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The cottage as before -- MELNOTTE seated before a table -- writing / implements, etc. -- (Day breaking.)
Mel. Hush, hush! -- she sleeps at last! -- thank Heaven, for a while she / forgets even that I live! Her sobs, which have gone to my heart the / whole, long, desolate night, have ceased! -- all calm -- all still! I will / go now; I will send this letter to Pauline's father: when he arrives, / I will place in his hands my own consent to the divorce, and then, O / France! my country! accept among thy protectors, thy defenders -- the / peasant's Son! Our country is less proud than custom, and does not / refuse the blood, the heart, the right hand of the poor man.