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THE ROBBERS.
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your mouth at him!—Ay—there's the amount of all your fine prospects, your hopes of love, your mighty plans.——

Herman.

(Eagerly.) Tell me then what I must do.

Francis.

Hear then, Herman! You see how I enter into your feelings like a true friend.—Go, change your cloaths—disguise yourself, so as not to be known—get yourself announced to the old man as one that is just returned from Hungary—give out, that you was with my brother at the last battle, and that you was present when he breathed his last upon the field!——

Herman.

Will they believe me?

Francis.

Pho! let me alone for that.—Take this packet—Here you'll find a commission, and all the necessary documents, that would convince suspicion itself of the truth of your story.—Only be quick in getting out, and take care you are not seen.—Slip out by the back door into the court, and

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