KONRAD WALLENROD.
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and have loved a great man on earth?"
CONRAD.
"Greatness! and again greatness, my angel! It is that for which we are moaning in grief. A few days yet;— let our hearts suffer but a few days; — they are not many. 'Tis done! after the deed, complaint is vain. Let us weep—but let our foes tremble; for Conrad has wept only to be hereafter unaffected by slaughter. Why, my dearest, why didst thou come here from the monastery— the sanctuary of peace? I had devoted thee to the service of God;
