--VAL?RE, ISABELLA, SGANARELLE.
VAL. (_Coming out quickly_). Yes, yes; I will this night make some
effort to speak to... Who is there?
ISA. (_To Val?re_). No noise, Val?re; I have forestalled you; I am
Isabella.
SGAN. (_Aside_). You lie, minx; it is not she. She is too staunch
to those laws of honour which you forsake; you are falsely assuming her
name and voice.
ISA. (_To Val?re_). But unless by the holy bonds of matrimony...
VAL. Yes; that is my only purpose; and here I make you a solemn promise
that to-morrow I will go wherever you please to be married to you.
SGAN. (_Aside_). Poor deluded fool!
VAL. Enter with confidence. I now defy the power of your duped Argus;
before he can tear you from my love, this arm shall stab him to the
heart a thousand times.
SCENE IV.--SGANARELLE, _alone_.
Oh, I can assure you I do not want to take from you a shameless girl, so
blinded by her passion. I am not jealous of your promise to her; if I am
to be believed, you shall be her husband. Yes, let us surprise him with
this bold creature. The memory of her father, who was justly respected,
and the great interest I take in her sister, demand that an attempt, at
least, should be made to restore her honour. Hulloa, there! (_Knocks
at the door of a magistrate_).
[Footnote: See page 261, note 5.]
SCENE V.--SGANARELLE, A MAGISTRATE, A NOTARY, ATTENDANT _with a
lantern_.
MAG. What is it?
SGAN. Your servant, your worship.
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