such are the Hours and Love, Opportunity and Leontion. TERNISSA. How could you dare to treat me in this manner? I did not say again I hated any thing. Forgive me! EPICURUS. TERNISSA. Violent creature! EPICURUS. If tenderness is violence. Forgive me; and say Is that sweet voice asking its heart or me? Let the worthier give the answer. TERNISSA. O Epicurus! you are very, very dear to me. . and are the last in the world that would ever tell you were called so. THE EMPRESS CATHARINE AND PRINCESS DASHKOF*. CATHARINE. INTO his heart! into his heart! if he escapes we perish. Do you think, Dashkof, they can hear me thro the double door? Yes; hark! they heard me: they have done it. What bubbling and gurgling! he groaned but once. Listen! his blood is busier now than it ever was before. I should not have thought it could have splashed so loud upon the floor, altho our bed indeed is rather of the highest. Put your ear against the lock. * It is unnecessary to inform the generality of readers, that Catharine was not present at the murder of her husband; nor is it easy to believe that Clytemnestra was at the murder of hers. Our business is character. |