 6: expression that evening was real. I was not acting then,
• 44:54
  Speaker 6: and now I know how to exhibit every feeling, even joy,
• 44:59
  Speaker 6: for I have him again.
• 45:01
  Speaker 3: Then you love someone.
• 45:03
  Speaker 6: How can I conceal it from you? My best, my
• 45:07
  Speaker 6: dearest friend.
• 45:08
  Speaker 3: But oh, but how did it happen?
• 45:11
  Speaker 6: It was the night of the ball at the opera.
• 45:14
  Speaker 6: As I was leaving, some young officers who could not
• 45:18
  Speaker 6: have been sober, attempted to prevent me from entering my carriage.
• 45:24
  Speaker 6: I was much frightened when a young man, whose face
• 45:28
  Speaker 6: was totally unknown to me, sprang to my rescue. Gentlemen,
• 45:33
  Speaker 6: he cried, for shame, this is mademoiselle. Le couvras. Give way.
• 45:40
  Speaker 6: Their only reply was insulting laughter. But quicker than thought,
• 45:44
  Speaker 6: my protector flung them aside, and, taking me in his arms,
• 45:50
  Speaker 6: placed me in my coach. The officers were furious. They
• 45:55
  Speaker 6: drew their swords, and all four of them shouted, You
• 46:00
  Speaker 6: will give us satisfaction, sir, willingly he replied, and in
• 46:05
  Speaker 6: another moment his weapon flashed against the four blades of
• 46:09
  Speaker 6: his adversaries. I uttered a cry, but he said, calmly,
• 46:14
  Speaker 6: fear nothing, mademoiselle. You will be in a private box
• 46:19
  Speaker 6: for once, and the actors will be in front of you.
• 46:23
  Speaker 6: I was so forcome with terror that my eyes seemed
• 46:27
  Speaker 6: riveted upon him. And when I saw him, as in
• 46:31
  Speaker 6: a play, parrying the thrust of those four swords, each
• 46:36
  Speaker 6: directed towards his breast, I recognized the arm and courage
• 46:42
  Speaker 6: of a hero. He did not retire a step a
• 46:46
  Speaker 6: moment more, and he stood no longer on the defense.
• 46:50
  Speaker 6: He was attacking. Then, attracted by the noise of the crowd,
• 46:55
  Speaker 6: the watchman arrived from all sides, and my aggressors, thoroughly ashamed,
• 47:01
  Speaker 6: slunk silently away, leaving my protector master of the field. Say,
• 47:08
  Speaker 6: was he not a hero?
• 47:10
  Speaker 3: And you have seen him since?
• 47:12
  Speaker 4: Yes?
• 47:13
  Speaker 6: The next morning, how could I prevent him from calling
• 47:17
  Speaker 6: upon me to inquire after my health? He told me
• 47:21
  Speaker 6: that he was a foreign officer in the French service,
• 47:25
  Speaker 6: whose only hope to gain a fortune, title, a name,
• 47:30
  Speaker 6: even was his courage. This was his surest passport to
• 47:34
  Speaker 6: my heart. Had he been rich or noble, I should
• 47:39
  Speaker 6: not have cared for him. But he was poor, struggling,
• 47:43
  Speaker 6: dreaming like myself of love and glory. How could I
• 47:48
  Speaker 6: resist him? It was Fete three months ago he left
• 47:52
  Speaker 6: France to seek his fortune with the young Count de
• 47:55
  Speaker 6: sas his countryman. This morning he returned. His first visit
• 48:01
  Speaker 6: was to me his general, however, and the Secretary of
• 48:05
  Speaker 6: State required so much of his time that he could
• 48:09
  Speaker 6: only stay a few moments. But he promised me to
• 48:12
  Speaker 6: come here to night, to the theater. He will come
• 48:16
  Speaker 6: to see me play.
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: Roxanna crosses left and sits right of left table.
• 48:21
  Speaker 3: Missioney excitedly, And what a state you are in all
• 48:26
  Speaker 3: this nervousness, this excitement. You will not be able to
• 48:30
  Speaker 3: put any finish to your acting. All detail will be wanting.
• 48:35
  Speaker 6: Well, what of that?
• 48:36
  Speaker 3: What of it? Are you not playing against Duclau for
• 48:41
  Speaker 3: the first time?
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: To night?
• 48:42
  Speaker 3: Fear nothing, but I do fear. Come and presence of
• 48:47
  Speaker 3: mind are necessary, even with inspiration to claw. Will calculate
• 48:53
  Speaker 3: every syllable, every step, and you you will see only him.
• 49:01
  Speaker 6: True. If I see him amongst the audience.
• 49:04
  Speaker 3: Then all will be lost. Now there's a good girl.
• 49:09
  Speaker 3: Think only of your part. Love passes away, but a
• 49:14
  Speaker 3: fine creation, a great triumph, remains to be remembered ever after.
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: Come now kneel at her feet.
• 49:24
  Speaker 3: Can't you give up thinking of him for a while?
• 49:27
  Speaker 9: Alas no.
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: Sits at her feet.
• 49:31
  Speaker 3: Do for this evening at least, Adrienne, my child, be great.
• 49:37
  Speaker 3: I pray of you. If not for my sake, well
• 49:41
  Speaker 3: let it be for his. The love of man is
• 49:44
  Speaker 3: only egotism. And if do crow with triumph over you,
• 49:49
  Speaker 3: she will not thank you, my child, thank you.
• 49:53
  Speaker 6: No, it is I who should thank you, my kind friend.
• 50:00
  Speaker 3: Aside, say rather, you old fool of a mischionais.
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: About to go right returns.
• 50:07
  Speaker 3: There is one line which you never get quite right.
• 50:11
  Speaker 3: Have I risked my all but for outrivals gain? You see, Adrienne.
• 50:17
  Speaker 3: That's that poor woman is so embittered by the idea
• 50:22
  Speaker 3: that her rival wins by what she has done. You
• 50:25
  Speaker 3: know that she feels that. She says to herself, Well,
• 50:30
  Speaker 3: I can't give the expression, but you know what I mean.
• 50:34
  Speaker 6: Have I risked my all but for a rival's gain?
• 50:38
  Speaker 3: That's it, that's it. Excellent you see.
• 50:42
  Speaker 6: But you were saying a little while ago about marriage.
• 50:48
  Speaker 3: It is useless now Some of the time I leave
• 50:52
  Speaker 3: you to study your part.
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: Aside, Adrienne, is not for me.
• 50:57
  Speaker 3: Matrim is over. Adrianne, don't forget to drink a glass
• 51:03
  Speaker 3: of water before going on the stage, and be sure
• 51:07
  Speaker 3: you know the way you said it just now? All
• 51:11
  Speaker 3: all for a rival's gain. Ah, you don't know what
• 51:15
  Speaker 3: it is to have a rival exit.
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: Enter Maurice downstage left three rate.
• 51:21
  Speaker 6: My deep laid schemes, intrigues in treason's fatal stains. Ah,
• 51:28
  Speaker 6: have I risked mile but for a rival's gain?
• 51:33
  Speaker 11: Then? This is the green room of the comedy Francois,
• 51:36
  Speaker 11: with its glorious memories. It is grand. One feels something
• 51:41
  Speaker 11: like veneration in coming here for the first time. I
• 51:44
  Speaker 11: hope nobody will recognize me, Not even Adrianne. She little
• 51:49
  Speaker 11: suspects who I am?
• 51:50
  Speaker 4: Left, Maurice, adrian you here?
• 51:54
  Speaker 11: Yes, I was one of the first to enter the house.
• 51:56
  Speaker 11: I found the past door and asked to see you.
• 51:59
  Speaker 11: I told the door that I was a friend of
• 52:01
  Speaker 11: yours and that you were expecting me. The magic sound
• 52:04
  Speaker 11: of your name was my key. And you see that
• 52:06
  Speaker 11: I am here.
• 52:07
  Speaker 6: How imprudent you compromised.
• 52:10
  Speaker 11: Me, compromised you? How only the great nobleman who passed
• 52:14
  Speaker 11: to and fro in this house by virtue of their gold,
• 52:17
  Speaker 11: seemed to have the right to be near you, to
• 52:19
  Speaker 11: admire you, who are devils like myself are left to
• 52:21
  Speaker 11: wipe their eyes in the dark corners of the theater
• 52:24
  Speaker 11: when you make their hearts beat with sympathy. And so
• 52:27
  Speaker 11: I should have been had I not resorted to this
• 52:29
  Speaker 11: little subterfuge. To be so near you and yet so
• 52:33
  Speaker 11: far away was more than I could bear. I should
• 52:35
  Speaker 11: have been condemned to wait until the performance was over
• 52:38
  Speaker 11: to tell you, Adrianne, I love you, Hush.
• 52:41
  Speaker 6: I shall have to be on stage in a few moments.
• 52:45
  Speaker 6: But before you go, let us speak of yourself. Tell
• 52:49
  Speaker 6: me what you have done. Do bring me the records
• 52:52
  Speaker 6: of some heroic deeds. Ah, how heavenly it must be
• 52:56
  Speaker 6: to be great to have all the world haralding the
• 53:01
  Speaker 6: fame of your valor.
• 53:02
  Speaker 11: If that were only so.
• 53:04
  Speaker 6: Tell me your young general, the Count de Sacs, of
• 53:08
  Speaker 6: whom everybody speaks so well, and whom I should so
• 53:12
  Speaker 6: much like to see, Is he satisfied with you?
• 53:16
  Speaker 11: The Count de Sacs is still more difficult to please
• 53:18
  Speaker 11: than I am. But I never left him, and I
• 53:21
  Speaker 11: have been wounded by his side. Yes, as near him
• 53:24
  Speaker 11: as possible.
• 53:25
  Speaker 6: Brave boy. The mere thought of knowing you were wounded
• 53:30
  Speaker 6: makes me shudder. But still I know that you have
• 53:34
  Speaker 6: been but doing your duty, that you are following the
• 53:38
  Speaker 6: broad road to fame. Ah, I have already seen you
• 53:44
  Speaker 6: sword in hand, your face aglow with proud defiance. And
• 53:49
  Speaker 6: when you will relate to me with a smile upon
• 53:53
  Speaker 6: your lips, your deeds of daring, I feel sure, and
• 53:57
  Speaker 6: you need not smile at the prophecy that one day
• 54:01
  Speaker 6: you will be great, for you are already a hero.
• 54:05
  Speaker 11: You are a child Adrianne.
• 54:06
  Speaker 6: But I am right you will be great.
• 54:10
  Speaker 11: Indeed you will.
• 54:11
  Speaker 6: I know how to make you, and how I will
• 54:14
  Speaker 6: so praise the Count de Sacts, with whom all the
• 54:18
  Speaker 6: ladies are in love, that you will be compelled to
• 54:22
  Speaker 6: emulate him, if only through jealousy.
• 54:25
  Speaker 11: I shall never be jealous of him.
• 54:27
  Speaker 6: How presumptuous have you seen? The Secretary of State?
• 54:32
  Speaker 11: Not yet, But I am going to write to him. Oh,
• 54:35
  Speaker 11: don't why.
• 54:37
  Speaker 6: You know you're spelling?
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: Well?
• 54:40
  Speaker 11: What of that?
• 54:41
  Speaker 6: What of it?
• 54:43
  Speaker 13: Oh?
• 54:44
  Speaker 6: Your first letter was very charming, full of tenderness, and
• 54:49
  Speaker 6: loved and touched my heart, but all the same it
• 54:53
  Speaker 6: made me laugh through my tears. Your spelling was so origin.
• 55:00
  Speaker 11: But I am not a candidate for the academy.
• 55:02
  Speaker 6: That would not prevent your election. But you know I
• 55:06
  Speaker 6: promised to be your.
• 55:07
  Speaker 11: Tutor, and I have not forgotten your lessons. How I
• 55:11
  Speaker 11: have tried to get those scenes from Corney into my head.
• 55:14
  Speaker 6: You did think of Cornell then, in the midst of battle.
• 55:17
  Speaker 11: Not of him, but of her who interpreted so divinely.
• 55:20
  Speaker 6: And the little volume of la Fontaine's fables I gave
• 55:24
  Speaker 6: you at parting.
• 55:25
  Speaker 11: It never left me. I kept it here near my
• 55:27
  Speaker 11: heart once it saved my life. See where the bullet
• 55:31
  Speaker 11: struck it. My guardian angel had given it to me.
• 55:34
  Speaker 6: Your guardian angel, perhaps for my prayers were ever with you?
• 55:39
  Speaker 6: Did you read it at all?
• 55:42
  Speaker 11: Well? To speak the truth? I am afraid I have
• 55:44
  Speaker 11: not what.
• 55:45
  Speaker 6: Not even the fable of the two pigeons that I
• 55:49
  Speaker 6: so particularly mentioned.
• 55:51
  Speaker 11: Not even that forgive me. You see, it was only fable,
• 55:55
  Speaker 11: after all, only a fable.
• 55:58
  Speaker 6: Ah you shall hear.
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: Listen read.
• 56:01
  Speaker 6: Two pigeons were lovers, both tender and true.
• 56:05
  Speaker 11: Like you and I.
• 56:06
  Speaker 6: When one of them, tired of home, resolved to leave
• 56:09
  Speaker 6: sweetheart and all whom he knew afar among strangers to Rome,
• 56:15
  Speaker 6: like myself, the other then said, with a piteous tear,
• 56:19
  Speaker 6: Oh brother, do not go away for absence from those
• 56:24
  Speaker 6: whom we love and hold dear is pain that no
• 56:29
  Speaker 6: leech can allay. Speaks not to you, cruel one.
• 56:33
  Speaker 11: That last line is not in the fable. I know.
• 56:36
  Speaker 6: Say, have you not all that your heart can desire
• 56:40
  Speaker 6: a home and good food and the rest?
• 56:43
  Speaker 11: Yes, the rest?
