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A room in the house of MONSIEUR DESCHAPPELLES; PAULINE seated in great / dejection.
Pauline. It is so, then. I must be false to Love, / Or sacrifice a father! Oh, my Claude, / My lover, and my husband! Have I lived / To pray that thou mayest find some fairer boon / Than the deep faith of this devoted heart -- / Nourish'd till now -- now broken?