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Frailty and Hypocrisy (Figaro Trilogy #3) - Pierre Beaumarchais · Jane Austen Classics Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Act one of the Frailty in Hypocrisy VI. Pierre Beaumarchier,
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  Speaker 1: translated by James Wilde. This is a LibriVox recording. All
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  Speaker 1: Hypocrisy sequel to Seville Barber or Fruitless Precaution and to
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  Speaker 1: Figuo's Wedding. A Day of Folly a drama in five
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  Speaker 1: acts by James Wilde, London, printed and published for the
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  Speaker 1: author by John Hayes, Dartmouth Street, Westminster, eighteen o. Four characters.
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  Speaker 2: Susan read by Jen Broda.
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  Speaker 3: Figaro read by Todd Signor Stuto read by Bees Westcandle.
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  Speaker 4: Count Almaviva read by Wayne.
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  Speaker 5: Cook, Florestina read by.
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  Speaker 6: Shropfish, Countess Alma Viva read by Wendy katz Hiller.
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  Speaker 7: The Neapolitan read by Ankell, The Young Chevroleer Leon read
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  Speaker 7: by John Hunter.
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  Speaker 8: Muleteer by Scott Colkins.
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  Speaker 9: Carlos read by Jim Hedrick, Notary read by Alan Mapstone.
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  Speaker 1: Stage directions read by Larry Wilson. The action passes in
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  Speaker 1: the Count's Palace at Madrid, commencing about nine o'clock in
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  Speaker 1: the morning and terminating in the evening. Frailty and Hypocrisy,
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  Speaker 1: Act one, Susan discovered sitting at a table making a
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  Speaker 1: nosegay with several flowers that are strewed before her.
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  Speaker 2: The Countess may ring and rise now when she pleases,
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  Speaker 2: she will find my melancholy task performed.
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  Speaker 1: Throwing herself back in her chair.
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  Speaker 2: It is scarce nine o'clock yet, and I feel so weary.
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  Speaker 2: The order which she gave me when I took my
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  Speaker 2: leave of her deprived me of my whole night's rest. Susan,
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  Speaker 2: decorate my apartments as soon as it be light, with flowers,
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  Speaker 2: and give orders at the gait that no one be
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  Speaker 2: admitted to me all the day. Make me a nosegay, Susan,
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  Speaker 2: all black and red, and fade it, save one poor
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  Speaker 2: snowdrop in the midst unhappy mistress here it is what
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  Speaker 2: dismal preparations, she sighed and wept, alas it is Saint
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  Speaker 2: Leon's day, the patron of her son and of another
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  Speaker 2: person who is now no more.
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  Speaker 1: Looking at the nosegay, the.
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  Speaker 2: Colors of blood and mourning, the wounds of the heart
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  Speaker 2: will never close, even let the black crepe, bind these
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  Speaker 2: flowers together, since so her melancholy fancy wills.
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  Speaker 1: It ties the nosegay Ah, Figaro?
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  Speaker 2: Is it you?
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  Speaker 1: Figaro? Peeps in at the door on the right.
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  Speaker 2: You look more like a lover on the tiptoe of
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  Speaker 2: adventure than a husband.
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  Speaker 3: May I venture in and speak.
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  Speaker 2: To you if you leave the door open?
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  Speaker 3: Figuo, entering why that precaution?
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  Speaker 2: Because the man in question may be expected every moment.
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  Speaker 3: This crafty neapolitan us, do tall, Do.
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  Speaker 2: Not accustom yourself to load his name with epithets through
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  Speaker 2: inadvertency they may reach his ears, and so our project
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  Speaker 2: would be marred.
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  Speaker 3: His own volcanic soil tricked out with vines and olives,
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  Speaker 3: is not half so dangerously treacherous as he.
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  Speaker 2: But you appear more than commonly out of humor this morning,
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  Speaker 2: out of humor?
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  Speaker 1: Truly?
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  Speaker 3: Is this our agree?
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  Speaker 1: Mints Susan she rises? Do you mean.
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  Speaker 3: Seriously to aid me in preventing the most dreadful confusion
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  Speaker 3: in the family? Or are you still a dupe of
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  Speaker 3: this atrocious wretch?
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  Speaker 2: I am not, but I fear that he begins to
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  Speaker 2: entertain suspicions of me, For latterly he has told me
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  Speaker 2: nothing I really apprehend that he has some idea that
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  Speaker 2: we are reconciled.
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  Speaker 3: Let us pretend, however, to still be at variance. The
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  Speaker 3: future peace of our benefactors may depend on it. You
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  Speaker 3: know how the Count's temper, ever since he received on
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  Speaker 3: our return from Mexico the intelligence from Mostuto of the
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  Speaker 3: death of his eldest son at Paris, is grown morose
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  Speaker 3: and sour.
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  Speaker 2: Your temper, Figaro, has not grown any of the sweetest.
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  Speaker 3: How the surviving son seems to have become his.
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  Speaker 2: Aversion alas too much so.
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  Speaker 3: How unhappy the Countess is she is, indeed, how his
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  Speaker 3: tenderness increases daily for his ward Floristina, how he is
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  Speaker 3: exerting himself to remove every obstacle to the sale of
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  Speaker 3: his paternal estates.
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  Speaker 2: And do you know, my poor Figaro, that I fear
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  Speaker 2: your dotage is fast approaching? For if I know all this,
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  Speaker 2: why need you tell it me?
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  Speaker 3: Where so much is dependent upon our united operations, it
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  Speaker 3: is indispensable that we clearly understand each other. Is it
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  Speaker 3: not as palpable to us as it appears unsuspected by
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  Speaker 3: everybody else, that this deep designing Italian, this gorge under
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  Speaker 3: the semblance of the Savior of the House of Almaviva,
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  Speaker 3: after having scribbled for his excellency at Naples, then at
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  Speaker 3: Paris in the quality of secretary obligation, after having superintended
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  Speaker 3: the education of the two sons in France and officiated
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  Speaker 3: for him, there is guardian to Floristina during our absence
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  Speaker 3: in America, after having conducted the surviving brother and the
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  Speaker 3: ward safely to Madrid. Here has taken permanent route in
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  Speaker 3: the family, has wormed out the secrets of every individual
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  Speaker 3: in it, is using them to widen the breach, unhappily
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  Speaker 3: subsisting between the husband and the wife. Is aiming at
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  Speaker 3: the hand of Floristina, and is prevailing on the count
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  Speaker 3: to transfer his immense possessions to the monster's own, disorganized
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  Speaker 3: and unhinged country, the more effectually to secure them, and
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  Speaker 3: to raise himself upon the ruins of an ancient house
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  Speaker 3: of which he is hourly sapping the foundation.
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  Speaker 2: But in one word, Figuero, what can I do in
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  Speaker 2: this affair?
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  Speaker 3: Never lose sight of him, and give me immediately notice
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  Speaker 3: of all his motions.
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  Speaker 2: I do inform you of everything he says in all
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  Speaker 2: our conversations.
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  Speaker 3: Ah, what he says in converse. Station is not always
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  Speaker 3: what he thinks, but sees the words that involuntarily escape him.
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  Speaker 3: A breath, a look, a gesture, tis these betray the
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  Speaker 3: secret workings of the soul. He has at this moment
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  Speaker 3: some horrid project ripening in his head, and feels assured
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  Speaker 3: of the result, for he seems more false, perfidious, and
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  Speaker 3: at the same time more confident than ever. Oh, Susan,
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  Speaker 3: cannot you be as artful as he flatter? Lull him
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  Speaker 3: with hope. Let him require what he will refuse, nothing.
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  Speaker 2: That would be going very far.
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  Speaker 3: Indeed, you understand me, Susan, and everything will lead to
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  Speaker 3: the end proposed, provided I am instantly informed. And shall
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  Speaker 3: I not inform my mistress too the time, for that
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  Speaker 3: is not yet favorable. He has fascinated the whole family.
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  Speaker 3: It would ruin us without bring our benefactors follow him
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  Speaker 3: about the house like a shadow, and I will take
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  Speaker 3: care of him without.
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  Speaker 2: My dear Figaro. I tell you that he suspects me,
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  Speaker 2: and should he surprise us together, I hear his foot
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  Speaker 2: upon the stairs. Quick let us appear to be quarreling.
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  Speaker 3: I say, Senora, I will not have it so, and
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  Speaker 3: let me catch you another time.
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  Speaker 2: Do be sure your menaces alarm me much?
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  Speaker 3: Ah, my menaces alarm you much?
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  Speaker 1: Claps his hands together.
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  Speaker 3: Take that sauce box, wretch?
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  Speaker 2: Do you strike me? And in the apartment of my mistress?
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  Speaker 1: Astutto, entering from the right.
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  Speaker 10: What is all this before this gabbon? For this our bust?
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  Speaker 10: If I heard you wrangling.
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  Speaker 1: From my room above, for this hour passed he come down?
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  Speaker 1: Find a female in tears, Susan pretending to weep.
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  Speaker 2: The monster dares to strike.
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  Speaker 10: Me, horrible? Signor Figuro? Did hear the man of hard
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  Speaker 10: and lift his hand against the person of the other sex?
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  Speaker 1: Blood?
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  Speaker 3: Senor Astutto, why do you interfere? There is no man
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  Speaker 3: of honor here, and this person of the other sex
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  Speaker 3: is my wife, an undutiful baggage that helps to carry
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  Speaker 3: on intrigues and thinks to set her husband at defiance
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  Speaker 3: because she finds herself upheld here, Hugh, I'll make her
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  Speaker 3: bite the bridle.
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  Speaker 10: Yet good man obeys himself to such brutality.
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  Speaker 3: Did I choose to have an arbitrator in our quarrel?
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  Speaker 3: Senor Astuto, would be the last I should approve. And
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  Speaker 3: he knows very well for why.
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  Speaker 10: You are wanting in respect to me, Sieor and I
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  Speaker 10: shall complain to your master of it.
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  Speaker 3: Wanting in respect to you that is impossible goes out
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  Speaker 3: on the right.
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  Speaker 10: I am all amazement, my child. What may have been
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  Speaker 10: the cause of the success He came?
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  Speaker 2: I believe on purpose to pick a quarrel. He has
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  Speaker 2: abused me horribly, has said a hundred shocking things of you,
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  Speaker 2: forbade me ever to see or speak to you again.
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  Speaker 2: I defended you. The dispute grew warm and ended by
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  Speaker 2: a blow. It is the first he ever gave me.
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  Speaker 2: But I'll be separated from him. You were witness no
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  Speaker 2: more of it.
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  Speaker 10: A transient cloud had come between my confidence in you,
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  Speaker 10: but this dispels it.
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  Speaker 2: It is thus you cansole me patience.
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  Speaker 10: You will find me your avenger. Tis high time that
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  Speaker 10: I equit myself toward you, charming Susan, and I will
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  Speaker 10: begin by depositing in your bosom a great secret. It
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  Speaker 10: is not your worthless husband at.
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  Speaker 1: The door, Susan goes deadly to observe aside.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, I could have but three minutes now. The casket
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  Speaker 10: that I made with the false bottom for the Countess,
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  Speaker 10: in which the important papers that contained stands Susan returning.
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  Speaker 2: There's no one. Well the secret, Susan.
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  Speaker 10: Serve your friend. Your destiny becomes magnificent. I married Florestina.
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  Speaker 10: There's appoint recoverably settled. The count will have it so. Indeed, indeed,
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  Speaker 10: and if you, if you, my dearest Susan will strive
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  Speaker 10: to render her favorable to my wishes.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, but Leon is in love with her.
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  Speaker 10: Song, I will cure him of his love.
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  Speaker 2: Well, but she loves him tenderly.
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  Speaker 10: I wean her from the passion.
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  Speaker 2: So, but the Countess, privy to their mutual flame, approves it.
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  Speaker 10: She shall change her sentiments.
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  Speaker 2: Indeed, But Figaro, if I'm not mistaken, is the young
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  Speaker 2: man's confidante.
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  Speaker 10: He is a trivial obstacle. Should you not, Susan, be
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  Speaker 10: happy to be rid of him?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, if you could do that too, senorastutto.
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  Speaker 4: I will do it.
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  Speaker 10: It is done. You feel that love is not at
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  Speaker 10: all concerned in my arrangement with the Count Susan, I
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  Speaker 10: never really loved but.
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  Speaker 2: You, ah, Senor. Had the Countess been with.
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  Speaker 10: I might have comforted her, no doubt for the Count's neglect.
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  Speaker 10: But she rejects all consolation. According to her husband's plan
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  Speaker 10: she retires to a convent.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I will lend no hand against my mistress.
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  Speaker 10: Against her, not for the universe. No, he consults her
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  Speaker 10: very taste. I often hear him exclaim, Ah, she is
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  Speaker 10: an angel upon earth.
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  Speaker 2: Therefore should he torment her for it?
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  Speaker 10: No, but merely bring her nearer Heaven, the abode of angels,
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  Speaker 10: from when she has fallen, or should they retire into
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  Speaker 10: Italy or France? And if among the wondrous laws now hazarded,
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  Speaker 10: divorce should take its turn.
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  Speaker 2: The Count would be divorced from her, if he could, oh,
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  Speaker 2: these abominable men, the oldest of strangling.
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  Speaker 10: I trust, Susan, that you make one exception.
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  Speaker 2: Truly, signor, I don't know that I do, And I.
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  Speaker 10: Love your open indignation. It proves the goodness of your heart.
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  Speaker 10: That's the amorous youth. He is destined to travel, and
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  Speaker 10: to travel long and figural he experienced. Figural shall be
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  Speaker 10: his sage and trusty mentor. And now taking her hand,
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  Speaker 10: for what concerns you still more nearly, the Count Floristina
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  Speaker 10: and myself will dwell together. And my dearest Susan, the
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  Speaker 10: best of womankind possessing the general confidence, shall be the
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  Speaker 10: supervisor of the establishment, shall have an uncontrolled sway, no husband,
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  Speaker 10: no blow, no brutal domineering, but healthscian days and rapturous.
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  Speaker 2: Ah, I see by your wheedling that you really want
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  Speaker 2: my assistance with Donna Floristina.
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  Speaker 10: To say the truth, Susan, I do reckon upon your kindness.
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  Speaker 10: You're always an excellent creature. This very day, for instance,
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  Speaker 10: you can render us a signal service.
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  Speaker 1: Susan fixes her eyes upon him. He recovers himself.
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  Speaker 10: I say a signal service from the importance which the
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  Speaker 10: count adaptes to it. For this is the merest trifle.
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  Speaker 10: The countess fancifully desirous of presenting Floristina when the contracts
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  Speaker 10: signed with a set of diamonds, precisely like the countesses,
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  Speaker 10: and wants to do it by surprise.
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  Speaker 2: So so tis not.
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  Speaker 10: A bad idea. Many an important affair is brought to
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  Speaker 10: a brilliant conclusion by a set of diamonds. Probably he
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  Speaker 10: may come and ask you for the casket for the
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  Speaker 10: purpose of comparing them with those brought by his jeweler.
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  Speaker 2: But wherefore, like my mistresses, it is a singular idea.
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  Speaker 10: E fancies them very beautiful. You will naturally conceive that
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  Speaker 10: it is just the same thing to me, Susan.
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  Speaker 1: See here he comes Armaviva, entering from the.
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  Speaker 4: Right signor destutto.
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  Speaker 10: I was seeking you in my way to your Excellency's apartment.
