Lucile (1770) - Page 15 - Source Library

SCENE VI.

The same, a LACKEY.

The LACKEY, to TIMANTE.

Sir, there are people
Arriving to see you.

TIMANTE, to Lucile.

Go down,

And let Dorval assist you.
I will soon appear in more decent clothes.

LUCILE, to Blaise.

I will leave you for a moment; and I shall return very quickly.

SCENE VII.

BLAISE, alone.

This beautiful place, everything that inhabits it,
To leave everything to come be poor with me!
It is useless. One must first be an honest man.
One cannot live at peace with oneself without that.
One feels I know not what in there;
And one does not sleep soundly.

AIR.

Ah! my wife! what have you done?
Wicked mother!
Such is the effect
Of misery.
The poor child! What pity!
She has so much friendship for me!