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"What can I do for you, sir?" asked he with great politeness. "Can I see Florestan?" "In Count de Mussidan's service, I believe?" "Just so; I have an appointment with him here." "He is downstairs in the band-room," replied the landlord. "I will send for him." "Don't trouble; I will go down," and, without waiting for permission, Mascarin descended some steps that apparently led to a cellar.
I was thinking of something else than kingdoms, and of which unhappily I am not so certain of which I am most uncertain of which I fear I have no chance and yet which is dearer to me than even my crown." "What can that be?" said Lady Roehampton, with unaffected wonderment. "'Tis a secret of chivalry," said Prince Florestan, "and I must never disclose it."
But the old mulatto's amazement was still more augmented by another singular contrast at this moment. He had suddenly met a group of men in evening dress, with many decorations in their buttonholes, accompanied by women in elegant toilettes. A short distance further on was Florestan Saint-Herem, more brilliant and gay than ever in this atmosphere of luxury and splendor.
"Agreed, madam," assented Florestan; then turning to M. de Riancourt, he added gaily, "I hope you will bear me no ill-will, my dear duke; you should show yourself to be a real grand seigneur, and not bargain like a banker." The orchestra; which had been silent for a quarter of an hour, now struck up a new cotillion. "Pardon me, countess," resumed the young man, "but I must leave you.
But Spain is not exactly the country I should fix upon to form kings and statesmen. And this is the point on which I wish to consult you. I want Florestan to receive an English education, and I want you to put me in the way of accomplishing this. It might be convenient, under such circumstances, that he should not obtrude his birth perhaps, that it should be concealed.
"The Count of Ferroll is as much a foreigner as the prince," said Endymion rather sharply. "Oh! I don't call him a foreigner at all," said the first speaker. "He is a great favourite at White's; no one rides cross country like him, and he is a deuced fine shot in the bargain." "I will back Prince Florestan against him either in field or cover," said Endymion.
The entire action of the opera transpires in a Spanish prison, of which Don Pizarro is governor and Rocco the jailer. The porter of the prison is Jacquino, who is in love with Marcellina, daughter of Rocco, and she in turn is in love with Fidelio, Rocco's assistant, who has assumed male disguise the better to assist her in her plans for the rescue of her husband, Florestan, a Spanish nobleman.
Badinot took his departure. When the door was closed, Florestan was heard to cry, in profound despair, "Lost!" During this conversation, which unmasked to the count the infamy of his son, and to Madame de Lucenay the infamy of the man whom she had so blindly loved, both remained immovable, scarcely breathing, under the weight of this frightful revelation.
Notwithstanding his habitual self-command, Florestan could hardly restrain himself, which a man more accustomed to society than the duke would certainly have remarked. Montbrison was scarcely eighteen.
"A fine authority, upon my word! He lies, I am sure of it." "He is rich, Florestan; and the woman I loved and still love in spite of myself, is poor. She has endured the most cruel misery for years." "The devil!" "Besides this, she is the only support of a crippled old woman. This man's offers dazzled the poor child; and like so many others, she succumbed through misery.
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