“I know your rights, my father! I respect them; they shall always appear sacred to me: but you do not possess that of separating a wife from her husband.”
“Ah, pardon me! I see that I offend you---my reason no longer maintains its empire---”
“But pity my grief---”
“Excuse my despair---”
“My father! Lovzinski! hear me, both of you; I am determined to accompany you every where!
“Yes, I will follow you every where, cruel men! I will follow you in spite of yourselves!
“Lovzinski, if your wife has lost all the rights she had over your heart, recollect at least her who was once the mistress of your affections.
“Recal to your remembrance that frightful night, when I was about to perish in the flames; that terrible moment when you ascended the burning tower, crying out, let me live or die with Lodoiska!
“That which you felt at that terrible moment, I now experience! I know no greater evil than that of being separated from you; and I now exclaim in my turn, let me either live or die with my father and my husband!