No More Learning

Let me awake from it ere I go mad.
This dream, this horrible dream!

[_Seeing the light from the window, she totters up to the
hole in the wall and looks in again. _

God! it is true!
There they are! There! --the man with murderous looks,
The girl with shameless eyes! Where is the king?

[_Her cries are drowned in the thunder. _

MAGUELONNE: Brother!

SALTABADIL: Yes.

MAGUELONNE: Do not kill him.

SALTABADIL: Ten more crowns!

MAGUELONNE: He is worth more than that.
Handsome and young,
And noble too, I'll take my oath on it.
Besides, he loves me.

SALTABADIL: Get on with the sack.

MAGUELONNE: You only want the money. Take and kill
The little hunchback when he comes with it.

BLANCHE: My father!

SALTABADIL (_angrily_): What! Am I a common thief?
Kill my own client? I will have you know,
My sister, that I am an honest man.
I do the work I'm paid for.

[_Drawing his dagger, he goes towards the stairs. _

MAGUELONNE (_barring the way_): Stop, I say!
Or I will go and rouse him.

BLANCHE: Good, brave girl!

SALTABADIL: Well, let us make a bargain, Maguelonne.