What was sympathy, then, if it were not that divine flame which possesses the property of enlightening the heart, and of saving lovers the necessity of an expression of their thoughts and feelings.

She maintained her silence, therefore, satisfying herself with sighing, weeping, and concealing her face in her hands.
These sighs and tears, which had at first distressed, and then terrified, Louis XIV., now irritated him.

He could not bear any opposition--not the opposition which tears and sighs exhibited, any more than opposition of any other kind.

His remarks, therefore, became bitter, urgent, and openly aggressive in their nature.

This was a fresh cause of distress for the poor girl.