"_Can_ you force yourself to forget me ?" "No, Gustave; NO!" said she, firmly, fixing her large eyes on him with an intense and lingering gaze.

"No: for the first time in my life I will disobey my father.

I feel that I have net the strength to keep my idle word.

I cannot forget you: till the last hour of my life I will love you; for it is my fate, and I cannot resist." "Thanks, thanks, a thousand thanks, Lenora!" exclaimed Gustave, in a transport.

"Thy tender love strengthens me against destiny.