October 4, 2023 • 36 mins
Act V: The Triumph of Wit – Truths come to light, reputations are restored (or ruined), and Victoria’s boldness earns her a satisfying and surprising victory. The curtain closes on justice, romance, and poetic retribution. Summary by Dream AudioBooks
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Act five of A Bold Stroke for a Husband by
Hannah Kulu. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings
are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer,
please visit LibriVox dot org. Scene one Don Carlos, Don
Carlos discovered writing Carlos, tearing paper and rising.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
It is in vain language. Cannot furnish me with terms
to soften to Victoria the horrid transaction. Could she see
the compunction of my soul? Her gentle heart would pity me?
But what then she's ruined? My children are undone. Oh,
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the artifices of one base woman and my villainy to
another most amiable one, have made me unfit to live.
I am a rich who ought to be blotted from society, and.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Her Pedro histily left.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Sir, sir, well, sir, I just Metorio. Yes, if my
mistress was that tom So, I guesses he is going
to our house, and so why I ran to let
you know? For I love to keep my promises, though
I am deadly afraid of some mischief.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
You have done well. Go home and wait for me
at the door, and admit me without noise.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Except Pedro left at.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Least, then I shall have the pleasure of revenge. I'll
punish that harlot by sacrificing her paramore in her arms,
and then oh accept loft.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Scene two, Donal Laura and Laura left with precipitation, followed
by Victoria.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
Tis his carriage. How successful was my letter? This, my Florio,
is a most important moment.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
It is, indeed, and I will leave you to make
every advantage of it. If I am present, I must
witness condescensions from you that I shall not be able
to bear, though I know them to be but defected aside. Now, Casper,
play my part well and say.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Victoria except right and her gasper left dressed as an
old bow. Two servants follow him and take off a
rich cloak.
Speaker 6 (02:40):
Take my cloak, and d'ye hear Ricardo go home and
bring the eyed. Do down cushions for the coach, and
tell the fellow not to hurry me post through the
streets of Madrid.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Excellent servants left.
Speaker 6 (02:55):
I have been jolted from side to side like a
pippin in a mill street. Drive a man of my
rank as he would a city vintner and his fat
wife going to a bull fight. Ah, there she.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Is looking through a glass suspended by a red ribbon.
Speaker 6 (03:15):
There she is charming Donna. Laura. Let me, thus said,
the shrine of your beauty.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Makes an effort to kneel and falls on his face.
Laura assists him to rise.
Speaker 6 (03:28):
Fi fie those new shoes. They have made me skate
all day like a Dutchman on a canal. And now,
well you see how profound my adoration is, Madam, common
lover's kneel. I was prostrate.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
You do me infinite honor. Aside, disgustful wretch, you are
thinner than you were, Don Sancho, I protest. Now I
observe you you are much altered.
Speaker 6 (04:02):
I madam, fretting your absence threw me into a fever,
and that destroyed my bloom. You see I look almost
a middle aged.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
Man now, No, really, far from it, I assure you.
Aside the foppers is wrinkled as a baboon.
Speaker 6 (04:23):
Then jealousy that gave me a jaundice. My niece's husband,
I hear, Don Carlos has been my happy rival. Oh
my blade will hardly keep in its scabbard when I
think of him.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Think no more of him. He has been long banished
my thoughts be assured. I wonder you gave your niece
to him with such a fortune gave.
Speaker 6 (04:51):
She gave herself. And as to fortune, she had not
a pistole.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
From me, twas indeed unnecessary, with so fun an estate
as she had in Leon, my.
Speaker 6 (05:03):
Niece, and a stated leon, not enough to give shelter to
a filled mouse. And if he has told you so,
he is a braggart.
Speaker 7 (05:12):
Told me so.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
I have the writings he has made over the lands
to me.
Speaker 6 (05:18):
Made over the lands to you, Oh, a deceiver. I
begin to suspect a plot. Pray, let me see this
extraordinary deed.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
She runs to a cabinet door in front a plot.
Speaker 6 (05:34):
I'll be sworn.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Here is the deed which made that estate mine forever. No, sir,
I will entrust it in no hand but my own. Yet,
look over me and read the description of the lands.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Jasper reading through his glass.
Speaker 8 (05:52):
Uh in the vicinage of russ bounded on the west
by the river, on the east by the forest, Oh,
an artful dog.
Speaker 6 (06:14):
I need read no further. I see how the.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
Thing is, how, sir, But hold stay a moment. I
am breathless with fear.
Speaker 6 (06:25):
Nay, madam, don't be afraid. Tis my estate. That's all,
the very castle where I was born, and which I
never did nor ever will but stow on any dawn
in the two castiles. Dissembling rogue, bribe you with a
fictitious title to maya estate.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Ha ha ha ha, Laura aside.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
Curses follow him. The villain I employed must have been
his creature, his reluctance, all art, and whilst I believed
myself undoing him, was duped myself.
Speaker 6 (07:04):
Could you suppose I'd give Carlo such an estate for
running away with my niece? No? No, the vineyards and
the corn fields and the woods of Rosalvo are not
for him. I've somebody else in my eye. In my eye,
observe me to give those two. Can't you guess who
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it is?
Speaker 9 (07:30):
No?
Speaker 4 (07:30):
Indeed, a side gives me a glimmering that saves me
from despair.
Speaker 6 (07:36):
I won't tell you unless you'll bribe me. I won't. Indeed,
this is her cheek there. Now, I'll tell you they
are all for you. Yes, this estate to which you
have taken such a fancy shall be yours. I'll give
you the deeds if you'll promise to love me you
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little cruel thing.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
Can you be serious?
Speaker 6 (08:03):
I'll sign and seal tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Noble don Sancho. Thus then I annihilate the proof of
his perfidy and my weakness. Thus I tear to Adams's
detested name. And as I tread on these, so would
I on his heart.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Enter Victoria, right, Victoria in transport.
Speaker 5 (08:28):
My children then are saved.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
Laura, apart, oh Florio, tis as thou settest. Carlos was
a villain and deceived me? Why this strange air? I
see the cause you think me ruined and will abandon me. Yes,
I see it in thy averted face. Thou darest not
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meet my eyes if I misjudge.
Speaker 5 (08:54):
Thee speak, Laura, I cannot speak, you little get the
emotions of heart. Heaven knows I pity you.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
Pity, oh villain, and has thy love already snatched the
form of pity.
Speaker 10 (09:12):
Base, deceitful Carlos, without stand off, loose your weak cold
I'm come for vengeance and her Carlos left.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Where is this youth? Where is the blooming rival for
whom I have been betrayed? Ho be not base woman
in vain? The stripling flies me for by Heaven my
sword shall in his bosom right its master's wrongs.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Victoria first goes towards the flat, then returns, takes off
her hat, and drops on one knee.
