tand the strains. The same thing happens to women when their
love assumes a divine aspect: men cannot understand them."

This speech was well worth the forty francs bestowed by Massimilla;
she took out a second gold piece, and told Marianna she would write to
Andrea Marcosini.

"Do not write to him, madame!" exclaimed Marianna. "And God grant you to
always be beautiful!"

"Let us provide for them," said the Princess to her husband; "for this
man has remained faithful to the Ideal which we have killed."

As he saw the gold pieces, Gambara shed tears; and then a vague
reminiscence of old scientific experiments crossed his mind, and the
hapless composer, as he wiped his eyes, spoke these words, which the
circumstances made pathetic:

"Water is a product of burning."

PARIS, June 1837.

ADDENDUM

The following personages appear in other stories of the Human Comedy.

Varese, Emilio Memmi, Prince of
Massimilla Doni

Varese, Princess of
Massimilla Doni

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