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: What is it?
• 56:46
  Speaker 6: So it does interest you, sir? Now you see I
• 56:50
  Speaker 6: might inflict upon you the long story of all the
• 56:53
  Speaker 6: mishaps that befell the wanderer. I might even tell you
• 56:58
  Speaker 6: of the broken heart of the one that stayed at home.
• 57:02
  Speaker 6: But you shall only hear the moral. Do lovers ne'er
• 57:06
  Speaker 6: wander from those who love you, but think one another
• 57:10
  Speaker 6: the fairest of fair The image that's limbed on the
• 57:14
  Speaker 6: heart remains true. What seen by the eye often fades
• 57:20
  Speaker 6: into air.
• 57:22
  Speaker 11: It makes all the difference when you read it. It
• 57:24
  Speaker 11: is not Lafontaine. It is inspiration for shame. It is
• 57:29
  Speaker 11: Lafontaine altered for the better. The heart opens at the
• 57:32
  Speaker 11: sound of your voice, and everything seems to become easy to.
• 57:36
  Speaker 6: Me, everything even spelling.
• 57:39
  Speaker 11: Yes, even spelling. When shall I take my first lesson
• 57:43
  Speaker 11: to night.
• 57:44
  Speaker 6: After the play? But you shall make me keep the
• 57:47
  Speaker 6: stage waiting. I am very near my entrance at you.
• 57:51
  Speaker 11: Then you will see me air, I shall be there.
• 57:53
  Speaker 6: Be sure to let me see you, that my glance
• 57:57
  Speaker 6: may meet yours, that I may address my speech is
• 58:00
  Speaker 6: to you, that you may inspire me. I will do
• 58:05
  Speaker 6: my best to triumph. Ah. Yes, I know that I
• 58:09
  Speaker 6: shall triumph.
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: Exit dear Adrianne following.
• 58:13
  Speaker 11: Who is that the Prince? He must not see me here?
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: Exit? Enter Prince de Boillon and Mademoiselle Juvenaur Prince with letter.
• 58:23
  Speaker 2: Thank you, Mademoiselle, thank you. I shall never forget the
• 58:26
  Speaker 2: service you have rendered me. It was true then, only
• 58:28
  Speaker 2: too true.
• 58:29
  Speaker 12: Lucky chance. I am delighted to have afforded you some gratification.
• 58:33
  Speaker 2: Oh you call it gratification, do you well? Perhaps?
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: Yes?
• 58:37
  Speaker 2: I have for a long time been seeking some pretext
• 58:39
  Speaker 2: to break off my connection with Duke Law.
• 58:41
  Speaker 12: Why did you not say so before?
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: What Mademoiselle enter Abbe right?
• 58:46
  Speaker 2: Ah, it is you Abbe.
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: Exit, Mademoiselle Juvenan, right downstage.
• 58:51
  Speaker 2: I have been successful, or rather you have been successful?
• 58:55
  Speaker 2: Well you know our better two hundred Louis about des
• 58:58
  Speaker 2: sacs de same.
• 59:00
  Speaker 8: I met him in the passage just now. He had
• 59:05
  Speaker 8: evidently just left this room.
• 59:08
  Speaker 2: An additional proof I wish I had met him.
• 59:11
  Speaker 8: You will find him in box three.
• 59:15
  Speaker 2: By and by For that you wanted to know the
• 59:17
  Speaker 2: name of his lady love, and who is it? I
• 59:20
  Speaker 2: had not to go far to discover it.
• 59:23
  Speaker 8: You may pay the wager well, who is it?
• 59:27
  Speaker 2: Read this? It will open your eyes as it did mine.
• 59:30
  Speaker 2: It is not long, neither is it sweet. But it
• 59:33
  Speaker 2: is to the.
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: Point, Abbe reading.
• 59:36
  Speaker 8: For political reasons which you know very well. I shall
• 59:41
  Speaker 8: be glad to meet you Teta tete at ten o'clock
• 59:46
  Speaker 8: tonight at my villa at the Grand Bats earlier, Love
• 59:52
  Speaker 8: and discretion, signed Constance.
• 59:57
  Speaker 2: The signature of that faithless duclos.
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 8: Her name is Constance, then.
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 2: Yes, but the name matters not. I had the note
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 2: from her maid Penelope.
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 8: She gave it to you.
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: Then enter callboy.
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 2: She sold it to me at a good price too.
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: To callboy, who crosses it back.
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 2: Take this note to box three, Do not say who
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 2: gave it to you?
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: Exit? Callboy left downstage.
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 2: And now, my dear Abbe, I rely on.
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 8: You in what way?
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 2: Prince excitedly, I owe it to my princely dignity to
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 2: make a fearful row tonight, and you shall help me.
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 2: We will go to her house and smash everything.
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 8: I think that would be in bad taste for an
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 8: abbe and totally against all principles of science.
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 2: She betrayed science in me.
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 8: Science must know how to keep her secrets. A soldier
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 8: like the counter sex may make as much noise as hekes.
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 8: But you a near relation of the queen, a married man.
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 8: Why our world would laugh at you?
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 2: All our world will laugh anyway. The Theater Francis is
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 2: not a conservatory of secrets. There is Mademoiselle le Juvenor.
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 2: You would swear she had not seen a soul since
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 2: I told her, And yet I feel as though she
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 2: had related the story to a dozen people.
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 8: Well anticipate her tell it to everybody yourself, or better still,
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 8: a revenge worthy of yourself. The two lovers arranged to
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 8: pass this evening tete are tete in that little villa
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 8: which really belongs to you?
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 2: I should think so Have I not bought it and
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 2: furnished it regardless of expense?
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  Speaker 8: So much the better I should treat it as my
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 8: own house, give a fine supper there to night, and
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 8: invite all the company of the teartra France, all the ladies, especially.
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  Speaker 2: A supper splendid idea delicious.
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  Speaker 8: My money you know will pay for it. I lost
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 8: the wager, true instead of the expected tete artet surprise
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 8: a splendid effect, as they say on the stage mythological.
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 2: Tableau, Mars and Venus.
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 8: Surprised Comedieta in one act with a vengeance for a
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 8: moral Go issue your invitations.
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  Speaker 2: Right above all, keep the secret from Duclos, and our
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 2: play will be eminently successful.
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  Speaker 1: Applause outside, Why.
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 2: That's for lucure, bravo. It seems the hour of triumph
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 2: has already come.
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 1: Mischenie runs in.
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 3: Yes, it has come, Adrianne's triumph. Do you hear how
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 3: they are applauding? Go on, Bravo, bravo. Adrian Duclau is nowhere, Bravo, bravo.
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 3: He is actually applauding her.
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 2: Bravo, Bravo. Adrianne, le couvreur. We will get a bouquet.
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 2: A dozen bouquets come along. Abbe do close to be
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 2: mad with jealousy.
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 1: Exant prince, and Abbe michone looking after him.
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 3: She's conquered even him. He has evidently more taste than
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 3: I give him.
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 1: Credit for goes to door.
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 3: Now she's at the monolog What a breathless silence. What
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 3: old she has over them.
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 1: As if hearing her speak.
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  Speaker 3: That's good, that's good. No, not so fast, my darling, Adrian,
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 3: that's good, that's better. What style? How natural? Applaud idio?
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 3: Why don't you applaud splendid?
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: She is divine applause outside.
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 3: It is evident he is in the house. She has
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 3: seen him. And to think that she is acting to him,
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 3: to think that she sees only him at the moment
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 3: that his glance inspires her genius, It is fearful. How
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 3: splendidly that line was delivered. I am going mad. I
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 3: think I am laughing, crying. I think I should die
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 3: with grief and with joy. I am forgetting everything, even my.
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 1: Jealousy looking round him, Yes.
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 3: Even mahnd properties. Where is Satima's letter? I saw it
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 3: a moment ago. Surely I have not lost it. I
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 3: wonder where it can be.
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 1: Looks in table drawer, enter Maurice.
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 11: I wish the dukey of coland were ah, Perhaps in
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 11: this draw I shall miss my appointment with Adrian. On
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 11: the other hand, what am I to do about this note,
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 11: which de Clau has sent me in the name of
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 11: the princess. How on earth did she discover me in
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 11: that box? I can't keep her waiting all night away
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 11: from home, especially as she comes to bring me news
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 11: from the Secretary of State. If I could only see Adrian,
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 11: if I could only tell.
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 1: Her goes towards stage.
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 3: Where are you going, sir?
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 11: I want to speak to Mademoiselle Lecouvre.
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 3: Impossible, sir. She's on the stage.
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 11: When will she leave it?
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 3: She will never leave it if I can help it.
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 1: Maurice aside another mishap to Mi chonnie.
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 11: I wish you would tell her, sir.
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 3: Excuse me, I am very busy.
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 1: Just now pushes Maurice up center enter Quino left.
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 3: My dagg o, quick, my dagg ou, My dear monsieur Kenno.
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 3: Would you mind giving to Zatima as this letter for
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 3: Roxana Ai sor you are joking?
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 9: Son?
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 3: Whom do you take me for? So I beg your pardon.
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 3: Surely you won't mind telling Mademoiselle Jouvena not to go
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 3: on the stage without a letter which is on this table.
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 1: Very well, sir, She shall be told exit rate to
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 1: stage Maurice goes to table. Michonee follows.
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 3: Quino laughing is aye and mightiness. Sir Grand Vizier is
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 3: not in good humor. Roxanna is too much for him.
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 1: Goes to door.
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 3: Ah therere is Ducroux. You may try whatever you like,
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 3: poor girl, Your sing song won't do any more. It
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 3: is old fashioned. It's all over with you. You're beaten, Maurice said.
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 1: The table takes the parchment which Missionete has placed there
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 1: and opens it.
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 11: What not a word written on it? By Jove? All
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 11: is fair in love and war? That line will.
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 1: Explain, writes a few lines in pencil, and replaces parchment. Michonete,
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 1: still listening.
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 3: Ah, theresatrine again. How sweet her voice is. If I
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 3: were a cis sire, perhaps I would play as a lovers.
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 3: I should be playing by Jazette, and she would say
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 3: to me, I love you. One is always young and
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 3: handsome when one is a sissietaire of the Commie de Frances.
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 1: Enter Mademoiselle Juvenal hastily right downstage. Mademoiselle Juvenaur crosses to table.
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 12: Right, where is my letter, mischone My letter to Roxanna.
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 3: Here on his table did not Monsieur Canno tell you.
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 12: No, you know he wouldn't stoop to do a kindness
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 12: for the world.
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 1: Maurice gives parchment.
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 11: Here it is Mademoiselle.
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 12: Thanks, monsieur. What a handsome young officer, Very handsome.
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 3: You will miss your cue. Mademoiselle hurrying her.
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 1: I am going exit right.
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 11: The fates have been propitious. She'll have the paper, she'll
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 11: know that I can't come this evening. Oh, my Duchy
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 11: of Courland, you are costing me very.
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 3: Dear exit left, Ah Sarah Satima. She gives Roxine the letter. Eavens.
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 3: What an effect. Adrienne is trembling. She seems hardly able
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 3: to stand. Admirable, beautiful applause. Outside there is the curtain. Yes,
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 3: applaud don't be afraid to damage your hands. Bravo, bravo.
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 1: Enter Adrienne hurriedly with letter.
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 6: Where is he? He Ooh the gentleman who wrote this note?
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 1: This note?
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 3: What note?
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 6: These lines on my letter?
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 1: Hans missione letter?
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 3: Why it's Satima's letter to Roxanna reads, I cannot come
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 3: this evening, my darling. Duties which I cannot explain prevent me.
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 3: I have only a moment to write this line till tomorrow.
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 3: Dearest Maurice, how on earth did he manage this? Never mind,
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 3: so you succeeded tonight.
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 1: Enter Quino Russell, Mademoiselle Juvenal, Mademoiselle d'anjerville, Prince and Abbe
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 1: write one right, Actors and actresses.
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 8: Let me congratulate you. Mademoiselle, you were sublime.
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 2: Mademoiselle. Allow me to pay my homage at the shrine of.
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 3: Genius courage my child. Here is everybody congratulating you on
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 3: your triumph.
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 6: My triumph, and he did not stay to see it.
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 9: Ah wait tears well, Prince, you were.
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 2: Saying, I am desirous of celebrating your success tonight by
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 2: a supper. I have invited most of the ladies and
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 2: gentlemen of the Theater Francais, but our company would be
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 2: incomplete without you, Mademoiselle lacouvreur.
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 6: I know not how to thank you, but I am
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 6: not inclined to pleasure this evening.
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 8: Abbe left so much more reason to join our gaiety,
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 8: a charming supper where you will meet the very bes
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 8: people in.
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 1: Our points to actors at court, points to Prince among
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 1: the clergy, points to himself, and in the army.
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 8: The young Count de Sex will be with us. He
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 8: is the hero of the evening.
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 6: Oh, I am so anxious to see the Count of Sacks.
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 3: Indeed, I wish to ask a.
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 6: Favor of him, to intercede with him for a young
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 6: lieutenant whom I wish to make a captain.
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 8: We will place you next to the Count at supper,
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 8: and before the dessert is brought in. Your friend will
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 8: be a colonel.
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 6: Your offer is very tempting. But where am I to
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 6: go to? I have no one to escort me, may
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 6: I ah? No? Thanks?
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 2: Well, then come alone, you know dou Claus little villa.
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 6: Yes, what a lovely garden she has?
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 2: Her garden faces yours. Here is the key of the
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 2: garden gate. It is only a few steps.
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 6: That is an inducement.
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 8: Certainly you accept?
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 6: Then I have not said so.
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 2: Yet, monsieur. Will he accompany you with pleasure?
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 3: Prince? That is to say, as soon as I have
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 3: made all arrangements for tomorrow's performance.
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 1: Aside looking at Adrienne, I shall be near heer Adrienne.