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  Speaker 10: I stepped in here to quin Susan with your intention
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  Speaker 10: of asking her for the casket.
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  Speaker 2: I thank you, But at all events, I have your
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  Speaker 2: Excellency's word of honor.
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  Speaker 4: How long has it been called in question?
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  Speaker 2: I will go and get the casket.
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  Speaker 1: Then aside going.
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  Speaker 2: Figaro charged me to refuse.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing goes out on the left.
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  Speaker 4: I have adjudgted the point of Pastuto, which seemed to
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  Speaker 4: give you some uneasiness.
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  Speaker 10: Ah, there is a point which gives me much more uneasiness.
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  Speaker 10: I find my benefactor overwhelmed in grief.
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  Speaker 4: Must I on the truth, my friend, the loss of
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  Speaker 4: my elfanso. And just at the moment when after ten
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  Speaker 4: long years of separation, I hope to clasp him ripened
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  Speaker 4: into man, to my expecting bosom appeared to me the
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  Speaker 4: heaviest of calamities. But yet a more poignant sorrow, aggravated
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  Speaker 4: by perpetual reflection, keeps my wounded heart still bleeding and
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  Speaker 4: renders life burden to me.
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  Speaker 10: Had you not enjoined me not to speak to you
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  Speaker 10: on the subject, I would observe that your second.
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  Speaker 4: Son, my second son, Ah, I have.
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  Speaker 10: None compose yourself caught almaviva. There is reason coolly premature
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  Speaker 10: deaths of a child on which you had built your hopes,
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  Speaker 10: for whom you had obtained. The reversion of your government
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  Speaker 10: of Mexico may have so affected you as to render
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  Speaker 10: you prone to be unjust towards the other child, towards
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  Speaker 10: your lady, towards yourself. Is it remere conjectures that a
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  Speaker 10: judgment should be formed upon a matter so important?
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  Speaker 4: Conjectures? Ah, I am, but too well assured. My grief
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  Speaker 4: is aggravated for want of substand to proof well. My
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  Speaker 4: poor Alfonso leaved. It was almost indifferent to me, heir
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  Speaker 4: to my name, my office, and my fortune. Why should
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  Speaker 4: they have thrown away a thought upon these other individual
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  Speaker 4: my cold disdain, multie cross and an inconsiderable tension would
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  Speaker 4: amply have avenged of his mother and himself. But conceive
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  Speaker 4: my despair on losing my darling. Hope to see these
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  Speaker 4: honors and possessions become the patrimony of a stranger to
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  Speaker 4: my blood, who, to augment my misery, comes daily to tornament
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  Speaker 4: me with the heartrending name of Father.
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  Speaker 10: Did I not fear irritati while seeking to appease you,
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  Speaker 10: who observes that the unnumbered virtues of the Countess.
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  Speaker 4: Ah Those virtues are so many aggravations of her guilt
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  Speaker 4: to cover by the most extemporary life, so indelibly stained
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  Speaker 4: to my honor, to command by the severest piety and
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  Speaker 4: most benevolent actions, that love and generation of all the world,
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  Speaker 4: the more effectually to cast on me the odium, which
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  Speaker 4: attaches to an apparent want of parental tenderness, augments my
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  Speaker 4: hatred of them both.
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  Speaker 10: What would you that she should have done? Even supposing
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  Speaker 10: her to have been guilty? What frailty is there that,
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  Speaker 10: seventeen years the repentance made on expiate, have you, count
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  Speaker 10: alme Aviva, nothing wherewith to reproach yourself, Lovely Florestino, whom
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  Speaker 10: you call your ward to may claim the tender a time?
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  Speaker 4: Let her then, essentially I am making great progress in
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  Speaker 4: the cell and exchange of my possessions, and they give
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  Speaker 4: all to her. The million of piastres which have already
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  Speaker 4: followed me from la Vera, Cruz shall be her marriage portion,
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  Speaker 4: and I knew my friend I bestow her second to
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  Speaker 4: be only in throwing an impenetrable veil over the devor
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  Speaker 4: by deigning to accept the property from me, pretending it
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  Speaker 4: to have been bequeathed to you by some relation.
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  Speaker 10: Your excellency says that in order to obey you, I
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  Speaker 10: have already put myself in mourning.
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  Speaker 4: When I shall have received the Gig's consent to the
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  Speaker 4: exchange of my possessions against the states in Italy, I
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  Speaker 4: shall easily find the means of making them descend to
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  Speaker 4: both of you, and.
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  Speaker 10: I will not accept them. Think of that, on mere suspicion,
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  Speaker 10: and perhaps unfounded too, I will become an accomplice in
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  Speaker 10: dispoliation of your legal heir. Of a young man of merit,
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  Speaker 10: one must allowed that he has greater merit.
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  Speaker 4: Then had my son. You would have said, it is
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  Speaker 4: the general voice which irritates me. Moderate against him.
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  Speaker 10: If your ward accept my hand, and if from your
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  Speaker 10: immense possessions you endow her with a million of piastres,
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  Speaker 10: I cannot support the idea of becoming proprietor of them.
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  Speaker 10: Will give my consent to the transaction the sole condition
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  Speaker 10: that they be bade over to her in the marriage settlement.
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  Speaker 10: Is the apparent gift of my unfeigned.
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  Speaker 1: Affection, Almaviva, clasping.
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  Speaker 4: Him in his arms, noble engineerous friend, Oh, what a
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  Speaker 4: husband do I give to my daughter?
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  Speaker 1: Susan returning with the casket. Here is the casket, giving
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  Speaker 1: it to the count.
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  Speaker 2: Do not keep it long, that I may replace it
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  Speaker 2: before my mistress rises, Susan.
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  Speaker 4: IV orders, He said, no one entered her unless.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: Erring Susan aside, going.
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: Now to inform Figaro of this, She goes.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: Out again on the left.
• 22:43
  Speaker 10: What is your purpose in examining this casket?
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: I will no longer conceal from you the detail of
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: my disgrace.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: Dry now, bracelet from his pocket.
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: No, that he certain Leon de Astorga, nowadays, these seventeen years,
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: was formerly my page. He had the audacity to love
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: my wife. Then, in the bloom of youth and beauty, I,
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: thinking her not insensible to an attachment to which he
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: was too young to fail, gave him a commission to
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: join the Spanish force at that time in the service
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: of his Sicilian majesty, my son, whom inexorable death has
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: wrested from me, Being then about twelve month old, when
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: shortly after I set out upon my embassy to Naples,
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: where I had first the happiness of meeting you, my
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: goodest Studo, instead of remaining at madridear or going to
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: my palace at Sylville, or of retiring to Aguas Frescoes
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: and earthly paradise. What retreat, my friend? Can you suppose
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: my wife made choice the wretched castle av Astorga, in
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: the neighborhood of which I have been priced, that his
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: perfidious page from whose relations i'd bought The castle did
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: pass some days on furlough soon after my departure, and
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: about a twelve month prival to my charge and you
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: with dispatches of importance, as you will remember, from Naples
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: to Madrid. Here there in that castle did the Countess
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: choose to pass the first year that I was absent.
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: There did she bring into the world after nine or
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: ten months? For what I know, this wretched leon, in
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: whose nimans I can trace, and you yourself allow it
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: the business of.
• 24:37
  Speaker 10: His origin, wonder working fancy.
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: When in happier times I had my miniature taken for
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: the bracelet which you have seen the Countess wear. The painter,
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: struck with the features of the page, desired to execute
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: a portrait of him in the gallery with the counter yes,
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: never dares to look upon the same well from that
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: port that I've had this painting taken from this bracelet
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: set as you see, precisely like the countesses, I mean
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: to substitute the one for the Ever, if she remains
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: silent on the subject, you feel, Astuto that I have
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: proof enough, or in whatever manner she may speak of it,
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: an instant explanation must ensue and bring my shame and
• 25:30
  Speaker 4: all her guilt to light.
• 25:33
  Speaker 10: If your excellency asked my advice, I should blame the
• 25:37
  Speaker 10: project altogether.
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: And wherefore pray honor of votes at such insidious means,
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: should any lucky or rather unlucky accident set certain facts
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: before your eyes might excuse your proving to the bottom,
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: But just spread a snall to lay a bait. What
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: man of delicacy would take advantage so unwarrantable even of
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: his mortal enemy. It is too late to retract the
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: touch stones in my hand. My doubts distract me worse
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: than certainty.
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: Opens the casket, astutto, taking the casket from him.
• 26:19
  Speaker 10: The name of all that's honorable.
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: A'm aviva taking out the bracelet.
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: Ah picture painted in the days of innocence and bliss.
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: I shall at least have the satisfaction of tying you
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: upon my daughter's arm alone, worthy of possessing.
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: You, placing the other in instead Astutto, pretending to oppose him.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: They each drag the casket a different way. Astutto dexterously
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: touches a spring, by which means the upper part of
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: the casket remains in his hands, the false bottom in
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: those of the Count. There the casket.
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: It's broken, broken. No tis a secret bottom that our
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: scuffle has discovered. Here are papers.
• 27:09
  Speaker 10: I flatter myself as your excellence. He will not take advantage.
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: Should any lucky accident you said just now said certain
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: facts before your eyes, I might excuse your probing them
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: to the bottom. An accident does set them in my view,
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: and I will probe them to the very bottom. I'll
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: fire your advice.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: Takes out the papers.
• 27:36
  Speaker 10: I would not become an accomplice in such a crime.
• 27:38
  Speaker 10: For the wealth of the world. Replace the papers, or
• 27:43
  Speaker 10: suffer me, Count home Aviva to withdraw.
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: He draws back, watches the Count while hastily perusing the
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: first paper that presents itself and betrays by his gestures
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: great joy and self applause at the success of his strategem.
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: Shut up to rest, I'll keep for this. I want
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: to know no more, No be it.
• 28:06
  Speaker 10: What it may? You have too much honor to committer.
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: And what speak I can dare to hear it?
• 28:14
  Speaker 10: Pardon me, Count Almaviva, might benefactor, pardon me impute to
• 28:19
  Speaker 10: my heavy affliction the indecency of my reproach.
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: Far from resenting it, a moment's reflection makes me esteem
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: you the more for it.
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: Throwing himself into a chair.
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: Ah perfidious Rosina, For spite of my inconstancy, you are
• 28:38
  Speaker 4: the only woman for whom I ever felt a real passion. Oh,
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: I abhort myself for ever having loved you.
• 28:48
  Speaker 10: For Heaven's sake, put up the fatal paper.
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: Figero entered suddenly from the right.
• 28:55
  Speaker 10: We are interrupted, Armoviva.
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: Rising in a fury, importunent men, What want you?
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: I want to know? What you want? You rang for me?
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: I rang praying.
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: Curious, asked the jeweler, who heard the bell.
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: As well as I my jeweler, what does he want?
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: He says, that he came about a bracelet hyena. Stutto,
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: who perceiving it, endeavors to conceal the casket as much
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: as he is able.
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: And while Senor Ostutto has my mistress's diamond casket opened there,
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: it might not be so much amiss.
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: That signor inquased the begone. Let you come on me
• 29:42
  Speaker 4: another time, and if half a word escapes you figure
• 29:46
  Speaker 4: o going.
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: I will do nothing.
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: By halves, he notices the divided casket in Aestutto's hands,
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: the paper in those of the count darts a severe
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: look at Ustutto, and retire.
• 30:01
  Speaker 4: Shut out the treacherous casket. I have the proof I
• 30:05
  Speaker 4: saw it. Ah, wherefore did I seek it? Why did
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: I find it? It distracts me. Oh, heavens read read that's.
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: Doto Astuto, rejecting the paper.
• 30:20
  Speaker 10: I become privilege of fatal secrets. Heaven forbid that I
• 30:24
  Speaker 10: should be accused of it. Put up the paper, Put
• 30:29
  Speaker 10: it up. Susan is coming.
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: He unites and shuts the casket. The count puts the
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: paper in his bosom. Susan running in the casket.
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: The casket the countess.
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: Rings Astutto, giving it to her.
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: You see Susan, all is in order, but the Count
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: seems much disordered.
• 30:55
  Speaker 10: Nothing but do little ruffled at the indiscretion of your husband,
• 30:59
  Speaker 10: who came in spite of the Count's commands.
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: Which I signified intelligibly enough, I do assure you.
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: Runs out again. Amaviva, going out on the right, is
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: met by Leon. He here too, Leon timidly endeavoring to
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: take the Count by the hand.
• 31:20
  Speaker 11: My dear father, did you rest well last night?
• 31:24
  Speaker 4: Father? Leave to otter. Since these vocal appellations, men of
• 31:29
  Speaker 4: rank use more elevated language. Whoever added father at a court.
• 31:35
  Speaker 4: Whenever you address yourself to me, signor call me by
• 31:39
  Speaker 4: my title, you betray a base extraction.
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: Think in a stuto by the arm aside. His father
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: goes out on the right with a Stuto, who gives
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: Leon a look of commiseration and protection as he follows them.
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: In the fact one act too of frailty in Hypocrisy
• 32:08
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• 32:13
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• 32:18
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• 32:23
  Speaker 1: Frailty and hypocrisy act too almaviva, entering from the.
• 32:28
  Speaker 4: Right, since at length time alone, let me peruse this
• 32:34
  Speaker 4: wonderful episo that an almost inconceivable accident has thrown into
• 32:39
  Speaker 4: my hands.
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: Draws the paper which he found in the casket from
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: his bosom and reads it emphatically.
• 32:47
  Speaker 4: Fresh and inconsiderate use out a wretched Lati's caste se
• 32:53
  Speaker 4: nocturnal visit with which you dared surprise me, and the
• 32:56
  Speaker 4: castle whose secret passages had been long familiar to you.
• 33:01
  Speaker 4: The violence that ensued in the world, your crime and
• 33:07
  Speaker 4: my participation in it, receive their just chastisement this day,
• 33:13
  Speaker 4: the festival of Saint Leon, the patron of this place
• 33:17
  Speaker 4: and your own. I have brought into the world a
• 33:21
  Speaker 4: son whose presence covers me with shame and rise me
• 33:25
  Speaker 4: to despair. Thanks to my precautions, my reputation is safe,
• 33:31
  Speaker 4: but offended virtue irremissibly condemns me to a life of tears.
• 33:37
  Speaker 4: I feel that they can never wash away my guilt,
• 33:40
  Speaker 4: although involuntary, while the effects of it subsist, never see
• 33:46
  Speaker 4: me more. It is the irrevocable order of the miserable Rosina,
• 33:51
  Speaker 4: who dares no longer sign another name, ah Rosina. Where
• 33:58
  Speaker 4: is the time? But you are degraded.
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: Walks about in great agitation.
• 34:06
  Speaker 4: This is not the language of an abandoned woman, a
• 34:10
  Speaker 4: while betrayer. But here appears to be an answer. Written
• 34:14
  Speaker 4: on the same letter reads, since I am never to
• 34:20
  Speaker 4: behold you more, life has become a burden to me,
• 34:24
  Speaker 4: and am resolved to sacrifice it in the action which
• 34:28
  Speaker 4: is hourly expected with the enemy. I send you back
• 34:32
  Speaker 4: your reproaches, the portet which I took of you clandestinely myself,
• 34:37
  Speaker 4: and a lack of hair which I procure by stealth.
