... (_Like
an orator making a speech_) And now, in the name of all, I crave
permission to add a few words....
FIRE
He has not been called upon to speak!...
WATER
Order!...
BREAD
The malevolent interruptions of a contemptible enemy, of an envious
rival....
FIRE
An envious rival!... What would you be without me?... A lump of shapeless
and indigestible dough....
WATER
Order!...
FIRE
I won't be shouted down by you! ...
(_They threaten each other and are about to come to blows_.)
LIGHT (_raising her wand_)
Enough!...
BREAD
The insults and the ridiculous pretensions of an element whose notorious
misbehaviour and whose scandalous excesses drive the world to despair....
FIRE
You fat pasty-face!
BREAD (_raising his voice_)
Will not prevent me from doing my duty to the end.... I wish, therefore, in
the name of all...
FIRE
Not in mine!... I have a tongue of my own!...
BREAD
In the name of all and with a restrained but simple and deep emotion,
to take leave of two distinguished children, whose exalted mission ends
to-day.... When bidding them farewell, with all the grief and all the
fondness which a mutual esteem....
TYLTYL
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