Speaker 5 (09:59):
Straight strike it here, plunge it deep into that bosom,
already wounded by a thousand steps, keener and more painful
than your sword can give. Here lives all the gnawing
anguish of love betrayed.
Speaker 7 (10:14):
Here live the.
Speaker 5 (10:15):
Pangs of disappointed hopes, hopes sanctified by holiest vows which
have been written in the book of Heaven. He sings.
She flies to him, Oh, my Carlos, beloved, my husband,
forgive my too severe reproaches. Thou art dear, yet dear
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as ever to Victoria's.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Heart, Carlos recovering, Oh you know not what you do,
You know not who you are, Oh Victoria, thou art
a beggar.
Speaker 5 (10:54):
No, we are rich, we are happy. See there the
fragments of that fate deed which, had I not recovered,
we had been indeed undone, Yet still not a wretched
could my Carlos think so?
Speaker 2 (11:09):
The fragments of the deed, the deed wish that base
woman speak.
Speaker 5 (11:17):
Not so harshly to you, Madame. I fear I seem reprehensible.
Yet when you consider my duties as a wife and mother,
you will forgive me. Be not afraid of poverty. A
woman has deceived, but she will not desert you.
Speaker 7 (11:33):
Is this real?
Speaker 4 (11:35):
Can I be awake?
Speaker 5 (11:37):
Oh? Mayest thou indeed awake to virtue? You have talents
that might grace the highest of our sex. Be no
longer unjust to such precious gifts by burying them in dishonor.
Virtue is our first most awful duty. Bow, Laura, bow
before her throne and mourn in ceaseless tears that ever
you forgot her heavenly precepts.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
So by a smooth speech about virtue, you think to
cover the injuries I sustain, file insinuating monster. But thou
knowest me not. Revenge is sweeter to my heart than love.
And if there is a law in Spain to gratify
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that passion, your virtue shall have another field for exercise.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Exit right, Carlos, turning towards Victoria.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
My hated rival and my charming wife. How many sweet
mysteries have you to unfold? Oh Victoria, my soul, thanks THEE.
But I dare not yet say I'd love thee till
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ten thousand acts of watchful tenderness have proved how deep
the sentiments engraved?
Speaker 5 (13:00):
Can it be true that I have been unhappy? But
the mysteries my Carlos already explained to you gaspus resemblance
to my uncle.
Speaker 6 (13:09):
Yes, Sir, I was always apt at resemblances in our
plays at home. I am always Queen Cleopatra. You know
she was but a gipsy queen, and I hits her
off to a nicety.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Come, my Victoria, Oh, there is a painful pleasure in
my bosom to gaze on thee, to listen to and
to love thee seems like the bliss of angels, cheering
whispers to repentant sinners.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Acci At Carlos and Victoria, left.
Speaker 6 (13:48):
Lord help him how easily the women are taken in?
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Except left seem three the prodo and her Minette left.
Speaker 9 (13:58):
Ah, Here comes a man at last, after I have
been sauntering in sight of his lodging these two hours. Now,
if my scheme takes, what a happy person I shall be?
And sure, as I was Donia Olivia today to please
my lady, I maybe Donna Olivia tonight to please myself
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I'll address him as the maid of a lady who
has taken a fancy to him, then convey him to
our house, then retire, and then come in again, and
with a vast deal of confusion, confess I sent my
maid for him. If he should dislike my forwardness, the
censure will fall on my lady. If he should be
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pleased with my person, the advantage will be mine. But
perhaps he's come here on some wicked frolichora that I'll
watch him at a distance before I speak.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Exit left upper entrance, and who don Julio right?
Speaker 11 (14:59):
Not here? Faith? Though she gave me last night, but
a faint refusal, and I had a right, by all
the rules of gallantry to construe that into an assent.
Then she's a jilt hang her. I feel I am uneasy,
the first woman that ever gave me pain. I am
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ashamed to perceive that this spot has attractions for me
only because it was here I conversed with her. Twas here,
the little siren, conscious of her charms, unveiled her fascinating face.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Twas here, ha, and hew don Garcia and don Vincentio
right up her entrance.
Speaker 11 (15:49):
Ha done, Julio Shah gentlemen, pray be quick.
Speaker 12 (15:56):
Perceive that Julio, leaving Champagne untasted in songs of gallantry,
and so came to talk to the whistling branches.
Speaker 13 (16:07):
Itwas here that Julio, flying from the young and gay,
was found in doleful meditation on a wench for one
hundred ducats.
Speaker 11 (16:18):
Who is she not Donna Olivia, gentlemen, not Donna Olivia.
Speaker 12 (16:26):
We have been seeking you to ask the event of
your visit to her.
Speaker 11 (16:30):
The event has proved that you have been most grossly duped.
I know that, and you likewise, I know that the
fair lady, so far from being a vixen, is the
very essence of gentleness. To me. So much sweetness in
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a wife would be downright mawkish.
Speaker 13 (16:57):
Well, but she's fond of as Harp.
Speaker 11 (17:01):
Detests it, she would be as fond of a jew
fo foe.
Speaker 12 (17:06):
This is a game at cross purposes. Let us all
go to dance Czar's together and compare opinions on the spot.
Speaker 11 (17:16):
I'll go most willingly, but it will only be to
cover you both with confusion, for being the two men
in Spain most easily imposed on all.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Going right and her Manette.
Speaker 9 (17:31):
Left gentlemen, my lady has sent me for one of you.
Pray which of you is it?
Speaker 11 (17:37):
Julio returning me without doubt, child, I don't know that.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Look at me, my dear, don't you think I am
the man Manette de Garcia.
Speaker 9 (17:51):
Let me see? A good air and well made you
are the man for a dancer. Crosses to Vincentio, well
dressed and nicely put out of hands. You are the
man for a bundbox.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Crosses to Julio.
Speaker 9 (18:09):
Handsome and bold, you are the man for my lady, My.
Speaker 11 (18:13):
Dear little iris, here's all the gold in my pocket. Gentlemen,
I wish you a good night. I am your very obedient, humble.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Stalking by them with his arm round Minette.
Speaker 12 (18:28):
Oh prithee, don't be a fool, or we not going
to Donna Olivia.
Speaker 11 (18:33):
Donna Olivia must wait, my dear boy, begin to side
about her tomorrow. Come along a little dove of venus.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Exit left.
Speaker 12 (18:46):
What a rash fellow, it is, tender one, but this
is some common business, and you'll be robbed and murdered.
They take him for a stranger.
Speaker 13 (18:55):
Let's follow and see where she leads him.