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 6: Aside, Yes, I will try to advance his interest. He
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 6: shall see that I have not forgotten him. The ungrateful
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 6: man that shall be my revenge.
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 1: Cowboy outside beginners for the second.
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 3: Act, Beginners, ladies and gentlemen.
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 1: To Prince and Abbe, who are surrounded by ladies.
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 3: I am very sorry, but I shall have to send
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 3: your Highness and your reference.
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 1: Away separates them from the actors.
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 3: You will keep the stretch waiting to Prince. That way, monseigneur,
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 3: if you please.
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 1: Ex omni except Adrienne and Miche.
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 3: And now to commence the act.
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 1: Exit write downstage three knocks heard outside right.
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 6: No, this is not a letter from one who is faithless.
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 6: The loving hand that traced it is visible in every
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 6: stroke till tomorrow. Dearest Maurice.
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 1: Kisses letter Maurice.
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 6: As I breathe the name, soft zephyrs seem to waft
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 6: the echoes back to my heart, Maurice, my love.
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 9: Ah.
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 6: If it is only a dream, then let me dream.
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 6: I am so happy.
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 1: Entered Michioney right downstage Atrienne.
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 3: Atrienne, it is near your.
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 1: Entrance, touches her. She takes no notice.
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 3: Come, Atrienne, it is near your cue recovering.
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, as if from a dream, I am going
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 1: act drop. End of Act two, Act three of Adrienne
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 1: Lecouvre by Gabrielle Legouve and Eugene Scribe, translated by H. Hermann.
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 1: This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in
• 1:13:26
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• 1:13:31
  Speaker 1: visit LibriVox dot org. Scene an elegant salon in the
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 1: house of Grange Vattellier center doors back, a sliding panel door,
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 1: right door, left window right. Princess discovered.
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 4: I am waiting. I a princess de Bouillon, am actually
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 4: being kept waiting. I cannot disguise the fact I am
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 4: being kept waiting. Do close sent me word that Maurice
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 4: had received her note that he was in a box
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 4: at the theater alone alone. I am not so sure
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 4: that that is true. I hurried here, and he perhaps
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 4: keeps me in suspense for.
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 1: Another clock strikes.
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 4: Eleven o'clock count count. Last year, you were always the
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 4: first to arrive. Now you are more than an hour late.
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 4: I hurried hither to serve you, and you allow me
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 4: time to reflect that I could also ruin you if
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 4: I chose to, Since your political fortune is in my hands.
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 4: You are more than ungrateful.
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 1: You are foolish enter Maurice.
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 11: Oh, at last a thousand pardons.
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 4: Princess, no excuses, pray another might perhaps think of her injured.
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 4: I am only calculating the time I have lost without
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 4: seeing you. At midnight, I must be back home again.
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 4: I have been to Versailles, as I promised you, and
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 4: the Queen has interceded for you with the Cardinal.
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 1: How good of you, kisses her hand.
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 4: The Secretary of State gives you permission to raise the
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 4: two regiments at your own expense. Hurrah, madman, have you
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 4: any money?
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 6: No?
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 4: How will you pay your soldiers?
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 11: Then I shall not pay them at all, except after
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 11: a victory. They are quite willing to get killed for
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 11: me on credit.
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 4: But you owe the Count calcrit sixty thousand livres on
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 4: a promisory note. What of that most dangerous? The Russian
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 4: ambassador has set the police on your track. And that
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 4: is not all. Your Russian friend is trying his utmost
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 4: to discover the whereabouts of Monsieur de Calcurtz.
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 11: And for what purpose to buy.
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 4: Your promissory note, and to become your creditor, so as
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 4: to be a to have you thrown in prison.
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 11: That would be gentlemanly conduct.
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 4: Indeed, it would be a stroke of genius. While you
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 4: are a prisoner, the Russians could do what they liked
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 4: in Corlan.
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 11: That's true. What's to be done?
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 4: The chief of police has promised to inform me of
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 4: Monsieur de Calcritz's address. The moment he has news, then
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 4: you will go and see your creditor.
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 11: To fight him.
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 4: No, to make some arrangement. The simplest would be to
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 4: pay him.
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 11: And how I have not sixty thousand livres.
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 4: And alas neither have I.
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 11: Besides that I would not accept them from you. There
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 11: is only one other way, and that is to leave Russia,
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 11: Sweden and the police to fight it out amongst themselves.
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 11: I leave tomorrow, but.
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 4: Surely you cannot want to leave Paris so soon. The
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 4: least thing you could do would be to stop a
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 4: few days that you might recompense me for all I
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 4: have risked for your sake.
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 11: I should be ungrateful. Indeed, if I were not frank
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 11: with you, I do not understand deception. This morning I
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 11: intended to confess.
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 4: That you love another whom.
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 11: One perhaps not to be compared to you.
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 4: But whom answer you do not know what I am
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 4: capable of. When I am roused.
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 11: Why should I not tell you loyally the truth. I
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 11: have never seen a more charming woman than yourself, nor
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 11: one whom it was more difficult to resist. And why
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 11: because the charms by which you held your admirers were
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 11: garlands of flowers. They were so graceful, so delicate, that
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 11: they seemed made for adornment, but not for bondage. Maurice,
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 11: you know the stipulations of our Platonic treaty. Our intimacy
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 11: was to be a sort of pastime, not a serious engagement.
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 11: You reserved the right to break it at will, and
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 11: that was only just. But where there is no oath
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 11: of fidelity, there can be no perjury. I should be
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 11: a villain if I ever wanted in friendship, in gratitude
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 11: to you, But in all other respects, Princess, I think
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 11: I am free.
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 4: Free to betray me. We shall see. I will know her.
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 4: Should I have to ruin you, to ruin her, I
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 4: would do so.
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 11: Hush.
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 4: Do you hear that noise in the garden, the sound
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 4: of wheels?
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 11: Do you expect anybody?
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 4: Of course not. Mademoiselle de Claux is the only person
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 4: who could come, and she would not dare knowing. I
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 4: am here, heavens, it is my husband. Impossible, it is
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 4: the Prince. I am sure I recognized him, but he
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 4: is not alone. Others are with him.
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 11: I can hear them. They are coming up the staircase.
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 4: I am lost. My reputation will be ruined. They are coming.
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 1: Points to door left. Ah, that door rushes to door left?
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 4: Where does it lead to to a small boudoir?
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 1: Rushes out door right? Enter Prince and Abbe.
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 2: Ah, we have caught you.
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 11: Count you here, gentlemen.
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 2: I saw the lady. I saw her.
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 11: How you are jesting?
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 2: No, not at all. I caught sight of a flowing robe,
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 2: just as it slipped through the door. Aha, Saxony attacking France.
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 8: What do you mean that we know all, my dear count,
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 8: And such an affair must not pass in silence. We
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 8: want noise, plenty of witnesses.
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 1: Maurice to Prince.
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 11: I should have thought, Prince, that it would be in
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 11: your interest to avoid publicity. But since you desire it, since.
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 2: You know everything, I have proofs.
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 11: Well, I am at your service. If the Abbe will consent,
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 11: notwithstanding his cloth, to be our witness. I think there
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 11: is a garden here. We can just step downstairs at
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 11: this hour. All the hours will do for fighting.
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 8: That is just where you are wrong. Count We are
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 8: not speaking of fighting with a magnanimity which is hardly
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 8: ever equalled on the stage. The Prince is willing that
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 8: you should retain your conquest on the con condition that
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 8: the treaty of peace be ratified here by a supper.
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 11: Gentlemen, you are laughing, I.
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 1: Should think so it is my interest to prove to
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 1: Duke Law Maurice aside.
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 11: He thinks it is to Claude.
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 8: That I don't care for her a bit and that
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 8: France and Saxony are not going to fight about her
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 8: a little bit.
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 1: Ha ha.
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 2: It will be fun. But you're not laughing. You seem puzzled.
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 11: Yes I was at first, but now I see a
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 11: capital joke.
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 2: Is it not to carry off Duke Law with my
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 2: consent as an act of friendship?
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 8: And now, as allies you must shake hands certainly, and
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 8: as it will be necessary to have to conform to
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 8: legalaxy for the ratification of the treaty, I will fetch
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 8: the notary of the comedy. Francis and a lot of witnesses.
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 1: Exit center door.
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 2: What does he say, ah, you have no idea of
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 2: the brilliant society you will meet in my house, or
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 2: rather in yours, for tonight. You are the master, the
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 2: hero of the evening. The celebration is in your honor.
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 11: You are too kind, and.
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 2: I have another surprise for you. A charming young lady
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 2: is anxious to make your acquaintance, and the Abbe, who
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 2: is our master of ceremonies, is gone to fetch her
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 2: to introduce you to her before supper.
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 11: You do me infinite honor aside, if only I could
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 11: set the poor prisoner.
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 1: Free prince at center door.
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 2: Come, Mademoiselle, the Count de Saxe is awaiting you impatiently.
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 1: Enter Abbe and Adrienne.
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 2: Mademoiselle, you are trembling.
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 6: I always do in the presence of great men.
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 2: Mademoiselle le couvreur, allow me to present to you.
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 1: Maurice turns round quickly.
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 2: The Count de Saxe.
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 11: Heavens, the Count de Sacks.
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 6: It is not possible.
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 1: Maurice whispers, silence, What is the matter, Only a surprise,
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 1: quite natural?
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 6: I thought I did not know the Count de Saxe,
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 6: and I know him well, very well by sight. Oh no,
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 6: I have already spoken to him.
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 2: Where at the ball at the opera in disguise.
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 6: Yes, the Count de Sacks seems to like disguises.
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 11: Perhaps there were reasons. And if I were to ask
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 11: you to judge for yourself, Mademoiselle.
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 8: That comes quite apropos. For Mademoiselle Lecouvra has a favor
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 8: to ask, scold you of me.
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 2: Yes, she only consented to come with us to intercede
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 2: with you for a young lieutenant, a friend of hers.
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 8: For whom she wanted to obtain a captaincy.
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 11: Indeed, Mademoiselle, you I did.
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 6: But now I dare not. And why I thought him
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 6: only a poor officer with no fortune but his sword?
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 6: But now I fear he does not require my assistance.
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 11: Whoever he may be, your protection must always be a
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 11: source of happiness to him.
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 6: We shall see. I'll inquire, and if he is really worthy.
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 2: You shall have plenty of time to speak about that.
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 2: At supper you shall sit side by side. And now, abbe,
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 2: I think it is time to see if everything is ready.
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 8: Yes, I will look after the fruits and flowers. I
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 8: am the presiding genius on this occasion exits.
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 2: I have something still more important to look after. I
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 2: must see that no one leaves his house before supper.
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 6: Oh, I am not going away, I promise, but I'll
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 6: make sure.
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 2: I will myself see all the doors locked, and give
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 2: the passwords, so that no one may be able to
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 2: leave before daybreak.
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 1: Exit, Maurice, By Jove, what will become of the princess you.
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 6: The Count de Sacks. I can scarcely believe it. Speak
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 6: that I may be sure I am not dreaming. My Adrianne, Maurice,
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 6: my idol, my hero, my heart spoke. Truly you are great.
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 11: Hush. The mystery which has hitherto shrouded our love is
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 11: more than ever necessary.
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 6: Now do not fear. The flame of my love is
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 6: far too fierce to be fanned by the breath of pride.
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 6: Were they not speaking of some new enterprise, of some
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 6: fresh campaign against Russia, of the conquest of the Duchy
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 6: of Courland, which you were about to undertake unaided? I
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 6: can well understand that when such vast interest are at stake,
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 6: the love of a poor girl like myself must stand
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 6: sorely in your way. No, oh, no, never, I will
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 6: be silent. My joy and my pride shall lie buried
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 6: in my heart in secret. Only I will feast on
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 6: your love and your glory. If I will show my
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 6: adoration for the great soldier of the age, it will
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 6: be in common with the crowd. They may celebrate your exploits,
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 6: but I shall hear them from your own lips. They
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 6: will grant you titles, wealth, but you will allow me
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 6: to assuage your grief. You will speak to me of
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 6: the enemies born of your success, of the sting of
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 6: jealousy and envy that persecute the hero of the battlefield
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 6: quite as much as the artist. You will confide in me,
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 6: and I will console you, inspire you. My voice will say, courage,
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 6: march on to the great goal which you have in view.
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 6: As France's glory spreads its halo over you, so will
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 6: the record of your deeds be glorious to her. To
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 6: her devote your genius, your strong right arm. I ask
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 6: nothing but your.
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 11: Love, my good Angel. Thus be ever with me.
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 6: Yes, ever always see even to night. Distressed by your absence,
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 6: I was thinking of you. I thought I might intercede
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 6: for you with the Count de Sacks. Yes. Emboldened by
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 6: my love for you, I came here intent to use
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 6: all my arts to win his favor. That was my intention.
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 6: It is so still shall I succeed?
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 11: Bright fairy? Who could resist you? And so you were
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 11: going to dazzle this Count de Sacks with all your witchery.
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 6: Ah, you see how lucky you are. Even when the
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 6: fates seemed to conspire again. You, you and the Count
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 6: de Sachs alone occupied my thoughts. But hush.
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 1: Someone comes enter Abbe carrying a basket of flowers, and
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 1: Missionee left Abbe, placing basket on table and making bouquets
• 1:27:18
  Speaker 1: while speaking to Missioney.
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 8: I am very sorry for you, my dear Missionay, but
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 8: the orders are final. No one who has entered here
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 8: leaves before daybreak.
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 3: I thought that your good offices would be sufficient to
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 3: enable me to get away, if only for a moment.
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 8: Oh, I cannot help you. My concern lies with flowers,
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 8: bouquets and supper. But the Prince is the governor. He
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 8: himself locked all the gates of the fortress, and he
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 8: has the keys in his pockets.
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 6: Butte, what is it.
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 3: Most important about tomorrow's performance?
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 6: Poor fellow? He thinks of that only by day, and
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 6: dreams of it at night.
