Ten Years Later: Louise de la Valliere by Alexandre Dumas Chapter 30 Page 16

“But for my sake.”

“Sire, it is for your sake I would do anything in the world, except that.”

“You will drive me to despair — you compel me to turn to the last resource of weak people, and seek counsel of my angry and wrathful disposition.”

“I advise you to be reasonable.”

“Reasonable! — I can be so no longer.”

“Nay, sire!

I pray you — ”

“For pity’s sake, Henrietta; it is the first time I entreated any one, and I have no hope in any one but in you.”

“Oh, sire! you are weeping.”