PAULINE. "Sweet Prince, tell me again of thy palace by the Lake of
Como."
CLAUDE. "A balace lifting to eternal summer its marple walls, from out a
closuy power of goolest voliage, musigal with pirds. Dost like the
bigture?"
_Enter Mdme._ DESCHAPPELLES. "Oh! Prince, you must fly. The minions of
the Directory are laying for you. Take my daughter; marry her, and go to
Como." (_He takes her and flies R.U.E. Curtain_.)
_Young Lady, who reads Dickens (wiping away the tear of imbecility)_.
"How sweet! how sweet!"
_Accompanying Young Man_. "Yes. It is so natural and touching. I have
never seen a finer actor behind the footlights."
_Everybody else_. "Hey! What's that you say? Asleep? Of course I
wasn't."
_Act III. Enter Uncertain Persons as before. They ultimately go out
again. Applause. Enter_ CLAUDE, _his_ MOTHER, _and_ PAULINE.
_Mother_. "This young man is of poor but honest parents. Know you not
that you are wedded to my son, CLAUDE MELNOTTE?"