The Countess of Escarbagnas

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Жан-Батист Мольер. The Countess of Escarbagnas

PERSONS REPRESENTED

SCENE I. – JULIA, THE VISCOUNT

SCENE II. – THE COUNTESS, JULIA; ANDRÉE and CRIQUET in the background

SCENE III. – THE COUNTESS, JULIA, ANDRÉE

SCENE IV. – THE COUNTESS, JULIA

SCENE V. – THE COUNTESS, JULIA, ANDRÉE

SCENE VI. – THE COUNTESS, JULIA, ANDRÉE, CRIQUET

SCENE VII. – THE COUNTESS and JULIA (making much ceremony before they sit down)

SCENE VIII. – THE COUNTESS, JULIA, ANDRÉE (who brings a glass of water), CRIQUET

SCENE IX. – THE COUNTESS, JULIA

SCENE X. – THE COUNTESS, JULIA, ANDRÉE (who brings a glass of water, with a plate on the top of it), CRIQUET

SCENE XI. – THE COUNTESS, JULIA

SCENE XII. – THE COUNTESS, JULIA, ANDRÉE, CRIQUET

SCENE XIII. – THE COUNTESS, JULIA, ANDRÉE, CRIQUET, JEANNOT

SCENE XIV. – THE COUNTESS, CRIQUET, JEANNOT

SCENE XV. – THE VISCOUNT, THE COUNTESS, JULIA, CRIQUET

SCENE XVI. – MR. THIBAUDIER, THE VISCOUNT, THE COUNTESS, JULIA, CRIQUET

SCENE XVII. – THE COUNTESS, JULIA, THE VISCOUNT, MR. THIBAUDIER, MR. BOBINET, CRIQUET

SCENE XVIII. – THE COUNTESS, JULIA, THE VISCOUNT, MR. THIBAUDIER

SCENE XIX. – THE COUNTESS, JULIA, THE VISCOUNT, THE COUNT, MR. BOBINET, MR. THIBAUDIER

SCENE XX. – THE COUNTESS, JULIA, THE VISCOUNT, MR THIBAUDIER, THE COUNT, MR. BOBINET, CRIQUET

SCENE XXI. – THE COUNTESS, JULIA, THE VISCOUNT, THE COUNT, MR. HARPIN, MR. THIBAUDIER, MR. BOBINET, CRIQUET

SCENE XXII. – THE COUNTESS, THE VISCOUNT, JULIA, MR. THIBAUDIER, JEANNOT

Отрывок из книги

The scene is at Angoulême.

Ju. Yes, and you ought to be ashamed of yourself, Cléante; it is not right for a lover to be the last to come to the rendezvous.

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Visc. Yes; but why not profit better by the opportunity which their enmity gives us, and why oblige me to waste, under a ridiculous deception, the moments I pass near you?

Ju. It is the better to hide our love; and, besides, to tell you the truth, this deception you speak of is to me a very amusing comedy, and I hardly think that the one you give me to-day will amuse me as much. Our Countess of Escarbagnas, with her perpetual infatuation for "quality," is as good a personage as can be put on the stage. The short journey she has made to Paris has brought her back to Angoulême more crazy than ever. The air of the court has given a new charm to her extravagance, and her folly grows and increases every day.

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