text:  Verkhoffsky Verkhoffsky! what have I done to you? Why would you tear from heaven the star of my liberty? Is it because I loved you so tenderly? And why do you approach me stealthily and thief-like? why do you slander--why do you betray me by hypocrisy? You should say plainly "I wish your life " and I would give it freely without a murmur; would have laid it down a sacrifice like the son of Ibrahim (Abraham!) I would have forgiven you if you had but attempted my life but to sell my freedom to steal my Seltanetta from me by burying me alive! Villain--and you still live! But sometimes like a dove whose wings have been scorched in the smoke of a fire appears thy form to me Seltanetta