Saint Yves! this stone is much harder than Goy!
[He looks fixedly at the statue and raises his voice.
Ma’m’selle who would smile at the trump of doom,
I think that all the village will be hanged!
And at its head that brown young witch they call
Yvette—
Reënter De Vardes and The Marquise.
De Vardes (to Grégoire)
Begone!
[Exit Grégoire. De Vardes and The Marquise