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The Romancers - A Comedy in Three Acts by Edmond Rostand
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PERCINET. [Grasping his father's cane, which is raised as if to
strike him] Spring has filled the bushes with the songs of birds;
the brooklets accompany the love-notes of wild birds.

BERGAMIN. Rascal!

PERCINET. [Still holding the cane] The whole world laughs and
sings farewell to April. The butterflies--

BERGAMIN. Ruffian!

PERCINET. [As before] Wing their way across the meadows, to make
love to the adored flowers! Love--

BERGAMIN. Villain!

PERCINET. Love opens wide the heart of all nature. And you ask
me to consent to a marriage of reason!

BERGAMIN. Of course I do!

PERCINET. [Passionately] No, no, no, Father. I swear by this
wall--which hears me, I hope--that my marriage will be more
romantic than any dreamed of in the most poetic of the world's love
stories! [He runs out.]

BERGAMIN. [Pursuing him] Ah, let me catch you--!

SYLVETTE. I can really understand now why Papa hates that odious
old man!
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