• 34:41
  Speaker 4: The friend who will deliver this when I shall be
• 34:45
  Speaker 4: no more, is sure he has been a weakness to
• 34:48
  Speaker 4: my despair. If the death of a rich who perishes
• 34:52
  Speaker 4: for you can inspire the least compassion, let me hope
• 34:56
  Speaker 4: that the name of Leon transmitted to the innocent fruit
• 34:59
  Speaker 4: of myn My ungoverned frenzy may sometimes recall recollections of
• 35:04
  Speaker 4: the helpless youth who will expire in adoring you, and
• 35:09
  Speaker 4: who signs for the last time leonte Astorga, and then,
• 35:16
  Speaker 4: in bloody characters, mortally wounded, I opened this again to
• 35:21
  Speaker 4: write you with my ebbing blood, a last adieu. Remember
• 35:28
  Speaker 4: the rest appears effaced by tears.
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: Walks to and fro in great agitation.
• 35:36
  Speaker 4: Not is this evra the language of a vicious man,
• 35:40
  Speaker 4: a frantic.
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: Passion throws himself into a chair.
• 35:46
  Speaker 4: Oh I am torn.
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: Ostuto enters from the right and watches the count with
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: marks of satisfaction until he is perceived.
• 35:58
  Speaker 4: Ah, my dearest friend, you find me overwhelmed in a.
• 36:04
  Speaker 10: Most alarming manner. I did not dare approach.
• 36:09
  Speaker 4: No, they were not monsters of ingratitude and vice, but
• 36:13
  Speaker 4: thoughtless victims of a fatal passion. In as they call themselves,
• 36:19
  Speaker 4: I thought there could be no other wretched women.
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: Rising and walking backwards and forwards.
• 36:29
  Speaker 4: You suffer yourselves to be deluded, regardless of the miseries
• 36:33
  Speaker 4: you entail upon yourselves, on us, and on posterity. You
• 36:37
  Speaker 4: go on, step by step. Injuries accumulate, and the unjust
• 36:43
  Speaker 4: and giddy world condemns the man for conjugal and parental indifference,
• 36:49
  Speaker 4: who scarcely devours his wrongs. Our irregularities are not a
• 36:54
  Speaker 4: thousandth parts so fatally injurious to them, at least cannot
• 36:59
  Speaker 4: rob them of their esteminable classical maternity. The certainty of
• 37:04
  Speaker 4: being mothers, while their misconduct slightest caprice, or even in consideration,
• 37:11
  Speaker 4: destroys all felicity in us, the felicity of our lives,
• 37:15
  Speaker 4: the certainty of being fathers. Oh, it is not likely
• 37:20
  Speaker 4: that so much importance is attached to the fidelity of women.
• 37:25
  Speaker 4: The happiness the misery of society is determined by their conduct.
• 37:30
  Speaker 4: The domestic bliss or torment is dependent on their very reputation.
• 37:37
  Speaker 10: Compose yourself. Here comes your daughter.
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: Florestina, entering from the left with a nosegay in her bosom.
• 37:45
  Speaker 5: I was told that your excellency was so much occupied
• 37:48
  Speaker 5: that I did not dare intrude.
• 37:50
  Speaker 4: Before occupied about you, my Florestina, my daughter, ah. I
• 37:56
  Speaker 4: love to call you so, for I have taken care
• 37:59
  Speaker 4: of you through this our worthy friend. From infancy. Your mother,
• 38:04
  Speaker 4: with her dying breath, bequeathed you to my care. I
• 38:09
  Speaker 4: gave her my word to be a father to you,
• 38:12
  Speaker 4: and I will keep it by giving you a noble husband. Child.
• 38:17
  Speaker 4: I speak without restraint before Signor Astuto, who loves us all.
• 38:23
  Speaker 4: Look around you, truth, do you find no one worthy
• 38:27
  Speaker 4: of your heart?
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: Floristina kissing his hand.
• 38:32
  Speaker 5: You, my lord possess it holy, and if you have
• 38:36
  Speaker 5: the goodness to consult me, I must answer that my
• 38:38
  Speaker 5: happiness will be best secured by not changing my situation.
• 38:43
  Speaker 5: Your son when he marries, for certainly he will not
• 38:48
  Speaker 5: become a knight of Malta. Now your son, when he marries,
• 38:52
  Speaker 5: mayquit his parents' roof.
• 38:55
  Speaker 10: Ah.
• 38:55
  Speaker 5: The filial charge is sweetening your declining years by every
• 38:59
  Speaker 5: tender care for fun.
• 39:02
  Speaker 10: She merits by my truth, Count Amaviva, your entire confidence,
• 39:08
  Speaker 10: my Florestina, embrace this good, this affectionate protector. You owe
• 39:14
  Speaker 10: him more than you imagine.
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: Ah, my Lord Alma Viva, embracing her wi.
• 39:23
  Speaker 4: Let fastidious titles be a reserved for cold indifference. No
• 39:28
  Speaker 4: one will wonder that a child so lovely, so beloved
• 39:32
  Speaker 4: should address me by a tenderer name. Oh call me father.
• 39:37
  Speaker 4: You will constitute my happiness both his daughter and as
• 39:41
  Speaker 4: the wife of an excellent man to whom I will
• 39:44
  Speaker 4: unite you, possessing already no inconsiderable fortune, which time will
• 39:49
  Speaker 4: still improve. Look around you, Florestina, your future husband is
• 39:55
  Speaker 4: in my house.
• 39:57
  Speaker 10: Yes, Donald Florestine.
• 40:01
  Speaker 5: My future husband in this house.
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: A figaro enters abruptly from the left, announcing my Lord,
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: the Countess bowing and holding the door open. A studo
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: aside d'artina. Look at Figaro.
• 40:21
  Speaker 10: Curse from that shelf scented hound.
• 40:25
  Speaker 6: Countess entering, Good morning to you, my lord, my Floristina.
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: Floristina, throwing herself into the arms of the Countess.
• 40:36
  Speaker 5: My dearest madam, you find me in such a transport
• 40:39
  Speaker 5: of joy.
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: Astuto pals mysteriously by the arm. Figaro observes him.
• 40:47
  Speaker 6: Figaro told me, my lord, that you were greatly indisposed.
• 40:51
  Speaker 6: I was much alarmed, but find.
• 40:54
  Speaker 4: That the officious man has again told them truth.
• 40:59
  Speaker 3: Your excellency pired so disturbed just now, Happily it is
• 41:03
  Speaker 3: all over.
• 41:05
  Speaker 6: Good day to you, signor Astucto.
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: Astucto bowing, endeavors to penetrate the motive of her coming.
• 41:13
  Speaker 6: In truth, My Floristina, I find you radiant this morning.
• 41:18
  Speaker 6: See she looks as lovely as she is good. Ah,
• 41:22
  Speaker 6: if Heaven had given me a daughter, I should have
• 41:26
  Speaker 6: wished her to have been your image, both in person
• 41:29
  Speaker 6: and in mind. You must supply the place of one
• 41:33
  Speaker 6: who will you Floristina Florestina kissing her hand, Ah, madame,
• 41:41
  Speaker 6: But who has decked you with those flowers.
• 41:44
  Speaker 5: Twas I who made this nosegay Madam is not this
• 41:48
  Speaker 5: Saint Leon's.
• 41:49
  Speaker 6: Day charming girl. She omits nothing that can give us pleasure.
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: She kisses her. The count assumes a medicine attitude till
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: restrained Tucto. Figaro watches them.
• 42:04
  Speaker 6: Figureo, since we are all met, inform my son that
• 42:09
  Speaker 6: we will take our chocolate together here in the library.
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: Astuto presents his arm to the Countess. Almaviva takes Floridstina
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: by the hand. They all retire into and seat themselves
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: in the library, Astuto turning his head round as he
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: goes and casting a threatening look at Figaro, who remains
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: in the ante room setting the breakfast service.
• 42:33
  Speaker 3: Serpent basilisk, you may dart your fiery looks at me.
• 42:39
  Speaker 3: I fear them not. But how the deuce does he
• 42:43
  Speaker 3: receive his letters? Not a scrap comes hither by the
• 42:46
  Speaker 3: post for him, no visible intercourse with any human beings.
• 42:51
  Speaker 3: He springs up here from the yawls above himself and
• 42:55
  Speaker 3: certainly carries on some subterranean correspondents us.
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: And runs in from the left, looks about her, then
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: whispers very rapidly to Figro.
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: Tis he who marries for Stina. The count will have it,
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: so he will cure Leon of his love. Wean her
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: from him, make the Countess change her mind respecting them.
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: He drives you out of the house, shuts up my
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: lady in a cloister till she can be conveniently divorced, disinherits.
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: The young man makes me supervisor of the new establishment.
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: There's the news of the morning for you.
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: Runs out again.
• 43:32
  Speaker 3: Not quite so fast, Senor as Dutto, not quite so fast.
• 43:38
  Speaker 3: Thanks to my ariadne, Susan, I have got the clue
• 43:42
  Speaker 3: of the labyrinth, and the minotaur is entangled. I will
• 43:47
  Speaker 3: envelop you in your own snares and so completely overthrow you.
• 43:52
  Speaker 3: What mighty purpose can have forced open the teeth of
• 43:55
  Speaker 3: a man so wary can he think himself so certain
• 43:59
  Speaker 3: of success? As to humph, falling and vanity are inseparable
• 44:04
  Speaker 3: companions the politics. Signor babbles confides his views.
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: Susan running in again, looking carefully round Figureau Figaro.
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: Here's a person inquiring for Signora Stutto, saying he has
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: an important message to deliver. He is a stranger to
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: a Stutto, but his countryman, I have brought him here
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: into the lobby. Can we turn him to account.
• 44:32
  Speaker 3: Bring him into the room, and we will try to
• 44:35
  Speaker 3: bid him stay in this corner. Announce him to a
• 44:37
  Speaker 3: stutto remain there in the library. While they are together,
• 44:42
  Speaker 3: they will think themselves alone. Here I'll hide.
• 44:45
  Speaker 12: Away Susan, opening the door, walk in. Signor Figureo looks
• 44:52
  Speaker 12: towards the library, conceals himself. The Neapolitan enters.
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: Wait here a moment. I'll send Signora Stutto to you.
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: Goes into the library, speaks to a Studo and remains
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: with the countess while he comes sword.
• 45:11
  Speaker 7: Signor Estutto, I.
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: Presume Astuto bows and looks round him cautiously.
• 45:18
  Speaker 7: At the desire of our common friend and countryman, the
• 45:21
  Speaker 7: banker Cassier, I come to deliver to you.
• 45:23
  Speaker 9: This letter presents a letter which I've.
• 45:27
  Speaker 7: Brought myself from Naples, and to tell you that urgent
• 45:31
  Speaker 7: business acquiring my prompt return. I shall willingly take charge
• 45:35
  Speaker 7: of any packet you may be able to prepare against
• 45:37
  Speaker 7: the afternoon. My time will be so much occupied till
• 45:41
  Speaker 7: then that I know not where I may be found.
• 45:43
  Speaker 7: But if you've anything you wish delivered safe at Naples,
• 45:47
  Speaker 7: I will send some trusty person to receive it.
• 45:49
  Speaker 10: Here, Signor, with many thanks for your civility, I willingly
• 45:54
  Speaker 10: embrace your friendly offer. This presents itself must opportunely. But
• 46:03
  Speaker 10: but Signor, as my dispatches will be of some importance
• 46:07
  Speaker 10: family papers respecting an estate which I would not have
• 46:10
  Speaker 10: for anything, miscarry, permit me to request that your trusting
• 46:14
  Speaker 10: messenger may be the bearer to me of this ring.
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: Takes one from his finger.
• 46:21
  Speaker 10: In exchange for which he shall receive the packet of
• 46:24
  Speaker 10: which you will have the goodness to take charge.
• 46:28
  Speaker 7: Senor Astuto, rely on my exactness.
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: Balbsen goes out again, me prosperous journey. Signor, Now let
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: me see opening the letter.
• 46:44
  Speaker 10: From Cherato, calculated for the Count's perusal.
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: Going towards the library, Count.
• 46:54
  Speaker 10: Ame Aviva let her hear from Naples concerning the estate.
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: Goes in and joins the Count. Figaro, coming from his concealment.
• 47:05
  Speaker 3: Those who hide, they say, can find how to find
• 47:10
  Speaker 3: means of turning this business to account.
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: Countess coming forward with Floristina and Susan.
• 47:18
  Speaker 6: Susan inform my son that we breakfast here.
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: Susan goes out on the left. Figaro steals out after her,
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: Almaviva coming forward.
• 47:29
  Speaker 4: With us tutto, I will immediately go and write directions
• 47:33
  Speaker 4: for the purchase and give instructions for drawing on me
• 47:37
  Speaker 4: for the amount. Let me have breakfast in my study,
• 47:42
  Speaker 4: my dear father.
• 47:43
  Speaker 5: I will bring it you myself. Ah, here's Leon.
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: Leon enters from the left Almaviva side to Florestina.
• 47:54
  Speaker 4: Reflect much upon the little that I said to.
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: You, goes out on the right.
• 48:02
  Speaker 11: My father always goes when I appear. He treated me
• 48:06
  Speaker 11: before this morning in so harsh a manner.
• 48:09
  Speaker 6: What language is this? My son? Your father has gone
• 48:13
  Speaker 6: into his study to write on business.
• 48:17
  Speaker 5: You regret your father, so do we all, But knowing
• 48:20
  Speaker 5: this to be Saint Leon's day, he charged me to
• 48:23
  Speaker 5: present you with this nosegay.
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: Makes a low curtsy and places the nosegay in his breast,
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: Leon kissing her while she fastens it.
• 48:35
  Speaker 11: He could not have charged anyone who could have rendered
• 48:37
  Speaker 11: his kindness so very dear to.
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: Me, Floristina, pushing him gently away.
• 48:44
  Speaker 5: See, Madam, if one can jest the least in the
• 48:47
  Speaker 5: world with him without.
• 48:49
  Speaker 6: Oh smiling on Saint Leon's day, my Floristina, we must
• 48:56
  Speaker 6: not be too severe with him, you know, punish.
• 49:00
  Speaker 5: Him for it, insist upon his reading the poem that
• 49:03
  Speaker 5: we were told he was writing for the occasion.
• 49:07
  Speaker 6: Come, my son, let us have it. I'll go and
• 49:10
  Speaker 6: get my work and hear you read your verses.
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: Goes out on the left.
• 49:16
  Speaker 5: Oh, I'm glad of it. Obstinate as you are, I
• 49:19
  Speaker 5: shall now hear them.
• 49:21
  Speaker 11: In spite of you, in spite of me, when you
• 49:24
  Speaker 11: desire it, Ah, Florestina, it is impossible.
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: Goes out on the left.
• 49:33
  Speaker 10: Well, Senorita, have you guessed yet who the husband is?
• 49:38
  Speaker 10: Whom the Count designs for you?
• 49:41
  Speaker 5: My dear signor Ostuto, I am accustomed almost to think
• 49:45
  Speaker 5: aloud with you on whom can I turn my thoughts?
• 49:49
  Speaker 5: He says, My destined husband is in this house. I
• 49:53
  Speaker 5: see the excess of his goodness. It must be.
• 49:56
  Speaker 10: Leon, who Leon his son, your own brother, My brother.
• 50:07
  Speaker 10: Didn't not tell you in the presence of the Count
• 50:09
  Speaker 10: that you owed him more than you imagined. His guardianship
• 50:14
  Speaker 10: was a duty. He is your father, Ah, senor awake,
• 50:23
  Speaker 10: my child, awake from a delusive slumper that may prove
• 50:26
  Speaker 10: fatal to you.
