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LVI. 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!