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O my brave miners! they will do their work nobly at last.

A way to escape under ground! my ears ring and my senses are confounded. Escape and deliverance?

Yes, love, and friend, and dear human creature! escape and deliverance are at hand.

How good and noble thou art to provide such deliverance for me, believing me unfaithful!

Come, come; that is nothing: be what thou wilt, if I can but save thee!—Life and death are now on the casting of a die.The ground moves; it is life! (Tossing up his arms exultingly.)

The ground opens: wonderful, unlooked-for deliverance! Thank God! thank God! his mercy has sent it. May we descend? are you ready?