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Ferdinand
Life is a series of peaks and valleys. Our reunion is, to my mind, the highest of peaks.
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Life is a series of peaks and valleys. Our reunion is, to my mind, the highest of peaks.
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Ferdinand
To think, we were once a pair of blooms, flourishing side by side in the upper echelons of Enbarr society.
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To think, we were once a pair of blooms, flourishing side by side in the upper echelons of Enbarr society.
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Ferdinand
Despite our differing aspirations, I think together we could have taken the mantle of leading the Empire.
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Despite our differing aspirations, I think together we could have taken the mantle of leading the Empire.
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Ferdinand
Some part of me clung to hope that you might emerge from the wreckage. I am glad you have.
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Some part of me clung to hope that you might emerge from the wreckage. I am glad you have.
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Constance
Oh, so you surmised that the single-most-humiliating event of my life was "difficult," did you?
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Oh, so you surmised that the single-most-humiliating event of my life was "difficult," did you?
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Constance
Well, pardon me if I seem unmannerly in the face of a reminder of all I have lost.
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Well, pardon me if I seem unmannerly in the face of a reminder of all I have lost.
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Constance
Then what did you intend? How like the "noblest of nobles" to be unaware of the suffering one causes.
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Then what did you intend? How like the "noblest of nobles" to be unaware of the suffering one causes.
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Ferdinand
That is simply not true. I care about you, and I was attempting to offer some words of comfort.
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That is simply not true. I care about you, and I was attempting to offer some words of comfort.
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Ferdinand
I did not mean to come across as condescending. I was merely being careless with my words.
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I did not mean to come across as condescending. I was merely being careless with my words.
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Constance
Never shall a day pass that I don't work toward restoring my house and reclaiming my title.
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Never shall a day pass that I don't work toward restoring my house and reclaiming my title.
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Constance
You, on the other hand, seem content to remind me that it is lost. Thank you, but I had not forgotten.
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You, on the other hand, seem content to remind me that it is lost. Thank you, but I had not forgotten.