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I move we always wear with every dress A very striking bunch of violets.
FIRST DOMINO.
That's it, Princess!
ANOTHER DOMINO.
And let us risk returning To Empire fas.h.i.+ons.
SECOND DOMINO.
For evening: not for day.
THIRD DOMINO.
Dear, don't forget the horrible short waists.
ALL.
And all the puffs!--and ruches!--Dearest!
METTERNICH.
Ladies--
ALL.
Good heavens!
METTERNICH.
Go on with your delicious plotting.
Conspire! conspire! Ha-ha!
[_He goes out, laughing heartily._]
FIRST DOMINO.
And now That thanks to idle chatter we've removed Whatever doubts Sedlinzky had aroused, We'll prove that after female Machiavellis The Metternichest Metternich's a baby.
ALL.
Yes!
FIRST DOMINO.
Each remembers what she has to do?
ALL.
Yes!
FIRST DOMINO.
Mingle with the dances.
SEVERAL MASKS.
[_Pursuing another._]
He's so funny!
A MASK.
It must be Sandor!
ANOTHER.
No! it's Furstenberg!
ANOTHER.
And who's the bear, dancing to Schubert's waltz?
A MASK.
What's sad Elvira's dress? A star?
GENTZ.
A night-light.
A MASK.
Thecla, the hypocrite--?
GENTZ.
Disguised as Truth.
TIBURTIUS.
[_Entering with_ THERESA.]
Not gone to Parma, sister?
THERESA.
