Excerpt from Riquet of the Tuft: A Love Drama

A wide garden looking to the south, with grassy spaces and many flowers and trees, and beyond it a wood, over which a mountain range is seen. The King's Palace runs the whole length of the garden to the north, and has in front a broad terrace which leads by steps into the garden. The Palace is on an upland, which falls on the west, through dells and broken ground, to the plain below, and in the east, the scene is filled with a lake at the head of which is a grove of stone-pines. It is the first day of May.

Enter with tools Gardener and Robert, his son.

Gardener.

A Chill morning, Robert, the frost has touched the leaves.

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