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 and had some of those little masterpieces of grace translated for me."

Mark took out his Paris notebook and read: "'My true heart," he wrote at one time to Diane de Poitiers, 'you have lied. I shall not see you for ten days. It is enough to kill me. I will not tell you how much I care, it would make you too vain, and I think you love me, so with a happy heart I finish.'

"In answer Diane wrote back, 'If I die, have me opened and you will find your image engraved on my heart.'" 145