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Updated: May 11, 2025
That was the name of my little sister who is dead. Come here, Philine, and sit by me." "Perhaps you might like to look at a book while I am away " "A book!" interrupted the child, with a merry laugh, clapping her hands. "Why, I am just learning the alphabet, and can't bring myself to call a two-pronged fork 'y." "You dear little innocent rogue!" tenderly ejaculated the old gentleman.
In a moment of jealous fury at the thought of Philine she utters a wish that the castle were in flames. Lothario hears her words and proves his devotion by setting fire to the theatre while the performance is in progress. Mignon had been sent by Philine to fetch her bouquet from the green-room.
"She slept with me last night, and every time I woke up I kissed her." "You shall have her for your own, if you like her so much, my dear." "Oh, thank you! Did the doll belong to your dear little daughter who is dead?" "Yes yes," sorrowfully murmured the old gentleman. "Then I will not play with her, but keep her locked in my little cupboard, and call her Philine.
Mignon, at her earnest request, accompanies him, disguised as a page. While at the castle Mignon is distracted by Wilhelm's infatuation for Philine, and when Wilhelm, prompted by Philine, tries to dismiss her, she puts on her old gipsy clothes and rushes away. Outside the walls of the castle she meets with an old half-witted harper, Lothario, who soothes the passion of her grief.
"The 'Palace of Narcissus'? I have heard of it." "Then you will have no trouble finding my home. Oh, you dear good little flower!" and she kissed the snowy blossom rapturously. The old gentleman surveyed her smilingly for a few moments, then said: "I will go now, and buy the frock." "And while you are away I shall tell Philine the story of Gargantua," responded the child.
Among the spectators of this scene are Laertes, the manager of a troupe of strolling players, and Philine, his leading lady. Philine is an accomplished coquette, and determines to subjugate Wilhelm. In this she easily succeeds, and he joins the company as poet, proceeding with them to the Castle of Rosenberg, where a grand performance of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' is to be given.
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