Listen to what I know so well, that I felt I loved, and that my life began only on the day when you took me in your arms.

The woman you have awakened in me, no one has known--" "She writes well, does she not ?" said Lydia, with a gleam of savage triumph in her eyes.

"Do you believe me, now ?...

Do you see that we have the same interest to-day, a common affront to avenge?
And we will avenge it....

Do you understand that you can not allow your husband to fight a duel with my brother?
You owe that to me who have given you this weapon by which you hold him....