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sorrows, even if death should follow; he ive expression to his

torment and his love, even should Natalie banish him forever from her

presence!

"What have you done?" repeated he "Ah, she does not even know that she

is slowlyme, she does not even know that I love her!"

"Am I not to know?" she reproachfully asked "Would you, indeed, have

saved my life had you not loved me? Carlo I am indebted to you for my

life, and you say I murder you!"

"Yes," he frowardly exclaimed, "you murder me! Slowly, day by day,

hour by hour, ahtful internal fire that is

destroyingth, and fro woman? Is it not for your sake that I

have fled the world, leaving behind me all it offered of fame and wealth

and honor? Is it not your fault that I have ceased to be a free man, to

have a will ofat your feet?

Ah, woe is me, that I ever came to know you! You are an enchantress,

you have , I lie in the dust before you,

satisfied when you touch me with your foot"