• 50:28
  Speaker 5: Ah, fatal to us both you feel, but.
• 50:32
  Speaker 10: A secret of this nature must lie deep buried in
• 50:35
  Speaker 10: your breast.
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: Goes out on the right, keeping his eyes sternly fixed
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: upon her, till he is out of sight.
• 50:44
  Speaker 5: And what have I been dreaming? Good Heavens, he is
• 50:47
  Speaker 5: my brother, and I dared to entertain what a horrid
• 50:51
  Speaker 5: gleam of light breaks in upon me? And from such
• 50:55
  Speaker 5: a dream, how crueltist to wake.
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: On returning with a paper in his hand, joyfully, my.
• 51:04
  Speaker 11: Mother not returned, and Signor Astuto gone. Let me seize
• 51:09
  Speaker 11: this happy opportunity, Advancing, Floristina, You are as lovely as
• 51:16
  Speaker 11: an angel this morning and indeed always. But your charming
• 51:20
  Speaker 11: cheerfulness at this moment, your bewitching smiles so animate my hopes, Floristina,
• 51:27
  Speaker 11: turning towards him, Ah, leon heavens, your tearful eyes, your
• 51:35
  Speaker 11: trembling lips to note some great calamity.
• 51:38
  Speaker 5: Calamity, leon Ah, the calamities on.
• 51:42
  Speaker 11: My own, Florestina? Do you love me? Then? No longer?
• 51:47
  Speaker 11: While my sentiments for you, your.
• 51:50
  Speaker 5: Sentiments, I never name them more?
• 51:55
  Speaker 11: How the purest passion does this?
• 51:58
  Speaker 5: Does this ormus?
• 52:01
  Speaker 11: Good Heavens, What then has happened? Senor Astuto has just
• 52:05
  Speaker 11: quitted you? I must know donna, Florestina, what Senor Astuto
• 52:10
  Speaker 11: has said.
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: The Countess returns, ah.
• 52:15
  Speaker 11: Madam, come to my relief. You find me in despair.
• 52:19
  Speaker 11: Floristina no longer loves me, not love.
• 52:23
  Speaker 5: Him, Madam. Huh, my guardian, you and he possessed my
• 52:27
  Speaker 5: whole affection.
• 52:29
  Speaker 6: My child, I do not doubt it. But what can
• 52:32
  Speaker 6: be the matter, my.
• 52:34
  Speaker 11: Dearest mother, you approved my ardent passion for her.
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: For Ristina throwing herself unto the arms of the.
• 52:41
  Speaker 5: Countess, did n't be silent, Madam?
• 52:44
  Speaker 6: Bid him be silent, my child. I do not comprehend you.
• 52:50
  Speaker 6: My amazement equals his. She trembles in my arms. What
• 52:56
  Speaker 6: has he done to have displeased you?
• 53:00
  Speaker 5: He has not displeased me. I love esteem him like
• 53:04
  Speaker 5: a brother. But let him require nothing else.
• 53:09
  Speaker 11: You hear her, cool girl, explain yourself.
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: Take in her hand. Floristina struggling, leave me, leave me.
• 53:20
  Speaker 5: You will be the death of me.
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: Figura returning with Susan.
• 53:25
  Speaker 3: The breakfast will be here in a moment, Madam.
• 53:29
  Speaker 2: And here is your tambour frame.
• 53:32
  Speaker 6: Take all away again, you Figureo, carry breakfast to your
• 53:37
  Speaker 6: master in his study, and you, my Floristina, come with
• 53:42
  Speaker 6: me into my dressing room. Compose yourself, my dear children,
• 53:48
  Speaker 6: I bear you both within my heart. Why do you
• 53:52
  Speaker 6: rend it thus without remorse? Aside going There is some
• 53:58
  Speaker 6: mystery in this important for me to unravel.
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: Goes out on the left, holding Florestina in her arm.
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: Susan aside to Figaro.
• 54:10
  Speaker 2: I don't know what is going forward, but it is
• 54:12
  Speaker 2: some downright astudoism, for I am much mistaken. I must
• 54:18
  Speaker 2: inform my mistress about the casket.
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: Figaro aside to Susan, not a word.
• 54:24
  Speaker 3: I beseech you until we have seen the success of
• 54:27
  Speaker 3: our stratagem.
• 54:29
  Speaker 2: Well till then I will be silent.
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: Follows the Countess Leon, absorbed in affliction.
• 54:38
  Speaker 11: Oh heavens, why on lyone?
• 54:42
  Speaker 3: What can be the matter?
• 54:45
  Speaker 11: Alas I cannot tell myself. Never did I behold Florestina
• 54:49
  Speaker 11: in so enchanting a humor, and I know that she
• 54:53
  Speaker 11: had just had a conversation with my father. I left
• 54:57
  Speaker 11: her for an instant with signor Astutto, and returning found
• 55:01
  Speaker 11: her overwhelmed with grief, charging me to speak to her
• 55:05
  Speaker 11: of my love no more? What could my tutor have
• 55:09
  Speaker 11: possibly said to her?
• 55:12
  Speaker 3: Did I not dread your impetuosity. I might inform you
• 55:16
  Speaker 3: of many points which touch you nearly, But when the
• 55:20
  Speaker 3: greatest circumspection is required, a single word from you, too,
• 55:24
  Speaker 3: prone du anger, might at once destroy the fruits which
• 55:28
  Speaker 3: I have been assiduously endeavoring to bring to maturity ever
• 55:32
  Speaker 3: since that this Ostuto brought you home from France.
• 55:36
  Speaker 11: Oh, if circumspection alone be necessary, speak, what do you think?
• 55:41
  Speaker 11: He told her.
• 55:43
  Speaker 3: That she must prepare to accept sennor Ostutto for a husband,
• 55:48
  Speaker 3: That it is an affair determined between her guardian and himself.
• 55:52
  Speaker 11: Between my father and Astuto. The traitor shall have my
• 55:56
  Speaker 11: life fast.
• 55:58
  Speaker 3: No, in this way of proceeding, the traitor will not
• 56:02
  Speaker 3: have your life, but he will have your mistress and
• 56:06
  Speaker 3: your fortune into the bargain.
• 56:09
  Speaker 11: Well, my friend Figaro, forgive me. Teach me what I
• 56:13
  Speaker 11: have to do.
• 56:15
  Speaker 3: Unravel the enigma of the sphinx, or be devoured by
• 56:18
  Speaker 3: it in plain prose. Watch him closely, patiently, moderate yourself
• 56:25
  Speaker 3: and dissemble with him.
• 56:28
  Speaker 11: I dissemble, Yes, I will moderate myself, but I burn
• 56:33
  Speaker 11: with inward rage. Rob me of Floristina. Ah, he is here.
• 56:39
  Speaker 11: I will come coolly to an explanation with him.
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: Coolly or all is lost. Fear me not mostutto returns Senor.
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: Senor restraining himself with difficulty.
• 56:58
  Speaker 11: A word with you, The utmost frankness is indispensable. Floristina
• 57:04
  Speaker 11: is in despair. What have you said to Floristina?
• 57:09
  Speaker 10: And who told you that I had spoken to her?
• 57:12
  Speaker 10: Cannot she be in affliction without my having caused it?
• 57:16
  Speaker 11: No evasion signor She was in the happiest mood when
• 57:19
  Speaker 11: I left you together. You had just quitted her when
• 57:22
  Speaker 11: I found her in tears. Her sorrow are my own.
• 57:27
  Speaker 11: You must give me satisfaction as to the cause of them,
• 57:30
  Speaker 11: or satisfaction of another nature.
• 57:33
  Speaker 10: Must why a less absolute tone? Everything reasonable may be
• 57:38
  Speaker 10: obtained from me that I never yield to menaces.
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: They all furiously drawing his sword.
• 57:47
  Speaker 11: Well, then, perfidious man, defend yourself.
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: Figuro, rush in between.
• 57:52
  Speaker 3: Them, Senor as Duto, the son of your best friend
• 57:57
  Speaker 3: in his own house, become your.
• 58:01
  Speaker 10: I know what is due to friendship and to myself.
• 58:05
  Speaker 10: I shall explain all, but what no witness. Withdraw and
• 58:10
  Speaker 10: leave us together.
• 58:13
  Speaker 11: Go, my dear Figaro. You see he cannot escape me.
• 58:17
  Speaker 11: Let's leave him no excuse.
• 58:19
  Speaker 3: I will withdraw and apprize, the count goes out.
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: On the right.
• 58:27
  Speaker 11: Though it might more become you to fight than talk
• 58:30
  Speaker 11: the options yours. But I admit only of these alternatives.
• 58:36
  Speaker 10: Yon, a man of honor must not draw his weaponing
• 58:39
  Speaker 10: as the son of his benefactor. Nor should I have
• 58:42
  Speaker 10: explained myself before a wretched valet, insolent at having become
• 58:47
  Speaker 10: almost the master of his.
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: Master leone seating himself.
• 58:53
  Speaker 11: To the point, signor.
• 58:56
  Speaker 10: Oh, how much of you going to regret this unreasonable fury?
• 59:01
  Speaker 11: That's what we shall see immediately.
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: Astuto seated himself Leon, affecting greater dignity.
• 59:12
  Speaker 10: You love, Floristina, No, I have long observed it well.
• 59:17
  Speaker 10: Our poor Alfonso.
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: Lived affecting to weep.
• 59:23
  Speaker 10: But you know, from infancy I did not think his
• 59:27
  Speaker 10: feeble constitution could leave him many years among us, And
• 59:31
  Speaker 10: had not this horrid duel happened, he was doomed. So
• 59:36
  Speaker 10: let us weep no more for him. While a Fonso lived,
• 59:41
  Speaker 10: I could not think of serving an unhappy passion, which
• 59:43
  Speaker 10: the vows of celibacy destined for you must needs have
• 59:46
  Speaker 10: rendered fruitless. Since the fay, too, Joel, disposing of your
• 59:51
  Speaker 10: brother's life has brought you Leon into his place. I
• 59:56
  Speaker 10: have been presumptuous enough to think that my influence might
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 10: the Count your father to abandon his views for you
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 10: in regard for Balta, and to consent to your union
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 10: with her you love. Ever since his returned from the
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 10: Viceroyalty of Mexico and ours from France, and I have
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 10: never ceased to assail him in all possible ways. That
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 10: an invincible repugnance defeated my every effort, despaired the rejection
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 10: of a project which seemed help letting to ensure the
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 10: happiness of all. Pardon me, my young friend, I am
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 10: going to afflict you, but it is necessary in order
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 10: to save you from eternal misery. Summon all your reason
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 10: to your aid. You will greatly need it. I brought
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 10: at length your father to the necessity of breaking his
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 10: too long guarded silence and confiding his secret to me. No,
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 10: my dear friend, cried he to me. I am not
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 10: ignorant of my son's affection for Floristina. But judge how
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 10: impossible it is that I should best over on him.
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 10: For no, that she you think my ward is Ah
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 10: is my daughter his own.
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 11: Sister, Florestina, my sister, that is.
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 10: The secret that a painful, what an urgent duty compelled
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 10: me to confide to Floristina, and has now compelled me
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 10: for both your sakes, My silence might have undone you.
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 10: Rising well, Leon, will you draw upon me now? Leon
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 10: throwing himself into his arms. Oh, never, never figure o
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 10: running in with the count.
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: This way, my lord?
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 4: Here they are class in each other's arms. Have you
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 4: lost your senses?
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 10: Faith?
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: My lord? I do feel bewildered.
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 4: But do you mean to explain this to me?
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 11: Ah? Tis I my father, who must explain? Forgive me?
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 11: I die with shame that Onso.
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: Astutto puts his finger on his lip.
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 11: So frivolous an affair I had quite forgotten myself. His
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 11: generous character has not only brought me back to reason,
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 11: but has pardoned me. I was thanking him when you
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 11: surprised us.
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 4: This is not the first time, by Ane hundred, that
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 4: your cretitude is do to him. In fact, we all
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 4: of us have reason to be grateful to him.
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 1: Figuro strikes his forehead. Astutto observes him and smiles.
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 4: Leave us. You will think of val only could repress
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 4: my anger? Oh cout on the fiver, all is forgotten
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 4: go verry pent for having been wanting in respect to
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 4: my friend, your own, the most virtuous of mankind.
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: It grieves me to the heart goes out on the
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 1: left figurro aside the very devil aids him.
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 4: Let us terminate, my friend, what we had begun, and
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 4: you signor fugio, with your fantastical conjectures, give me the
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 4: million of piastas which came from Cadiz in fifty bills
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 4: to better I judged you to number and to register them.
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 4: I did so return them.
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 3: Then what the million of piastres?
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 11: Ah?
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 4: Certainly well? What stops you?
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 1: Oh? Nothing but that I have not got them? Excellenza,
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: not to them no signor.
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 10: What then have you done with them?
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 3: When my master questions me, I owe him a full
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 3: disclosure of my actions. For you, I owe you nothing insolent.
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 4: What have you done with them?
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 3: Deposited them in the custody of your notary? Pause advice,
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 3: my own advice I often follow.
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 10: And would lay away. So that tis no such.
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 3: Thing the notary's acknowledgment, now in my possession, might chance
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 3: to make you lose.
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 10: Nor if it be so, it was to speculate these
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 10: people divide the profits.
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 3: You might speak a little more respectfully of one to
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 3: whom you owe such obligations.
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 10: I owe him nothing.
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 3: Hum, I suppose not when one has inherited a mine
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 3: of wealth.
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 4: Have you any observations to make on that too?
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 3: Ooh, I, your excellency, I ought to doubt the fact
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 3: so much the less to be sure, as I happen
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 3: to know this relation to whom signor astutto has become
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 3: the heir a gambling, libertine quarrelsome prodigal, immoral young man, who.
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 10: In one word, for what purpose did you place the
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 10: million with the notary.
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 3: In signor to have it no longer in my own charge?
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 3: One might be plundered of it? Who can tell? Great
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 3: robes sometimes insinuate themselves into people's houses.
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 10: But your master desires to have the bills.
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 3: Again, then my master can send for them.
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 10: But will the notary deliver them without receiving back his
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 10: own acknowledgment.
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 3: No? But I will give it to my master, And
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 3: when I shall have done my duty, if any harm
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 3: result from it, I shall be blameless.
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 4: I shall expect to weep it in my study.
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 1: Figure O.
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 3: Going observe that the notary will require your Excellency's receipt.
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 3: Also I charged him not to deliver amavundi without it goes.
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 1: Out on the left a studor furiously overwhelmed.
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 10: This wretches with your kindness, and see how they abuse it.
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 10: Really count on my fever, my friendship for you forces
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 10: me to say it. You confide too much in him.
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 10: He has guessed our secret from Valet Barber's surgeon, has
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 10: become your treasury, your factot him. It is notorious that
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 10: Signor Figro has not been idle in your service.
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 4: Oh and the score of integrity. I have nothing to
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 4: reproach him with. But it is true that he becomes
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 4: so elegant.
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 10: You have an easy way of getting rid of and
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 10: recompensing him at the same time. I often wish it
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 10: in sending Don Leon off to Malta. Do you doubtless
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 10: wish to have some person who tried fidelity to accompany him.
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 10: Figur too much flattered by so honorable a post could
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 10: not fail accepting it, and thus you would be rid
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 10: of him for some time.
