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`` I need repose -- quiet -- '' `` To weep out the first pangs of widowhood , '' interrupted Barbesieur , with one of his coarse laughs . `` Come , Strozzi -- let her cry it out to-day , she will be all the more smiling for it to-morrow . '' `` Then as you please , '' said Strozzi , bowing respectfully . `` I will not return until to-morrow before noon . '' `` Tell my turnkeys that they need not disturb me , '' said Laura . `` Let me be veritably and entirely alone . '' `` You can not dispense with their help , '' objected the marquis .