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 The family vault the family vault. It will certainly be your my fault, To bury j j^ I life long woe!

(Exit, in great anguish, .)

Enter

This was to have been the happiest day of my life—but I am very far from happy! Alexis insists that I shall taste the philtre—and when I try to persuade him that to do so would be an insult to my pure and lasting love, he tells me that I object because I do not desire that my love for him shall be eternal. Well (sighing, and producing a phial), I can at least prove to him that, in that, he is unjust!

As is going off, she meets  ''entering pensively. He is playing on a flageolet. Under the influence of the spell she at once becomes strangely fascinated by him, and exhibits every symptom, of being hopelessly in love with him.''