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Marry Rosella! I will have the heart's blood from his body ere I endure this misery for one day longer.

Fy, fy, good Baron! I am very sorry I have said so much to you on this subject; but the friendly,—I may truly say, affectionate regard I feel for you, besides the admiration I have long entertained for your merits, made me unable to conceal from you longer the unworthy deceit which has been practised upon you. When I saw her smile upon you, and glance secret looks of fondness to Claudien,

Say no more of it; my very ears are ringing with the sound, I will have vengeance ere another day pass over my head. [Exit furiously.

Let the fool work upon this! it will embroil him at least with Van Maurice and his sister, and I shall have the management of himself and his fortune in my own hands. (In a calculating posture, after having taken a turn across the Stage, muttering to himself.) Well, two thousand good acres, corn-land and forest, though encumbered with the due maintenance of the proprietor, may be as profitable to me as a third part of the fee