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The Princess of Cleves: Abridged, by Yvonne A. Jocks, Thomas Sergeant Perry, Madame de Lafayette

lieslindi's review

One can’t express the grief she felt to discover, by what her mother had been just saying, the interest her heart had in the Duke de Nemours; she had not dared as yet to acknowledge it to her secret thoughts; she then found, that the sentiments she had for him were such as the Prince of Cleves had required of her; she perceived how shameful it was to entertain them for another, and not for a husband that deserved them; she found herself under the utmost embarrassment, and was dreadfully afraid lest the Duke should make use of her only as a means to come at the Queen-Dauphin, and it was this thought determined her to impart to her mother something she had not yet told her.

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"In a word, shall I go to expose myself to the cruel remorses and deadly griefs that rise from love?"