Bataille de dames

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Bataille de dames

Page 23.

[Footnote 72: #Va-t'en#, Leave me, Let me be alone.]

[Footnote 73: #A la bonne heure#, Well, expressing surprise

and relief that the countess has dismissed her with a kiss.]

ACT I. SCENE 12.

Page 24.

[Footnote 74: #servons-nous-en#, I'll put it to the proof.

Since the French have no first person singular imperative, they are

forced to use either the plural, as here, or the subjunctive.]

ACT I. SCENE 13.