RAGUENEAU (incredulously):
All the same. . .

LE BRET:
A hope is left to me--that he has not seen the playbill!

THE AUDIENCE:
Begin, begin!



Scene 1.III.

The same, all but Ligniere. De Guiche, Valvert, then Montfleury.

A marquis (watching De Guiche, who comes down from Roxane's box, and crosses
the pit surrounded by obsequious noblemen, among them the Viscount de
Valvert):
He pays a fine court, your De Guiche!

ANOTHER:
Faugh!. . .Another Gascon!

THE FIRST:
Ay, but the cold, supple Gascon--that is the stuff success is made of!
Believe me, we had best make our bow to him.

(They go toward De Guiche.)

SECOND MARQUIS: