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my God! Have mercy upon me! I am a wholly abandoned, solitary orphan!

Rescue me yet from this trouble and distress, fro angel," whispered Carlo, "I will be gentle as

a lamb, and patient, very patient in my sorrow; I have sworn it and will

keep my oath! But you must hear me! You must, only this one time, allow

me to express in words my love and my sorrow, my misery and my ecstasy

Will you allow rasped her hand, but she withdreith a proud,

angry glance

"Speak on," said she, wearily leaning her hand against the myrtle-bush

"Speak on, I will listen to you!"

And he spoke to her of his love; he informed her of his former life, his

poverty, his want, his connection with Corilla, whom he had quitted in

order to devote himself wholly to her, to obey, serve, and worship

her all his life, and, if necessary, to die for her! "But you," he

despairingly said, "you know not love! Your heart is cold for earthly

love; like the angels in heaven, you love only the good and the sublime,

you love mankind collectively, but not the individual Ah, Natalie, you

have the heart of an angel, but not the heart of a woman!"