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GARC. Alas! Everything is undone. I am betrayed, I am murdered!
[Footnote: The last sentences of Don Alvarez and Don Garcia are also
found in the _Misanthrope_, Act iv., Scene 2 (see Vol. II).]
A man, (can I say it and still live) a man in the arms of the faithless
Elvira!
ALV. The Princess, my Lord, is so virtuous...
GARC. Ah, Don Alvarez, do not gainsay what I have seen. It is too much
to defend her reputation, after my eyes have beheld so heinous an
action.
ALV. Our passions, my Lord, often cause us to mistake a deception for a
reality; to believe that a mind nourished by virtue can....
GARC. Prithee leave me, Don Alvarez, a counsellor is in the way upon
such an occasion; I will take counsel only of my wrath.
ALV. (_Aside_). It is better not to answer him when his mind is so
upset.
GARC. Oh! how deeply am I wounded! But I shall see who it is, and punish
with my own hand.... But here she comes. Restrain thyself, O rage!
SCENE VIII.--DONNA ELVIRA, DON GARCIA, DON ALVAREZ.
ELV. Well, what do you want? However bold you may be, how can you hope
for pardon, after the way you have behaved? Dare you again present
yourself before me? And what can you say that will become me to hear?
GARC.
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