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RACHEL.

La Jeune Femme.—"Colombe blanche, d'où reviens-tu? Tes ailes brisées me jettent des gouttes de sang."

La Colombe.—"Je reviens mourir, où il m'a aimé, car il ne m'aime plus."

The once haughty and triumphant Rachel had already tasted the bitterness of death when she wrote these words.