Puccini, Giactmo Madama Butterfly. Liteetto. English & Italian ...
Puccini, Giactmo Madama Butterfly. Liteetto. English & Italian ...
Puccini, Giactmo Madama Butterfly. Liteetto. English & Italian ...
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ACT TWfc<br />
SUZUKI<br />
(opens a email cabinet, and, taking a few coins from it, shows them to <strong>Butterfly</strong>)<br />
This is all that is left us.<br />
BUTTERFLY<br />
No more ? Oh, we've been spendthrifts 5<br />
SUZUKI<br />
(replaces the money in the cabinet, which she closes, saying, with a sigh:)<br />
Unless he comes, and quickly,<br />
Our plight is a bad one.<br />
He'll come s though.<br />
Why<br />
BUTTEBFLY<br />
(with decision)<br />
SUZUKI<br />
(shaking her head)<br />
Will he come?<br />
BUTTERFLY<br />
(vexed, to Suzuki)<br />
did he order the Consul<br />
To provide this dwelling for us ?<br />
Now answer that !<br />
And why was he so careful<br />
To have the house provided with safe locks<br />
If he did not intend to come again ?<br />
I know not.<br />
SUZUKI<br />
BUTTERFLY<br />
(surprised at such ignorance)<br />
Know you not ?<br />
(with proud confidence)<br />
Then I will tell you. 'Twas to keep outside<br />
Those spiteful plagues, my own relations.<br />
And inside, 'twas to give me protection.<br />
Me, his beloved wife his <strong>Butterfly</strong>.
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