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WALLENSTEIN.

Now she omitted it?

DUCHESS (wiping away her tears after a pause.)

She did embrace me,

But then first when I had already taken
My formal leave, and when the door already
Had clos'd upon me, then did she come out
In haste, as she had suddenly bethought herself,
And press'd me to her bosom, more with anguish
Than tenderness.

WALLENSTEIN (seizes her hand soothingly.)

Nay now, collect yourself.

And what of Eggenberg and Lichtenstein,
And of our other friends there?

DUCHESS (shaking her head.)

I saw none.

WALLENSTEIN.

Th' ambassador from Spain, who once was wont

To plead so warmly for me?—

DUCHESS.

Silent, silent!

WALLENSTEIN.

These suns then are eclipsed for us. Henceforward

Must we roll on, our own fire, our own light.

DUCHESS.

And were it—were it, my dear lord, in that

Which mov'd about the Court in buz and whisper,
But in the country let itself be heard
Aloud—in that which Father Lamormain
In sundry hints and———

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