ACT II.-SCENE I. SCENE-A small Chamber. ILLO and TERTSKY. TERTSKY. Now for this evening's business! How intend you To manage with the generals at the banquet? ILLO. Attend! We frame a formal declaration, His both with life and limb, and not to spare In a particular clause, and save the conscience. Before the banquet. No one will find in it TERTSKY. How? think you then That they'll believe themselves bound by an oath, ILLO. We shall have caught and caged them! Let them then Beat their wings bare against the wires, and rave Loud as they may against our treachery, TERTSKY. Well, well, it shall content me; let but something Set us in motion. ILLO. Besides, 'tis of subordinate importance How, or how far, we may thereby propel His policy is such a labyrinth, That many a time when I have thought myself He give up his old plans! I'll tell you, friend! His soul is occupied with nothing else, Even in his sleep-They are his thoughts his dreams That day by day he questions for this purpose The motions of the planets VOL. III. G TERTSKY. Ay! you know This night, that is now coming, he with SENI ILLO. Come! be we bold and make dispatch. The work Mark what I say the right stars too will shew themselves. Come, to the generals. All is in the glow, TERTSKY. Do you go thither, Illo. I must stay And wait here for the Countess Tertsky. Know, A second is in readiness. ILLO. Yes! Yes! I saw your Lady smile with such sly meaning. (The Countess steps out from a Closet.) TERTSKY. Well-is she coming-I can keep him back I must confess it, Countess, whether or not know, No ray has broke out from him on this point. You COUNTESS. I take it on me. [talking to herself, while she is advancing. Here's no need of full powers and commissions |