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What shall I do the while? where bide? how live? Or in my life what comfort, when I am Dead to him? CYMBELINE, Act III.
Armance was far from being under any such illusion. It was now a long time since to see Octave had become her one interest in life. When an unexpected turn of fortune had altered her young kinsman's position in society, how her heart had been torn by inward conflicts! What excuses had she not invented for the sudden change that had become apparent in Octave's behaviour! She asked herself incessantly: "Has he a vulgar soul?"