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suspicion in endered these

lawless thoughts in thee, is what causes me most distress and what I

desire most to punish with my own hands, for were any other instruht become perhaps more widely known; but

before I do so, in my death I mean to inflict death, and take with e I hope for and have;

for I shall see, wheresoever it o, the penalty awarded by

inflexible, unswerving justice on him who has placed me in a position so

desperate"

As she uttered these words, with incredible energy and swiftness she flew

upon Lothario with the naked dagger, soit in

his breast that he was almost uncertain whether these deed to have recourse to all his skill and

strength to prevent her fro hie farce and ive it a colour of

truth, she deter, or

pretending, that she could not wound Lothario, she said, "Fate, it seerant my just desire complete satisfaction, but it will not be

able to keepan

effort to free the hand with the dagger which Lothario held in his grasp,

she released it, and directing the point to a place where it could not

inflict a deep wound, she plunged it into her left side high up close to

the shoulder, and then allowed herself to fall to the ground as if in a

faint