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 3: One of the artists has been suddenly taken ill, and
• 1:28:14
  Speaker 3: I wanted to see Mademoiselle Duclaux. What to ask her?
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 3: If she will play Cleopatra tomorrow?
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 1: Is that all still arranging bouquets? Maurice aside now for it.
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 8: If that is the case, you need not trouble yourself.
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 8: My good friend Mademoiselle Duclaux will sup with us.
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 3: Tonight, all right, then I'll stay.
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 1: Yes, she is.
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 8: The heroine of the evening, asked the Comte de Saxe,
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 8: Adrienne to Maurice.
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 6: This is Monsieur Michonette, our prompter and my best friend.
• 1:28:55
  Speaker 3: I believe I had the pleasure of seeing his excellency
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 3: this evening in the.
• 1:28:59
  Speaker 1: Green room to Adrienne.
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 6: And I think he asked after you, that does not matter,
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 6: now what about Cleopatra and Mademoiselle du Clouse.
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 3: But since you will shure me that she.
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 1: Is here, abbe leaving the table and coming between Adrianne
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 1: and Micheoni and running a ribbon round a bouquet.
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 8: This is her house. She made an appointment here with
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 8: the Count Sax. What do you say, Oh, it was
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 8: to be strictly private. Quite tete our tete. I know
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 8: all about it, but I am guilty of indiscretion. In
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 8: saying a word about it before supper. Never mind, we
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 8: are here among friends, so I think I may tell
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 8: the story.
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 11: I shall not allow it, sir.
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 8: They count is right. He knows the details much better
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 8: than I let him relate it. Sir, I should spoil
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 8: it altogether. I'm afraid whilst the hero of the adventure
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 8: to Adrienne, might I offer this bouquet of Melpomene. Oh good, gracious,
• 1:30:17
  Speaker 8: what a tragic expression. See if yourself, counts.
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 3: Adrienne, what is the matter?
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 6: I nothing, nothing. I am quite well, you see. I
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 6: am only sorry to have interrupted the adventure, the account
• 1:30:34
  Speaker 6: of which we were about to hear.
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 8: And it was an adventure. Just as we were entering
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 8: the room, Mademoiselle du Clo left it. We saw her
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 8: run out of that door, pointing, and she is there
• 1:30:52
  Speaker 8: still here. Yes, go and look, I.
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 11: Will stay one word.
• 1:30:58
  Speaker 3: I'll go and see. I must know if she will
• 1:31:01
  Speaker 3: play Cleopatra exit door.
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 11: A political negotiation of which neither the Prince nor the
• 1:31:08
  Speaker 11: Abbe must have the slightest knowledge, brought me here tonight.
• 1:31:12
  Speaker 11: My whole future depends on it.
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 6: And Mademoiselle du Clause she.
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 11: Is not here, and I do not love the person
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 11: who is in that room. I swear it upon my honor.
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 11: Do you believe me? I do, thanks, But you must
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 11: do even more than that for me. You must prevent
• 1:31:28
  Speaker 11: the abbe from entering that room and from seeing the
• 1:31:31
  Speaker 11: person who is in there, whilst I will endeavor to
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 11: get her out of this house unperceived.
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 6: Go, I will watch here.
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 11: Thanks Adrian, thanks, exit center upon his honor.
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 6: Oh no, I cannot disbelieve him.
• 1:31:48
  Speaker 3: Enter Michone, Atrienne, Atrienne, what an adventure?
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 6: What is it?
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 3: It is not Duclau, he said, So it is really
• 1:31:58
  Speaker 3: not Duclaux.
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 8: War not Duclau. Who is it? Then?
• 1:32:04
  Speaker 3: Hush, it is a secret.
• 1:32:06
  Speaker 8: Well, there are only three of us, and I don't count.
• 1:32:12
  Speaker 8: Not you Cloe and the Count de Sex confessed it
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 8: was she? Who is he? Then?
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 3: I don't know. I know only that it is not
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 3: she that I swear.
• 1:32:26
  Speaker 8: Have you seen her?
• 1:32:28
  Speaker 3: Not at all?
• 1:32:29
  Speaker 6: Good?
• 1:32:30
  Speaker 3: It was quite dark still I thought I saw by
• 1:32:33
  Speaker 3: the window the lace wrapper of a lady. I said,
• 1:32:37
  Speaker 3: simply business, I am missionay, will you play Cleopatra tomorrow?
• 1:32:44
  Speaker 3: An unknown voice replied, for whom do you take me for?
• 1:32:49
  Speaker 3: Mademoiselle Duclaux, of course, I said, I am not Duclo,
• 1:32:55
  Speaker 3: continued the voice. I am here on a matter that
• 1:32:59
  Speaker 3: must remains strictly secret. But whoever you may be, if
• 1:33:04
  Speaker 3: you can find me as a means to escape from
• 1:33:07
  Speaker 3: this house unseen, you may count upon my protection and
• 1:33:11
  Speaker 3: your fortune is made. I replied that I was not ambitious,
• 1:33:17
  Speaker 3: but if she could only procure my nomination as a
• 1:33:20
  Speaker 3: secietaire of the comedy, Franz says, well, I would do
• 1:33:26
  Speaker 3: what I could do for her. I shall be a
• 1:33:28
  Speaker 3: secietaur at last. Now what can be done?
• 1:33:33
  Speaker 8: First of all, we must know who she is.
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 6: Surely you don't think that.
• 1:33:39
  Speaker 8: But she came here with the count the sex of that.
• 1:33:43
  Speaker 8: I am sure.
• 1:33:45
  Speaker 6: Some much more the reason to respect her.
• 1:33:48
  Speaker 8: But you don't know. You cannot know what interest I
• 1:33:53
  Speaker 8: have to know the name this person.
• 1:33:56
  Speaker 1: Adrianne aside Maurice spoke truth abe a sigh.
• 1:34:02
  Speaker 8: The princess relies upon me, and I must know it.
• 1:34:06
  Speaker 8: At any price.
• 1:34:08
  Speaker 6: Monsieur, you will not enter here but just a glimpse. No,
• 1:34:14
  Speaker 6: I will appeal to the Prince himself, who will not
• 1:34:17
  Speaker 6: permit in his house.
• 1:34:19
  Speaker 1: You are right.
• 1:34:21
  Speaker 8: I will fly to the Prince. He will be delighted.
• 1:34:26
  Speaker 8: What luck for him? Do you clue? Innocent, after all,
• 1:34:31
  Speaker 8: completely innocent. He did not expect it, neither did I.
• 1:34:39
  Speaker 1: Exit, he's gone.
• 1:34:40
  Speaker 3: What are you going to do?
• 1:34:42
  Speaker 6: Set free that person, whoever she may be, and save her?
• 1:34:47
  Speaker 6: But why I promised, and I will it?
• 1:34:51
  Speaker 3: So enough? May I at least assist you be of
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 3: some use?
• 1:34:55
  Speaker 6: No, not a soul must see.
• 1:34:57
  Speaker 1: Her blows out the candles, not even I.
• 1:35:01
  Speaker 3: But how are you going? To many chins dark?
• 1:35:04
  Speaker 6: Fear nothing, watch outside that nobody may surprise us.
• 1:35:08
  Speaker 3: It is a peculiar business. But I am going. I
• 1:35:13
  Speaker 3: am going.
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 1: Exit. Adrienne searches for door and knocks.
• 1:35:18
  Speaker 6: No answer. Open, madame, in the name of Maurice de Saxe.
• 1:35:24
  Speaker 1: Door opens, Ah.
• 1:35:26
  Speaker 6: I knew the open, sesesme for this enchanted.
• 1:35:29
  Speaker 1: Gave princess opening door.
• 1:35:32
  Speaker 4: What do you want with me to save you?
• 1:35:35
  Speaker 6: To afford your means of leaving this place?
• 1:35:38
  Speaker 4: While the doors are locked.
• 1:35:39
  Speaker 6: I have the key of the garden gate.
• 1:35:42
  Speaker 4: How fortunate? Give it? Give it?
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 6: Unfortunately that is not enough. You will have to descend unseen.
• 1:35:50
  Speaker 6: But how I do not know. I am unacquainted with
• 1:35:54
  Speaker 6: the house.
• 1:35:55
  Speaker 4: Be reassured there is a secret door panel somewhere about here,
• 1:35:59
  Speaker 4: sir Ah, Here it is but you to whom I
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 4: owe so much? Who are you?
• 1:36:06
  Speaker 6: No matter go?
• 1:36:08
  Speaker 4: I cannot distinguish your features.
• 1:36:11
  Speaker 6: Nor I yours.
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 4: I know your voice, I have heard it more than once. Yes, yes,
• 1:36:18
  Speaker 4: why spurn my gratitude? It is you, du chaste mir pois.
• 1:36:24
  Speaker 6: No no but delay, not a moment to escape the
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 6: danger which threatens you. You know it? Then never mind,
• 1:36:33
  Speaker 6: Trust to my discretion, and fear nothing.
• 1:36:36
  Speaker 4: But the danger, the secret? Who confided it to you?
• 1:36:40
  Speaker 6: One who tells me everything?
• 1:36:43
  Speaker 1: Princess a sigh? Heavens allowed?
• 1:36:46
  Speaker 4: Who gave Maurice the right to tell you everything?
• 1:36:49
  Speaker 6: And who gave you the right to call him Maurice?
• 1:36:53
  Speaker 6: And by what right do you question me? Why your
• 1:36:58
  Speaker 6: hand is trembling? You love him for.
• 1:37:01
  Speaker 4: All the passion of my soul.
• 1:37:03
  Speaker 6: And so do I?
• 1:37:05
  Speaker 4: Ah, you are the one I seek? And who are
• 1:37:09
  Speaker 4: you greater than you? That is certain? Who will prove
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 4: that I will ruin you?
• 1:37:17
  Speaker 6: And I I protect you?
• 1:37:20
  Speaker 4: This is too much. I must see your face.
• 1:37:23
  Speaker 6: Then I shall have to tear the mask from yours.
• 1:37:27
  Speaker 1: Prince outside be gad, Now we shall learn the truth,
• 1:37:31
  Speaker 1: Princess asigh.
• 1:37:33
  Speaker 4: My husband's voice, and I have to leave when my
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 4: rival is in my power. When I am about to see.
• 1:37:39
  Speaker 6: Her, stay, do stay? They are bringing lights?
• 1:37:43
  Speaker 4: Yes, I will stay. Oh no, no, I dare.
• 1:37:48
  Speaker 1: Not rushes through secret door, encloses it. Enter Prince and
• 1:37:54
  Speaker 1: abbey and ladies and two servants with lights. Darienne to Prince,
• 1:38:00
  Speaker 1: come in, looks round.
• 1:38:02
  Speaker 6: She has gone vanished. How I hate her?
• 1:38:06
  Speaker 1: Prince to abbe, you are positive that it is not
• 1:38:10
  Speaker 1: Duke lan I swear it well.
• 1:38:13
  Speaker 2: I believe you, but I must judge for myself.
• 1:38:15
  Speaker 1: Come with me exempt right adrianne aside on my.
• 1:38:21
  Speaker 6: Honor, he said, upon his honor, I cannot believe yet
• 1:38:27
  Speaker 6: that he has deceived me.
• 1:38:28
  Speaker 1: Intermissione on tiptoe.
• 1:38:30
  Speaker 3: Well, that lady you have saved dozen. Yes, she crossed
• 1:38:35
  Speaker 3: the garden just now with the const de saxe. Are
• 1:38:39
  Speaker 3: you sure of course? I am in a hurry. She
• 1:38:42
  Speaker 3: drops his Bracelet give it to.
• 1:38:44
  Speaker 6: Me, and the count sacks he.
• 1:38:48
  Speaker 3: Left with her with her. Yes, don't you trouble yourself
• 1:38:52
  Speaker 3: about her? They seemed very happy together.
• 1:38:56
  Speaker 6: All hope is lost upon his honor, he said, upon his.
• 1:39:02
  Speaker 1: Honor, staggers and falls on chair. Act drop. End of
• 1:39:10
  Speaker 1: Act three Act four of Adrienne le Couvreur by Gabrielle
• 1:39:21
  Speaker 1: Legouvet and Eugene Scribe, translated by H. Hermann. This is
• 1:39:28
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• 1:39:39
  Speaker 1: Scene an elegantly furnished salon in the hotel of the Prince. Doors.
• 1:39:45
  Speaker 1: Princess discovered. Servant discovered.
• 1:39:47
  Speaker 4: You have not been able to discover any trace of
• 1:39:49
  Speaker 4: my bracelet. No, your Highness, have you seen the coachman.
• 1:39:53
  Speaker 10: He knows nothing of it.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I place implicit confidence in you that bracelet
• 1:39:59
  Speaker 4: must be found. At any price, it shall be found.
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  Speaker 1: Servant goes up to table and is about to take
• 1:40:06
  Speaker 1: casket from it.
• 1:40:07
  Speaker 4: What have you there?
• 1:40:08
  Speaker 10: The casket which his Highness brought yesterday?
• 1:40:11
  Speaker 4: Oh, that horrible thing. Take it out of my sight.
• 1:40:14
  Speaker 4: Stay who is with the Prince Now?
• 1:40:16
  Speaker 10: A messenger from Mademoiselle.
• 1:40:19
  Speaker 4: Le Couvreur, from Mademoiselle la Couvreur.
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  Speaker 1: Aside, and not to me, Monsieur.
• 1:40:26
  Speaker 4: De Bouillon, you are fickle duclos yesterday la creuvreur. Today
• 1:40:32
  Speaker 4: to servants, do you know the messenger.
• 1:40:35
  Speaker 10: Yes, it is Monsieur Micheone, the prompter of the Comdie Francaise.
• 1:40:40
  Speaker 1: Princess a side the man.
