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