The Comedians, Marion, Didier
A LACKEY (conducting the Comedians to the barn).
This is your lodging. You're on the estate
Of the Marquis de Nangis. Behave well,
Try to be quiet, for some one is dead.
The burial is to-morrow. Above all,
Don't mix your songs with the funereal chants
Which will be sung for him throughout the night.
GRACIEUX (small and hump-backed).
We'll make less noise than do your hunting-dogs
Who bark around the legs of all who pass!
LACKEY.
Dogs are not actors, my good friend.
TAILLEBRAS (to Gracieux).
Be still!
You'll cause us to sleep in the open air!
[Lackey exits.