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Act 3 - Scene 1 |
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_ ACT III - SCENE FIRST SCENE FIRST (The stage represents the room of Pamela.) Pamela, Giraud and Madame Giraud. (Pamela is standing near her mother, who is knitting; Giraud is at work at a table on the left.)
GIRAUD. No doubt about it! We came to Paris because in the country tailoring is no sort of a business, and we had some ambition for you, our Pamela, such a sweet, pretty little thing as you were. We said to each other: "We will go into service; I will work at my trade; we will give a good position to our child; and as she will be good, industrious and pretty, we can take care of our old age by marrying her well." PAMELA. O father! MME. GIRAUD. Half of our plans were already carried out. GIRAUD. Yes, certainly. We had a good position; you made as fine flowers as any gardener could grow; and Joseph Binet, your neighbor, was to be the husband of our choice. MME. GIRAUD. Instead of all this, the scandal which has arisen in the house has caused the landlord to dismiss us; the talk of the neighborhood was incessant, for the young man was arrested in your room. PAMELA. And yet I have been guilty of nothing! GIRAUD. Come, now, we know that well enough! Do you think if it were otherwise that we would stay near you? And that I would embrace you? After all, Pamela, there is nothing like a father and a mother! And when the whole world is against you, if a girl can look into her parents' face without a blush it is enough. _ |
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