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“Whence this extreme emaciation of your limbs, and whence this trembling? Whence, innocent girl, is your face with pale cheeks?”—when her life's lord thus asked, / the slender girl, having replied, “All this is merely by nature,” turned away, sighed, and elsewhere released a flood of tears that had spread between her eyelashes.