Moli Re Volume 6 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 Excerpt: ... L'ETOURDI Set jFftat SCENE FIRST Llie, alone. JriA, ha Leandre, ha, ha there'll be a struggle; we 'll now see which of us two can win the day, and which, in our devotion to this young miracle, can put most hindrance to a rival's love. Prepare your efforts; defend yourself, I say. Be sure of one thing, I shall spare no pains. SCENE SECOND Lblie, Mascarille LiLIE. Ah, Mascarille Mascarille. What now 1 LiLIE. A pretty state of things Such thwarting of my passion Leandre loves Celie, and, by a stroke of fate, in spite of my change of mind, is still my rival. Mascarille. Leandre loves Celie 1 Lelie. I tell you he adores her. Mascarille. So much the worse. Lelie. Of course it is so much the worse; that's what disturbs me. However, I must not despair. I have your help, and that should reassure me; I know your brain, so fertile of intrigues, has never yet found anything too difficult. One might truly call you king of valets, and there is not, in all the earth--Mascarille. A truce to flattery. When we are needed, we poor fellows, ho we are very dear incomparable At other times, let things go wrong, and we are the rascals who get all the blows. Lelie. I' faith, you do me wrong by that invective. But let us talk now of my sweet young love. Tell me if any hard and cruel soul could be impenetrable to charms like hers. As for myself, I find in her discourse, as in her features, the signs of noble birth, and I believe that Heaven in lowly rank conceals her origin, and will some day disclose--Mascarille. Oh, you are so romantic with your fancies But what will Pandolfe do in this affair 1 He is, at least he says he is, your father; you know his bile turns sour at times, and if your goingson fly in his face he blusters at you finely. He is now in treaty, as we know...