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Daniel.
Dreams come from God.—I will go pray for you.
(Exit.
Francis.
No—'Tis popular superstition! All chimeras! If the past is past, who has decided that an eye above shall e'er look back upon it?—Does vengeance dwell above the stars? No, no:—Yet there is something here that tells in dreadful whispers to my soul, there is—a Judge above the stars!—Should I this night appear before him—No, 'tis all a jest—a miserable subterfuge for coward fear to grasp at.—But if it should be so—if that were true—and all were registered above—and this the night of reckoning.Why this quaking of the joints? this fearful shuddering? To die!—that word congeals my blood—To give account! Ay, and when that reckoning comes, to face the Judge—should he do justice!
Enter a Servant hastily.
Servant.
Amelia has escaped.—The Count has suddenly gone off.
Enter