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A false, most horrible imposture—That villain was myself—seduced by him—that son—with bribes and promises to disappoint all your inquiries and researches after his elder brother—corrupted by that unnatural son to blast the miserable remnant of your days.

And was it thou? O heavens! Was it a concerted plan? Was I then deceived?

(Removing to a little distance.) Dost thou hear that, Moor? The light begins to dawn.—A day of horrors!

Here, crush the viper!—I was his vile accomplice—I suppressed your Charles's letters, changed those from you, and substituted others in their place, conceived in terms of barbarous resentment. Thus have you been deceived—thus cruelly was he cut off from your inheritance—banished from your heart.