Speaker 12 (18:58):
That's hardly fair, however, as I think there's danger. We
will follow.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Exit left Seane four, Don Caesar's and her Minette and
Don Julio left.
Speaker 9 (19:11):
This sah, please to sit down to my ladies, ready
to wait on you.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
She won't be long aside.
Speaker 9 (19:19):
I'm sure she's out and I may do great things
before she returns.
Speaker 11 (19:24):
Exit right through fifty back lanes along garden in a
narrow staircase into a superb apartment. All that's in the
regular way, as the Spanish women manage it. One intrigue
is too much like another. If it was not now
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and then for the little lovely philip of a jealous
husband or brother, which obliges one to leap from the
window or crawl like a cat along the gutters, there
would be no burying the anui ah ah, but this
promise is novelty.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Looking through the wind, a young.
Speaker 11 (20:09):
Girl and an old man wife or daughter. They are
coming this way, my lovely incognita, by all that's propitious.
Why did not some kind spirit whisper to me my happiness?
But hold, she can't mean to treat the old gentleman
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with the sight.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Of me goes behind the sofa, and here Don Caesar
and Olivia left.
Speaker 14 (20:38):
No, no, madam, no going out the madam. This is
your apartment, your house, your garden, your assembly, till you
go to your convent. Why how impudent you are to
look thus unconcerned? Can hardly forbel laughing in my face?
Speaker 6 (21:04):
Very well, very.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Well, exit double locking the door left.
Speaker 7 (21:13):
I'll be even with you, my dear father. If you
trouble lock it, I'll stay here two days without once
asking for my liberty, and you'll come on the third
with tears in your eyes to take me out. He
has forgot the door leading to the garden. But I
vow I'll stay. Sitting down, I can make the time
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pass pleasantly enough.
Speaker 11 (21:38):
I hope.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
So, looking over the back of the sofa, Heaven and.
Speaker 11 (21:42):
Earth, my dear creature, why are you so alarmed? Am
I here? Before you expected.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
Me coming round?
Speaker 7 (21:50):
Right expected you?
Speaker 11 (21:53):
Oh this pretty surprise. Come let us sit down. I
think your father was a very obliging to lock us
in together.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Olivia calling at the door, Sir, sir, my father, Caesar, without.
Speaker 14 (22:10):
I tis all in vain. I won't come near you.
There you are, and there you may stay. I shan't return.
Make as much noise as you will.
Speaker 11 (22:24):
Why are you not ashamed that your father has so
much more consideration for your guest than you have Olivia?
Speaker 7 (22:33):
Aside my guest, how is it possible he can have
discovered me?
Speaker 11 (22:39):
This is carrying the thing further than you need. If
there were a third person here, it might be prudent.
Speaker 7 (22:47):
Why this assurance, Don Julio, is really.
Speaker 11 (22:51):
The thing in the world you are most ready to pardon?
Speaker 7 (22:55):
Upon my word, I don't know how to treat you.
Your heart, I shall consult my honor.
Speaker 11 (23:04):
Honor is a pretty thing to play with, But when
spoken with that very grave face, after having sent your
maid to bring me here, is really more than I expected.
I shall be in an ill humor. Presently I won't
stay if you treat me thus well.
Speaker 7 (23:24):
This is superior to everything I have heard. That men
will slander women privately to each other tis their common amusement.
But to do it to one's face. And you really
pretend that I sent for you, Ah.
Speaker 11 (23:40):
Well, if it obliged you, I will pretend that you
did not send for me, that your maid did not
conduct me hither, Nay, that I have not now the
supreme happiness.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Touching her in his arms and her Minette Wow, she
runs out right.
Speaker 11 (24:00):
Anna, Olivia de Zuniga. How the devil came she here?
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Olivia Aside, that's lucky.
Speaker 7 (24:09):
Olivia, my dear friend, why do you run away? Apart
to Manette, keep the character I charge you be still, Olivia.
Speaker 9 (24:21):
Oh, dear, Madam, I was so frightened when I saw
that gentleman.
Speaker 7 (24:27):
Oh, my dear, it's the merriest, pretty kind of gentleman
in the world. He pretends that I sent my maid
for him into the streets.
Speaker 11 (24:37):
That's right. Always tell a thing yourself which you would
not have believed.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Manette aside.
Speaker 9 (24:46):
It is the readiest excuse for being found in a
lady's apartment. However, no, I will swear I know nothing
of the matter.
Speaker 7 (24:54):
Olivia apart now, I think it'll horrid poor excuse. He
has certainly not had occasion to invent reasons for such impertinencies.
Often tell me that he has made love to you today.
Speaker 9 (25:09):
I fancy that he has had occasion to excuse impertinencies.
Often his impertinence to.
Speaker 11 (25:15):
Me today, to you, madam.
Speaker 9 (25:19):
Making love to me, my dear, all the morning could
hardly get him away. He was so desirous to speak
to my father Lasa. I don't care for your impatience, Julio.
Speaker 11 (25:33):
Aside, how would I give a thousand pistoles if she
were a man?
Speaker 7 (25:39):
Nay, then this accidental meeting is fortunate. Pray, don Julio,
don't let my presence prevent your saying what you think
proper to my friend. Shall I leave you together, Julio?
Speaker 11 (25:53):
Apart to contradict a lady on such an assertion would
be too gross. But upon my honor, Donna Olivia is
the last woman upon earth who could inspire me with
a tender idea. Find an excuse to send her away,
my angel, I entreat you, I have a thousand things
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to say in the moments are too precious to be
given to her?
Speaker 7 (26:21):
I think so too. But one cannot be rude, you know. Come,
my dear, sit.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
Down seating herself center?
Speaker 7 (26:31):
Have you brought your work?
Speaker 11 (26:33):
The devil? What can she mean?
Speaker 1 (26:36):
Pushing himself between Manette and the sofa.
Speaker 11 (26:39):
Donna Olivia, I am sorry to inform you that my
physician has just been sent for to your father, Don Cesar.
The poor gentleman was seized with a vertigo.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
Vertigoes to Manette.
Speaker 7 (26:55):
Oh, he has them frequently, you know.
Speaker 9 (26:59):
Yes, and they always keep me from his sight.
Speaker 11 (27:02):
Did ever one woman prevent another from leaving her at
such a moment before? I, really, Madam, cannot comprehend.
Speaker 14 (27:12):
Caesar without it is impossible, impossible. Gentlemen, Don Julio cannot
be here?
Speaker 11 (27:20):
Huh who's that?
Speaker 1 (27:22):
And here? Don Caesar, Don Garcia and Don Vincentio left
door there?
Speaker 12 (27:28):
Did we not tell you? So we saw him enter
the garden?
