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Dear Robert, these are wild distracted words, and can be of no avail.—Good Mr. Rutherford, and Lady Dungarren, too; ye came here to comfort me: this I know was your errand, but O comfort him! speak to him, and move him to submission.

Your present vain resistance, Dungarren, does injury to her whom you wish to preserve.

My son, my Robert, thou art acting like a maniac. Retire with these men, who are only doing their duty, and neither wish to injure nor insult you. I will stay with Violet, and Mr. Rutherford will go with you.

Leave her, to see her no more!

Not so; the sheriff will consent, that you may see her again in the morning, ere

I do consent: you shall see her in the morning, before she goes forth to—to the—to her