We both owe them thanks, and I will show them how grateful I can be by rich sacrifices.

Our souls, which destiny had already once united, have met again.

That portion of the universal soul which of yore dwelt in Roxana, and now in you, Melissa, has also vanquished the pain which has embittered my life...

You have proved it!--And now...

it is beginning to throb again more violently--now--beloved and restored one, help me once more!" Melissa perceived anxiously how the emperor's face had flushed again during this last vehement speech, and at the same time the pain had again contracted his forehead and eyes.