• 1:40:42
  Speaker 4: Who came into the room where I was hidden in
• 1:40:44
  Speaker 4: that dreadful house. When I think that she was in
• 1:40:47
  Speaker 4: my power and that she escaped me unknown, unrecognized, but
• 1:40:52
  Speaker 4: I will know her. Her voice seems still to be
• 1:40:56
  Speaker 4: ringing in my ears. I know every intonation, and yet
• 1:41:01
  Speaker 4: I cannot place it. But when I have found her,
• 1:41:05
  Speaker 4: two servants, what are you waiting for.
• 1:41:08
  Speaker 10: For your orders?
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 4: Your highness, why are you holding that casket? Put it down?
• 1:41:13
  Speaker 10: Your Highness just ordered me to take it away.
• 1:41:15
  Speaker 3: Stop.
• 1:41:16
  Speaker 1: Go slowly up to servant and takes the casket from
• 1:41:19
  Speaker 1: his hand.
• 1:41:20
  Speaker 4: Give it to me. I will see to it myself.
• 1:41:23
  Speaker 1: Servant bows and exits. Princess takes up casket and makes
• 1:41:28
  Speaker 1: a movement to open it, but shuts it again quickly.
• 1:41:31
  Speaker 1: Michionee's voice outside.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks points a thousand thanks. Not another step further. It
• 1:41:38
  Speaker 3: is too much honor that man.
• 1:41:42
  Speaker 4: Ah, when I have found.
• 1:41:44
  Speaker 1: Her, takes up casket and exits quickly. Enter Michionee to
• 1:41:49
  Speaker 1: think of it.
• 1:41:50
  Speaker 3: A Prince de Bouyon, a descendant of the crusaders conducting
• 1:41:55
  Speaker 3: me to his door. Me, the poor prompter. What more
• 1:41:59
  Speaker 3: could he have done if I were a ceciataire. Well,
• 1:42:03
  Speaker 3: I have executed my commission successfully too. I can go
• 1:42:07
  Speaker 3: back to rehearsal.
• 1:42:09
  Speaker 1: Looks at watch.
• 1:42:10
  Speaker 3: Goodness, gracious, they will all be gone. And I was
• 1:42:14
  Speaker 3: not there. It is the first time I have missed
• 1:42:17
  Speaker 3: a call since I've been in the theater. It is
• 1:42:20
  Speaker 3: too terrible to contemplate. But then Adrienne asked me to
• 1:42:25
  Speaker 3: come here, and she seemed so impatient for the answer, and.
• 1:42:30
  Speaker 1: Her servant and Adrienne.
• 1:42:32
  Speaker 10: Yes, Mademoiselle, he is here still exit missione right.
• 1:42:37
  Speaker 3: Dear me, She has come for the answer herself.
• 1:42:41
  Speaker 6: I have been waiting for you for an age. Where
• 1:42:44
  Speaker 6: have you been these two hours? I was afraid you
• 1:42:47
  Speaker 6: had met with an accident, some obstacle.
• 1:42:50
  Speaker 3: Had it evened obstacle none whatsoever? Every door opened at
• 1:42:56
  Speaker 3: the mention of your name. I was shown to the
• 1:42:59
  Speaker 3: Prince at once. I didn't make a long story of it,
• 1:43:03
  Speaker 3: I said, simply, Your Highness has often told Mademoiselle Lecouvre
• 1:43:09
  Speaker 3: that you would give her sixty thousand livres for the
• 1:43:12
  Speaker 3: diamonds presented to her by the Queen and your highness
• 1:43:17
  Speaker 3: ere as the diamonds, please give me some money. That
• 1:43:22
  Speaker 3: was short and sweet, wasn't it well? And then he
• 1:43:25
  Speaker 3: didn't give me some money at once. He wanted to
• 1:43:29
  Speaker 3: know what it was for. I told him I didn't know,
• 1:43:32
  Speaker 3: And as you hadn't told me, that was perfectly true,
• 1:43:35
  Speaker 3: ummed and hard. And then sat down and wrote on
• 1:43:39
  Speaker 3: this scrapper paper an order upon the treasury for sixty
• 1:43:44
  Speaker 3: thousand livres. Give this to Mademoiselle le Couvre, he said,
• 1:43:50
  Speaker 3: and tell her that I keep her diamonds merely as
• 1:43:53
  Speaker 3: a deposit. I liked that, and then he added, whenever
• 1:43:58
  Speaker 3: she likes to take the trouble to fetch them herself,
• 1:44:01
  Speaker 3: she can have them back again. I didn't quite like that.
• 1:44:05
  Speaker 6: Then you have the sixty thousand livres.
• 1:44:08
  Speaker 3: Yes, and also, sir, ten thousand more so that you wanted.
• 1:44:12
  Speaker 3: I fetched them first. That's what kept me so long.
• 1:44:16
  Speaker 3: You're not angry with me, now, are you?
• 1:44:18
  Speaker 6: And where did you get them?
• 1:44:20
  Speaker 1: From?
• 1:44:20
  Speaker 3: My uncle's notary?
• 1:44:22
  Speaker 6: It is your inheritance all you have in the world.
• 1:44:26
  Speaker 6: Good kind Micheuette, I dare not take it. I may
• 1:44:30
  Speaker 6: risk my fortune, but not yours.
• 1:44:33
  Speaker 3: But why risk explain? I cannot so, don't. I shan't
• 1:44:39
  Speaker 3: ask you take it? That's all I want.
• 1:44:42
  Speaker 1: Well, aside, I.
• 1:44:43
  Speaker 6: Shall be able to restore it to him after all,
• 1:44:47
  Speaker 6: to mischiony take all this money at once to the
• 1:44:50
  Speaker 6: Russian ambassador.
• 1:44:51
  Speaker 3: Sir, Russian Ambassador, Yes, and.
• 1:44:54
  Speaker 6: Get from him with a receipt for the interest a
• 1:44:58
  Speaker 6: promissory note drawn by the Count de Cocruz and accepted
• 1:45:04
  Speaker 6: by the Count de Sachs. I don't understand, well, there
• 1:45:09
  Speaker 6: is no reason why you should.
• 1:45:11
  Speaker 1: Enter Abbe Center.
• 1:45:13
  Speaker 6: Hush, hush, that busybody, the Abbe Abbe Center.
• 1:45:18
  Speaker 8: How Mademoiselle lecouri here already. I hope that you are
• 1:45:25
  Speaker 8: not going to say that we are to be deprived
• 1:45:28
  Speaker 8: of your charming performance this evening.
• 1:45:32
  Speaker 6: No. No, I have promised to contribute my humble efforts
• 1:45:37
  Speaker 6: to the amusement of the Prince's guest, and I shall
• 1:45:40
  Speaker 6: keep my word.
• 1:45:41
  Speaker 8: I breathe again. One of our admirers will be absent
• 1:45:47
  Speaker 8: from the party, the poor Count de sex Ow. It
• 1:45:53
  Speaker 8: is not very romantic, but lastly amusing our young hero.
• 1:46:00
  Speaker 8: You know, was about to set out this very week
• 1:46:03
  Speaker 8: for Corland to conquer it, to become a grand duke
• 1:46:09
  Speaker 8: or king, or emperor, or something equally exalted. When lo
• 1:46:17
  Speaker 8: an enemy comes who proves even too much for the
• 1:46:21
  Speaker 8: sword of sex, and he is the holder of a
• 1:46:25
  Speaker 8: bill for the trifling amount of sixty one thousand liver aside,
• 1:46:35
  Speaker 8: the Russian ambassador, to keep our warrior out of mischief,
• 1:46:41
  Speaker 8: bought the bill. They say, of one count calcrits a
• 1:46:47
  Speaker 8: sweet you know him.
• 1:46:48
  Speaker 1: Then signal of caution from Adam.
• 1:46:52
  Speaker 8: But the best of the joke is that the scheme
• 1:46:55
  Speaker 8: of buying the bill was suggested to the ambassador by
• 1:47:00
  Speaker 8: a great lady, A great lady unfortunately I do not know,
• 1:47:07
  Speaker 8: but I hope to know her. She was actuated, it seems,
• 1:47:13
  Speaker 8: by a fit of jealousy. But I must tell my
• 1:47:17
  Speaker 8: story to the Prince, who is equally at home in
• 1:47:21
  Speaker 8: matters of chemistry and scandal exits.
• 1:47:25
  Speaker 3: You love him, then, yes, and are going to deliver him, Yes,
• 1:47:31
  Speaker 3: with your fortune.
• 1:47:33
  Speaker 6: With my heart's blood if necessary.
• 1:47:36
  Speaker 3: And this when you know he loves another, I know it,
• 1:47:39
  Speaker 3: you say, Is this so calmly?
• 1:47:42
  Speaker 6: Ah? You cannot understand that one can love in spite
• 1:47:47
  Speaker 6: of one's self, No, And that one can love seeking
• 1:47:51
  Speaker 6: to hide that love from oneself, blushing with shame at
• 1:47:56
  Speaker 6: the thought of it, shame that springs from the purest life.
• 1:48:00
  Speaker 3: Ah, but I do understand you, hatrienne a too. And
• 1:48:05
  Speaker 3: what do you hope to.
• 1:48:06
  Speaker 6: Do to save him, to drag him from the prison
• 1:48:10
  Speaker 6: into which he has been thrown through the dastardly spite,
• 1:48:14
  Speaker 6: the ignoble jealousy of that great lady.
• 1:48:18
  Speaker 3: Your rival, perhaps the one who lost a bracelet, her
• 1:48:22
  Speaker 3: whom he prefers to you, her for whom he left
• 1:48:25
  Speaker 3: you last night.
• 1:48:26
  Speaker 6: Don't speak like that. You would strike me like cold steel.
• 1:48:31
  Speaker 6: And surely that is not your intention.
• 1:48:34
  Speaker 3: No, no, it is not that rival.
• 1:48:37
  Speaker 6: I must know her. I want to go to her
• 1:48:41
  Speaker 6: and tell her he was thrown into prison through you.
• 1:48:45
  Speaker 6: I gave him liberty, liberty to see you, to love you,
• 1:48:50
  Speaker 6: perhaps to betray me, if he chooses. Now, tell me, madam,
• 1:48:57
  Speaker 6: which of us loves more?
• 1:48:59
  Speaker 3: But why why all this for one so unglightful?
• 1:49:02
  Speaker 6: Why you ask me? Why am I not allowed to
• 1:49:06
  Speaker 6: be revenged and to be revenged in my own way?
• 1:49:10
  Speaker 6: Did you not hear that the moment of action had arrived,
• 1:49:14
  Speaker 6: that his troops were waiting for him, that the time
• 1:49:17
  Speaker 6: had come for him to win a duchy, perhaps to
• 1:49:20
  Speaker 6: place a crown upon his brow. And then think of it, friend,
• 1:49:26
  Speaker 6: think of it, that he will owe it all to me,
• 1:49:30
  Speaker 6: King through the love of her whom he abandoned and betrayed,
• 1:49:37
  Speaker 6: King through the devotion of the poor actress. Ah, let
• 1:49:43
  Speaker 6: him do what he may. He could never forget that
• 1:49:47
  Speaker 6: he may stifle his love, his glory, and his power
• 1:49:52
  Speaker 6: will ever speak to him of me. Now do you
• 1:49:55
  Speaker 6: understand my vengeance? The load of all my gifts shall
• 1:50:00
  Speaker 6: weigh his conscience down. Ah, my great cornell, come to
• 1:50:05
  Speaker 6: my aid, Give me courage, fill my heart with generous impulses,
• 1:50:10
  Speaker 6: with sublime sentiments, such as thou hast so often placed
• 1:50:15
  Speaker 6: upon my lips. Enable me to prove to them all
• 1:50:20
  Speaker 6: that we, the interpreters of thy genius, must, by inspiration
• 1:50:25
  Speaker 6: of thy thought, gain some of thy nobility. I will
• 1:50:30
  Speaker 6: do as thou hast taught me to.
• 1:50:32
  Speaker 1: Missionay, run, lose not.
• 1:50:35
  Speaker 6: A moment, deliver him. I will wait for you at home.
• 1:50:39
  Speaker 3: Exits missionay, Missionay, there is something very wrong with your economy.
• 1:50:46
  Speaker 3: She gives a fortune for her lover, you are giving
• 1:50:50
  Speaker 3: yours for a rival. Sech slightly different, and I am
• 1:50:54
  Speaker 3: afraid I'll never find any authority in Cornhaigh. For it
• 1:50:59
  Speaker 3: I am child with the fellow that he does not
• 1:51:02
  Speaker 3: love her, and I should be absolutely furious if he did. Ah,
• 1:51:10
  Speaker 3: there is a lady coming this way, how handsome she
• 1:51:14
  Speaker 3: is their princess. Without doubt I can get away without
• 1:51:18
  Speaker 3: her seeing me. Let us be off to appease hungry
• 1:51:22
  Speaker 3: Russia exits enter process.
• 1:51:26
  Speaker 4: Let Maurice join her now if he can. He will
• 1:51:30
  Speaker 4: find that the garlands of flowers by which I hold
• 1:51:33
  Speaker 4: my admirers have become fetters of steel, not so easily broken.
• 1:51:39
  Speaker 4: The stipulations of our Platonic treaty were not to bind
• 1:51:42
  Speaker 4: a man's heart forever. We will see count if you
• 1:51:47
  Speaker 4: can be free to choose your loves. And I should
• 1:51:50
  Speaker 4: have learned the secret, but for my husband enter Abbe. Ah,
• 1:51:55
  Speaker 4: there is that stupid Abbe who promised to unravel the
• 1:51:59
  Speaker 4: mystery and knows anything.
• 1:52:01
  Speaker 8: Ah madam so much grace and splendor. I am dazzled.
• 1:52:10
  Speaker 4: It was my desire to be ready in good time
• 1:52:13
  Speaker 4: for the reception. And while I was waiting, I was dreaming.
