An ornate decorative woodcut headpiece featuring symmetrical floral scrolls, leaves, and a central basket motif.

ONE NEVER THINKS

OF EVERYTHING,

COMIC OPERA.

A decorative horizontal divider with ornate scrollwork at the ends and two central floral medallions.

SCENE ONE.

The theater represents a public square, a street, a small house on the right of the theater more forward than the others: above the door of the house, which will open outwards, there will be a small window.

(Dorval enters with an anxious air; he has his sword & his hat, as if he were going to put them on. He goes back into the house, & gives them to someone.)

I go, I come, & they do not come out! They cannot be long. How many ruses I have employed, what disguises! They do not come out, & to be unable yet to trust anyone but myself: & they do not come out! Ah! heaven!