Speaker 14 (27:32):
What is the meaning of all this? A man in
my daughter's apartment.
Speaker 12 (27:38):
Attempting to draw old Sir, Don Julio is one of
the first rank in Spain and will unquestionably be able
to satisfy your honor without troubling your sword. Apart we
have done mischief, and Genteo.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
Julio to Olivia.
Speaker 11 (27:56):
They have been cursedly impertinent. But I'll bring you off,
never fear by pretending a passion for your busy friend.
Speaker 14 (28:04):
There satisfy me. Then in a moment speak one of
you crosses to Julio.
Speaker 11 (28:12):
I came here, sir, by the merest accident. The garden
door was open. Curiosity led me to this apartment. You
came in a moment after, and very civilly locked me
in with your daughter.
Speaker 14 (28:28):
Locked you in. Why then, did you, not, like a
man of honor, cry out?
Speaker 11 (28:37):
The lady cried out, sir, and you told her you
would not return. But when Donna Olivia Daizunika entered, for
whom I have conceived a most violent passion.
Speaker 14 (28:48):
A passion for her, Ah, let me hear no more, aunt,
a passion for her, you may as well entertain a
passion for the untamable Hyaena.
Speaker 12 (29:06):
Ver vicentiur would think you now center or not?
Speaker 13 (29:11):
I am afraid I must give up that, But pray
support me. As to this point, Don Caesar is not
the lady fond of a jew's harp fond.
Speaker 14 (29:23):
She is fond of nothing but playing the vixen. There
is not such a fury upon earth.
Speaker 11 (29:33):
These are odd liberties with a person who does not
belong to him.
Speaker 14 (29:39):
Ah, play the hypocrite for her no more. The world
shall know her true character. They shall know. But ask
her maid there, her maid, why.
Speaker 9 (29:53):
Yes, sap to say truth? I am but don Olivia's
maid after.
Speaker 7 (29:57):
All, Olivia heart, dear Minette, speak for me, or I
am now ruined.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
I will ma'am going up to Julio.
Speaker 9 (30:09):
I must confess, sir. There never was so bitter a
tempered creature as my lady is. I have borne her
humors for two years. I have seen her by night
and by day.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Olivia pulls her sleeve impatiently to Olivia, I will.
Speaker 9 (30:28):
I will, and this I am sure that if you
marry her, you'll rue the day, every hour the first month,
and hang yourself the next. There, Madam, I have done
it roundly.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Now, except great Olivia aside.
Speaker 7 (30:45):
I am undone. I am caught in my own.
Speaker 14 (30:48):
Sneer after this true character of my daughter. I suppose
signor we shall hear no more of your passion. So
let us go down and leave Madam to begin her penance.
Speaker 11 (31:05):
My ideas are totally confused. You Donna, Olivia days Nigga,
and the person I thought you her maid. Something too
flattering darts across my mind.
Speaker 14 (31:20):
If you have taken a fancy to her maid. I
have nothing father to say. But as to that violent creature.
Speaker 11 (31:31):
Oh, do not profane her. Where is that spirit which
you tell me of? Is it that which speaks in
modest conscious blushes on her cheeks? Is it that which
bends her lovely eyes to earth?
Speaker 14 (31:45):
I She's only bending them to earth. Considering how to
afflict me with some new obstinacy, she'll break out like
a tigress in a moment.
Speaker 11 (31:59):
He cannot be Are you charming woman? Such a creature?
Speaker 7 (32:04):
Yes to all mankind, but one looking down?
Speaker 11 (32:10):
But one? Oh, my dad accepted one be me.
Speaker 7 (32:15):
Would you not fear to trust your fate with her?
You have cause to think so hateful?
Speaker 11 (32:20):
No, I'd bless the hour that bound my fate to hers.
Permit me, sir, to pay my vows to this fair vixen.
Speaker 14 (32:30):
What are you such a bold man as that? Oh?
But if you are, twill be only lost time. She'll
contrive some way or other to return your vows upon
your hands.
Speaker 7 (32:48):
If they have your authority, Sir, I will return them
only with my own.
Speaker 14 (32:54):
What's that? What did she say? My head is giddy
with surprise.
Speaker 11 (33:02):
And mine with rapture.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
Cutting her hand.
Speaker 14 (33:06):
Don't make a fool of me. Olivia will to marry.
Speaker 7 (33:11):
Him when you command me, sir.
Speaker 14 (33:16):
My dear don Julia, thou art my Cardian angel? Shall
I have a son in Laura? At last? Gussia? Vincentio?
Could you have thought it?
Speaker 12 (33:32):
No, sir? If we had, we should have saved that
lady much trouble tis pretty clear now why she was
a vixen?
Speaker 13 (33:42):
Yes, yes, tis clear enough. And I beg your pardon, madam,
for the share of trouble I gave you. But pray
have the goodness to tell me, sincerely, what do you
think of a crash?
Speaker 7 (33:56):
I love music, Don Vententio. I admire your skill, and
whenever you'll give me a concert, I shall be obliged.
Speaker 13 (34:05):
You could not have pleased me so well if you
had married me.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
And who Don Carlos and Victoria?
Speaker 7 (34:12):
Right huh, here comes Victoria and her Carlos, my friend,
you are happy tis in your eyes? I need not
ask the event?
Speaker 14 (34:24):
What is this done? Carlos whom Victoria gave us for
a cousin? Sir, you come in a happy hour.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
I do indeed, for I am most happy.
Speaker 11 (34:40):
My dear Carlos. What has new made thee thus? Since morning?
Speaker 2 (34:46):
A wife? Marry Julio, Mary.
Speaker 11 (34:51):
What this advice from you?
Speaker 7 (34:55):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (34:56):
And when you have married an angel, when that angel
has done for you such things as makes your gratitude
almost equal to your love, you may then guess something
of what I feel in calling this angel mine.
Speaker 7 (35:19):
Now I trust Don Julio. After all this that if
I should do you the honor of my hand, you'll
treat me cruelly, be a very bad man that I
like my exemplary cousin hold Olivia.
Speaker 5 (35:34):
It is not necessary that a husband should be faulty
to make a wife's character exemplary. Should he be tenderly
watchful of your happiness, your gratitude will give a thousand
graces to your conduct, whilst the purity of your manners
and the nice honor of your life will gain you
the approbation of those whose praise is fame.
Speaker 7 (35:55):
Pretty and matronly. Thank you, my dear, We have each
a bold stroke today. Yours has been to reclaim a husband,
mine to get one. But the most important is yet
to be obtained, the approbation of our judges, that meete withheld,
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our labors have been vain, pointless, my jests and doubly
keen your pain. Might we their plaudits and their praise
provoke our bold should then be termed a happy stroke.