• 1:52:17
  Speaker 8: Not of me, not of me.
• 1:52:20
  Speaker 4: Perhaps who knows? My thoughts were intent on one object
• 1:52:26
  Speaker 4: and you know I have not forbidden you to assist me.
• 1:52:30
  Speaker 4: On the contrary, Well, Madam, I am furious.
• 1:52:35
  Speaker 8: I have found nothing out yet.
• 1:52:38
  Speaker 4: Indeed, you reassure me. I counted so much on your
• 1:52:43
  Speaker 4: talents and your skill that I was already frightened at
• 1:52:46
  Speaker 4: the promised reward. But thank fate and.
• 1:52:49
  Speaker 1: You ah do not speak.
• 1:52:52
  Speaker 8: Thus you plunge me into despair.
• 1:52:56
  Speaker 4: Abbe, I am afraid you will never succeed. You are
• 1:52:59
  Speaker 4: all ways too late.
• 1:53:01
  Speaker 8: I did all I could. I felt sure I recognized her,
• 1:53:07
  Speaker 8: and everything seemed to prove that it was du close.
• 1:53:12
  Speaker 8: Your husband himself seemed to be convinced of.
• 1:53:15
  Speaker 4: It, so much more reason not to believe it. I
• 1:53:19
  Speaker 4: myself have been either luckier or cleverer than you by
• 1:53:24
  Speaker 4: a singular accident. One night last week, I met this mysterious.
• 1:53:30
  Speaker 1: Beauty, Abbe left center.
• 1:53:33
  Speaker 8: You know her, then why send me to discover her?
• 1:53:38
  Speaker 4: It was very dark and I could not distinguish her features.
• 1:53:42
  Speaker 4: I only recollect her voice. She spoke but very few words,
• 1:53:47
  Speaker 4: but the sound was perfectly known to me. I must
• 1:53:51
  Speaker 4: have heard it hundreds of times, and still I cannot
• 1:53:55
  Speaker 4: think who she is.
• 1:53:57
  Speaker 8: Strange.
• 1:53:59
  Speaker 4: I have tried all I know I have called upon
• 1:54:02
  Speaker 4: all my acquaintances. I first of all thought it was
• 1:54:06
  Speaker 4: Madame de mir Pois. I went to her bah a
• 1:54:10
  Speaker 4: squeaky little voice, like a soprano out of tune. Then
• 1:54:14
  Speaker 4: I called upon Madame Sincere and Madame Beauvaux. You have
• 1:54:19
  Speaker 4: no idea how anxious I was about their health or
• 1:54:22
  Speaker 4: all the questions I asked in search of those accents
• 1:54:25
  Speaker 4: which haunted me and still seemed as unattainable as a
• 1:54:30
  Speaker 4: will o the wisp. I listened to all their tales
• 1:54:34
  Speaker 4: and their idle prattle with an heroic courage, all spent
• 1:54:38
  Speaker 4: in vain. Not a syllable that reminded me of that voice.
• 1:54:43
  Speaker 4: But still I know that I have heard it often
• 1:54:47
  Speaker 4: and among my intimate acquaintances.
• 1:54:50
  Speaker 8: Stay, did you try the ducheisteu mont?
• 1:54:55
  Speaker 6: No?
• 1:54:56
  Speaker 8: Why an inspiration, an idea?
• 1:55:00
  Speaker 4: What you abbe? It would be strange. You may be right,
• 1:55:07
  Speaker 4: after all, she seemed so interested yesterday in Countess sax.
• 1:55:13
  Speaker 4: Perhaps she had all the news from him, not from
• 1:55:16
  Speaker 4: Flora stand.
• 1:55:17
  Speaker 8: Debillille, her cousin.
• 1:55:20
  Speaker 4: Do you believe in cousins?
• 1:55:22
  Speaker 8: Ah, they are very convenient.
• 1:55:26
  Speaker 1: Crosses right center and her servant right center, announcing.
• 1:55:31
  Speaker 10: Her grace the Duchess domon exit.
• 1:55:35
  Speaker 1: Princess left center, aside to Abbe.
• 1:55:38
  Speaker 4: Fate sends her to us, to Duchess, how kind of you,
• 1:55:43
  Speaker 4: my dear, to come so early. The Abbe and myself
• 1:55:47
  Speaker 4: were just speaking of you.
• 1:55:48
  Speaker 1: Duchess center really, Abbe right center.
• 1:55:53
  Speaker 8: Of your admiration of Mademoiselle Lucuvre.
• 1:55:57
  Speaker 4: Yes, she is a geniu enthusiasm with which you speak
• 1:56:02
  Speaker 4: of Monsieur de Sacs.
• 1:56:04
  Speaker 9: Yes, he is a great man that reminds me I'm
• 1:56:09
  Speaker 9: always to be your news bearer. He has been arrested
• 1:56:12
  Speaker 9: this morning. Arrested, yes, for debt. Poor fellow to think
• 1:56:19
  Speaker 9: that he who defied an army has fallen a victim
• 1:56:22
  Speaker 9: to a bayliff.
• 1:56:24
  Speaker 1: Enter Prince left door, marquis, Countess and other ladies and gentlemen.
• 1:56:28
  Speaker 1: Abbe right center, aside to princess.
• 1:56:32
  Speaker 8: Did you recognize the Voish.
• 1:56:35
  Speaker 1: Princess aside to Abbe, No.
• 1:56:38
  Speaker 4: Not a bit like it. Search try all you know,
• 1:56:42
  Speaker 4: and perhaps.
• 1:56:43
  Speaker 1: Goes to receive leans, lady.
• 1:56:45
  Speaker 2: Is what I tell you is perfectly true. The Count
• 1:56:48
  Speaker 2: de Sachs is at this moment.
• 1:56:50
  Speaker 4: Free, free, good heavens.
• 1:56:53
  Speaker 14: What you know it alls? How disagreeable I thought I
• 1:56:58
  Speaker 14: was the only person that was aware of it.
• 1:57:00
  Speaker 5: There was a rumor this morning that the Sovereign of
• 1:57:03
  Speaker 5: Courland had been arrested for a considerable sum of money.
• 1:57:07
  Speaker 14: Is it not true, then, oh dear, yes.
• 1:57:10
  Speaker 9: Then how does he come to be free?
• 1:57:13
  Speaker 14: Why? It is quite a romance.
• 1:57:15
  Speaker 5: Not at all, the most coldly formal affair possible. Somebody
• 1:57:20
  Speaker 5: has paid his debts.
• 1:57:22
  Speaker 14: And don't you see in that something extraordinarily romantic?
• 1:57:26
  Speaker 4: But tell me who paid his debts?
• 1:57:29
  Speaker 14: Ah, you must ask the Prince.
• 1:57:32
  Speaker 2: I do not know, and I, ladies, well, and I
• 1:57:35
  Speaker 2: do not know either. All that I do know is
• 1:57:38
  Speaker 2: that he is free. He was only liberated a moment ago,
• 1:57:41
  Speaker 2: and he has sent a challenge to Monsieur de Calcroit.
• 1:57:44
  Speaker 2: I have just seen the bearer of the challenge, and
• 1:57:47
  Speaker 2: that is how I know all about it.
• 1:57:48
  Speaker 14: A duel.
• 1:57:49
  Speaker 4: How very awkward he was to have been here this evening.
• 1:57:53
  Speaker 9: Ah, fear nothing he will come.
• 1:57:56
  Speaker 1: Do you think so, Madame interr servant announcing.
• 1:58:00
  Speaker 10: Mademoiselle Lecouver and Monsieur Michione of the comedie Francaise.
• 1:58:05
  Speaker 1: Exit enter Adrienne and Missionee Prince receiving Adrienne.
• 1:58:11
  Speaker 2: How shall I thank you, Mademoiselle, for the favor you
• 1:58:14
  Speaker 2: confer upon Madame de Billon and.
• 1:58:16
  Speaker 1: Myself, Duchess.
• 1:58:18
  Speaker 9: Right to Princess, do introduce me to Mademoiselle Lecouvreux. It
• 1:58:23
  Speaker 9: is so very long that I have admired her from
• 1:58:25
  Speaker 9: a distance. I shall be so happy to tell her so.
• 1:58:28
  Speaker 1: Personally, Princess introducing the.
• 1:58:31
  Speaker 4: Duchess Domot, Mademoiselle Lecouvreur.
• 1:58:34
  Speaker 6: In truth, ladies, I feel quite confused by so much honor.
• 1:58:39
  Speaker 1: Missionee Aside, she.
• 1:58:40
  Speaker 3: Looks as cute a lady as the best of him.
• 1:58:44
  Speaker 6: You and the other ladies who have deigned to receive.
• 1:58:47
  Speaker 1: Me, Princess Aside, heavens that voice.
• 1:58:52
  Speaker 6: Afford the humble artist the opportunity of studying that exquisite style,
• 1:58:57
  Speaker 6: that elegance of carriage, which you alone possess.
• 1:59:01
  Speaker 1: Prancess Aside, what.
• 1:59:03
  Speaker 6: Do I hear?
• 1:59:05
  Speaker 4: I am sure I have heard that voice. No, it
• 1:59:09
  Speaker 4: is not possible. It is a dream, what an idea?
• 1:59:14
  Speaker 4: An actress? My rival?
• 1:59:16
  Speaker 1: And why not looks at Adrienne, who is surrounded by
• 1:59:20
  Speaker 1: all the noblemen?
• 1:59:21
  Speaker 4: Are they not all at her feet at this moment?
• 1:59:24
  Speaker 4: Why should he differ from them? This state of doubt
• 1:59:28
  Speaker 4: is insupportable. I must confirm it or refute it at
• 1:59:32
  Speaker 4: any price.
• 1:59:33
  Speaker 1: Turns to ladies and gentlemen, Well shall we begin?
• 1:59:38
  Speaker 2: You must wait a little bit longer for the Count
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  Speaker 2: de Sachs. You know he promised to.
• 1:59:42
  Speaker 1: Come process rage center. Looking at Adrienne, I am afraid
• 1:59:46
  Speaker 1: he will not aside.
• 1:59:48
  Speaker 3: She is listening.
• 1:59:49
  Speaker 2: What makes you think?
• 1:59:50
  Speaker 9: So?
• 1:59:51
  Speaker 2: You know he is free, free, through the power of love.
• 1:59:53
  Speaker 4: She is trembling. Still did she deliver him?
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  Speaker 1: Aloud?
• 1:59:59
  Speaker 4: I did not want to banish your hopes nor spread
• 2:00:02
  Speaker 4: a gloom. But do you not know that he has
• 2:00:06
  Speaker 4: fought a duel?
• 2:00:07
  Speaker 6: A duel?
• 2:00:08
  Speaker 1: Process aside? She is approaching aloud.
• 2:00:12
  Speaker 4: And the Abbe, who knows everything, says that the Count
• 2:00:17
  Speaker 4: has been dangerously wounded.
• 2:00:19
  Speaker 1: I shaid, so process aside. Silence crosses to Adrienne, who
• 2:00:25
  Speaker 1: faints in a chair.
• 2:00:26
  Speaker 4: Mademoiselle Leokuf her is fainting.
• 2:00:29
  Speaker 1: Aside, it must be she Michionie to Adrienne. Adrianne, Adrienne recovering.
• 2:00:36
  Speaker 6: Oh it is nothing.
• 2:00:38
  Speaker 1: The light neat to process.
• 2:00:41
  Speaker 6: Thanks madame, you are too kind.
• 2:00:43
  Speaker 1: Aside, what a look? Enter her servant.
• 2:00:46
  Speaker 10: The Count de sacs exit.
• 2:00:49
  Speaker 1: Ah Michonie aside to Adrienne.
• 2:00:52
  Speaker 3: Care take care, joy betrays more evensom grief.
• 2:00:57
  Speaker 1: Enter Maurice, Prince to Marie.
• 2:01:00
  Speaker 2: Welcome, Count. You were not wounded then, as the Abbe
• 2:01:03
  Speaker 2: was saying, just now wounded?
• 2:01:06
  Speaker 11: Why I never bah Charles the twelfth was the last
• 2:01:10
  Speaker 11: Swede who knew anything about fighting.
• 2:01:12
  Speaker 2: And the Count de Kalkreuz.
• 2:01:14
  Speaker 11: Disarmed at the second pass. He was not worth killing.
• 2:01:17
  Speaker 1: Aside to process, you.
• 2:01:19
  Speaker 11: Were right, Princess in saying that you would make me
• 2:01:22
  Speaker 11: return the service which you have rendered me.
• 2:01:24
  Speaker 6: He is whispering to her. Can she be the lady
• 2:01:27
  Speaker 6: I met last night?
• 2:01:29
  Speaker 1: Princess to Maurice.
• 2:01:31
  Speaker 4: I do not understand you.
• 2:01:33
  Speaker 11: I must speak to you this evening.
• 2:01:34
  Speaker 4: Then, when they are all.
• 2:01:36
  Speaker 1: Gone, Maurice seeing Adrienne.
• 2:01:38
  Speaker 11: Well, Mademoiselle le Couvre.
• 2:01:40
  Speaker 2: Prince to Maurice by the by count, I wish to
• 2:01:44
  Speaker 2: ask you something about Sweden.
• 2:01:46
  Speaker 1: Abbe right aside to Princess.
• 2:01:49
  Speaker 8: But my dear Princess, why did you say a little
• 2:01:53
  Speaker 8: while ago that I had said?
• 2:01:56
  Speaker 1: Why aloud?
• 2:01:57
  Speaker 4: Because you never know anything. Imagine ladies, this poor abbe
• 2:02:02
  Speaker 4: who thinks that he is one of the cleverest men
• 2:02:05
  Speaker 4: in the world has been racing about Paris for the
• 2:02:08
  Speaker 4: last two days to discover a secret. What do you
• 2:02:11
  Speaker 4: think it is the name of the unknown beauty for
• 2:02:15
  Speaker 4: whom the Count de Saxe has given up, the daughter
• 2:02:18
  Speaker 4: of the Empress of Russia. But while I think of it,
• 2:02:23
  Speaker 4: perhaps Mademoiselle le Couvreur can throw a light upon this mystery.
