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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