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 4: At any rate, my friend, you are in the right. Besides,
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 4: he leaves him to on very bad terms with his wife.
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 4: You are right. It shall be so.
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 10: Goes out on the right, so one step more secured. Yeah,
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 10: Princess spies essence of effrontery, you think under the mask
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 10: of honest seal to fling me out of the dour.
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 10: Your honesty shall go and participate in all the pleasures
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  Speaker 10: of a Maltese caravan, and be rid of the trouble
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  Speaker 10: of prying into my conduct in your master's.
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  Speaker 1: Family goes into the library. In the fact two Act
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  Speaker 1: for a Real in Hypocrisy by Pierre Beaumarchie, translated by
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  Speaker 1: Figuro entering from the vestibule.
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  Speaker 3: The appointed times elapsed for this Neapolitan to send his messenger.
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  Speaker 3: Susan is posted to intercept him at his entrance. If
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 3: our projects fail in execution or disappoint us in its result,
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  Speaker 3: I know not what may be the consequence. For I
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  Speaker 3: am either mad or I saw my master in this
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  Speaker 3: sistuto retire from my lady's chamber arm in arm. What
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  Speaker 3: an arch hypocrite to persuade the countess to burn the
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  Speaker 3: papers that you might not discover that one was missing,
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  Speaker 3: and to avoid the explanation which I thought so sure. Yes,
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  Speaker 3: I was right. Just now, this crafty signor must needs
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  Speaker 3: be the devil himself. I think I saw his cloth
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  Speaker 3: and foot, the only part about the black gentleman which
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  Speaker 3: my mother always said he could not hide.
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  Speaker 1: Ha ha ha ha ha.
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  Speaker 3: I begin to recover my gaiety a little. First because
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 3: I had placed a million of jestas in safety with
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 3: the notary. Secondly, because this packet of blank paper.
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  Speaker 1: Takes the sealed packet from his.
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  Speaker 3: Pocket, addressed to Naples, may possibly produce a prise.
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  Speaker 1: That Susan appears in the vestibule with the muleteer.
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  Speaker 3: Ah, there's Susan with a muleteer.
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  Speaker 1: The muleteer enters.
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  Speaker 3: Now, every good genius aid me.
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  Speaker 8: You are the secretary of Donastutto. I am informed signor.
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  Speaker 3: The same, And if you are on your way to Naples,
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  Speaker 3: I have expected you some time.
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  Speaker 8: Do not keep me waiting. Now, I am come. Is
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  Speaker 8: the packet ready?
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  Speaker 3: It is? But where's the pledge that you be truly
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 3: he to whom I have instructions to commit.
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  Speaker 1: It tis here, gives the ring and takes the packet.
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  Speaker 3: This is indeed my master's ring. He begs you to
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  Speaker 3: accept this trifle for your pains, and wishes you a
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  Speaker 3: prosperous journey. Be careful of the packet. Tis invaluable fare
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  Speaker 3: you well.
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  Speaker 8: Signore adieu, goes out again.
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  Speaker 3: Now Carlos.
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  Speaker 1: Carlos opens a closet door and comes forward there gives
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  Speaker 1: him the ring.
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  Speaker 3: Now to your post within the vestibule until you hear
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  Speaker 3: me stamp.
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  Speaker 2: I will not fail at the concerted signal.
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  Speaker 1: Retires into the vestib just in the neck.
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  Speaker 3: For here Astuto comes.
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  Speaker 1: I vow the stutto entering from the corridor, so.
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  Speaker 10: Signor Figaro. Every place affords one pleasure when one meets
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  Speaker 10: Signor Figaro.
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  Speaker 3: The pleasure of getting him turned out of it.
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  Speaker 1: I suppose.
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  Speaker 10: Bear malice for so mere a trifle. It is not
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  Speaker 10: worth a thought. We have all our little gratifications, you.
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  Speaker 3: Know, and yours seems to be. To plead your cause
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  Speaker 3: in private.
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  Speaker 1: The stutto slaping him on the shoulder.
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  Speaker 10: It is not necessary that a wizard should hear everything.
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  Speaker 10: Who is so good at guessing.
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  Speaker 3: Everyone makes the best use he can of the little
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  Speaker 3: talent with which Heaven has endowed him.
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  Speaker 10: And does the busy body hope to turn those talents
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  Speaker 10: to great account of which he has given us a specimen.
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  Speaker 3: Not taking anything himself. He is sure to win if
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  Speaker 3: he can make the other lose Yamba.
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  Speaker 1: Whom, if you please, Figura, smiling the other, Why the
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  Speaker 1: cap fitted and you have put it.
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  Speaker 10: On, we shall see signor Figaro's game.
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  Speaker 3: You will see none of those brilliant strokes which dazzle
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  Speaker 3: the multitude, but every one for himself and Heaven for us.
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  Speaker 10: All a stuto, smiling fine quotation in the recollect too,
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  Speaker 10: the sun shines on all alike.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, in darting its rays on the endemnomed serpent writhing
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  Speaker 3: to sting the hand of his imprudent benefactor, serpent serpent
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  Speaker 3: that every honest foot.
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  Speaker 1: Stamping should crush colonels appears in the vestibule. Fig goes
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  Speaker 1: out into the corridor a studo, keeping his eyes fixed
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  Speaker 1: on him till he is out of sight.
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  Speaker 10: The fellow carries it with eye hand no longer masks
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  Speaker 10: as designs well, so much the better he knows nought
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  Speaker 10: of mine. Could he imagine that at midnight.
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  Speaker 1: Carlos coming forward, senor, will you be pleased to tell
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  Speaker 1: me where I can find one?
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  Speaker 6: Done a SHOOTO?
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  Speaker 10: What do you want with him? Friend?
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  Speaker 3: I am directed to take charge of his Italian dispatches and.
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  Speaker 10: The stutto, and expected also to receive some by him
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  Speaker 10: to mine were to be delivered.
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  Speaker 9: I have brought nothing for you but this ring, good
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  Speaker 9: signor I am in haste tis well.
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  Speaker 1: Taking the ring and giving him a sealed packet.
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  Speaker 10: No, carefully convey this packet to him who sent you hither.
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  Speaker 1: Figure O, peeps in take this to cheer you on
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  Speaker 1: your way. Carlos takes the money and goes out through
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  Speaker 1: the vestibule.
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  Speaker 4: So much for that?
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  Speaker 1: Well a feeling in his pocket.
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  Speaker 10: What have I done with the acknowledgment and receipt? Yeah,
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  Speaker 10: here it is.
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  Speaker 1: Figuro goes across the hall from the corridor into the vestibule.
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  Speaker 10: Received signor notary, million specified bills vera midrid this helm
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  Speaker 10: of fever. Now at length. I holed the money and
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 10: the ward. But this is not enough.
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  Speaker 4: The man is weak.
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  Speaker 10: Delays are dangerous. The countess still has power over him.
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  Speaker 10: He stands in awe, he seeing her more a victim
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  Speaker 10: than accomplice. There's some affection for her, Yet will be
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  Speaker 10: neither con or divorce unless I set them together by
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  Speaker 10: the ears and force them to a brutal explanation. Old
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  Speaker 10: hold they were not hazardant to night, so scary in
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  Speaker 10: a fear and precipitating things too much, one sometimes precipitates
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  Speaker 10: one's self for long with them. Now be time enough
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  Speaker 10: to morrow, and I shall have fast riveted the sacramental
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  Speaker 10: links which will enchain us all together.
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  Speaker 1: Well pressie both his hands on his.
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  Speaker 10: Breast, rebellious transports of delight that swell my heart? Can
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  Speaker 10: ye contain yourselves no longer? Ye would stifle or betray
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  Speaker 10: me if I do not let you evaporate a little?
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  Speaker 4: Now I am.
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  Speaker 10: Alone, Thou blessed credulity to thee. The favored bridegroom is
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  Speaker 10: indebted for a magnificent, dour, pale goddess of the night.
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  Speaker 1: From THEE.
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  Speaker 10: He soon receives a lovely, but unwilling bride. Fortune Hymen,
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 10: who shall sing the epithelamium? Who is the poet worthy
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  Speaker 10: of composing it? A struto happy astuto? Why call thyself
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  Speaker 10: a stutto any longer? Thou art already more than half
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 10: the count Helm of Eva one steep mooris stutto, and
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  Speaker 10: thou art that count entirely?
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  Speaker 11: Yes, But.
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  Speaker 10: I must first this figurer weighs upon my heart, twas
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 10: he who brought him the least mischances things now ticulishly stand,
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  Speaker 10: might ruin me. This valet is my evil genius, is
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 10: the most sharp sighted knave. Come come, let's send him
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  Speaker 10: packing hens with his amorous knight errant.
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  Speaker 1: Going not enter the vestibule, is met by Susan, and
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  Speaker 1: returns with her.
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  Speaker 10: Susan, since we have met, one word with you, my
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  Speaker 10: child before the family assembly?
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  Speaker 2: What family assembly?
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  Speaker 10: Yah? The family assembly, child is a.
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  Speaker 1: Conference needing the snuff.
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  Speaker 13: In his box, with an air of great exultation with
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  Speaker 13: the Count, the Countess, her son, Florestina, and myself upon
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  Speaker 13: the grand object of which I told.
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  Speaker 2: You what After the scene in my lady's apartment, you
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  Speaker 2: still have hopes.
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  Speaker 10: Hopes they are at an end. I only marry whose
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  Speaker 10: Excellency's daughters very night.
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  Speaker 2: His Excellency's daughter.
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  Speaker 10: Why can you be, Susan, such a novice? A certain rule,
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  Speaker 10: my child. Whenever orphan ward or go daughter is brought
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  Speaker 10: into a family, the husband's.
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  Speaker 2: Bastard, the husband's bastard.
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  Speaker 10: But my Susie, what say they You who are in
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  Speaker 10: the confidence of them all? Come tell me? Tell me
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  Speaker 10: do they think well of me? That is the important point.
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  Speaker 2: The important point would be to know what talisman you
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 2: employ to captivate their senses. The count never speaks of you,
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  Speaker 2: but with enthusiasm, my mistress raises you to the skies.
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  Speaker 2: Her son has no hope on earth, but in his
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 2: tutor Floristina reveres you, and Susan faith Susan signor admires
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  Speaker 2: you amidst the most terrible disorder that you foment and
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  Speaker 2: keep alive. Here you alone are calm. I think I
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  Speaker 2: see some mighty genius setting a world in motion.
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  Speaker 10: Nothing more easy. Child, Know that all sub lunary affairs
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 10: turn upon two pivots, morality and policy. Morality merely consists
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 10: in being just and true, and is the key to
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 10: set of some insipid virtues.
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  Speaker 2: And policy no policy.
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  Speaker 10: Policy is a creative faculty, the art of governing mankind
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 10: by sporting with events and men. Its rich and vast
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 10: conceptions and designs are prisms which Dazzlin confound as deep
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 10: as etna It burns and rumbles along, and then bursts
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 10: forth and carries all before. It requires great talents, talents
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 10: sparing the use of truth. Interest is its end, its
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 10: means intrigue scruple alone can injure it. It's the state's
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 10: secret of place and negotiators.
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  Speaker 2: If morality do not warm you, policy seems to excite ya.
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  Speaker 1: No recovering himself.
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  Speaker 10: Itwas you with your comparison of a mighty genius. But
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 10: we are interrupted.
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  Speaker 2: Here is Leon, Leave us together, Susan.
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  Speaker 1: She retires on the left, Leon entering from the vestibule.
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  Speaker 11: Senor Astuto, I am driven to despair.
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 10: Why what has happened to my young friend?
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 11: My father has just given me his peremptory order, and
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 11: in the harshest manner, to prepare for my departure for
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  Speaker 11: Malta in two days, with no one but Figureo to
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  Speaker 11: accompany me and a single valet to attend us.
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 10: His conduct must appear capricious in the extreme to those
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  Speaker 10: who do not know the secret. That dois who have
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  Speaker 10: penetrated it. It is clear that he deserves our pity.
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 10: This journey is the fruit of a very excusable apprehension.
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 10: Malta and your vows are the mere pretexts an attachment
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 10: at which she shudders is the real motive.
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  Speaker 11: But as you marry her, if.
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 10: Her brother be earnestly desirous to postpone.
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 11: His journey, oh, most certainly.
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  Speaker 10: I see but one method.
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  Speaker 11: Dearest friend, Oh name it.
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  Speaker 10: But the Countess your mother should overcome that extreme timidity
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 10: which prevents her from having a will of her own.
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 10: For her meekness injures you even more than too much firmness.
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  Speaker 4: Could it?
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  Speaker 1: Does?
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  Speaker 10: It does supposing that any wretch had prejudiced the count
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 10: against you. Oh, like a mother has a right to
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 10: call him back to reason, engage her to attempted lyon
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 10: not to night tomorrow, without betraying any weakness.
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 11: My dearest friend, you are ever in the right. That
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 11: fear alone can actuate my father, and that no one
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 11: but my mother can induce him to evoke the order
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 11: he has given me is evident. See here she comes
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 11: with her sighs, she whom I dare adore no longer, Oh,
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 11: worthy senor stutto make her happy.
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  Speaker 10: In always talking to her of her brother.
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  Speaker 1: The Countess entering, descending the corridor, full dressed in black
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 1: and red, wearing her nosegay in her bosom Floristina, and
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  Speaker 1: Susan follow her.
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  Speaker 6: Susan, bring me my diamonds.
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 1: Susan goes back again the stutto with affected dignity.
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  Speaker 10: Countess Elmoviva, Senor of Floristina, permit me, instead of attending
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 10: you to excellency, to withdraw and leave you to be
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 10: conducted by my young friend, whose sentiments in mine in
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 10: every particular most perfectly accord but alas disinterested friendship constrains
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 10: me to conjure you not to bestow a thought on
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 10: the felicity which I should know in becoming allied so
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 10: closely to you. All. It is your own happiness that
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 10: must be considered, whatsoever, if aught may be in my
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 10: power to promote, it shall be contributed in such mode
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 10: as you may think proper to pronounce. But whether Senora
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 10: Floristinea shall determine to bestow on me or to refuse
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  Speaker 10: her hand, receive my irrevocable declaration that the fortune which
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 10: I have just inherited shall now be hers by marriage
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  Speaker 10: contract or one day by bequest. No I am this
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 10: instant going to have the instrument prepared after what I
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 10: have premised it would be indecorous that my presence should
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 10: influence a decision which should be made of perfect freedom.
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 10: But be it what it may, Oh, my dearest friends,
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  Speaker 10: it will be to me a sacred law.
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  Speaker 1: Bows and withdraws through the vestibule, Countess, keeping her eyes
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 1: fixed on him till he is out of sight.
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  Speaker 6: He is an angel sent from heaven to alleviate all
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 6: our woes.
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  Speaker 11: Oh Floristina, we must yield an insuperable bar opposing our union.
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 11: The first transports of our grief prompted us to vow
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 11: never to be united to any other. I will fulfill
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 11: that vow for both. I do not wholly lose you.
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 11: Since I find a sister in her whom I hoped
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 11: to have possessed a wife, we may still love each other.
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  Speaker 1: Susan, returning, here are.
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  Speaker 6: The diamonds, Madam, My Floristina bestows her hand upon a Stuto.
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 1: Taking her earrings, rings, and bracelets from Susan and putting
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 1: them on without noticing them.
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  Speaker 6: His noble conduct renders him worthy of her. And since
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 6: this union makes your guardian happy, it may even be
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 6: consummated this very night, Susan.
