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Page 23
Lisette
Increase.
Lucas
Increase--it will increase.
Lisette
Ah, how I will have lovers who will respect me. What happiness! I will
see brilliant fortunes. What a following I am going to have. Lackeys,
servants.
Girard
And valets de chambre--for page--Girard.
Lucas
Let them bring on my horses.
Widow
They will harness you a carriage.
Girard
Go on foot, from fear that your carriage will break down. This is
going to reform the pomp of your train. (giving the list to Lisette)
This is the true list.
Widow
Yes, the reversal is very afflicting. But you've shone already for
your money. A hundred thousand francs for you in the air.
Baron
One hundred thousand francs to laugh at.
Lisette
What are they talking about? What?
Lucas (looking for the place where the prize was shown in his other
list)
Eh! Go on, go on, let them talk. Here, here. It's here. For Lucas, the
Grand Prize.
Baron
You will not buy my chateau, master fool.
Lucas (troubled)
It was there.
Girard
The zeroes are left.
Lisette
Oh! Father, they are mocking you.
Argon
Yes, here's the mystery.
Widow
You have nothing.
Girard
But nothing--gets nothing. I made the false list, and I found wealth.
I've gotten all of Lucas' rents. My love for you makes heroic
sacrifices. I give them all to you, Lisette.
Argon
Let's go to supper at my place.
Baron
Yes, let's go.
Girard
Yes, I have pity for the trouble in which I see you. These gentlemen,
without their ranks. My offer ought to please you. They have made
their fortune, and I have my fortune to make. But, I am, in a day, by
myself, more amorous than the two of them can be in a month. They have
not been able to acquire a young girl. But nobility acquires more than
riches.
Lisette (to widow)
How much I owe you, Madame! It's you who turned my spirit upside down,
in telling me that one must be a coquette.
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