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THE ROBBERS.
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Francis.

Not quite so outrageous, Herman.—Come near,—thou shalt have Amelia.

Herman.

I'll have her! in spite of hell, I'll have her!

Francis.

You shall have her, I tell you,—and from my hand.—Come near!—You don't know perhaps that Charles is as good as disinherited.

Herman.

(Coming near.) Impossible! I never heard a syllable of that.

Francis.

Be quiet, and hear me!—Another time I'll tell you more of this.—It's now eleven months since he has been in a manner banished.—But the old man begins to repent a little of the precipitate step he has taken; though (smiling) I flatter myself it was not all his own doing neither;—and the girl too,—Amelia I mean,—pursues him incessantly with her tears and reproaches.—He'll be sending in quest of him by and by all over the

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