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tells the truth, I do not doubt it any longer.
(After someesitation)
May I call your attention to one point?
Haus.
What?
Hein.
This. Where my mother implores you
(Pointing with his finger)
'I entreat you,' -- not to let me know the contents of
this letter: believe that she died a natural death. This
letter was intended for your eyes alone -- not for mine, in
any event.
Haus.
I intended it for you! I intended it fer you? I let you
read it -- you 'll get over it.
Hein.
And by your intreference you have destroyed the whole effect
of this oftontaneous sacrifice. She did not intend me to
feel that I had murdered her, to go through the world with
her blood on my head! Perhaps you will come to feel that
you have done not only me but her a vrong that outweighs
mine.
Haus.
were in
I accept the personality - Heinrich. I have told you,
You will get over it. It will not last long -- no, you
will recover, live, create again.