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"What did he say, Agatha?"
"Say! it would be impossible for me to tell you; he swung his arms like
a country actor in a village barn, and declared that if he were not
killed at Saumur, he would carry me away in spite of all that my friends
could do to hinder him."
"Poor fellow! poor Adolphe!" said Henri.
"You are not sorry I refused him? You would, indeed, have had to say,
poor Agatha! had I done otherwise."
"I am not sorry that you refused him, but I am sorry you could not love
him."
"Why you say yourself he is mad: would you wish me to love a madman?"
"It is love that has made him mad. Adolphe is not like other men; his
passions are stronger; his feelings more acute; his regrets more
poignant."
"He should control his passions as other men must do," said Agatha: "all
men who do not, are madmen." She remained silent for a few moments, and
then added, "you are right in saying that love has made him mad; but it
is the meanest of all love that has done so--it is self-love."
"I think you are too hard upon him, Agatha; but it is over now, and
cannot be helped.


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