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Act 5 - Scene 7 |
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_ ACT V - SCENE SEVENTH The same persons and Joseph (coming in pale and faint).
ALL THREE. What has happened? What is the matter? JOSEPH. Soldiers! Mounted soldiers are coming to arrest me! DUPRE. Hold your tongue! Hold your tongue! (Everybody seems alarmed. Dupre looks with anxiety towards the room where Pamela is. To Joseph) To arrest you? JOSEPH. I saw one of them. Don't you hear him? He is coming up-stairs. Hide me! (Joseph tries to hide himself in the small room, from which De Verby comes out with a cry.) DE VERBY. Ah! (Joseph gets behind the curtain and Mme. du Brocard rushes forth with a shriek.) MME. DU BROCARD. Oh, heavens! MME. ROUSSEAU. My sister! ROUSSEAU. M. de Verby! (The door opens.) JOSEPH. (falling exhausted over a chair) We are all nabbed. The servant. (entering, to Dupre) A message from the Keeper of the Seals. JOSEPH. The Keeper of the Seals! That must be about me! DUPRE. (advancing with a serious face and addressing the four others) I shall now leave you all four face to face--you whose mutual love and esteem is so great. Ponder well all I have said to you; she who sacrificed all for you, has been despised and humiliated, both for you and by you. It is yours to make full reparation to her--to make it to-day--this very instant--in this very room. And then, we can take measures by which all can obtain deliverance, if indeed you are worth the trouble it will cost me. (Exit Dupre.) _ |
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