SBRI. And when the father has been forewarned by me....
(_Whispers_.)

ERA. Nothing could be better.

SBRI. Here is our young lady. Go quickly; she must not see us
together.




SCENE II.--MR. DE POURCEAUGNAC (_as a lady_), SBRIGANI.

SBRI. For my part, I don't think any one can know you, and you look
exactly like a lady of birth.

MR. POUR. I am so astonished that in this province the forms of
justice should not be observed.

SBRI. Yes; as I have already told you, they begin by hanging a man,
and try him afterwards.

MR. POUR. What unjust justice!

SBRI. It is devilishly severe, particularly on this kind of crime.

MR. POUR. Still, when one is innocent?

SBRI. Ah me! They care little for that, and, besides, they have here
a most intolerable hatred for the people of your province; and