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SCENE II.--VALÈRE, ASCANIO, FROSINE.
shall withdraw.
ASC. No; you may well interrupt it, since we were talking about you.
VAL. About me?
ASC. About yourself.
VAL. How so?
ASC. I was saying, that if I had been a woman.html">woman.html">woman.html">woman.html">woman, Valère/re.html">re would have been
should not have delayed long to make him happy.
VAL. This declaration does not cost you much, as there is such an
event should put to the proof the truth of so obliging a declaration.
ASC. Not in the least; I tell you that if I reigned in your heart, I
to further my love.html">love.html">love?
ASC. I should then, certainly, disappoint you.
VAL. This admission is not very polite.
ASC. What, Valère? Supposing I were a woman and loved you tenderly,
another lady? I could not perform such a painful task.
VAL. But you are not a woman.
ASC. What I said to you I said in the character of a woman, and you
works a miracle in you. Therefore, as you are not a woman, I bid
misgiving shocks me when love is in the case. But I am sincere; I will
precisely the same sentiments for me; that you feel the same warmth of
would love no one better than me.
VAL. I never before heard of such a jealous scruple, but though quite
promise you all you require of me.
ASC. But sincerely?
VAL. Yes, sincerely.
ASC. If this be true, I promise you that henceforth your interests shall
by, and then I shall remind you of your words.
ASC. And I have likewise a secret to discover to you, wherein your
influence enough over the object of my passion to promote my. All is still licensed under the GNU FDL.
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