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Charlotte has detained Barbaroux ; she now bids hitn an etemal adieu^ saying that she is going to London. He asks her to stay^ but she is resolvedt and leaves hiniy promising to Write and inform him of ail that she does,

1. 1480. je vais me fixer à Londre, Really, Charlotte told Barbaroux that she was going to Paris to see some légal papers, and obtained a letter from him to his friend Lauze de Perret. But thèse détails would only impair a poetic treatment of the subject, and are therefore omitted.

1. 1481. moi que deviendrai-je ? * what will become of me ?* j'^ft/^nd, The s is omitted for the rhyme. The s of Londre, just above, is dropped for the mètre.

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