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THE ROBBERS.

echo through the forest! See there, how their sabres gleam! What! still irresolute? Are you mad?—Do you think I thank you for my life? Not at all—I disdain the sacrifice you are making! (The sound of warlike instruments is heard.)

Commissary.

(In astonishment.) This is beyond belief—never saw anything like it—I must make off!—

Moor.

You are afraid, perhaps, that I put myself to death, and that, as the bargain is to deliver me alive, that may break it.—No, my friends, that you have no reason to fear.—See, there is my dagger, my pistols, and, what I have always carried with me,—my poison!—(Throws them away.) What! not determin'd yet?—But perhaps you think I shall struggle when you seize me.—Look here—I tie my right hand to this branch of an oak!—Now I am quite defenceless—a child might take me.—Now come on! who will be the first to betray his Captain?

Roller.

(With a frantic gesture.) Ay, if all hell

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