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What a speech! What looks!…… And I listen to you, I do not drive you away… Oh, have pity on me, I am weak and you fascinate me… What is then the power you possess? You mix in my flesh and blood, you mingle in my whole being, you are a poison… Oh, yes, you are horrible, and yet I love you…

I love you, I love you. Say it again! Oh that is a word that burns.

Gamiani was pale, she knelt motionless, with wide open eyes, with clasped hands before Fanny. She looked as though the heavens had suddenly changed her into marble. She was sublime in her appearance of ecstasy and abnegation.

Yes, yes, I love you with all the strength of my nature. I want you, I am dying for you. Oh, I am going mad over you.