SCENE III (DORINE, MARIANE) DORINE Have you entirely lost your voice and heart? Why must I continue playing your part? To think you allow such a mad proposal Without voicing even a meek refusal! MARIANE How can I resist such a harsh patriarch? DORINE By any means! Don't be an easy mark! MARIANE But how? DORINE Tell him you can't love on command, That you marry for yourself, not by demand, And since you are most concerned in these affairs You'll choose for yourself the sire of his heirs, And that, if Tartuffe is so charming to him, He can wed him himself--if that's his whim. MARIANE A father, I'm sure, has absolute power; Before him I can only cringe and cower. DORINE Use your head. Valere wants to tie the knot. Do you really love him, I ask--or not? |
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