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MELNOTTE'S cottage -- Widow bustling about -- a table spread for supper.
Widow. So, I think that looks very neat. He sent me a line, so blotted / that I can scarcely read it, to say he would be here almost immediately. / She must have loved him well indeed to have forgotten his birth; for / though he was introduced to her in disguise, he is too honorable not to / have revealed to her the artifice, which her love only could forgive. / Well, I do not wonder at it; for though my son is not a prince, he ought / to be one, and that's almost as good, [Knock at the door.] Ah! here they / are.