“I beseech you,” he cried, “If you have any heart, do not repulse me! Oh! I love you! I am a wretch! When you utter that name, it is as though you crushed all the fibres of my heart between your teeth. Mercy! If you come from hell I will go thither with you. I have done everything to that end. The hell where you are, shall be paradise; the sight of you is more charming than that of God! Oh! speak! You will have none of me? I should have thought the mountains would be shaken in their foundations on the day when a woman would repulse such a love. Oh! If you only would! Oh! How happy we might be. We would flee, — we would go somewhere, we would seek that spot on earth, where the sun is brightest, the sky the bluest, where the trees are most luxuriant. We would love each other, we would pour our two souls into each other.”