The chorus then begins to swell;

Loud martial music rends the sky:

This is the soldier's melody.

ACT THE SECOND.

SCENE I.

Madelon's Apartment.

La Gloire and Madelon discovered. Madelon seated at a Table covered with Eatables, Wines, &c. La Gloire standing near the Table.

La Gloire. Blessings on her heart, how cleverly she feeds! the meat goes as naturally into her little mouth, as if it had been used to the road all the time of the famine: though, Heaven knows, 'tis a path that has, lately, been little frequented.

Madelon. A votre santé, mon ami;—your health, La Gloire.