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Second Part - 56. Mme. Gaston To The Comtesse De L'estorade |
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_ MME. GASTON TO THE COMTESSE DE L'ESTORADE Ah! my dear friend, what can I say in answer except the cruel /"It is too late"/ of that fool Lafayette to his royal master? Oh! my life, my sweet life, what physician will give it back to me. My own hand has dealt the deathblow. Alas! have I not been a mere will-o'-the-wisp, whose twinkling spark was fated to perish before it reached a flame? My eyes rain torrents of tears--and yet they must not fall when I am with him. I fly to him, and he seeks me. My despair is all within. This torture Dante forgot to place in his /Inferno./ Come to see me die! _ |
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