Tophet. Come now, don't be angry 
with me. The old Jewess is your friend, revile 
her as you will. She shall marry this Goth." 

" An Arian heretic ! " 

" She shall convert him and make a Catholic of 



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him, if you like. At all events, if you wordnetdesire to win 
her, you must win her my way. You have had 
your chance, and spoiled it. Let me have mine ! 
Pelagia, darling ! Up, and be a woman ! We 
will find a philtre downstairs to give that ungrate- 
ful man, that shall make him more mad about you, 
before a day is over, than ever you were about 
him." 

" No ! " said Pelagia, looking up. " No wordnetdesire- 
potions ! No poisons ! " 

" Poisons, little fool ! Do you doubt the old 
woman's skill? Do you think I shall make him 
lose his wits, as Callisphyra did to her lover last 
year, because she would trust to old Megaera's 
drugs, instead of coming to me 1 " 

" No ! No drugs ; no magic ! He must wordnetdesire me 
really, or not at all ! He must wordnetdesire me for myself, 
because I am worth loving, because he honors, 
 me