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Rh Yes, mother.

Oh! oh!

What is the matter? [She burts into tears.] For Heaven’s ake, mother, tell me what’s the matter?

You have no certificate.

No!

No.—The laws of Germany excluded you from being regitered at your birth—for—you are a natural on!

So!—And who is my father?

Oh Frederick, your wild looks are daggers to my heart. Another time.

No, no—I am till your on and you are till my mother. Only tell me, who is my father?

When we parted five years ago, you were too young to be intruted with a ecret of o much importance. But the time is come when I can, in confidence, open my heart, and unload that burthen with which it has been long oppreed. And yet, to reveal my errors to my child, and ue for his mild judgment on my conduct—

You have nothing to ue for; only explain this mytery. Rh