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(With great emotion.) I thought it was a father's kiss. (Throws himself on his neck.—A confused noise is heard, and a light is seen of torches approaching. Moor rises hastily.) Hark! 'tis vengeance comes!——Yonder they come! (Looks earnestly at the old man, and then raises his eyes to heaven, with an expression of deliberate fury.) Thou suffering Lamb! enflame me with the tyger's fury! The sacrifice must now be offered up! and such a victim, that the stars shall hide their heads in darkness, and universal nature be appalled! (The torches are seen, the noise encreases, and several pistol-shots are heard.)

Alas! alas! what is that horrid noise? Who is a-coming?—Are these my son's confederates come to drag me from the dungeon to the scaffold?

(Raising his hands to heaven.) O Judge of heaven and earth! hear a murderer's prayer! Give him ten thousand lives! may life return a-new, and every dagger's stroke refresh him for eternal agonies!