Scaramouche Page #3

He's coming in. Here.

Good morning.

- Thank heaven you're here.

- Delighted to see you, sir.

- What's happened here, a hurricane?

- No. The King's men.

- They came for Philippe.

- Philippe?

What for? Did they take him?

No, he's safe. But they're still outside

watching the house.

See? Hiding there in the doorway.

They looked everywhere.

Breaking, smashing things.

- lt was dreadful.

- Where is he?

Andre, you're dressed very oddly.

Are you in trouble, too?

Well, not yet, darling, but it threatens.

l've a young lady downstairs in the coach

with an itch to be married.

She's made two attempts since breakfast,

and her temper is rising.

l've heard of the bridegroom

running for cover...

- but never the best man. What happened?

- They found out l wrote this.

"Liberty, Equality, Fraternity,

by Marcus Brutus."

l'm Marcus Brutus.

There are copies all over Paris.

We even smuggled some

into the royal bedchamber.

- We?

- Thousands of us, Father.

United against the aristocratic tyrants.

l take it aristocratic tyrants

includes your own father and mother?

- Father, please.

- l may be a poor man...

but by birth l am an aristocrat.

- And so are you.

- Please.

- That pamphlet is high treason.

- Father, you don't understand.

Well, what do you think of it?

The grammar is appalling.

On the first page...

you doubled a negative, split an infinitive,

and left out three commas.

lnfinitives, negatives, commas.

He prattles punctuation

and France is in agony.

ln agony? l wasn't aware of it.

You never take anything seriously.

Nothing matters to you.

Why do you fight with your best friend

when your own life is in danger?

- What's to be done, Andre?

- Marcus Brutus must go into hiding.

We've got to get him

out of the city at once.

How?

l haven't the slightest idea.

Unless...

Get into this.

Listen carefully.

Outside there's a horse and coach.

Go boldly out,

mount the box and drive off.

No one will question you,

except the lady inside.

She may become violent. Drive her to

the Forest of Beauvry. You have money?

- Five crowns.

- Scarcely enough to start a revolution.

l'll get the money. Meet me at

the signpost in the forest at 9:00 tonight.

ls that clear? Off with you.

Goodbye, Mother.

- l'm sorry, Father.

- Take my sword.

Try not to dishonor it.

Thank you, Father.

Good luck.

lt's all right.

He's very young. Look after him.

As you've always looked after me.

l swear it.

God bless you, Andre.

And now for the stuff

that makes fools of princes...

and princes of fools. Money.

Andre, you be careful what you do.

Precisely my intention.

l go now to consult my attorney...

the eminent lawyer Fabian.

ls this the bald pate of the lawyer Fabian?

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