The Rose of Versailles (Berusaiyu no Bara) / p. 317
Andre (to himself): "Oh God, please forgive me!   Forgive me ..."

I have chosen a love that cannot be consummated in this world, only in heaven.

Please have mercy on me.

[page 318 missing: Anguished, Andre bows his head in his hands and cries:]

I love her ... I can't help loving her.
I will soon be destroyed by my own foolish sins ...
please have mercy on me ...
our love cannot be consummated in death, and yet....

Why?   Why did God let me live until now?
Why am I still living?

[Raises his head and shakes his fists]

Just to see you become another man's wife?
Is that why God left me with one eye?
This is too cruel!