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THE DUKE.
All hope is gone.
I wake from dreams.
THERESA.
You suffer?
THE DUKE.
Little Brooklet Must give her murmuring freshness.
THERESA.
Here it is.
THE DUKE.
What if I trouble its waters?
THERESA.
Trouble them.
THE DUKE.
Come to the little house among the trees-- My hunting lodge--to-night!
THERESA.
I am to come--!
THE DUKE.
Say neither yes nor no.--I'll wait--
THERESA.
Alas!
THE DUKE.
Think how unhappy I shall henceforth be!
I've lost all hope of playing a great part; I can but weep; I need a heart to weep on.
Away!
A MASK.
[_Seeing a stout lady dressed as a shepherdess._]
That shepherdess has eaten her flock!
THE BEAR.
If you'll but love me--
THE CHINESE WOMAN.
You will sell your skin?
A DOMINO.
[_Pa.s.sing on_ GENTZ'S _arm_.]
The Viscount's here as Doge in grand dalmatic.
GENTZ.
Then is the Baroness the Adriatic.
THE DUKE.
[_Who has scribbled a note; to a_ LACKEY.]
This for my lackeys. I shall not come in.
I'm sleeping at the hunting-lodge. Make haste!
Let me have word they've read and understood.
THE LACKEY.
Nought else, my Lord?
THE DUKE.
To-morrow the bay mare.
f.a.n.n.y ELSSLER.
His uniform beneath a--
THE DUKE.
[_Turning._]
Violet cloak.
Prokesch! I said your note was from a woman!
f.a.n.n.y.
