THIRD JUDGE Dost thou mourn for him? THE ABBÉ Ay! SECOND JUDGE Death! THE ABBÉ Achieve! I like the word. Achieve, achieve! Ruin and downfall, death and waste of fame! Achievement of the Revolution! Ha, I’ll tell thee, farceur, what it hath achieved: It hath achieved the death of the Gironde, Death of Marat, and death of D’Orléans, Death of great part of its abhorrèd brood! It hath achieved the Company of Marat; It hath achieved Jacques Carrier in Nantes; It shall achieve more death and infamy! Death! The word you are so fond of. Death! And Infamy, the thing you can’t bestow! It shall achieve the death of Carrier, The death of Lambertye and of Lalain, The death of Danton and of Robespierre!— Nature will give a grave obscene and dark, And Time will see that docks and darnels grow! [_Uproar._ THE FIRST JUDGE Death,—stand aside, condemned. _Enter_ SÉRAPHINE. CÉLESTE Ah, Séraphine, Come up here, Séraphine! [SÉRAPHINE _mounts the stair and sits beside_ CÉLESTE, ANGÉLIQUE, _and_ NANON. NANON Where is Yvette? SÉRAPHINE I know not, I! ANGÉLIQUE I saw her gliding by, Beneath the moon, last night when all was still. Against a cannon in the empty square She leaned, and on the river looked. SÉRAPHINE What harm? ANGÉLIQUE Why, none! CÉLESTE (_her eyes upon the prisoners below_) Ha, ha! it is the old man’s turn! A GAOLER Château-Gui! THE WOMAN Ah, Château-Gui! FIRST JUDGE Château-Gui! MLLE. DE CHÂTEAU-GUI O my father! COUNT LOUIS Unclasp thy hands, my child! What is it, Lambertye? FIRST JUDGE Thou ci-devant, Thou art accused, imprimatur, of this: Once thou didst serve Capet! COUNT LOUIS The King? FIRST JUDGE Capet. COUNT LOUIS I served the King of France. FIRST JUDGE Twice over, death! For thou didst serve Capet; For thou dost dare say the King of France!