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_ ACT III - SCENE SIXTH Rousseau, De Verby, Madame du Brocard, Giraud, Madame Giraud, Dupre, and later Joseph Binet.
ROUSSEAU. You have saved my son. I shall never forget it. MME. DU BROCARD. You have put us under eternal obligations, my child. ROUSSEAU. My fortune shall be at your disposal. DUPRE. I will not say anything to you, my child! We shall meet again! JOSEPH. (coming out of the closet) One moment! One moment! I have heard everything--and do you believe that I am going to put up with that? I was here in concealment all the time. And do you think I am going to let Pamela, whom I have loved and have wished to make my wife, say all that? (To Dupre) This is the way you are going to earn my fourteen hundred francs, eh! Well, I shall go to court myself and testify that the whole thing is a lie. ALL. Great heaven! DUPRE. You miserable wretch! DE VERBY. If you say a single word-- JOSEPH. Oh, I am not afraid! DE VERBY. (to Rousseau and Mme. du Brocard) He shall never go to court! If necessary, I will have him shadowed, and I will put men on the watch to prevent him from entering. JOSEPH. I'd just like to see you try it! (Enter a sheriff's officer, who goes up to Dupre.) DUPRE. What do you want? The sheriff's officer I am the court officer of the Assizes--Mlle. Pamela Giraud! (Pamela comes forward.) In virtue of discretionary authority of the presiding judge, you are summoned to appear before him to-morrow at ten o'clock. JOSEPH. (to De Verby) I will go also. The officer The porter has told me that you have here a gentleman called Joseph Binet. JOSEPH. Here I am! The officer Please take your summons. JOSEPH. I told you that I would go! (The officer withdraws; every one is alarmed at the threats of Binet. Dupre tries to speak to him and reason with him, but he steals away.)
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