Speaker 1 (36:32):
End of Act five and of a bold stroke for
a husband by hannahklu
Act five of A Bold Stroke for a Husband by
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please visit LibriVox dot org. Scene one Don Carlos, Don
Carlos discovered writing Carlos, tearing paper and rising.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
It is in vain language. Cannot furnish me with terms
to soften to Victoria the horrid transaction. Could she see
the compunction of my soul? Her gentle heart would pity me?
But what then she's ruined? My children are undone. Oh,
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the artifices of one base woman and my villainy to
another most amiable one, have made me unfit to live.
I am a rich who ought to be blotted from society, and.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Her Pedro histily left.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Sir, sir, well, sir, I just Metorio. Yes, if my
mistress was that tom So, I guesses he is going
to our house, and so why I ran to let
you know? For I love to keep my promises, though
I am deadly afraid of some mischief.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
You have done well. Go home and wait for me
at the door, and admit me without noise.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Except Pedro left at.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Least, then I shall have the pleasure of revenge. I'll
punish that harlot by sacrificing her paramore in her arms,
and then oh accept loft.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Scene two, Donal Laura and Laura left with precipitation, followed
by Victoria.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
Tis his carriage. How successful was my letter? This, my Florio,
is a most important moment.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
It is, indeed, and I will leave you to make
every advantage of it. If I am present, I must
witness condescensions from you that I shall not be able
to bear, though I know them to be but defected aside. Now, Casper,
play my part well and say.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Victoria except right and her gasper left dressed as an
old bow. Two servants follow him and take off a
rich cloak.
Speaker 6 (02:40):
Take my cloak, and d'ye hear Ricardo go home and
bring the eyed. Do down cushions for the coach, and
tell the fellow not to hurry me post through the
streets of Madrid.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Excellent servants left.
Speaker 6 (02:55):
I have been jolted from side to side like a
pippin in a mill street. Drive a man of my
rank as he would a city vintner and his fat
wife going to a bull fight. Ah, there she.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Is looking through a glass suspended by a red ribbon.
Speaker 6 (03:15):
There she is charming Donna. Laura. Let me, thus said,
the shrine of your beauty.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Makes an effort to kneel and falls on his face.
Laura assists him to rise.
Speaker 6 (03:28):
Fi fie those new shoes. They have made me skate
all day like a Dutchman on a canal. And now,
well you see how profound my adoration is, Madam, common
lover's kneel. I was prostrate.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
You do me infinite honor. Aside, disgustful wretch, you are
thinner than you were, Don Sancho, I protest. Now I
observe you you are much altered.
Speaker 6 (04:02):
I madam, fretting your absence threw me into a fever,
and that destroyed my bloom. You see I look almost
a middle aged.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
Man now, No, really, far from it, I assure you.
Aside the foppers is wrinkled as a baboon.
Speaker 6 (04:23):
Then jealousy that gave me a jaundice. My niece's husband,
I hear, Don Carlos has been my happy rival. Oh
my blade will hardly keep in its scabbard when I
think of him.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Think no more of him. He has been long banished
my thoughts be assured. I wonder you gave your niece
to him with such a fortune gave.
Speaker 6 (04:51):
She gave herself. And as to fortune, she had not
a pistole.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
From me, twas indeed unnecessary, with so fun an estate
as she had in Leon, my.
Speaker 6 (05:03):
Niece, and a stated leon, not enough to give shelter to
a filled mouse. And if he has told you so,
he is a braggart.
Speaker 7 (05:12):
Told me so.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
I have the writings he has made over the lands
to me.
Speaker 6 (05:18):
Made over the lands to you, Oh, a deceiver. I
begin to suspect a plot. Pray, let me see this
extraordinary deed.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
She runs to a cabinet door in front a plot.
Speaker 6 (05:34):
I'll be sworn.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Here is the deed which made that estate mine forever. No, sir,
I will entrust it in no hand but my own. Yet,
look over me and read the description of the lands.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Jasper reading through his glass.
Speaker 8 (05:52):
Uh in the vicinage of russ bounded on the west
by the river, on the east by the forest, Oh,
an artful dog.
Speaker 6 (06:14):
I need read no further. I see how the.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
Thing is, how, sir, But hold stay a moment. I
am breathless with fear.
Speaker 6 (06:25):
Nay, madam, don't be afraid. Tis my estate. That's all,
the very castle where I was born, and which I
never did nor ever will but stow on any dawn
in the two castiles. Dissembling rogue, bribe you with a
fictitious title to maya estate.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Ha ha ha ha, Laura aside.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
Curses follow him. The villain I employed must have been
his creature, his reluctance, all art, and whilst I believed
myself undoing him, was duped myself.
Speaker 6 (07:04):
Could you suppose I'd give Carlo such an estate for
running away with my niece? No? No, the vineyards and
the corn fields and the woods of Rosalvo are not
for him. I've somebody else in my eye. In my eye,
observe me to give those two. Can't you guess who
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it is?
Speaker 9 (07:30):
No?
Speaker 4 (07:30):
Indeed, a side gives me a glimmering that saves me
from despair.
Speaker 6 (07:36):
I won't tell you unless you'll bribe me. I won't. Indeed,
this is her cheek there. Now, I'll tell you they
are all for you. Yes, this estate to which you
have taken such a fancy shall be yours. I'll give
you the deeds if you'll promise to love me you
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little cruel thing.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
Can you be serious?
Speaker 6 (08:03):
I'll sign and seal tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Noble don Sancho. Thus then I annihilate the proof of
his perfidy and my weakness. Thus I tear to Adams's
detested name. And as I tread on these, so would
I on his heart.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Enter Victoria, right, Victoria in transport.
Speaker 5 (08:28):
My children then are saved.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
Laura, apart, oh Florio, tis as thou settest. Carlos was
a villain and deceived me? Why this strange air? I
see the cause you think me ruined and will abandon me. Yes,
I see it in thy averted face. Thou darest not
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meet my eyes if I misjudge.
Speaker 5 (08:54):
Thee speak, Laura, I cannot speak, you little get the
emotions of heart. Heaven knows I pity you.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
Pity, oh villain, and has thy love already snatched the
form of pity.
Speaker 10 (09:12):
Base, deceitful Carlos, without stand off, loose your weak cold
I'm come for vengeance and her Carlos left.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Where is this youth? Where is the blooming rival for
whom I have been betrayed? Ho be not base woman
in vain? The stripling flies me for by Heaven my
sword shall in his bosom right its master's wrongs.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Victoria first goes towards the flat, then returns, takes off
her hat, and drops on one knee.
