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THE ROBBERS.

delight—and then I go as far as ocean—and despair shall bear me!

(Exit.

SCENE, A Chamber in the Castle.

Francis de Moor.

(In a deep reverie.) Begone, thou horrible image! begone!—What a coward I am!—What art thou afraid of?—Whom?—Does not this Count, this stranger, seem a spy of hell, to dog me at the heels?—Methinks I should know him.—There is something great—something, methinks, that I have seen before—in those wild and sunburnt features:—Something that makes me tremble! (He walks about for some time, and then rings the bell.) Who's there?——Francis, take care!—something lurks there for thy perdition!

Enter Daniel.

Daniel.

What are your commands, Sir?

Francis.

(Looking stedfastly at him for a considerable

time.)

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