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SCENE IV.

Thekla (hurries forward), Countess, Max.
Piccolomini.

THEKLA (to the Countess.)

Spare yourself the trouble.

That hears he better from myself.

MAX.(stepping backward.)

My Princess!

What have you let her hear me say, Aunt Tertsky!

THEKLA (to the Countess)

Has he been here long?

COUNTESS.

Yes; and soon must go.

Where have you stay'd so long?

THEKLA.

Alas! my mother

Wept so again! and I—I see her suffer,
Yet cannot keep myself from being happy.

MAX.

Now once again I have courage to look on you.

To-day at noon I could not.
The dazzle of the jewels that play'd round you
Hid the beloved from me.

THEKLA.

Then you saw me

With your eye only—and not with your heart?

MAX.

This morning, when I found you in the circle

Of all your kindred, in your father's arms,
Beheld myself an alien in this circle,
O! what an impulse felt I in that moment

To