• 1:25:18
  Speaker 1: Aside, this very night goes out through the vestibule Forestina,
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 1: aside merciful heaven.
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 6: For our part, my son, let us never betray a
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 6: knowledge of that which we are considered ignorant. You weep,
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 6: my Floristina.
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 5: Have pity on me, madam Ah. How can I support
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 5: the various shocks that all assail me in one day?
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 5: Scarcely do I learn to whom I really owe my being?
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 5: Then I must renounce my parent and deliver myself to
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 5: a victim. I'm ready to expire with grief and apprehension,
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 5: without any plausible objection to make to senor Us. Do
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 5: you to My heart is agonized when I think on
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 5: him as a husband, But it must be so. I
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 5: must sacrifice myself to the well being of a dear
• 1:26:10
  Speaker 5: brother whose felicity I can no otherwise ensure, you say,
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 5: I weep alas I make a greater sacrifice that in
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 5: laying down my life to serve him. I cannot think
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 5: on it without horror. Oh, my dear mother, take pity
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  Speaker 5: on us. Bless your children.
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 1: They kneel to the Countess.
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  Speaker 5: They are very miserable my children.
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 6: Bless you, My dearest Florastna. I adopt you. Come, my daughter.
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 6: You will be happy you will enjoy the happiness that
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 6: spotless virtue only can bestow.
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 5: But do you really think that my submission will restore
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 5: ear Leon to the Count's affection? For we must not
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 5: deceive our who unjust prejudice is carried even to hatred.
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 6: My dearest child, I hope so, signor stutto hope so too.
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 11: But he thinks also that none but my dear mother
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 11: can operate effectually. So great a miracle have you the
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 11: resolution to speak to him on my behalf?
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 6: I often have attempted it, my child, but without any
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 6: visible effect.
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 11: Oh, my dearest mother, it is your gentleness that injures me.
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 11: The fear of contradicting him has too long prevented the
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 11: exertion of that influence which your virtue and the profound
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 11: respect which everybody bears for you must necessarily give. If
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 11: you were to speak to him courageously, he could not
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 11: possibly resist.
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 6: Do you think so, Leanne, I will make the attempt
• 1:27:53
  Speaker 6: before you. Your reproach afflicts me almost as much as
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 6: his injustice.
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 1: And appears in the vestibule.
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 6: But that your presence may not restrain the good report
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 6: that I would, with justice make of you, you shall
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 6: remain in an adjoining room. Whence you may hear me
• 1:28:13
  Speaker 6: plead a cause, so.
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 1: Just collin Susan to him.
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 6: You shall no longer accuse a mother of want of
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 6: energy when her son is to be defended.
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 1: Susan comes forward.
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 6: Susan beg the Count to take the trouble to meet
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 6: me in my apartment.
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 2: Madam, you make me tremble? What is all this about?
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 2: How the count, the count who'll never.
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 6: Do as I direct you, Susan, and be under no alarm.
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 1: Susan goes out on the right.
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 6: Come Leon for you, my Floristina. Your presence would also
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 6: lay me under some restraint. Hire to your chamber and
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 6: offer up your innocent supplications that Heaven may strengthen my
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 6: endeavors to restore long absent peace to my desolated family.
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 1: Goes out on the left, holding Leon and Floristina by
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 1: the arm.
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  Speaker 6: My precious children.
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  Speaker 1: In the fact four, Act five of Frailty and Hypocrisy
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  Speaker 1: by Pierre Beaumartier, translated by James Wilde. This is a
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  Speaker 1: org frailty and Hypocrisy, Act five. The Countess discovered kneeling
• 1:29:54
  Speaker 1: in the attitude of prayer.
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  Speaker 6: This moment appears as awful to me as the hour
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 6: final retribution. My blood freezes within my veins. Oh, Fountain
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 6: of all goodness, grant me the power to touch my
• 1:30:11
  Speaker 6: husband's heart. Thou alone canst penetrate the motives which hitherto
• 1:30:17
  Speaker 6: have sealed my lips and ah. If my child's felicity
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 6: were not depending, thou knowest that I would not dare
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 6: petition for myself. But if it be true, as the
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 6: dear friend thou gavest assures me that seventeen years of
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 6: sufferance and contrition have from thy bounteous mercy gained remission
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 6: for my fault, Grant me the power to touch my
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 6: husband's heart.
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  Speaker 1: Almaviva.
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  Speaker 4: Entering from the right dryly, Madam, I have been informed
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 4: that you desire to see me.
• 1:30:57
  Speaker 6: I thought, my Lord, that we should be less like
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 6: able to intrusion here than in your study.
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  Speaker 4: I am come, Madam, speak, Let us.
• 1:31:07
  Speaker 6: Be seated, my Lord, I pray you and lend me
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 6: your attention.
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 4: No, I'll hear you as I am. You know that
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 4: in conversation. I cannot bear to remain long in one.
• 1:31:19
  Speaker 1: Place, Countess, seating herself and speaking low.
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 6: It is about my son, my lord.
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 4: Abergur son, Madame.
• 1:31:33
  Speaker 6: What motive else could have surmounted my repugnance to entreat
• 1:31:37
  Speaker 6: an interview for which you never are desirous? But I
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 6: have just seen him in such distress as must excite compassion,
• 1:31:48
  Speaker 6: His mind disturbed, his heart quite broken by your mandate
• 1:31:52
  Speaker 6: to depart immediately, and above all by the harsh manner
• 1:31:57
  Speaker 6: in which that mandate was expressed. Ah, how has he
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 6: merited the displeasure of so bountiful, so kind a friend,
• 1:32:08
  Speaker 6: from the fatal moment that our dear Alfonso was torn
• 1:32:12
  Speaker 6: from us by a horrid duel. Ah, to this very hour,
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 6: has not Leon, who never should himself have known affliction,
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 6: striven to diminish ours by every affectionate attention and regard.
• 1:32:28
  Speaker 1: The Count groans and walks backwards and forwards.
• 1:32:34
  Speaker 6: The wayward disposition of his brother, such as our friend
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 6: Astutto has ever represented it to be, might have become
• 1:32:42
  Speaker 6: a source of much more misery to us. Heaven severe,
• 1:32:47
  Speaker 6: but just in its decrees, may by taking him away,
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 6: have saved us both from anguish. Still more poignant.
• 1:32:57
  Speaker 1: The Count walks to and fro, groaning with increased agitation.
• 1:33:03
  Speaker 6: But has the one whom Heaven has spared us been
• 1:33:06
  Speaker 6: ever wanting in any of his duties? Has he yet
• 1:33:10
  Speaker 6: merited the least reproach a model for the young men
• 1:33:15
  Speaker 6: of his age and station. He is universally esteemed, loved,
• 1:33:20
  Speaker 6: nay consulted by his own protector. My husband alone seems
• 1:33:27
  Speaker 6: blind to his transcendent merit.
• 1:33:31
  Speaker 1: The Count walks backwards and forwards, still faster, without speaking.
• 1:33:35
  Speaker 1: The Countess, encouraged by his silence, proceeds in a firmer tone,
• 1:33:40
  Speaker 1: which she raises by degrees.
• 1:33:43
  Speaker 6: On every occasion. Else, Count Almaviva, I should hold it
• 1:33:48
  Speaker 6: as the highest honor to submit my weak opinion to
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 6: your superior judgment.
• 1:33:54
  Speaker 2: But in a son's cause.
• 1:33:57
  Speaker 1: The Count stops short, hesitates a moment, and then walks
• 1:34:01
  Speaker 1: on again.
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 6: While his elder brother lived, the hereditary pride of a
• 1:34:08
  Speaker 6: great house condemned him to a life of celibacy. The
• 1:34:12
  Speaker 6: Cross of Malta was his doom, and custom prejudice might
• 1:34:17
  Speaker 6: have veiled the palpable injustice of this partition between two
• 1:34:21
  Speaker 6: brothers equal in rights.
• 1:34:24
  Speaker 1: Almaviva endeavoring to stifle his voice equal in the.
• 1:34:29
  Speaker 6: Rights had we when on our return from Mexico we
• 1:34:34
  Speaker 6: found our eldest son no more, also found the youngest
• 1:34:38
  Speaker 6: already sworn to celibacy. The world would have expected Count
• 1:34:43
  Speaker 6: Almaviva to have used his powerful influence with the leggate
• 1:34:47
  Speaker 6: here for the absolving of the vow. Is it not
• 1:34:50
  Speaker 6: therefore most astonishing that you should persevere in sending him
• 1:34:55
  Speaker 6: to Malta? I know, besides, my Lord, that you are
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 6: selling and exchanging your estates, if it be in order
• 1:35:04
  Speaker 6: to deprive him of them, Count Almviva, hatred cannot be
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 6: carried further. Not satisfied with this, you drive him hence
• 1:35:15
  Speaker 6: from your pattern protective roof. Permit me count to say
• 1:35:21
  Speaker 6: that treatment so extraordinary is scarcely justifiable in the eye
• 1:35:26
  Speaker 6: of reason. What has he done to merit it?
• 1:35:30
  Speaker 4: What has he done?
• 1:35:32
  Speaker 6: I would not for the world offend you.
• 1:35:35
  Speaker 4: What has he done? And it is you who ask it?
• 1:35:39
  Speaker 1: Countess in disorder.
• 1:35:41
  Speaker 6: Count Almviv, you terrify me much.
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 4: Since you yourself provoked the explosion which humanity hitherto has smothered.
• 1:35:50
  Speaker 4: You shall hear the sentence of his doom pronounced and
• 1:35:53
  Speaker 4: of your own.
• 1:35:55
  Speaker 6: Ah, Count Almaviva, Ah, Count Almaviva, fack.
• 1:36:01
  Speaker 4: What has he done?
• 1:36:03
  Speaker 6: Oh? I ask you nothing, I ask you nothing.
• 1:36:08
  Speaker 4: Recollect, perfidious woman, what you yourself have done? And how receiving
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 4: a violent adulterer in your arms. You have brought this
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 4: wretched child into my house, whom you dare to call
• 1:36:21
  Speaker 4: my son.
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 1: Countess in despair, endeavoring.
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 6: To rise, Oh, let me.
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 1: Fly, Almaviva, holding her wrist down upon the arm of
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 1: the chair.
• 1:36:33
  Speaker 4: No, you shall not escape. The clear conviction depresses itself
• 1:36:37
  Speaker 4: upon you. Do you know this writing the work of
• 1:36:40
  Speaker 4: your own guilty hand, and these characters in blood? In
• 1:36:44
  Speaker 4: answer to it.
• 1:36:45
  Speaker 1: Countess quite overwhelmed, Oh, I shall expire.
• 1:36:51
  Speaker 4: Oh, no, you shall hear this passage which I have underlined.
• 1:36:56
  Speaker 4: Rash and inconsiderate youth, our wretched lot is cast. Your
• 1:37:00
  Speaker 4: crime and my participation in it, receive their just chastisement.
• 1:37:06
  Speaker 4: This day, the festival of Saint Leon, I have brought
• 1:37:09
  Speaker 4: into the world a sun whose presence covers me with
• 1:37:13
  Speaker 4: shame and drives me to despair.
• 1:37:16
  Speaker 1: While Ama Viva reads with great emphasis, the Countess utters
• 1:37:20
  Speaker 1: some inarticulate sounds which seem the effect of delirium, and.
• 1:37:26
  Speaker 4: This child was born upon Saint Leon's d more than
• 1:37:29
  Speaker 4: ten months after my departure on my embassy to Naples.
• 1:37:34
  Speaker 1: Countess, the hands clapped in prayer.
• 1:37:38
  Speaker 6: Great God, dost thou not then permit that the most
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 6: hidden crime should go unpunished.
• 1:37:45
  Speaker 4: And in the hand of your betrayer, the friend who
• 1:37:48
  Speaker 4: will deliver these when I shall be no more is.
• 1:37:52
  Speaker 1: Sure, counters still with her hands clasped.
• 1:37:57
  Speaker 6: Strike thou, great arbiter of justice. I have too much
• 1:38:01
  Speaker 6: deserved it.
• 1:38:03
  Speaker 4: If the death of a wretch you perishes, for you
• 1:38:06
  Speaker 4: can inspire the least compassion, Let me hope, Countess, still
• 1:38:11
  Speaker 4: in prayer.
• 1:38:12
  Speaker 6: Accept these excruciating tortures in expiation of my guilt.
• 1:38:18
  Speaker 4: That the name of Leon transmitted to the innocent fruit
• 1:38:22
  Speaker 4: of my ungovernable frenzy.
• 1:38:25
  Speaker 1: Countess deloriously, her eyes closed.
• 1:38:28
  Speaker 6: Oh God, my participation in the crime was great, indeed
• 1:38:33
  Speaker 6: if it equalled its chastisement. But let thy will.
• 1:38:39
  Speaker 4: And covered with these guilt, you dare to call me
• 1:38:44
  Speaker 4: to an account for my conduct towards him.
• 1:38:47
  Speaker 1: Countess, her eyes still closed.
• 1:38:51
  Speaker 6: Thou knowest that my mind was not consenting. But what
• 1:38:56
  Speaker 6: am I alas to murmur at thy decree. When my
• 1:39:00
  Speaker 6: avenging arm is lifted up against.
• 1:39:03
  Speaker 4: Me, and while you are bleeding in favor of this
• 1:39:07
  Speaker 4: wretched boy, you were a portrait on your armor.
• 1:39:11
  Speaker 1: Countess exerting herself to rise, my lord.
• 1:39:16
  Speaker 6: My lord, I will restore it unbuckling the bracelet. I
• 1:39:22
  Speaker 6: know that I am no longer worthy.
• 1:39:26
  Speaker 1: Discovering the portrait of the page as she is about
• 1:39:29
  Speaker 1: to present it.
• 1:39:31
  Speaker 6: Heavens, what's the matter with me? I begin to lose
• 1:39:35
  Speaker 6: my senses. My troubled conscience raises phantoms anticipated reprobation. I
• 1:39:43
  Speaker 6: see that which exists no longer. He beckons me to
• 1:39:48
  Speaker 6: follow to the grave.
• 1:39:51
  Speaker 1: Oh Mariva alarmed?
• 1:39:53
  Speaker 4: How no, No.
• 1:39:56
  Speaker 6: You forced me to participate, and now you drag me
• 1:40:00
  Speaker 6: down to share your punishment.
• 1:40:03
  Speaker 1: Almaviva, more alarmed.
• 1:40:05
  Speaker 11: No, it is not horrible.
• 1:40:09
  Speaker 2: Shade be gone, It is not what you take it for.
• 1:40:13
  Speaker 1: Go throws the bracelet from her.
• 1:40:17
  Speaker 6: I soon shall follow, But Madam, hear me, hear me
• 1:40:23
  Speaker 6: taking up the bracelet.
• 1:40:24
  Speaker 1: The Countess, quite overcome, swoons away.
• 1:40:28
  Speaker 4: She thinks I have gone too far. Good Heavens help her.
• 1:40:34
  Speaker 4: No one at hand. Let me fly for some relief.
• 1:40:38
  Speaker 1: The count runs out on the right. The countess, in
• 1:40:41
  Speaker 1: a convulsive agony, falls from the chair upon the floor,
• 1:40:46
  Speaker 1: lay all, opening the closet door and running towards her.
• 1:40:50
  Speaker 11: Oh, my mother, my mother, tis I have been the
• 1:40:54
  Speaker 11: death of her?