• 2:02:28
  Speaker 1: Adrienne up left Santa.
• 2:02:31
  Speaker 4: I am madame doubtless, for all the world is saying
• 2:02:35
  Speaker 4: that it is a lady who belongs to the theater
• 2:02:39
  Speaker 4: strange at.
• 2:02:40
  Speaker 6: The theater, the report is current that she is a
• 2:02:44
  Speaker 6: lady of title.
• 2:02:46
  Speaker 4: I have even heard something about a meeting at night.
• 2:02:50
  Speaker 6: And I about a visit to a villa.
• 2:02:53
  Speaker 9: This is very delightful, what pretty scandal.
• 2:02:57
  Speaker 4: I was told that the actress had been surprised by
• 2:03:01
  Speaker 4: a jealous rival.
• 2:03:02
  Speaker 6: You astonish me. I have been told that the great
• 2:03:06
  Speaker 6: lady had been obliged to leave the house through the
• 2:03:11
  Speaker 6: arrival of an obtrusive husband.
• 2:03:14
  Speaker 9: Why you seem to know all about it?
• 2:03:16
  Speaker 6: You two.
• 2:03:17
  Speaker 8: They know a great deal more about it than I do.
• 2:03:20
  Speaker 9: And I should like to decide which of you is right?
• 2:03:23
  Speaker 9: Have you any proof?
• 2:03:24
  Speaker 4: I have? Mine is a bouquet of roses tied with
• 2:03:29
  Speaker 4: a golden cord, presented by the pretty one to her.
• 2:03:33
  Speaker 1: Adorer Adrian aside my bouquet.
• 2:03:36
  Speaker 9: This is splendid. And have you proof also, mademoiselle.
• 2:03:41
  Speaker 6: Indeed, I have the lady, while escaping through the garden drop.
• 2:03:47
  Speaker 9: Like Cinderella her glass slipper.
• 2:03:51
  Speaker 6: No, a bracelet of diamonds.
• 2:03:54
  Speaker 8: Why this is quite a fairy tale.
• 2:03:58
  Speaker 6: It is reality. This bracelet was found by my friend,
• 2:04:03
  Speaker 6: and here.
• 2:04:04
  Speaker 1: It is princess aside my bracelet, abbe taking and showing
• 2:04:10
  Speaker 1: it splendid. Look at it, ladies entered Prince and Maurice
• 2:04:18
  Speaker 1: pricess calmly.
• 2:04:20
  Speaker 4: Oh, yes, it is superb.
• 2:04:23
  Speaker 8: What are you looking at this bracelet?
• 2:04:26
  Speaker 2: It is my wife's.
• 2:04:29
  Speaker 1: Yes, going up and showing it.
• 2:04:31
  Speaker 4: It is very handsome, is it.
• 2:04:33
  Speaker 1: Not, Adrienne aside? It is she prancess to Prince.
• 2:04:39
  Speaker 4: When you have quite done with my bracelet, Prince puts
• 2:04:42
  Speaker 4: it on. Well, Now that the countless Sax is here,
• 2:04:46
  Speaker 4: perhaps Mademoiselle lecouvreur will be good enough to recite.
• 2:04:50
  Speaker 6: Adrienne aside, I recite at this moment, become my child.
• 2:04:56
  Speaker 3: Be careful. There are better actresses in this room.
• 2:05:01
  Speaker 11: Mademoiselle, Will you be kind enough, Yes, monsieur la comte.
• 2:05:05
  Speaker 4: How delightful pray be seated? Ladies?
• 2:05:08
  Speaker 1: They sit to Maurice, There.
• 2:05:10
  Speaker 4: Is room here, count by my side.
• 2:05:13
  Speaker 1: He crosses to couch Adrienne aside, to see.
• 2:05:18
  Speaker 6: Them there together before my eyes, as if defying me. Oh, Heaven,
• 2:05:25
  Speaker 6: give me strength to contain myself.
• 2:05:28
  Speaker 2: Well, what will you let us hear Pauline's dream or
• 2:05:31
  Speaker 2: hermione or the soliloquy of the deserted Ariadne?
• 2:05:36
  Speaker 1: Adrienne hardly able to contain herself.
• 2:05:39
  Speaker 6: This is too much?
• 2:05:41
  Speaker 9: Why not Fedra, which you played so well the evening
• 2:05:44
  Speaker 9: before last?
• 2:05:45
  Speaker 6: Phedra? Let it be so recites, Oh, Justice of high Heaven,
• 2:05:52
  Speaker 6: What have I this day done? My husband will be here,
• 2:05:57
  Speaker 6: and with him comes his son, for whom my heart
• 2:06:01
  Speaker 6: is burning with unholy fire. He'll watch the face with
• 2:06:07
  Speaker 6: which I dare to meet his sire. He'll count the
• 2:06:11
  Speaker 6: bitter tears that overflow mine eyes. He'll seem to hear
• 2:06:16
  Speaker 6: my souls, impassioned, scifled cries. Will he betray my secret?
• 2:06:23
  Speaker 2: Ah?
• 2:06:24
  Speaker 6: His silence will be vain. I scorn to wear a mask.
• 2:06:29
  Speaker 6: I know not how to feign, for I am not
• 2:06:32
  Speaker 6: as those who know to hide disgrace behind their husband's
• 2:06:39
  Speaker 6: honorant name, with brazen face, who think in all their
• 2:06:46
  Speaker 6: hidden infamy no blame, unblushing wantons, who know not what
• 2:06:55
  Speaker 6: is shame and admirable?
• 2:07:03
  Speaker 3: What have you done?
• 2:07:05
  Speaker 6: I have taken my revenge.
• 2:07:08
  Speaker 1: Princess aside such an insult.
• 2:07:11
  Speaker 4: She shall pay dearly for this.
• 2:07:13
  Speaker 1: Adrianne to Prince, I am.
• 2:07:15
  Speaker 6: Very fatigued, ill in fact, perhaps who will allow me
• 2:07:20
  Speaker 6: to retire?
• 2:07:21
  Speaker 1: Maurice is about to go, he is stopped by Princess.
• 2:07:25
  Speaker 1: Stay here, to Adrienne.
• 2:07:27
  Speaker 4: Although we should be delighted to keep you here, we
• 2:07:30
  Speaker 4: dare not insist. Mademoiselle Lukref's carriage.
• 2:07:35
  Speaker 1: Adrianne to Maurice, follow me, Maurice aside.
• 2:07:39
  Speaker 11: Impossible this evening. You shall know why.
• 2:07:43
  Speaker 1: Enough exit left Act drop. End of Act four, Act
• 2:07:57
  Speaker 1: five of Adrienne Le Coufre by Gabrielle Legouvey and Eugene Scribe,
• 2:08:04
  Speaker 1: translated by H. Hermann. This is a LibriVox recording. All
• 2:08:10
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• 2:08:21
  Speaker 1: apartment handsomely furnished sofa. Left doors in flat C and
• 2:08:27
  Speaker 1: right upper E and left upper E fireplace with fire.
• 2:08:33
  Speaker 1: Right enter Missionay and Suzanne left center.
• 2:08:37
  Speaker 3: Yes, yes, I know that she has shut her door,
• 2:08:41
  Speaker 3: and I know that she is tied to death with
• 2:08:44
  Speaker 3: the excitement at Prince de Boyon's this evening. But I
• 2:08:47
  Speaker 3: am sure that she will see me. Tell her raimire Ah, missione.
• 2:08:53
  Speaker 1: Enter Adrienne from right door.
• 2:08:55
  Speaker 6: Ah, I was expecting you, old.
• 2:08:57
  Speaker 1: Friend, Missionee.
• 2:08:59
  Speaker 3: Two servants there, Sir, I told you how it would be.
• 2:09:03
  Speaker 1: Exit, Susanne sent.
• 2:09:05
  Speaker 6: I have been so ill, so very ill.
• 2:09:09
  Speaker 3: I suffer, so I expected as much, and I knew
• 2:09:13
  Speaker 3: that I could not sleep without asking you how you were.
• 2:09:17
  Speaker 3: I went to the theater after I brought you home.
• 2:09:20
  Speaker 6: Indeed, is the play over?
• 2:09:22
  Speaker 3: No, it will last fully an hour.
• 2:09:24
  Speaker 6: Yet I am glad of that, as I wish to
• 2:09:27
  Speaker 6: give notice that I cannot possibly act to morrow.
• 2:09:30
  Speaker 3: I'll take care of that and will bring you word
• 2:09:33
  Speaker 3: when everything is settled. Ah, I am very uneasy about you.
• 2:09:38
  Speaker 3: Not on account of that indisposition only that will soon
• 2:09:43
  Speaker 3: pass away, but on account of something far more serious.
• 2:09:47
  Speaker 6: I give you so much trouble. What do you mean
• 2:09:50
  Speaker 6: you said something serious.
• 2:09:52
  Speaker 3: Cis enough this evening? Do you suppose that, with the
• 2:09:56
  Speaker 3: exception of the Prince, anybody misunderstood allusions to the princess?
• 2:10:02
  Speaker 3: She understood them, ah be sworn.
• 2:10:04
  Speaker 6: I hope she did. I feel she did. I have
• 2:10:08
  Speaker 6: stabbed her to the heart's core, have I not? I
• 2:10:12
  Speaker 6: have been very ill, But the thought comes to me
• 2:10:15
  Speaker 6: as a balm of consolation. With every word in those
• 2:10:19
  Speaker 6: last two lines, I felt I struck home. Yes, Missonette,
• 2:10:24
  Speaker 6: you notice the terror on every face. She bore herself bravely.
• 2:10:28
  Speaker 6: Her features did not quiver, but I could see a
• 2:10:32
  Speaker 6: deadly paleness overspread that immovable countenance on which I have
• 2:10:38
  Speaker 6: stamped an indelible brand.
• 2:10:41
  Speaker 3: That is precisely what alarms me. The blow was too art,
• 2:10:45
  Speaker 3: too palpable. Sees great ladies, with their flowery reefs and
• 2:10:50
  Speaker 3: their gems, and their suavity. Vengeance is dear to them,
• 2:10:55
  Speaker 3: and whatever their malice suggests they perform, even to ridding
• 2:11:00
  Speaker 3: themselves of a rival.
• 2:11:02
  Speaker 6: I do not care. What can she inflict upon me
• 2:11:07
  Speaker 6: to equal the torture of knowing that she is beloved
• 2:11:11
  Speaker 6: by him. The wound I dealt her has ere this
• 2:11:16
  Speaker 6: been healed with a fond look her tears. If she
• 2:11:21
  Speaker 6: shed any, he will kiss away. And now, at this
• 2:11:25
  Speaker 6: very moment, while my heart is breaking, she is happy
• 2:11:31
  Speaker 6: for she is near him, Minchonette. As I left the room,
• 2:11:37
  Speaker 6: I whispered to him to follow me, but she commanded him.
• 2:11:41
  Speaker 3: To remain well.
• 2:11:43
  Speaker 6: He remained with her. Oh it is too hard to bear.
• 2:11:47
  Speaker 6: I will separate them, rush between them and upbraid him.
• 2:11:51
  Speaker 3: Nonsense, sissus frenzy.
• 2:11:54
  Speaker 6: Would it not be better to die in satisfying revenge
• 2:11:58
  Speaker 6: than to expire here to horn by jealousy and despair?
• 2:12:02
  Speaker 6: For die? I shall I feel it?
• 2:12:04
  Speaker 1: Missonette sinks in armchair. Right, Missionete left?
• 2:12:09
  Speaker 3: No, No, you will not die disappointed. Love is a
• 2:12:13
  Speaker 3: torment and unspeakable torture, but it does not kill. The
• 2:12:18
  Speaker 3: last years of my life can bear witness to that, Missionette? Yes, yes,
• 2:12:25
  Speaker 3: you did not believe that beneath so rugged and exterior
• 2:12:28
  Speaker 3: there was a heart that could be wrecked like yours.
• 2:12:32
  Speaker 3: But no matter, I am speaking of something that happened
• 2:12:36
  Speaker 3: a long time ago. Time anrs as to everything, even
• 2:12:40
  Speaker 3: to being unhappy.
• 2:12:42
  Speaker 6: I will follow your example, Mischonette. I will imitate that
• 2:12:46
  Speaker 6: fortitude which does you so much honor, and in the
• 2:12:52
  Speaker 6: end I will, I am determined conquer this unfortunate passion.
• 2:12:58
  Speaker 1: Missionete, joyfully you.
• 2:13:00
  Speaker 6: Will, yes, you shall hear me mention Maurice's name, without
• 2:13:06
  Speaker 6: the slightest emotion.
• 2:13:08
  Speaker 1: Enter Susanne with a small casket.
• 2:13:10
  Speaker 6: A casket for Mademoiselle who sent it. The servant who
• 2:13:14
  Speaker 6: brought it said, it comes from the count to saxe
• 2:13:17
  Speaker 6: from him.
• 2:13:18
  Speaker 1: From him, takes it and puts it on table, and
• 2:13:21
  Speaker 1: seats herself right of table. Exits Suzanne, what can it mean?
• 2:13:26
  Speaker 6: My hand trembles. I dread to open.
• 2:13:28
  Speaker 3: It, and she fancies said she has ceased to love,
• 2:13:32
  Speaker 3: goes to back of table.
• 2:13:34
  Speaker 6: Let me see, Let me see opens it?
• 2:13:36
  Speaker 3: Ah, what is it?
• 2:13:38
  Speaker 6: Look? Look, Missionette, it is my bouquet. I held it
• 2:13:43
  Speaker 6: in my hand when he called upon me yesterday morning,
• 2:13:47
  Speaker 6: after that long absence, he asked me for it. I
• 2:13:52
  Speaker 6: gave it as a slight token of love. And now look, Missionette.
