Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Count Louis Monsieur le Baron, Let your soldiers talk with a bayonet's point, Your bailiffs with a rope — Mme. De Vaucourt But what good saint Brought warning to Auray ? De L' Orient I guess that saint! [A lackey appears upon the terrace. The Lackey Madame la Marquise de Blancheforet! The Guests Ah! La belle marquise ! Enter The Marquise. De Buc The saint! D E Var D E s My neighbour fair, And to De Barbasan and me last night A guardian angel — [He greets The Marquise. Madame la Marquise! The Marquise Monsieur le Baron! (To the company.) Messieurs, mesdames ! D E Va R Dbs From Blancheforet to Auray through the night This lady rode — The Marquise (with gayety) Ah, how I rode last night, To Auray through the dark! This way it was: I overheard two peasants yestereve As in a lane I sought for eglantine. "Howlong hath Morbec stood?" said one. "Too long! But when to-morrow dawns 't will not be there ! And we were born, I think, to burn chateaux ! — Ten, by the village clock — forget it not! " The Abb£ Ah, ay, the while I dealt the clock struck ten. The Marquise It was already dusk. — Like grey death moths They slipped away! I knew not whom to trust, For in these times there's no fidelity, No faithful groom, no steadfast messenger! My little page brought me my Zuleika. I knew the red Hussars were at Auray, And that 't was said they loved their colonel well! So to Auray came Zuleika and I! De Buc We thought it was Dian in huntress dress! De Vardes How deeply am I, Goddess, in thy debt! No gold is coined wherewith I may repay! [Music within. The Marquise Give me a rose from yonder tree ! [Laughing voices within. Mlle. De Chateau-gui More guests. They 're on the south terrace! ...