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Come!" The Prioress rose and faced him.
"I cannot come," she said.

"That which I have taught to others, I must myself perform.

Hugh, I am dead to the world; and if I be dead to the world, how can I live to you?
Had I, in very deed, died and been entombed, you would not have gone down into the vaults and forced my resting-place, that you might look upon my face, clasp my cold hand, and pour into deaf ears a tale of love.

Yet that is what, by trick and artifice, you now have done.