Speaker 5 (09:59):
Straight strike it here, plunge it deep into that bosom,
already wounded by a thousand steps, keener and more painful
than your sword can give. Here lives all the gnawing
anguish of love betrayed.
Speaker 7 (10:14):
Here live the.
Speaker 5 (10:15):
Pangs of disappointed hopes, hopes sanctified by holiest vows which
have been written in the book of Heaven. He sings.
She flies to him, Oh, my Carlos, beloved, my husband,
forgive my too severe reproaches. Thou art dear, yet dear
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as ever to Victoria's.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Heart, Carlos recovering, Oh you know not what you do,
You know not who you are, Oh Victoria, thou art
a beggar.
Speaker 5 (10:54):
No, we are rich, we are happy. See there the
fragments of that fate deed which, had I not recovered,
we had been indeed undone, Yet still not a wretched
could my Carlos think so?
Speaker 2 (11:09):
The fragments of the deed, the deed wish that base
woman speak.
Speaker 5 (11:17):
Not so harshly to you, Madame. I fear I seem reprehensible.
Yet when you consider my duties as a wife and mother,
you will forgive me. Be not afraid of poverty. A
woman has deceived, but she will not desert you.
Speaker 7 (11:33):
Is this real?
Speaker 4 (11:35):
Can I be awake?
Speaker 5 (11:37):
Oh? Mayest thou indeed awake to virtue? You have talents
that might grace the highest of our sex. Be no
longer unjust to such precious gifts by burying them in dishonor.
Virtue is our first most awful duty. Bow, Laura, bow
before her throne and mourn in ceaseless tears that ever
you forgot her heavenly precepts.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
So by a smooth speech about virtue, you think to
cover the injuries I sustain, file insinuating monster. But thou
knowest me not. Revenge is sweeter to my heart than love.
And if there is a law in Spain to gratify
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that passion, your virtue shall have another field for exercise.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Exit right, Carlos, turning towards Victoria.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
My hated rival and my charming wife. How many sweet
mysteries have you to unfold? Oh Victoria, my soul, thanks THEE.
But I dare not yet say I'd love thee till
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ten thousand acts of watchful tenderness have proved how deep
the sentiments engraved?
Speaker 5 (13:00):
Can it be true that I have been unhappy? But
the mysteries my Carlos already explained to you gaspus resemblance
to my uncle.
Speaker 6 (13:09):
Yes, Sir, I was always apt at resemblances in our
plays at home. I am always Queen Cleopatra. You know
she was but a gipsy queen, and I hits her
off to a nicety.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Come, my Victoria, Oh, there is a painful pleasure in
my bosom to gaze on thee, to listen to and
to love thee seems like the bliss of angels, cheering
whispers to repentant sinners.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Acci At Carlos and Victoria, left.
Speaker 6 (13:48):
Lord help him how easily the women are taken in?
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Except left seem three the prodo and her Minette left.
Speaker 9 (13:58):
Ah, Here comes a man at last, after I have
been sauntering in sight of his lodging these two hours. Now,
if my scheme takes, what a happy person I shall be?
And sure, as I was Donia Olivia today to please
my lady, I maybe Donna Olivia tonight to please myself
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I'll address him as the maid of a lady who
has taken a fancy to him, then convey him to
our house, then retire, and then come in again, and
with a vast deal of confusion, confess I sent my
maid for him. If he should dislike my forwardness, the
censure will fall on my lady. If he should be
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pleased with my person, the advantage will be mine. But
perhaps he's come here on some wicked frolichora that I'll
watch him at a distance before I speak.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Exit left upper entrance, and who don Julio right?
Speaker 11 (14:59):
Not here? Faith? Though she gave me last night, but
a faint refusal, and I had a right, by all
the rules of gallantry to construe that into an assent.
Then she's a jilt hang her. I feel I am uneasy,
the first woman that ever gave me pain. I am
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ashamed to perceive that this spot has attractions for me
only because it was here I conversed with her. Twas here,
the little siren, conscious of her charms, unveiled her fascinating face.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Twas here, ha, and hew don Garcia and don Vincentio
right up her entrance.
Speaker 11 (15:49):
Ha done, Julio Shah gentlemen, pray be quick.
Speaker 12 (15:56):
Perceive that Julio, leaving Champagne untasted in songs of gallantry,
and so came to talk to the whistling branches.
Speaker 13 (16:07):
Itwas here that Julio, flying from the young and gay,
was found in doleful meditation on a wench for one
hundred ducats.
Speaker 11 (16:18):
Who is she not Donna Olivia, gentlemen, not Donna Olivia.
Speaker 12 (16:26):
We have been seeking you to ask the event of
your visit to her.
Speaker 11 (16:30):
The event has proved that you have been most grossly duped.
I know that, and you likewise, I know that the
fair lady, so far from being a vixen, is the
very essence of gentleness. To me. So much sweetness in
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a wife would be downright mawkish.
Speaker 13 (16:57):
Well, but she's fond of as Harp.
Speaker 11 (17:01):
Detests it, she would be as fond of a jew
fo foe.
Speaker 12 (17:06):
This is a game at cross purposes. Let us all
go to dance Czar's together and compare opinions on the spot.
Speaker 11 (17:16):
I'll go most willingly, but it will only be to
cover you both with confusion, for being the two men
in Spain most easily imposed on all.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Going right and her Manette.
Speaker 9 (17:31):
Left gentlemen, my lady has sent me for one of you.
Pray which of you is it?
Speaker 11 (17:37):
Julio returning me without doubt, child, I don't know that.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Look at me, my dear, don't you think I am
the man Manette de Garcia.
Speaker 9 (17:51):
Let me see? A good air and well made you
are the man for a dancer. Crosses to Vincentio, well
dressed and nicely put out of hands. You are the
man for a bundbox.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Crosses to Julio.
Speaker 9 (18:09):
Handsome and bold, you are the man for my lady, My.
Speaker 11 (18:13):
Dear little iris, here's all the gold in my pocket. Gentlemen,
I wish you a good night. I am your very obedient, humble.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Stalking by them with his arm round Minette.
Speaker 12 (18:28):
Oh prithee, don't be a fool, or we not going
to Donna Olivia.
Speaker 11 (18:33):
Donna Olivia must wait, my dear boy, begin to side
about her tomorrow. Come along a little dove of venus.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Exit left.
Speaker 12 (18:46):
What a rash fellow, it is, tender one, but this
is some common business, and you'll be robbed and murdered.
They take him for a stranger.
Speaker 13 (18:55):
Let's follow and see where she leads him.
Speaker 12 (18:58):
That's hardly fair, however, as I think there's danger. We
will follow.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Exit left Seane four, Don Caesar's and her Minette and
Don Julio left.
