The Goddess of Reason 12
Enter_ COUNT LOUIS, THE VIDAME, MME. DE VAUCOURT,
_etc._
SÉRAPHINE
Yvette!
COUNT LOUIS
La belle Marquise!
[SÉRAPHINE _draws_ YVETTE _back to the base of the
statue_. COUNT LOUIS, THE MARQUISE, _and the
guests talk together_. LALAIN _crosses to_ DE VARDES.
LALAIN
René de Vardes!
DE VARDES
Rémond Lalain!
LALAIN
This day I bury our friendship of old!
DE VARDES
So!
LALAIN
I owe to you a thousand louis
Which I’ll repay, monsieur!
DE VARDES
I doubt it not.
LALAIN
Touch not the girl Yvette!
DE VARDES
At last the heart of the matter! I see
You have been through the Forest of Paimpont.
LALAIN
Or touch at your peril!
DE VARDES
Monsieur!
LALAIN
Oh, if
You lay your hand upon your sword, monsieur,
I’m for you there!
DE VARDES
Art mad, or drunk with power,
Monsieur the favourite of the Jacobins?
LALAIN
There’ll come a day when to be Jacobin
Is something more, monsieur, than to be king!
DE VARDES
Indeed!
[_A Sergeant of Hussars appears on the terrace and
salutes._
Sergeant!
THE SERGEANT
My Colonel!
DE VARDES
Well, your report.
THE SERGEANT
My Colonel, wood and shore we’ve searched since dawn,
And twenty bitter rogues we’ve found, no less!
They crouched behind the tall grey stones, or lay
Prone in the furze, or knelt at Calvaries!
Two women remain—
[_He stares at_ YVETTE _and_ SÉRAPHINE.
SÉRAPHINE
O Saint Thégonnec!
Saint Guirec! Saint Servan!
YVETTE
O Our Lady!
_Enter_ THE ABBÉ.
THE ABBÉ
De Vardes, your precious peasants—
[_He sees_ YVETTE.
Who is here?
The De Méricourt, the mænad, I swear!
Who wounded De Vardes!
YVETTE
Oh!—
MME. DE VAUCOURT
The Egyptian!
SÉRAPHINE
Monseigneur, monseigneur, she’s none of mine!
MLLE. DE CHÂTEAU-GUI
The poor girl!
SÉRAPHINE
Ah, mademoiselle, it is
The innocentest creature!
THE ABBÉ (_touches_ YVETTE _upon the cheek_)
Good-morning,
My dear!
COUNT LOUIS
Hm—m—m!—pretty!
THE VIDAME
Certainly the gallows
Should be thirty feet high.
COUNT LOUIS
Hm—m—m! Something less,
Monsieur le Vidame!
LALAIN
Diable!
DE VARDES (_to the sergeant_)
Where are your captives?
THE SERGEANT
My Colonel,
I have them safely here! Ha! you within!
[_Enter from the hall of the château soldiers and
huntsmen with peasants, men and women; some
sullenly submissive, others struggling against their
bonds. They crowd the terrace before the great
doors. The guests of_ DE VARDES _to the right and
left upon the terrace, the stairs, and in the garden_.
YVETTE _and_ SÉRAPHINE _beside the statue_; LALAIN
_near them_; DE VARDES _with his hand upon the
great chair_.
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