• 1:40:55
  Speaker 1: Replaces her on the chair.
• 1:40:58
  Speaker 11: Why did I not go without resistance? These horrors would
• 1:41:02
  Speaker 11: have been prevented.
• 1:41:04
  Speaker 1: Al Maviva returning with Susan.
• 1:41:06
  Speaker 11: And her son. She is dead. Ah, I will not
• 1:41:11
  Speaker 11: survive her.
• 1:41:13
  Speaker 1: Throws his arms about her.
• 1:41:15
  Speaker 4: Some salts, some salts, a million, Susan, if you save.
• 1:41:20
  Speaker 2: Her, oh wretched mother, Madam, Madam, endeavor to smell these salts.
• 1:41:28
  Speaker 2: Support her, my lord, while I undo this girdle, break.
• 1:41:33
  Speaker 4: Tear away all that checks her respiration. Ah, I should
• 1:41:37
  Speaker 4: have head compassion on her.
• 1:41:40
  Speaker 11: She is dead. She is dead, Figura.
• 1:41:43
  Speaker 1: Running in from the right dead, Oh, my mistress, silence
• 1:41:49
  Speaker 1: those exclamations, taking her hand, No, she is not dead.
• 1:41:55
  Speaker 1: A momentary suffocation, the blood rushing violently. No time must
• 1:42:00
  Speaker 1: be lost in relieving her. I will go and get
• 1:42:03
  Speaker 1: what is necessary.
• 1:42:05
  Speaker 4: Flay figure fly, My fortune is your own.
• 1:42:08
  Speaker 3: I greatly need your promises. When my mistress is in danger,
• 1:42:12
  Speaker 3: would I had your power to relieve her?
• 1:42:15
  Speaker 1: Runs out again.
• 1:42:18
  Speaker 11: Oh, God, restore to me, my miserable mother. See she revives,
• 1:42:25
  Speaker 11: Susan weeping, Come, madam, Come.
• 1:42:31
  Speaker 6: Ah, how painful tis to die?
• 1:42:35
  Speaker 1: Leon pressing her to his breast, My dearest mother, you
• 1:42:40
  Speaker 1: will not die. Countess raising herself.
• 1:42:45
  Speaker 6: Oh Heavens, before my judges between my husband and my son,
• 1:42:52
  Speaker 6: all is discovered and criminal towards both.
• 1:42:57
  Speaker 1: Throwing herself prostrate on the ground.
• 1:43:01
  Speaker 6: Avenge yourselves. There can be no forgiveness for a wretch
• 1:43:06
  Speaker 6: like me. Guilty mother, unworthy wife. One unguarded moment has
• 1:43:12
  Speaker 6: been the ruin of us. All I have brought dishonor
• 1:43:17
  Speaker 6: into my family. I have lighted up the torch of
• 1:43:20
  Speaker 6: discord between the husband and the children. Just Heaven, such
• 1:43:26
  Speaker 6: accumulated injuries could not go unpunished. May my death expiate them.
• 1:43:34
  Speaker 4: Oh no, recourver, I beseech you. Your sufferings have wounded me
• 1:43:40
  Speaker 4: to the soul. Let us see her on the chair, Leon,
• 1:43:45
  Speaker 4: help me, my my son.
• 1:43:49
  Speaker 1: The honest starts.
• 1:43:51
  Speaker 4: Come, Susan, help us.
• 1:43:53
  Speaker 1: They replaced the Countess in her chair figural running in again.
• 1:43:59
  Speaker 3: She has come to yourself again. Calm, dearest madam, take courage.
• 1:44:05
  Speaker 6: Just Heaven, let me die.
• 1:44:08
  Speaker 11: No madam, live live, and let us repair the wrongs
• 1:44:12
  Speaker 11: we have committed. And you count Almaviva, whom I will
• 1:44:17
  Speaker 11: never more offend by any other appellation. Take back your titles, fortunes,
• 1:44:22
  Speaker 11: and your name. I have no right to them, alas
• 1:44:25
  Speaker 11: I did not know it. But in pity, do not
• 1:44:29
  Speaker 11: overwhelm with public shame this most unfortunate of mothers, who
• 1:44:33
  Speaker 11: was once can a transgression so unconsentingly committed, followed by
• 1:44:38
  Speaker 11: seventeen years of sorrow be still a crime when one
• 1:44:42
  Speaker 11: is ready to to make atonement. My mother and myself
• 1:44:45
  Speaker 11: will leave your.
• 1:44:46
  Speaker 1: House Homoviva, with dignity and strong emphasis.
• 1:44:52
  Speaker 4: Never shall you leave.
• 1:44:53
  Speaker 11: It a convent. Shall be her retreat or under the
• 1:44:58
  Speaker 11: simple name of Leon. I will labor for her support
• 1:45:02
  Speaker 11: as well as.
• 1:45:02
  Speaker 6: For my own, Leon, my worthy child, Your courage calls
• 1:45:08
  Speaker 6: me back to life. Yes, I may yet support it.
• 1:45:13
  Speaker 6: Since my son has the virtue not to disown his mother.
• 1:45:17
  Speaker 6: This resolution and adversity will be your noble patrimony. He
• 1:45:23
  Speaker 6: married me without a fortune, we will require none from him.
• 1:45:28
  Speaker 6: By my own hands. Will I support the remnant of
• 1:45:31
  Speaker 6: my days? And you, my Leon?
• 1:45:35
  Speaker 4: No, never never to my inconsistency and neglect, to my
• 1:45:40
  Speaker 4: refusal of your company to Naples, from motives which I
• 1:45:44
  Speaker 4: dare not think of, to my insensibility to art your
• 1:45:48
  Speaker 4: benevolent and dignified actions, to our your involuntary sufferings during
• 1:45:54
  Speaker 4: your best days for an unpremeditated or with help which
• 1:46:00
  Speaker 4: misery have I overclouded of the enjoyment of how many
• 1:46:04
  Speaker 4: blessings I have deprived My life's.
• 1:46:07
  Speaker 6: Merinian blessings will yet surround you. Floristina, and Astutto will
• 1:46:15
  Speaker 6: remain Floristina, your darling daughter.
• 1:46:20
  Speaker 4: How my daughter, you say, by what means Almviva?
• 1:46:26
  Speaker 6: Give her all your fortune, her virtues merited, my son,
• 1:46:31
  Speaker 6: and I will be no impediments. Her happiness will be
• 1:46:35
  Speaker 6: your consolation. But before we part, let me obtain one favor.
• 1:46:43
  Speaker 6: Tell me I conjure you by what means that fatal paper,
• 1:46:48
  Speaker 6: which I thought consumed with all the rest, came into
• 1:46:52
  Speaker 6: your possession, has.
• 1:46:54
  Speaker 1: Looking first at Figurro, then at.
• 1:46:56
  Speaker 6: Susan, anyone betrayed me?
• 1:47:01
  Speaker 1: Yes, the infamous Astutto. I surprised him when he gave
• 1:47:05
  Speaker 1: it to the count.
• 1:47:06
  Speaker 4: Indeed you wrang him? Are you went to accident alone?
• 1:47:10
  Speaker 4: This morning? Astuto and myself for quite another purpose, were
• 1:47:14
  Speaker 4: examining your casket, without suspecting that it had a double bottom.
• 1:47:19
  Speaker 4: In a struggle which ensued, and under his finger, for
• 1:47:22
  Speaker 4: he was eager to oppose my project, a secret spring
• 1:47:26
  Speaker 4: flew oken, and to his great astonishment he thought the
• 1:47:29
  Speaker 4: casket broken.
• 1:47:31
  Speaker 3: His great astonishment the monster twas he who had ad
• 1:47:35
  Speaker 3: made at Paris and sent it to the countess.
• 1:47:38
  Speaker 4: Can this be possible?
• 1:47:40
  Speaker 6: It is most true?
• 1:47:42
  Speaker 4: Some people's strucker said he was ignorant of their existence,
• 1:47:46
  Speaker 4: and when they pressed him to inspect them, sternly refused.
• 1:47:51
  Speaker 6: Twas he who, upon his friend's death, the rash invader
• 1:47:56
  Speaker 6: of our domestic peace, brought them himself from Naples, when
• 1:48:00
  Speaker 6: bearer of your dispatches to the.
• 1:48:02
  Speaker 4: Court, what the sure friend, the witness to his despair?
• 1:48:08
  Speaker 4: That's the same, oh, infernal villainy, with what art he
• 1:48:13
  Speaker 4: led me on?
• 1:48:15
  Speaker 3: Now I know all you think so.
• 1:48:19
  Speaker 4: But let us tear away the veilate ones by whom
• 1:48:23
  Speaker 4: you infant of Flornestine's birth.
• 1:48:26
  Speaker 11: By him, he told the secret too to me.
• 1:48:30
  Speaker 4: And to me, oh the traitor, And I was going
• 1:48:34
  Speaker 4: to bestow her on him. Ah, I see her coming,
• 1:48:39
  Speaker 4: Leon Susan Figero, Let the profoundest silence be observed on
• 1:48:43
  Speaker 4: what is passed, respect the youth and innocence of Floristina,
• 1:48:47
  Speaker 4: and breathe not another syllable that can affect the Countess.
• 1:48:52
  Speaker 1: Alma viva Forlorestina entering and running towards the Countess.
• 1:48:58
  Speaker 5: My dearest mother.
• 1:48:59
  Speaker 1: What do I say, Oh Maviva going towards the Countess?
• 1:49:04
  Speaker 4: What still in tears?
• 1:49:06
  Speaker 1: Taking her hand?
• 1:49:08
  Speaker 4: Oh, dray him up and curse me, He who shall
• 1:49:13
  Speaker 4: reflective lyon help me to console your mother.
• 1:49:18
  Speaker 6: Leon, embrace the knees of your generous benefactor and thank
• 1:49:23
  Speaker 6: him for your mother.
• 1:49:25
  Speaker 5: Why, dearest Madame, what has been the matter?
• 1:49:30
  Speaker 6: Nothing, my love, But what will give you pleasure? The
• 1:49:33
  Speaker 6: instinct of your fear was a more faithful monitor than
• 1:49:37
  Speaker 6: our experience. Return your grateful thanks to providence, my Floristina,
• 1:49:44
  Speaker 6: for having saved you from the most imminent of dangers.
• 1:49:48
  Speaker 4: Aless, my Forestina, I still tremble at the dreadful precipice
• 1:49:53
  Speaker 4: to which I hurried you. But thanks to heaven by
• 1:49:57
  Speaker 4: who's protecting care all villainies. Too late, you will not
• 1:50:01
  Speaker 4: be sacrificed to this astuto. No, never shall you become
• 1:50:06
  Speaker 4: the wife of that excurable monsters, hypocrisy and ingratitude.
• 1:50:11
  Speaker 11: Ah, Leon, my sister, he has deceived us all, his sister.
• 1:50:19
  Speaker 4: He has made each of us the instrument of deception
• 1:50:22
  Speaker 4: against the other. And you will to have been the
• 1:50:25
  Speaker 4: recompense for all his perfidy. You and my.
• 1:50:29
  Speaker 3: Fortune, a third of it would be his already had
• 1:50:33
  Speaker 3: I not happily suspected your intentions and placed the money
• 1:50:37
  Speaker 3: with your notary.
• 1:50:39
  Speaker 4: I gave you his acknowledgment, which the villain has got
• 1:50:42
  Speaker 4: from me, to go and take up the whole amount.
• 1:50:46
  Speaker 3: Oh, malediction on me. If you have got the money,
• 1:50:49
  Speaker 3: I'll run and see what's to be done. If I
• 1:50:52
  Speaker 3: miss him, take no measures to my return. I have
• 1:50:56
  Speaker 3: important matters to communicate. Good, Ah, my heart misgives me.
• 1:51:02
  Speaker 1: Here is the notary. The notary enters from the right.
• 1:51:07
  Speaker 3: Signor what have you done with the money I deposited
• 1:51:10
  Speaker 3: in hands?
• 1:51:12
  Speaker 9: Paid it this moment to don Astutto upon his Excellency's order.
• 1:51:18
  Speaker 9: He told me that it was an inheritance of his own,
• 1:51:21
  Speaker 9: which your lordship had received from him in trust.
• 1:51:26
  Speaker 3: The scoundre forgets nothing but to tremble at a hereafter
• 1:51:31
  Speaker 3: was not the order genuine.
• 1:51:34
  Speaker 9: He directed also a marriage settlement and contract to be
• 1:51:38
  Speaker 9: filled up, which I here bring with me.
• 1:51:42
  Speaker 4: Oh, thank Heaven. My floresting has escaped his grasp, and.
• 1:51:47
  Speaker 3: The money must be got out of it if possible,
• 1:51:50
  Speaker 3: Second me in lulling him into profound security, and my
• 1:51:54
  Speaker 3: life on our success.
• 1:51:56
  Speaker 9: There is no time to concert measures, for he will
• 1:52:00
  Speaker 9: instantly be here. And unless you can bring him to
• 1:52:04
  Speaker 9: declare before good witness that the property is really the counts,
• 1:52:09
  Speaker 9: as the bills are payable to bearer, the case is desperate.
• 1:52:15
  Speaker 1: I hear his footstep, throwing himself upon his knee.
• 1:52:20
  Speaker 3: Pretend to be discarding me.
• 1:52:22
  Speaker 1: Astucto enters and remains near the door in great astonishment.
• 1:52:28
  Speaker 3: Senor Astutto, too well, it is but one humiliation. More
• 1:52:33
  Speaker 3: as you make the pardon I solicit dependent on my
• 1:52:37
  Speaker 3: frank avowal.
• 1:52:38
  Speaker 10: Why what's the matter?
• 1:52:41
  Speaker 4: I find you all assembled, to reader of the worthless
• 1:52:45
  Speaker 4: Tello and the notary.
• 1:52:49
  Speaker 9: You see signor that I have lost no time. Everything
• 1:52:53
  Speaker 9: conspires to crown this happy day.
• 1:52:57
  Speaker 1: Astutto aside contented, uh huh olmovilla to figuro be brief.
• 1:53:05
  Speaker 1: This tires me. Astuto observed them all one after the
• 1:53:10
  Speaker 1: other with the most anxious attention. Figuro, still on his
• 1:53:14
  Speaker 1: knees to the Count.
• 1:53:17
  Speaker 3: As subterfugius useless, Let me finish my confession. Yes, I
• 1:53:23
  Speaker 3: repeat it with regret. I have set myself to watch
• 1:53:27
  Speaker 3: all Signor Astucto's motions with the design of injuring him.
• 1:53:32
  Speaker 3: Your Excellency had not rung this morning when I broke
• 1:53:35
  Speaker 3: in to see what was doing with the casket, which
• 1:53:37
  Speaker 3: I found wide open.
• 1:53:40
  Speaker 1: Certainly to my great regret, Amoviva endeavoring in vain to
• 1:53:45
  Speaker 1: restrain himself. What audacity Figaro supplicating, taking the Count's exclamation
• 1:53:53
  Speaker 1: as if applied to himself, my dearest master, Astrutto stepping
• 1:53:59
  Speaker 1: forward and sprint.
• 1:54:00
  Speaker 10: To the Count. Suppress your anger, my dear friend, we
• 1:54:05
  Speaker 10: shall learn nothing.
• 1:54:07
  Speaker 1: The Count steps, Astuto examines him.
