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Resistance is in vain, Van Maurice: we seize thee in the act of making escape from prison; and in the name of the state we secure thee.

I make no resistance to the will of the state, signified to me by such a worthy member thereof.

Ardusoffe!

Yea, the same, and thy accomplice in endeavouring to persuade a prisoner to escape from the hands of justice. (Seeing him look round significantly to, who, thereupon, draws the other men to a distance.) What, art thou afraid those men should hear us; thou who art so free and open, even to imprudence? Thou wilt become a character of perfection by and by, since thou correctest thy errors so completely.

Is Van Maurice then so assured of his innocence that he refuses to fly?

Yes; right well assured of that or of thy perfidy; either assurance was sufficient; and if the one be as well grounded as the other, there is a