Excerpt from Mozart's Opera Marriage of Figaro: Containing the Italian Text, With an English Translation and the Music of All the Principal Airs Cherubino. When the Count and Countess returned and the Count had wrung from his wife the confession that the page was there, half undressed, the sudden appearance of Su sanna in the door of the apartment took both completely by surprise. But the Countess quickly gained her composure, and the two women now turned the tables upon the Count, who ruefully asked his wife's forgiveness for his unjust suspicions. The Countess granted it in good grace. Figaro came in, to accom pany Susanna to the wedding. A little while after him, as his unlucky stars would have it, Antonio, the gardener, half intoxicated, carry ing a couple of broken flower-pots, made his appearance in the room. He insisted he must see his master. He wanted to lodge a com plaint against some one who had jumped out of the window from the Countess' room, broken some of the flower-pots, and escaped through the garden. Figaro with great difficulty quieted the Count's newly arisen suspicions, by avow ing himself the culprit.

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