Trip 2709 of 4000 collection book15
He faithfully promised to attend the Countbook62 at the appointed hour and in the meantime earnestly exhorted him to take some repose in order to quietbook72 the agitation of his spirits which must have been violently hurried on this occasion. He never doubted that Renaldos grief had at length overpowered his reason and that his words were the effects of mere frenzy. I can refuse nothing to the request of Count de Melvil replied the Spaniard and it were ungrateful in me to decline the honour you propose. A cold damp pavement shall be my bed my raiment shall be sackcloth the fields shall furnish herbage for my food the stream shall quench my thirst the minutes shall be numbered by my groans the night be privy to my strains of sorrow till Heaven in pity to my sufferings release me from the penance I endure.... read all
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