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Read Ebook: The Goddess of Reason: A Drama in Five Acts by Johnston Mary
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Didst think the night had ceased to long for day? Didst think the tide no more obeyed the moon? The reed no longer bowed unto the wind?
YVETTE
Ah, do not jest!--There's blood upon thy coat!
DE VARDES
'Tis nothing!--We have had hard words to-day, My men and I!
A HAWKER
ANOTHER
A THIRD
A FOURTH
GR?GOIRE
Here!--
A CHILD
The butterfly! The butterfly!
MLLE. DE CH?TEAU-GUI
Oh, see Its painted wings!
A CHILD
There! There!
MLLE. DE CH?TEAU-GUI
It comes my way!--I've caught it!--No!
AN ACTRESS
I! I have it fast, the pretty prisoner!
DE L'ORIENT
It will not stay--
COUNT LOUIS
It soars into the roof! No! down again on yon long ray of light!-- Give chase!
DE L'ORIENT
Here!
MLLE. DE CH?TEAU-GUI
There!
THE ACTRESS
Oh, oh! It sails this way, The fairy boat--
DE L'ORIENT
With freight of heart's desire!
THE ACTRESS
I have it!
COUNT LOUIS
No, I!
SCENE I
THE JUDGE
Silence, Citoyennes in the gallery! You disturb judgment!
C?LESTE
We would know up here Why you did free that man?
THE JUDGE
Ah, Citoyenne! He's not free--he's but acquitted!
C?LESTE
Ah, well! That's different! He's but acquitted!
THE WOMEN
Ah!
C?LESTE
H?! Ang?lique! Nanon!
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