Le Maître De Forges (French Edition)

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Excerpt from Le Maître De Forges: Pièce En Quatre Actes Et Cinq Tableaux, En Prose Brigitte, their confidential servant, preparing for the return of the bridal party. Octave is the first to arrive, and is shortly joined by the Baron and Baroness, and by Moulinet, who expatiates upon his plans for ensuring his election as Deputy. When the Duke arrives, Moulinet descants upon the extraordinary character of the wed ding - performed privately, at night, and with no sort of display - and vaunts, to the Duke's disgust, the grandeur that will accompany his daughter's wedding. When the rest of the party assemble, Athenais finds an opportunity of ironically congratulating Claire, and assuring her of her friendship. Left alone with the sympathetic Baroness, Claire confides to her friend that she feels her marriage to be a terrible calamity. The Baroness seeks to console her; but when left to herself Claire becomes almost dis tracted at the thought of the perfidy of the Duke and of her ruined life. Philippe, on joining his wife and speak ing to her in the gentlest language, is surprised to find himself repulsed. His tenderness is replaced by a severe and angry tone; and his wife replies by offering him her fortune as the price of her liberty. Although indignant, he does not inform her of her true position. He accords her the freedom she asks; but it is understood that there shall be no public scandal. After an outburst of grief, he leaves her; but determines to compel her proud heart to yield. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.