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DRAMATIS PERSONAE. / BEAUSEANT, a rich gentleman of Lyons, in love with, and refused by, Pauline Deschappelles MR. ELTON. / GLAVIS, his friend, also a rejected suitor to Pauline MR. MEADOWS. / COLONEL (afterwards General) DAMAS, cousin to Mme. Deschappelles, and an officer in the French army MR. BARTLEY. / MONSIEUR DESCHAPPELLES, a Lyonnese merchant father to Pauline MR. STRICKLAND. / GASPAR MR. DIDDEAR. / CLAUDE MELNOTTE MR. MACREADY. / FIRST OFFICER MR. HOWE. / SECOND OFFICER MR. PRITCHARD. / THIRD OFFICER MR. ROBERTS. / Servants, Notary, etc. / MADAME DESCHAPPELLES MRS. W. CLIFFORD. / PAULINE, her daughter MISS HELEN FAUCIT. / THE WIDOW MELNOTTE, mother to Claude MRS. GRIFFITH. / JANET, the innkeeper's daughter MRS. EAST. / MARIAN, maid to Pauline MISS GARRICK.
A room in the house of M. DESCHAPPELLES, at Lyons. PAULINE reclining / on a sofa; MARIAN, her maid, fanning her -- Flowers and notes on a table / beside the sofa -- MADAME DESCHAPPELLES seated -- The gardens are seen from / the open window.