Speaker 9 (19:11):
This sah, please to sit down to my ladies, ready
to wait on you.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
She won't be long aside.
Speaker 9 (19:19):
I'm sure she's out and I may do great things
before she returns.
Speaker 11 (19:24):
Exit right through fifty back lanes along garden in a
narrow staircase into a superb apartment. All that's in the
regular way, as the Spanish women manage it. One intrigue
is too much like another. If it was not now
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and then for the little lovely philip of a jealous
husband or brother, which obliges one to leap from the
window or crawl like a cat along the gutters, there
would be no burying the anui ah ah, but this
promise is novelty.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Looking through the wind, a young.
Speaker 11 (20:09):
Girl and an old man wife or daughter. They are
coming this way, my lovely incognita, by all that's propitious.
Why did not some kind spirit whisper to me my happiness?
But hold, she can't mean to treat the old gentleman
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with the sight.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Of me goes behind the sofa, and here Don Caesar
and Olivia left.
Speaker 14 (20:38):
No, no, madam, no going out the madam. This is
your apartment, your house, your garden, your assembly, till you
go to your convent. Why how impudent you are to
look thus unconcerned? Can hardly forbel laughing in my face?
Speaker 6 (21:04):
Very well, very.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Well, exit double locking the door left.
Speaker 7 (21:13):
I'll be even with you, my dear father. If you
trouble lock it, I'll stay here two days without once
asking for my liberty, and you'll come on the third
with tears in your eyes to take me out. He
has forgot the door leading to the garden. But I
vow I'll stay. Sitting down, I can make the time
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pass pleasantly enough.
Speaker 11 (21:38):
I hope.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
So, looking over the back of the sofa, Heaven and.
Speaker 11 (21:42):
Earth, my dear creature, why are you so alarmed? Am
I here? Before you expected.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
Me coming round?
Speaker 7 (21:50):
Right expected you?
Speaker 11 (21:53):
Oh this pretty surprise. Come let us sit down. I
think your father was a very obliging to lock us
in together.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Olivia calling at the door, Sir, sir, my father, Caesar, without.
Speaker 14 (22:10):
I tis all in vain. I won't come near you.
There you are, and there you may stay. I shan't return.
Make as much noise as you will.
Speaker 11 (22:24):
Why are you not ashamed that your father has so
much more consideration for your guest than you have Olivia?
Speaker 7 (22:33):
Aside my guest, how is it possible he can have
discovered me?
Speaker 11 (22:39):
This is carrying the thing further than you need. If
there were a third person here, it might be prudent.
Speaker 7 (22:47):
Why this assurance, Don Julio, is really.
Speaker 11 (22:51):
The thing in the world you are most ready to pardon?
Speaker 7 (22:55):
Upon my word, I don't know how to treat you.
Your heart, I shall consult my honor.
Speaker 11 (23:04):
Honor is a pretty thing to play with, But when
spoken with that very grave face, after having sent your
maid to bring me here, is really more than I expected.
I shall be in an ill humor. Presently I won't
stay if you treat me thus well.
Speaker 7 (23:24):
This is superior to everything I have heard. That men
will slander women privately to each other tis their common amusement.
But to do it to one's face. And you really
pretend that I sent for you, Ah.
Speaker 11 (23:40):
Well, if it obliged you, I will pretend that you
did not send for me, that your maid did not
conduct me hither, Nay, that I have not now the
supreme happiness.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Touching her in his arms and her Minette Wow, she
runs out right.
Speaker 11 (24:00):
Anna, Olivia de Zuniga. How the devil came she here?
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Olivia Aside, that's lucky.
Speaker 7 (24:09):
Olivia, my dear friend, why do you run away? Apart
to Manette, keep the character I charge you be still, Olivia.
Speaker 9 (24:21):
Oh, dear, Madam, I was so frightened when I saw
that gentleman.
Speaker 7 (24:27):
Oh, my dear, it's the merriest, pretty kind of gentleman
in the world. He pretends that I sent my maid
for him into the streets.
Speaker 11 (24:37):
That's right. Always tell a thing yourself which you would
not have believed.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Manette aside.
Speaker 9 (24:46):
It is the readiest excuse for being found in a
lady's apartment. However, no, I will swear I know nothing
of the matter.
Speaker 7 (24:54):
Olivia apart now, I think it'll horrid poor excuse. He
has certainly not had occasion to invent reasons for such impertinencies.
Often tell me that he has made love to you today.
Speaker 9 (25:09):
I fancy that he has had occasion to excuse impertinencies.
Often his impertinence to.
Speaker 11 (25:15):
Me today, to you, madam.
Speaker 9 (25:19):
Making love to me, my dear, all the morning could
hardly get him away. He was so desirous to speak
to my father Lasa. I don't care for your impatience, Julio.
Speaker 11 (25:33):
Aside, how would I give a thousand pistoles if she
were a man?
Speaker 7 (25:39):
Nay, then this accidental meeting is fortunate. Pray, don Julio,
don't let my presence prevent your saying what you think
proper to my friend. Shall I leave you together, Julio?
Speaker 11 (25:53):
Apart to contradict a lady on such an assertion would
be too gross. But upon my honor, Donna Olivia is
the last woman upon earth who could inspire me with
a tender idea. Find an excuse to send her away,
my angel, I entreat you, I have a thousand things
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to say in the moments are too precious to be
given to her?
Speaker 7 (26:21):
I think so too. But one cannot be rude, you know. Come,
my dear, sit.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
Down seating herself center?
Speaker 7 (26:31):
Have you brought your work?
Speaker 11 (26:33):
The devil? What can she mean?
Speaker 1 (26:36):
Pushing himself between Manette and the sofa.
Speaker 11 (26:39):
Donna Olivia, I am sorry to inform you that my
physician has just been sent for to your father, Don Cesar.
The poor gentleman was seized with a vertigo.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
Vertigoes to Manette.
Speaker 7 (26:55):
Oh, he has them frequently, you know.
Speaker 9 (26:59):
Yes, and they always keep me from his sight.
Speaker 11 (27:02):
Did ever one woman prevent another from leaving her at
such a moment before? I, really, Madam, cannot comprehend.
Speaker 14 (27:12):
Caesar without it is impossible, impossible. Gentlemen, Don Julio cannot
be here?
Speaker 11 (27:20):
Huh who's that?
Speaker 1 (27:22):
And here? Don Caesar, Don Garcia and Don Vincentio left
door there?
Speaker 12 (27:28):
Did we not tell you? So we saw him enter
the garden?
Speaker 14 (27:32):
What is the meaning of all this? A man in
my daughter's apartment.
