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[mafaldahopkirk]

These SLANDEROUS rumours of me being seen at the lake with an unidentified gentleman are extremely exaggerated, and entirely SLANDEROUS to my REPUTATION, and also to my BELOVED Gilderoy's! I cannot believe that a person would fabricate this unbelievable story, and that people would BELIEVE such and unbelievable story, and that PREPOSTEROUS rumours

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[lilaclockhart]

...oh!...

[mafaldahopkirk]

Oh Gilderoy!

[lilaclockhart]

I long for your sweet hand to cup my flawless face and tell me this will be all right -

- Alas! Cruel fortune! I am too late, too late! I can find no comfort!

[mafaldahopkirk]

Oh Gilderoy, find comfort in me?

[lilaclockhart]

How can I?! Your comfort is spent, given to another man in the darkest night, as your hand closed around HIS no doubt FLAWED face, speaking such words to him!

Oh, Mafalda, where can I go...I can find no hope...there is nothing, now, for me, that you are gone...

[mafaldahopkirk]

I gave no such comfort to that... MAN.

[lilaclockhart]

Which man, Mafalda? WHo was it touch'd you in the dark, from whose grip you twisted and squirmed, thinking of me?

[question10]

Unless you're Shakespeare or Tennyson -- and last I checked you were neither -- the English language requires an e of touched.

[lilaclockhart]

Sir, you cannot mock a man in the depths of his sorrowe! It is most harshly render'd!