Le Fils Naturel Author:Alexandre Dumas Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Scene XI.—Clara and Charles. Clara. Well, you naughty man ! Yon have left me for six weeks without once coming to see me ! CHARLES. An indispensable ... more »journey ! I wrote to you. You received another letter from me yesterday ? CLARA. I do not complain; only—the child was nearly dead. If he had died without your seeing him again ! Happily there is no more danger; but I had great fears. Come and kiss him—when I have embraced you once more (she embraces him). Come now! CHARLES. Has not M. Fressard just said that he was sleeping ? Besides, I want to talk to you. CLARA. Very well! what have you to tell me ? Do you know, if I had not received a letter from you yesterday I should have set off to-day ? CHARLES. Where to ? CLARA. To your mother's chateau. CHARLES. Who told you that I was there ? CLARA. I suspected you were there—it is the time you always go there. You may be sure that no one would have seen me. I should have let you know where I was; and, after having embraced you, I should have gone away again. But I talk whilst you have something to tell me. What is it ? CHARLES. Will you promise to be reasonable ? CLARA. What is the matter ? CHARLES. We have just lost a great part—the greatest part—of our fortune, and I am. obliged to leave France. CLARA. Leaving France !—whither wilt thou go ? CHARLES. To America. CLARA. Alone? CHARLES. Alone. CLARA. I go also! Nothing shall keep me in France! Charles. Unfortunately—I do not know in what part of America I shall stay. I must travel much, to gather up the last debris of our fortune— as I have been doing in France and England for the last six weeks. You are mistaken, I have not spent the last month with my mother. CLARA. When w...« less