The School for Husbands by Molière
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page 35 of 69 (50%)
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SGAN. Here I am, returned again.
ISA. Well? SGAN. Your words wrought their full purpose; I have done his business. He wanted to deny that his heart was touched; but when I told him I came from you, he stood immediately dumbfounded and confused; I do not believe he will come here any more. ISA. Ah, what do you tell me? I much fear the contrary, and that he will still give us more trouble. SGAN. And why do you fear this? ISA. You had hardly left the house when, going to the window to take a breath of air, I saw a young man at yonder turning, who first came, most unexpectedly, to wish me good morning, on the part of this impertinent man, and then threw right into my chamber a box, enclosing a letter, sealed like a love-letter. [Footnote: The original has _un poulet_, literally "a chicken," because love-letters were folded so as to represent a fowl, with two wings; this shape is now called _cocotte_, from _coq_, and, though no longer used to designate a billet-doux, is often employed in familiar phraseology, in speaking of a girl who does not lead a moral life.] I meant at once to throw it after him; but he had already reached the end of the street. I feel very much annoyed at it. |
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