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"It is now high ti from

Natalie, he entered the boudoir of Count Alexis Orloff "Now, your

excellency, the right moment has come! You must show yourself, or this

curious child will consued her

blood to fire! She thinks of nothing but you; with open eyes she dreams

of you, and without the least suspicion that any one is listening to

her, she speaks to you, ah, hat modest tenderness and hat

huhly blessed

There is no childwith love And

she knows it not; no, she has not the least suspicion that she already

loves you with enthusias dew! She knows nothing of her love!"

"She shall learn so "It will be

a pleasant task to enlighten this little unknowing one as to her own

feelings And I flatter myself I understand how to do that"

"Endeavor, above all things, your excellency, to realize the ideal she

bears in her heart She expects to see nothing less than an Apollo,

whose radiant beauty will annihilate her as Jupiter did Semele!"

"Well, in that, I hope she has not deceived herself," responded Orloff,