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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