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Excerpt from The Duchess De La Valliere: A Play in Five Acts
But if the character of Madame de La Valliere be dramatic, it is a task, I allow, of considerable difficulty, to concentrate the events of her life into the limits of a drama. The Probabilities require us to extend the period of action over the eight years of her historical career that sad, not sudden, but unceasing, progress from innocence to splendour from the idolized to the deserted - from the deserted to the penitent and devout. In the interval be tween the second and third act more especially, the reader will tacitly supply the lapse of time that may seem to him required by such harmonies as Fiction, insensibly, as it were, establishes with Fact.
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