The Harvesters (1770) - Page 23

Rosine, I am sure of it, would find in Paris

The most honest resources.

G E N N E V O T E, ironically.

Do you know them well?

D O L I V A L.

As soon as one saw her,

Her charms would turn heads.

G E N N E V O T E.

Perhaps at the same time hers would turn.

D O L I V A L.

Eh, no, my good woman, no: Paris is a City

Where virtue finds more than one asylum.

Be sure that I am right.

Rosine would live with honor in the house

Of some respectable Lady.

G E N N E V O T E.

You mean one who is ready to help.

D O L I V A L.

She would lack for nothing.

G E N N E V O T E.

She would then regret her poor mother.

My happiness stands in for wealth for her;

It was at all times her first necessity.

D O L I V A L.

She would make it a rule

To pull you out of poverty.

G E N N E V O T E.

I would not see her, Sir, and her presence

Is the greatest help to me.

D O L I V A L.

She would be happy and respectable;

One would find her a match.

G E N N E V O T E.

That is not the true word.

D O L I V A L.

And what is it then?

G E N N E V O T E.

Here it is.

One would propose to her to become a mistress original: "un parti" here implies the illicit arrangement of becoming a kept woman.