ACT II.
Barataria; vicinity of Lafitte’s home, the Red House; the Bay of Barataria at back; luxuriant foliage and flowers. Enter Lafitte; he has flowers in his hand and is followed by a dog.
LAF. (sorrowfully and perplexedly.) Dressed as a nun ... Mariana, dressed as a nun!... (joyfully.) But alive! (looking at the flowers in his hand.) Fairer than the fairest of you,—and alive! I shall see her maybe,—tell her all that she could not hear when I knelt beside her unconscious sweetness. (exeunt Lafitte and dog; voices, good-naturedly boisterous, heard without.)
1st V. How many yards?
2nd V. Two hundred, if one. (cries of “Ah!” and laughter; enter a hunting party returning from the woods; two of the men carry a deer.)
1st H. He would have us believe that he can shoot as well as the Emperor!
3d H. (in good humored raillery.) Oh, he can do everything,—sail a ship, too. But he didn’t give himself the chance of being caught on the Creole. (laughter.)