SCENE V

Charlotte enters, and after seeing to her aunfs comfort, is playing cards with the others, when shouting outside proclaims the entry of the Girondins into the town, Charlotte tells oftheir overthrow at Paris, but foretells their approaching triumph. An old gentleman of royalist opinions urges her to abandon thèse republican factions and corne to England, where she will find loyal French refugees, A warm argument follows, which is endedby Madame de BrettevUle breaking up her par ty»

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L 939. mon intendante et ma garde-malade, * my housekeeper and my nurse.*

L 946. d'avance, * beforehand.*

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