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| Tosca
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Look at me; I'm imploring you
begging you for just one word of mercy.
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| Scarpia
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You're too beautiful.
I yield. But, it's an unfair bargain.
You ask for a life; I want only a moment.
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| Tosca
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You disgust me.
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There's a knock at the door and Spoletta enters.
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| Spoletta
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Angelotti killed himself when we caught
him!
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| Scarpia
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Let his corpse be hung on the gallows.
And the other?
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| Spoletta
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Everything is ready.
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| Tosca
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God help me.
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| Scarpia
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Wait! Well?
Listen.
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| Tosca
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I want him free at once!
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| Scarpia
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We must stage a deception. I can't
just free him.
Everyone must believe he's dead.
This loyal man will arrange it.
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| Tosca
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Can I trust you?
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| Scarpia
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I will give the order in your presence.
I've changed my mind. The prisoner will be shot.
Listen: it will be just like the Count Palmieri;
a firing squad; fake; do you understand?
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| Tosca
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I want to tell him myself.
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| Scarpia
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So be it.
You will admit her. Remember: at four o'clock.
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| Spoletta
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Yes. Just like Palmieri.
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| Scarpia
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I've kept my promise.
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| Tosca
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Not yet.
I want safe passage from the country - with him.
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| Scarpia
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You want to leave?
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| Tosca
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Yes, forever.
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| Scarpia
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You shall have passage.
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