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 but fallen creature who stood before him.

"I have not that strength," he continued, "you, of all living mortals, seem alone to possess.—My thoughts are disturbed.—I know not what to think, or how to act. You overwhelm me at once; and your very presence takes from me all power of reflection. Leave me, therefore." "Never, till I have your promise. I fear you: I know by your look, that you are resolved to see my enemy—to hear." "Margaret, I will hear you to-*morrow." "No to-morrow shall ever see us two again together." "In an hour I will speak with you again—one word."—As he said this, the duke arose: and seizing her fiercely by the arm: "Answer but this—do you believe the boy this Viviani will produce?—do you think it possible?—answer me, Margaret, and I will pardon all—do you think the boy is my long lost child?" "Have no such hope; he is dead. Did