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I was born with other cravings. No, sooner or later I should have followed my destiny.'
"'Now it might be quite different; satiated with my love, you might, perhaps, marry and forget me.'
"'Never. But come, have you been confessing yourself? Are you going to turn Calvinist? or, like the "Dame aux Camellias," or Antinöus, do you think it necessary to sacrifice yourself on the altar of love for my sake?'
"'Please, don't joke.'
"'No, I'll tell you what we'll do. Let us leave France. Let us go to Spain, to Southern Italy—nay, let us leave Europe, and go to the East, where I must surely have lived during some former life, and which I have a hankering to see, just as if the land
"Where the flowers ever blossom, the beams ever shine,"
had been the home of my youth; there, unknown to everyone, forgotten by the world.'
"'Yes, but can I leave this town?' said he, musingly, more to himself than to me.
"I knew that of late Teleny had been
