(Alone) I shall, I think, make them very
happy.
ACT THREE
SCENE VIII (Cleonte, Covielle, Nicole)
NICOLE: Ah! I'm glad to have found you. I'm an ambassadress of joy,
and I come . . .
CLEONTE: Get out, traitor, and don't come to amuse me with your
treacherous words.
NICOLE: Is this how you receive me . . .
CLEONTE: Get out, I tell you, and go tell your faithless mistress
that she will never again in her life deceive the too trusting
Cleonte.
NICOLE: What caprice is this? My dear Covielle, explain a little
what you are trying to say.
COVIELLE: Your dear Covielle, little hussy? Go, quickly, out of my
sight, villainess , and leave me in peace.
NICOLE: What! You come to me too. . . COVIELLE: Out of my sight, I
tell you, and never speak to me again. NICOLE: My word! What fly
has bitten those two? Let's go tell this pretty story to my
mistress.
ACT THREE
SCENE IX (Cleonte, Covielle)
CLEONTE: What! Treat a lover in this way? And a lover who is the
most faithful and passionate of lovers?
COVIELLE: It is a frightful thing that they have done to us both.
CLEONTE: I show a woman all the ardor and tenderness that can be
imagined; I love nothing in the world but her, and I have nothing
but her in my thoughts; she is all I care for, all my desire, all
my joy; I talk of nothing but her, I think of nothing but her, I
have no dreams but of her, I breathe only because of her, my heart
lives wholly in her; and see how so much love is well repaid! I
have been two days without seeing her, which are for me two
frightful centuries; I meet her by chance; my heart, at that sight,
is completely transported, my joy shines on my face; I fly with
ecstasy towards her -- and the faithless one averts her eyes and
hurries by as if she had never seen me in her life!
COVIELLE: I say the same things as you.
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