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RhACT III. pure as my own mother. You have insulted the woman I love most in the world with my own mother. As there is a God in Heaven, I will kill you!

MRS. ARBUTHNOT [Rushing across and catching hold of him.] No! no!

GERALD [Thrusting her back.] Don't hold me, mother. Don't hold me!—I'll kill him!

MRS. ARBUTHNOT Gerald!

GERALD Let me go, I say!

MRS. ARBUTHNOT Stop, Gerald, stop! He is your own father!

[GERALD ''clutches his mothers hands and looks into her face. She sinks slowly on the ground in shame. HESTER steals towards'' 145