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 Gilbert.He is dead!—Avenge myself? What does he mean? Jane, Lord Talbot's daughter!—Lord Clanbrassil, the Queen's favourite!—Ah! my brain is reeling!

[Shaking the body.

Speak—another word!—He is quite dead,

[Enter.

Fabiani.Who 's there?

Gilbert.Some one has murdered a man.

Fabiani.No, a Jew.

Gilbert.Who killed this man?

Fabiani.Egad! 'twas you or I.

Gilbert.Sir—

Fabiani.A dead body on the ground. Two men beside it. No witnesses. Which is the assassin? There is nothing to prove that it is one rather than the other, I rather than you.

Gilbert.Wretch! you are the assassin!

Fabiani.Well, yes, I am the man.—And then?

Gilbert.I am going to call the watch.

Fabiani.You are going to help me throw the body into the river.

Gilbert.I will have you taken and punished.

Fabiani.You will help me throw the body into the water.

Gilbert.You are insolent!

Fabiani.Take my advice, let us do away with all traces of this business. You are more interested in so doing than I.

Gilbert.That is too much!

Fabiani.One of us two dealt the blow. I am a