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Don Garcia of Navarre by Molière
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to make you happy, do not persist in remaining miserable_."

ELV. Well, what do you say to this?

GARC. Ah! Madam, I say that on reading this I am quite confounded; that
I see the extreme injustice of my complaints, and that no punishment can
be severe enough for me.

ELV. Enough! Know that if I desired that you should read the letter, it
was only to contradict everything I stated in it; to unsay a hundred
times all that you read there in your favour. Farewell, Prince.

GARC. Alas, Madam! whither do you fly?

ELV. To a spot where you shall not be, over-jealous man.

GARC. Ah, Madam, excuse a lover who is wretched because, by a wonderful
turn of fate, he has become guilty towards you, and who, though you are
now very wroth with him, would have deserved greater blame if he had
remained innocent. For, in short, can a heart be truly enamoured which
does not dread as well as hope? And could you believe I loved you if
this ominous letter had not alarmed me; if I had not trembled at the
thunderbolt which I imagined had destroyed all my happiness? I leave it
to yourself to judge if such an accident would not have caused any other
lover to commit the same error; if I could disbelieve, alas, a proof
which seemed to me so clear!

ELV. Yes, you might have done so; my feelings so clearly expressed ought
to have prevented your suspicions. You had nothing to fear; if some
others had had such a pledge they would have laughed to scorn the
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