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BERGAMIN. The witnesses! The devil!
WITNESSES. What--?
STRAFOREL. [In the midst of the tumult] My bill! Who is going
to pay me? Ninety pistoles!
[Enter the GUESTS and three FIDDLERS, who play.]
BERGAMIN. What's all this? The guests? Music?
[The FIDDLERS continue their minuet.]
STRAFOREL. [To BERGAMIN] Well?
BERGAMIN. See Pasquinot.
STRAFOREL. [Reading] "For the purposes of bringing about a
marriage--"
BERGAMIN. Well, there is to be no marriage! Therefore I owe you
nothing!
[Enter BLAISE.]
STRAFOREL. [To PASQUINOT] But, Monsieur--
PASQUINOT. What? Pay you now that it is broken off!
BERGAMIN. [To whom BLAISE has just whispered] My son--run away?
SYLVETTE. Run away?
STRAFOREL. Well! Well!
BERGAMIN. Quick, follow him! [He runs out, followed by the NOTARY
and the WITNESSES.]
SYLVETTE. Gone!
STRAFOREL. [Coming down-stage] Why can't I straighten all this
out?
SYLVETTE. This is too much! [She goes out, followed by PASQUINOT.]
STRAFOREL. Straforel, my son, if you want your ninety pistoles,
you must patch up this marriage! [He goes out. The three FIDDLERS,
left alone, continue their minuet, as the curtain falls.]
Curtain
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