SCENE VIII.--LELIO, TRUFALDIN, MASCARILLE.
TRUF. (_Knocks at his door, and then addresses Lelio_). A word with
you, if you please. So, Mr. Cheat, you have the assurance to fool a
respectable man, and make game of him?
MASC. To pretend to have seen his son abroad, in order to get the more
easily into his house!
TRUF. (_Beating Lelio_). Go away, go away immediately.
LEL. (_To Mascarille, who beats him likewise_). Oh! you scoundrel!
MASC. It is thus that rogues...
LEL. Villain!
MASC. Are served here. Keep that for my sake!
LEL. What? Is a gentleman...?
MASC. (_Beating him and driving him off). March off, begone, I tell
you, or I shall break all the bones in your body.
TRUF. I am delighted with this; come in, I am satisfied. (_Mascarille
follows Trufaldin into his house_).
LEL. (_Returning_). This to me! To be thus affronted by a servant!
Could I have thought the wretch would have dared thus to ill-treat his
master?
MASC. (_From Trufaldin's window_). May I take the liberty to ask
how your shoulders are?
LEL. What! Have you the impudence still to address me?
MASC. Now see what it is not to have perceived Jeannette, and to have
always a blabbing tongue in your head! However, this time I am not angry
with you, I have done cursing and swearing at you; though you behaved
very imprudently, yet my hand has made your shoulders pay for your
fault.
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