• 1:54:12
  Speaker 3: Knowing also that he was closeted with the Countess for
• 1:54:15
  Speaker 3: the purpose of destroying certain important papers. I prevailed upon
• 1:54:19
  Speaker 3: your excellency to surprise him in the hope.
• 1:54:23
  Speaker 1: A Stutto asided to the Count, did I not tell you, sir?
• 1:54:28
  Speaker 3: Will you make an end of this alas I have
• 1:54:32
  Speaker 3: nothing more to say, seeing that I have been foiled
• 1:54:35
  Speaker 3: in all my schemes that you have all with one
• 1:54:39
  Speaker 3: accord said for the signor your notary to terminate the
• 1:54:42
  Speaker 3: marriage contract instantaneously. Signor Ostuto's happy star prevails over all
• 1:54:48
  Speaker 3: my artifices, best of masters, in favor of twenty years
• 1:54:54
  Speaker 3: of faithful service.
• 1:54:56
  Speaker 4: Teas not for me to judge.
• 1:54:58
  Speaker 1: Walking to and fro with agitation, Senor Stutto, to me,
• 1:55:04
  Speaker 1: my friend, do not dream of owing you so many
• 1:55:07
  Speaker 1: obligations to see my happiness accelerated by the base artifice
• 1:55:13
  Speaker 1: is practiced to deprive me of it. To Leon and Florestina,
• 1:55:19
  Speaker 1: oh my children, what a lesson.
• 1:55:23
  Speaker 10: Let us ever walk with candor in the paths of virtue.
• 1:55:27
  Speaker 10: Behold how the intriguing hypocrite is sooner or later brought
• 1:55:32
  Speaker 10: to shame.
• 1:55:34
  Speaker 1: The girl prostrated himself. He is, indeed the Stuto interceding
• 1:55:43
  Speaker 1: for this.
• 1:55:43
  Speaker 4: One time, your excellency, Teas your entreaty.
• 1:55:48
  Speaker 3: Be it so, Senor Stutto to you, I owe it.
• 1:55:54
  Speaker 3: But I see the notary is eager to put the
• 1:55:56
  Speaker 3: last hand to the contract.
• 1:55:58
  Speaker 4: The articles are not to me, seating.
• 1:56:01
  Speaker 9: Himself and to me, Where then is the million of
• 1:56:07
  Speaker 9: piastre which constitutes the settlement here in this pocket.
• 1:56:14
  Speaker 1: Pook notary, taking it from a Stuto and giving it
• 1:56:18
  Speaker 1: to Figaro.
• 1:56:19
  Speaker 9: Senor, have the goodness to add the sums together while
• 1:56:24
  Speaker 9: I make the entry in due form.
• 1:56:27
  Speaker 1: Figaro looking over the bills.
• 1:56:30
  Speaker 3: Oh, I plainly see that Senor Stutto is not the
• 1:56:35
  Speaker 3: only generous man here present. Oh, we have no need
• 1:56:39
  Speaker 3: of legal forms. May Heaven fulfill the hopes of two
• 1:56:42
  Speaker 3: such perfect friends. These are your excellencies, build a bearer,
• 1:56:47
  Speaker 3: I know them well.
• 1:56:48
  Speaker 1: Again, the stuto betrays great vexation.
• 1:56:53
  Speaker 3: I see it as a combat of generosity between Senor
• 1:56:56
  Speaker 3: Stutto and yourself. The one bestows his fortune on the bride,
• 1:57:00
  Speaker 3: the other confers it on the bride. Ah, signor Senora,
• 1:57:06
  Speaker 3: happy pair, how noble a protector? But what am I about?
• 1:57:13
  Speaker 3: Have my enthusiastic transports hurried me into any offensive indiscretion?
• 1:57:19
  Speaker 1: Everybody observes a profounder silence. Astuto, after watching the Count
• 1:57:26
  Speaker 1: during a considerable pause at length, finding that the Count
• 1:57:30
  Speaker 1: makes no reply to Figuro takes his determination.
• 1:57:35
  Speaker 10: You cannot be offensive to anyone, since my best friend
• 1:57:39
  Speaker 10: is not esteem it such. No, this Frank Deval was
• 1:57:44
  Speaker 10: wanting to my perfect bliss. Yes, this property I hold
• 1:57:49
  Speaker 10: from him to him, I owe both happiness and fortune,
• 1:57:53
  Speaker 10: and I do no more than what is strictly just
• 1:57:56
  Speaker 10: laying at at his lovely daughter's feet in signing our proficious.
• 1:58:01
  Speaker 1: Contract, niels to Florestina and holds out his hand to
• 1:58:06
  Speaker 1: Figaro for the pocket book. Figaro passing it nearest Tutto's hand.
• 1:58:11
  Speaker 1: They're putting it into the counts.
• 1:58:14
  Speaker 3: There, my generous master, is your property again you hurt him. Gentlemen,
• 1:58:19
  Speaker 3: you will be witnesses should it be necessary. Now, your
• 1:58:24
  Speaker 3: excellency will give the money to Senorstuto again. If you
• 1:58:27
  Speaker 3: think him worthy of it, give it to him again.
• 1:58:31
  Speaker 4: Rising, cruel man, go leave my house immediately. Thanks to
• 1:58:37
  Speaker 4: this good, this faithful servant, my imprudence in crediting the
• 1:58:41
  Speaker 4: sanctity of your professions is in part repaired. Begone, I say, begone.
• 1:58:48
  Speaker 10: Oh, my dear friend, you are again imposed upon.
• 1:58:53
  Speaker 11: We are imposed upon no longer your treachery is manifest.
• 1:58:57
  Speaker 11: Go leave a family in peace that you have filled
• 1:59:00
  Speaker 11: with desolation.
• 1:59:02
  Speaker 10: Senseless boy, you should pay for all. I call you
• 1:59:05
  Speaker 10: to the field.
• 1:59:07
  Speaker 1: I'll follow you, Leon, my son, my brother Leon.
• 1:59:12
  Speaker 4: I forbid you to Ostutto. You have rendered yourself unworthy
• 1:59:17
  Speaker 4: of the honor you require.
• 1:59:19
  Speaker 2: No, No, there are other ways for mighty geniuses like
• 1:59:23
  Speaker 2: you to leave the world.
• 1:59:26
  Speaker 1: Figurro restraining leon young man, leave him a prey to
• 1:59:30
  Speaker 1: his own disappointed fury, Or should he attack you, defend
• 1:59:35
  Speaker 1: yourself as against an assassin, a stutto and a transport
• 1:59:39
  Speaker 1: of rage. Wretch, I'm a viva stamping.
• 1:59:44
  Speaker 4: Are you going at length to leave us? The sight
• 1:59:47
  Speaker 4: of you is torture to me.
• 1:59:50
  Speaker 10: Yes, stand nation, I will leave you, but not to
• 1:59:54
  Speaker 10: the enjoyment, smiling horribly of the pleasing slumber you who
• 2:00:00
  Speaker 10: hoped to taste of my departure. Awake, de loaded man,
• 2:00:03
  Speaker 10: awake you think to find a consolation for your domestic accident?
• 2:00:08
  Speaker 10: And your daughter? There did she become my floristina, She
• 2:00:12
  Speaker 10: continued yours also for with a view to make her
• 2:00:15
  Speaker 10: and your fortune mine, I made her yours. But no,
• 2:00:22
  Speaker 10: your daughter died in childhood. That florestina is an alien
• 2:00:29
  Speaker 10: to your blood Alma viva.
• 2:00:32
  Speaker 1: In despair, did.
• 2:00:34
  Speaker 4: They may wretch?
• 2:00:35
  Speaker 14: Indeed Yah figural to the notttery not what he said,
• 2:00:43
  Speaker 14: for once he spoke the truth to the count.
• 2:00:47
  Speaker 1: Your daughter did die in childhood Figural two oh clapping
• 2:00:53
  Speaker 1: his hands. Within there do old guazills rush forth from
• 2:00:58
  Speaker 1: her closet, seize him.
• 2:01:00
  Speaker 3: Upon his own confession of a fraud.
• 2:01:03
  Speaker 1: Strutut draws upon them. They disarm him.
• 2:01:06
  Speaker 3: Which I can circumstantiate.
• 2:01:09
  Speaker 10: Villain, you sre smart for this.
• 2:01:13
  Speaker 3: My lord, that lovely creature whom he substituted when a
• 2:01:16
  Speaker 3: child for yours, with a long meditated design, so nearly
• 2:01:20
  Speaker 3: carried into execution, is the orphan of two noble victims
• 2:01:23
  Speaker 3: to the revolution. She fell into his power while at Paris,
• 2:01:27
  Speaker 3: together with the wreck of all her parents fortune, for
• 2:01:29
  Speaker 3: which he stands responsible.
• 2:01:32
  Speaker 10: Hold him fast, Officers, on my honor. It is all
• 2:01:36
  Speaker 10: a wicked fabrication to erupt me of my unsullied reputation.
• 2:01:40
  Speaker 3: Unhand me, I have the damning proof of its veracity
• 2:01:45
  Speaker 3: under his hand and seal, together with his instructions. Respecting
• 2:01:49
  Speaker 3: the Italian states and still blacker villanies. Know you this packet,
• 2:01:55
  Speaker 3: showing it my unsullied signor.
• 2:02:00
  Speaker 1: With sudden emotion half a side.
• 2:02:03
  Speaker 10: The lynx eyed valet has undone.
• 2:02:06
  Speaker 1: Me Almaviva, absorbed.
• 2:02:09
  Speaker 4: In grief unpitying heaven.
• 2:02:13
  Speaker 1: Figure o rapidly but with sensibility.
• 2:02:17
  Speaker 3: Heaven's heavy visitation overtakes the culpable misuse of its bounties,
• 2:02:22
  Speaker 3: But the truly penitent again experienced the safeguard of its providence.
• 2:02:26
  Speaker 3: My dear master, you were overwhelmed with blessings, you neglected
• 2:02:30
  Speaker 3: and misused them. It was permitted that your family should
• 2:02:34
  Speaker 3: feel the fangs of that insatiate monster prowling for his prey.
• 2:02:38
  Speaker 3: You have repented. His felt designs became abortive.
• 2:02:42
  Speaker 4: Armoviva, groaning too chestly merited reproach.
• 2:02:49
  Speaker 6: Unhappy Almaviva, you are revenged.
• 2:02:53
  Speaker 4: Be comforted, comforted, and childless.
• 2:02:59
  Speaker 3: Trust in the power it chastises only to correct.
• 2:03:03
  Speaker 6: You.
• 2:03:03
  Speaker 3: See that demon's snares were laid for you from the
• 2:03:06
  Speaker 3: very moment that you gave him shelter. No villiny of his,
• 2:03:09
  Speaker 3: though deep as hell, can now surprise you, still have
• 2:03:13
  Speaker 3: you need of all your fortitude. Greatly agitated, my lord,
• 2:03:19
  Speaker 3: hear what he writes exultingly to some accomplice.
• 2:03:23
  Speaker 1: Opens one of the papers and reads rapidly in great perturbation.
• 2:03:29
  Speaker 3: Florastina, propitious to my long projected views, becomes the latter
• 2:03:33
  Speaker 3: to my aspiring fortunes, and my noble dupe not only
• 2:03:37
  Speaker 3: repudiates his wife, through my contrivances and portions me an
• 2:03:40
  Speaker 3: imagined daughter with a full third of his possessions.
• 2:03:43
  Speaker 1: But drives, his agitation increases.
• 2:03:47
  Speaker 3: Drives from beneath his.
• 2:03:48
  Speaker 1: Roof bursts into tears. From beneath his roof, his his
• 2:03:54
  Speaker 1: feelings deprive him of utterance. He faintly points towards Leone,
• 2:03:59
  Speaker 1: but overcome the papers fall from his hand. The Count
• 2:04:04
  Speaker 1: catches him in his arms. The Stutto suddenly breaks from
• 2:04:08
  Speaker 1: the alguazills and darts upon the fallen papers. The notary,
• 2:04:12
  Speaker 1: rushing between him and the papers, seizes hold of them.
• 2:04:17
  Speaker 1: Notary to the alguazils.
• 2:04:20
  Speaker 9: Secure and lead him to a place of safety. I
• 2:04:24
  Speaker 9: answer for the consequences.
• 2:04:27
  Speaker 1: They lead a Stutto off on the viva, earnestly, but
• 2:04:31
  Speaker 1: almost unable to.
• 2:04:33
  Speaker 4: Speak, proceed proceed.
• 2:04:38
  Speaker 1: Notary, turning over the papers, unable to find the place.
• 2:04:43
  Speaker 9: The very next conveyance shall bring you the long promised,
• 2:04:47
  Speaker 9: the well earned recompense of all your services. Turns the
• 2:04:52
  Speaker 9: paper over vainly. Might I have speculated on Leon's tottering
• 2:04:57
  Speaker 9: constitution but for your friendly aid in managing the jewel,
• 2:05:03
  Speaker 9: oh villainy, or should at best have lingered out another age,
• 2:05:09
  Speaker 9: in anxious expectation of the golden harvest of our well
• 2:05:14
  Speaker 9: concerted scheme of substituting before the age of reason, and
• 2:05:20
  Speaker 9: immediately on the departure of the gold viceroy, the boys
• 2:05:25
  Speaker 9: for one another.
• 2:05:28
  Speaker 6: For one another.
• 2:05:30
  Speaker 1: Figuro, roused by her cry, exerts himself to recover notary,
• 2:05:35
  Speaker 1: turning over the paper.
• 2:05:37
  Speaker 9: Oh, here it is an imagined daughter with a full
• 2:05:41
  Speaker 9: third of his possessions.
• 2:05:44
  Speaker 1: But Figua takes the Count firmly by the hand, beckons
• 2:05:48
  Speaker 1: to lay on with the.
• 2:05:50
  Speaker 9: Other, drives from beneath his roof, his darling his legitimate hope.
• 2:05:56
  Speaker 1: Alfonso Figura takes him by the hand, draws him towards
• 2:06:02
  Speaker 1: the Count. They rush into each other's arms Aso counters,
• 2:06:09
  Speaker 1: throwing herself on her knees.
• 2:06:11
  Speaker 6: Blessed be the power that has preserved the child, which
• 2:06:14
  Speaker 6: my wronged husband may safely clasp in his paternal arms.
• 2:06:19
  Speaker 4: Alfonso Florestina, Oh, par take my joy, Rossina raising her, Oh,
• 2:06:29
  Speaker 4: I restore to you the tender abolition. Embrace outboy Figero, Susan,
• 2:06:37
  Speaker 4: your services are beyond all recompense.
• 2:06:40
  Speaker 1: Then think not of it.
• 2:06:42
  Speaker 15: Your happiness is our reward, my son, my son to
• 2:06:49
  Speaker 15: the notary, my weathered friend quickly erased the Villian's name
• 2:06:54
  Speaker 15: from the contractor and substitute Alfonso's.
• 2:07:00
  Speaker 4: Christina, catching her in his arms, is again my daughter.
• 2:07:06
  Speaker 16: On Leon Alfonso, my Florestina, Alfonso, take your wife and
• 2:07:15
  Speaker 16: never ah never leave her inexperienced youth without a steady
• 2:07:21
  Speaker 16: and a kind protector.
• 2:07:24
  Speaker 1: Into fact five, Into Frailty and Hypocrisy by Pierre Augustin
• 2:07:30
  Speaker 1: Caronde Beaumarchie, translated by James Wilde,