The Falcon (1772) - Page 15

G U I L L A U M E.

Shameful! My Lord is not capable of doing anything shameful.

E L E O N O R E.

Finally, by your own admission, it must be something... which... in the world... if at last that were spread, it could cause him...

G U I L L A U M E.

Look, Miss... E.. Eléonore: is it not Eléonore that Madame said?

E L E O N O R E.

Yes.

G U I L L A U M E.

You would make me say everything I have in my soul; you have a grace... you have an air...

E L E O N O R E.

Let us return to what he did that is shameful, and which nevertheless is not.

G U I L L A U M E.

He made, since I must tell you, he made frightening expenses, he ate everything, he mowed everything in the blade idiom meaning to spend everything before it is earned for a woman he loved; I believe, God forgive me, that he still loves her: he gave so many parties, so many gifts for her...

E L E O N O R E.

Do you know her?

G U I L L A U M E.

No; but it is undoubtedly some woman who lacks reason: for without that she would not have wanted...

C L I T I E.

Eléonore, stop all this chatter: you are holding up this servant, he may have business to attend to.

G U I L L A U M E.

You are right, Madame... I do not know, but I have seen your mistress somewhere; she is there in my thoughts, there, there: if she were dressed in red, I would believe it was she; as for you, I have seen you nowhere, I would have recognized you.