Speaker 12 (27:38):
Attempting to draw old Sir, Don Julio is one of
the first rank in Spain and will unquestionably be able
to satisfy your honor without troubling your sword. Apart we
have done mischief, and Genteo.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
Julio to Olivia.
Speaker 11 (27:56):
They have been cursedly impertinent. But I'll bring you off,
never fear by pretending a passion for your busy friend.
Speaker 14 (28:04):
There satisfy me. Then in a moment speak one of
you crosses to Julio.
Speaker 11 (28:12):
I came here, sir, by the merest accident. The garden
door was open. Curiosity led me to this apartment. You
came in a moment after, and very civilly locked me
in with your daughter.
Speaker 14 (28:28):
Locked you in. Why then, did you, not, like a
man of honor, cry out?
Speaker 11 (28:37):
The lady cried out, sir, and you told her you
would not return. But when Donna Olivia Daizunika entered, for
whom I have conceived a most violent passion.
Speaker 14 (28:48):
A passion for her, Ah, let me hear no more, aunt,
a passion for her, you may as well entertain a
passion for the untamable Hyaena.
Speaker 12 (29:06):
Ver vicentiur would think you now center or not?
Speaker 13 (29:11):
I am afraid I must give up that, But pray
support me. As to this point, Don Caesar is not
the lady fond of a jew's harp fond.
Speaker 14 (29:23):
She is fond of nothing but playing the vixen. There
is not such a fury upon earth.
Speaker 11 (29:33):
These are odd liberties with a person who does not
belong to him.
Speaker 14 (29:39):
Ah, play the hypocrite for her no more. The world
shall know her true character. They shall know. But ask
her maid there, her maid, why.
Speaker 9 (29:53):
Yes, sap to say truth? I am but don Olivia's
maid after.
Speaker 7 (29:57):
All, Olivia heart, dear Minette, speak for me, or I
am now ruined.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
I will ma'am going up to Julio.
Speaker 9 (30:09):
I must confess, sir. There never was so bitter a
tempered creature as my lady is. I have borne her
humors for two years. I have seen her by night
and by day.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Olivia pulls her sleeve impatiently to Olivia, I will.
Speaker 9 (30:28):
I will, and this I am sure that if you
marry her, you'll rue the day, every hour the first month,
and hang yourself the next. There, Madam, I have done
it roundly.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Now, except great Olivia aside.
Speaker 7 (30:45):
I am undone. I am caught in my own.
Speaker 14 (30:48):
Sneer after this true character of my daughter. I suppose
signor we shall hear no more of your passion. So
let us go down and leave Madam to begin her penance.
Speaker 11 (31:05):
My ideas are totally confused. You Donna, Olivia days Nigga,
and the person I thought you her maid. Something too
flattering darts across my mind.
Speaker 14 (31:20):
If you have taken a fancy to her maid. I
have nothing father to say. But as to that violent creature.
Speaker 11 (31:31):
Oh, do not profane her. Where is that spirit which
you tell me of? Is it that which speaks in
modest conscious blushes on her cheeks? Is it that which
bends her lovely eyes to earth?
Speaker 14 (31:45):
I She's only bending them to earth. Considering how to
afflict me with some new obstinacy, she'll break out like
a tigress in a moment.
Speaker 11 (31:59):
He cannot be Are you charming woman? Such a creature?
Speaker 7 (32:04):
Yes to all mankind, but one looking down?
Speaker 11 (32:10):
But one? Oh, my dad accepted one be me.
Speaker 7 (32:15):
Would you not fear to trust your fate with her?
You have cause to think so hateful?
Speaker 11 (32:20):
No, I'd bless the hour that bound my fate to hers.
Permit me, sir, to pay my vows to this fair vixen.
Speaker 14 (32:30):
What are you such a bold man as that? Oh?
But if you are, twill be only lost time. She'll
contrive some way or other to return your vows upon
your hands.
Speaker 7 (32:48):
If they have your authority, Sir, I will return them
only with my own.
Speaker 14 (32:54):
What's that? What did she say? My head is giddy
with surprise.
Speaker 11 (33:02):
And mine with rapture.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
Cutting her hand.
Speaker 14 (33:06):
Don't make a fool of me. Olivia will to marry.
Speaker 7 (33:11):
Him when you command me, sir.
Speaker 14 (33:16):
My dear don Julia, thou art my Cardian angel? Shall
I have a son in Laura? At last? Gussia? Vincentio?
Could you have thought it?
Speaker 12 (33:32):
No, sir? If we had, we should have saved that
lady much trouble tis pretty clear now why she was
a vixen?
Speaker 13 (33:42):
Yes, yes, tis clear enough. And I beg your pardon, madam,
for the share of trouble I gave you. But pray
have the goodness to tell me, sincerely, what do you
think of a crash?
Speaker 7 (33:56):
I love music, Don Vententio. I admire your skill, and
whenever you'll give me a concert, I shall be obliged.
Speaker 13 (34:05):
You could not have pleased me so well if you
had married me.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
And who Don Carlos and Victoria?
Speaker 7 (34:12):
Right huh, here comes Victoria and her Carlos, my friend,
you are happy tis in your eyes? I need not
ask the event?
Speaker 14 (34:24):
What is this done? Carlos whom Victoria gave us for
a cousin? Sir, you come in a happy hour.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
I do indeed, for I am most happy.
Speaker 11 (34:40):
My dear Carlos. What has new made thee thus? Since morning?
Speaker 2 (34:46):
A wife? Marry Julio, Mary.
Speaker 11 (34:51):
What this advice from you?
Speaker 7 (34:55):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (34:56):
And when you have married an angel, when that angel
has done for you such things as makes your gratitude
almost equal to your love, you may then guess something
of what I feel in calling this angel mine.
Speaker 7 (35:19):
Now I trust Don Julio. After all this that if
I should do you the honor of my hand, you'll
treat me cruelly, be a very bad man that I
like my exemplary cousin hold Olivia.
Speaker 5 (35:34):
It is not necessary that a husband should be faulty
to make a wife's character exemplary. Should he be tenderly
watchful of your happiness, your gratitude will give a thousand
graces to your conduct, whilst the purity of your manners
and the nice honor of your life will gain you
the approbation of those whose praise is fame.
Speaker 7 (35:55):
Pretty and matronly. Thank you, my dear, We have each
a bold stroke today. Yours has been to reclaim a husband,
mine to get one. But the most important is yet
to be obtained, the approbation of our judges, that meete withheld,
(36:15):
our labors have been vain, pointless, my jests and doubly
keen your pain. Might we their plaudits and their praise
provoke our bold should then be termed a happy stroke.
Speaker 1 (36:32):
End of Act five and of a bold stroke for
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