• 2:13:57
  Speaker 6: He might have cast it aside, try under foot, but
• 2:14:01
  Speaker 6: to send it back thus, Ah, it is too cruel.
• 2:14:06
  Speaker 3: It is not his act. It is not. I am
• 2:14:09
  Speaker 3: sure he has been compelled to do this by the
• 2:14:12
  Speaker 3: order of your rifle.
• 2:14:14
  Speaker 6: Compelled, Oh, she commanded, did she? And was he forced
• 2:14:19
  Speaker 6: to obey? Is he a slave that he was forced
• 2:14:23
  Speaker 6: to insult one who once once he loved? Poor flowers
• 2:14:29
  Speaker 6: that have withered so soon? You have still outlived his promises.
• 2:14:35
  Speaker 6: He you covered you with kisses, but there is no
• 2:14:39
  Speaker 6: trace of them on your leaves. Now, no trace of aught,
• 2:14:43
  Speaker 6: but neglect an insult. The last kiss you receive shall
• 2:14:49
  Speaker 6: be one of eternal farewell kisses them. It seems like
• 2:14:53
  Speaker 6: a kiss of death, and thus ends all memory of
• 2:14:57
  Speaker 6: him and of my love.
• 2:15:00
  Speaker 1: Throws them into fire and falls Miichionee, raising.
• 2:15:04
  Speaker 3: Her Adrienne, Patrienne.
• 2:15:07
  Speaker 6: Do not be alarmed. It is gone. I am better now,
• 2:15:12
  Speaker 6: I am better now.
• 2:15:15
  Speaker 1: Maurice outside, Where is Adrian? Enter? Maurice center, Adrian my
• 2:15:21
  Speaker 1: own Adrian. Maurice rushes into his arms, but suddenly draws back.
• 2:15:26
  Speaker 6: No, No, leave me, I forget myself.
• 2:15:30
  Speaker 1: Mishani seats himself on sofa.
• 2:15:32
  Speaker 11: Leave you, Adrian, Leave you. I come to implore your pardon.
• 2:15:37
  Speaker 11: When you whispered me to follow you, I was restrained
• 2:15:40
  Speaker 11: by duty, by honor. I supposed I had received an
• 2:15:43
  Speaker 11: important benefit from the princess. I felt that I could
• 2:15:46
  Speaker 11: not suffer another day to pass without telling her that
• 2:15:49
  Speaker 11: I could not accept her gifts, that I did not
• 2:15:52
  Speaker 11: love her, that my heart belonged to you, to you only,
• 2:15:56
  Speaker 11: sweet Adrian judge of my astonishment during the interview that
• 2:16:00
  Speaker 11: followed your performance, after I had uttered the words I
• 2:16:03
  Speaker 11: know all, she turned pale and trembled, and, falling at
• 2:16:07
  Speaker 11: my feet, declared that love alone had prompted her, that
• 2:16:11
  Speaker 11: it was she who caused me to be arrested. My
• 2:16:14
  Speaker 11: sole object was to thank her for my deliverance, and
• 2:16:17
  Speaker 11: I learned from her own lips that she had been
• 2:16:19
  Speaker 11: the cause of my imprisonment. Heavens, I had found myself
• 2:16:23
  Speaker 11: bound to every tie of gratitude to a woman I
• 2:16:26
  Speaker 11: could not love. And now now I am free, free
• 2:16:30
  Speaker 11: to fly to you, my Adrianne, my true, my only love.
• 2:16:35
  Speaker 1: Behold me falls on his knees.
• 2:16:38
  Speaker 11: You will not repel me? Now?
• 2:16:39
  Speaker 6: Can I really believe you?
• 2:16:41
  Speaker 11: Upon my honor? I speak the truth. I am surrounded
• 2:16:44
  Speaker 11: by mystery, for I am still ignorant. Who freed me
• 2:16:48
  Speaker 11: from prison? Can you enlighten me?
• 2:16:50
  Speaker 6: No?
• 2:16:51
  Speaker 1: No, Michenie comes down center.
• 2:16:54
  Speaker 3: Then I can it is herself?
• 2:16:57
  Speaker 6: Silence, Silence for you.
• 2:17:00
  Speaker 3: She pledged her fortune, their diamonds all she possessed and more. No, no,
• 2:17:07
  Speaker 3: it is true she borrowed, and believe me, I speaks
• 2:17:11
  Speaker 3: the truth. My desire is to see her happy, for
• 2:17:15
  Speaker 3: I love her as a father should love his child.
• 2:17:19
  Speaker 3: Why those tears, they are tears of joy. But I
• 2:17:24
  Speaker 3: must return to the theater. Remember what I have spoken
• 2:17:28
  Speaker 3: is true.
• 2:17:29
  Speaker 6: Exit senter, then, Adrian, it was you, yes, I and
• 2:17:34
  Speaker 6: my best friend he who just quitted us. But no
• 2:17:39
  Speaker 6: more of that.
• 2:17:41
  Speaker 11: You accept on one condition that you in turn accept
• 2:17:44
  Speaker 11: my offer. I know not whether I shall gain or
• 2:17:47
  Speaker 11: lose the crown of Courland. But if I conquer, you
• 2:17:51
  Speaker 11: shall be my wife, I.
• 2:17:53
  Speaker 6: Your wife.
• 2:17:56
  Speaker 11: I yes, yes, my queen, my bride. But for you,
• 2:18:00
  Speaker 11: all my hopes would have been blighted. But you grow pale.
• 2:18:04
  Speaker 6: It is nothing, nothing, so much happiness after such despair.
• 2:18:12
  Speaker 6: It is proof too much for me.
• 2:18:13
  Speaker 1: Maurice assisting her to chair left of right table as
• 2:18:18
  Speaker 1: she staggers.
• 2:18:19
  Speaker 11: But your strength seems to fail you.
• 2:18:20
  Speaker 6: A strange sensation has taken possession of me since I
• 2:18:25
  Speaker 6: pressed that bouquet to my lips. What bouquet the one
• 2:18:29
  Speaker 6: I took for a symbol of parting, which which was
• 2:18:34
  Speaker 6: really the messenger of love.
• 2:18:36
  Speaker 11: What do you mean the.
• 2:18:37
  Speaker 6: Flowers which you will return to me in this casket?
• 2:18:41
  Speaker 11: I sent you nothing. Where are these flowers burned?
• 2:18:46
  Speaker 6: I thought you had rejected both me and my trifling gift,
• 2:18:52
  Speaker 6: and that, like myself, it had to perish.
• 2:18:56
  Speaker 11: But Adrian, my beloved Adrian, you are really ill. Your
• 2:19:00
  Speaker 11: hand trembles.
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  Speaker 6: No, not now, I am well. The pain is not here.
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  Speaker 1: Touch his heart, but.
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  Speaker 6: There is a strange cessation here touch his head, very strange.
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  Speaker 6: A thousand fantastic objects seem to pass before me without
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  Speaker 6: order or connection. What did you say, Ah, I have forgotten.
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  Speaker 6: My imagination seems to be wandering. I lose all power
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  Speaker 6: of control. I must not lose it. No, for Maurice's sake,
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  Speaker 6: and Ugh the play will begin soon, and they are anxious,
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  Speaker 6: no doubt, for they have been promised for such a
• 2:19:53
  Speaker 6: long time, the Psyche of Cornell, for a very long time,
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  Speaker 6: from the days when I first saw Maurice. There seems
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  Speaker 6: to be an objection to its production. It is too old,
• 2:20:09
  Speaker 6: it is pose. But I said, no, no, I have
• 2:20:14
  Speaker 6: a reason. Ah, they little guess that are a reason.
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  Speaker 6: Maurice has never said to me I love you, and
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  Speaker 6: I have never said so to him. The words bring
• 2:20:31
  Speaker 6: from my heart to my lips, but I dare not
• 2:20:36
  Speaker 6: utter them now. In the play of Psyche, there are
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  Speaker 6: certain passages that I can address to him before everybody,
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  Speaker 6: and no one will find me out. It is a good.
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  Speaker 1: Thought, is it not, Maurice right center.
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  Speaker 11: My love, my best love, Return to yourself, adrianne centered, Hush.
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  Speaker 6: Hush, I must appear on the stage. What a splendid audience,
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  Speaker 6: honumerous a brilliance. How my movements are watched by every glance.
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  Speaker 6: They are kind, very kind to love me does But
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  Speaker 6: where is he, oh, Yander in his box? Yes, yes,
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  Speaker 6: there is bodies. He smiles upon me like you, his
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  Speaker 6: eyes with loving glows still fixed on mine, those glorious harpes,
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  Speaker 6: so filled with love, divine, so peacy, yet so tender
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  Speaker 6: that my heart, though tortured, seems with half its grief
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  Speaker 6: to part. Nay, do not turn them from me, though
• 2:21:55
  Speaker 6: I feel each glance gives wounds that all just but
• 2:22:00
  Speaker 6: death can heal.
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  Speaker 11: Adrian. Adrian, she does not see me, she does not
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  Speaker 11: hear me. Heavens, what can I do?
• 2:22:13
  Speaker 1: Rings Bell enter, Suzanne, quick.
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  Speaker 11: Seek help for your mistress.
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  Speaker 1: I dare not leave her exit.
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  Speaker 11: Suzanne Center, My presence perhaps will calm her. Adrian, my
• 2:22:24
  Speaker 11: own Adrian.
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  Speaker 1: Hear me, puts his arm round her. Adrianne Center, Hush, hush,
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  Speaker 1: Who is that?
• 2:22:34
  Speaker 6: Someone into his his box and sits near him. She
• 2:22:40
  Speaker 6: hides her face, but I know her. No earthly obstacle
• 2:22:44
  Speaker 6: could prevent me from knowing that face. Maurice speaking to her.
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  Speaker 6: He does not look at me anymore.
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  Speaker 1: No more, Maurice Center.
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  Speaker 11: Dearest, Maurice is near you.
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  Speaker 6: Their eyes meet, their hands are pressed together, and she
• 2:23:06
  Speaker 6: says something to him. I know the words, though I
• 2:23:10
  Speaker 6: cannot hear them. She bids him remain by her side,
• 2:23:16
  Speaker 6: and he repels me. Ah, he does not know that
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  Speaker 6: I am dying.
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  Speaker 1: Falls in his arms.
• 2:23:29
  Speaker 3: For pity's sake, pity?
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  Speaker 11: Has my voice lost its influence?
• 2:23:33
  Speaker 6: What do you want?
• 2:23:34
  Speaker 11: Listen to me for a single moment, look at.
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  Speaker 1: Me right center, Maurice.
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  Speaker 6: Maurice, No, no, Maurice is near her. He forgets me.
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  Speaker 6: Go Go.
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  Speaker 15: Swear as you swore to me that fancy not your
• 2:23:54
  Speaker 15: former vowels are by the God's for good, abandoned me
• 2:24:00
  Speaker 15: the hard bestow upon another, Go without false lover.
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  Speaker 1: Go suddenly recognizes him Ah, Maurice falls in his arms
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  Speaker 1: and slips to ground. Maurice puts her gently on chair center.
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  Speaker 11: Can no one aid her? Has she not a friend?
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  Speaker 1: Enter? Miss?
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  Speaker 11: Yes, Thank Heaven, here is one at last.
• 2:24:25
  Speaker 1: Right, sinking on his knees.
• 2:24:27
  Speaker 6: What is this?
• 2:24:29
  Speaker 3: Tell me? Is adrianne in danger?
• 2:24:31
  Speaker 1: Maurice left?
• 2:24:33
  Speaker 11: Adrian is dying?
• 2:24:34
  Speaker 3: No? No, see she recovers.
• 2:24:38
  Speaker 6: Oh, Agony, who is dear me?
• 2:24:41
  Speaker 1: How I suffer recovering?
• 2:24:43
  Speaker 6: Ah, Maurice, and you too, misn't it is very, very kind.
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  Speaker 6: My head is calm now, but here in my bottom
• 2:24:59
  Speaker 6: there is thing like burning cold consuming me.
• 2:25:04
  Speaker 1: Mission to Maurice poisoned.
• 2:25:07
  Speaker 11: No, you cannot suspect I've done.
• 2:25:10
  Speaker 3: Slacks points to her rifle.
• 2:25:13
  Speaker 11: For Heaven's sake, silence.
• 2:25:15
  Speaker 6: Ah, the pain increases, you, who love me so much
• 2:25:20
  Speaker 6: helped me. I do not want to die. An hour
• 2:25:26
  Speaker 6: ago I should have prayed for death is a blessing.
• 2:25:29
  Speaker 6: But now I want to live. Oh, Heavenly powers hear me.
• 2:25:37
  Speaker 6: Let me live some days, some few short days. Near Maurice.
• 2:25:44
  Speaker 6: I am so young, and life begins to appear, so beautiful, life, life.
• 2:25:53
  Speaker 1: Life rises and sinks into chair.
• 2:25:57
  Speaker 6: No, no, I shall not live every effort is in't they?
• 2:26:06
  Speaker 6: I feel life evy your way. Do not quit me, Maurice.
• 2:26:13
  Speaker 6: I can see you now, but I shall not be
• 2:26:16
  Speaker 6: able to see you much longer. Hold my hand, you
• 2:26:23
  Speaker 6: will not much.
• 2:26:24
  Speaker 3: Longer feel it's pressure.
• 2:26:27
  Speaker 6: There there you will remember me, will you not? Are you, Maurice?
• 2:26:37
  Speaker 9: What you.
• 2:26:39
  Speaker 11: Miche?
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  Speaker 6: My two my only friends dies.
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  Speaker 1: Curtain end of Adrian Lecouvree by Gabrielle Legouve and Yugene Scribe,
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  Speaker 1: translated by H. Herman