But stay!” she added, “I will go my way,

And you go yours. Who cares what either does?”

XXXII.

“Doretta, nay; but stop,” I cried again,

“Put by the knife!—and if you will, then I—

Then I and Haydn will not”—

“You?” she laugh’d,

“And Haydn?—Humph!—Who cares what you may do?—

But ah—if planning thus to vent your thought,

Could I have chosen, eh, a shrewder way?—