_ Did not you _this_ night (as the night before)
Retrace the secret passage?
Retrace the secret passage?
Byron
_ What?
_Ulr. _ An assassin?
_Wer. _ Insane or insolent!
_Ulr. _ Reply, sir, as
You prize your life, or mine!
_Wer. _ To what must I
Answer?
_Ulr. _ Are you or are you not the assassin
Of Stralenheim?
_Wer. _ I never was as yet
The murderer of any man. What mean you?
_Ulr.
_ Did not you _this_ night (as the night before)
Retrace the secret passage? Did you not
_Again_ revisit Stralenheim's chamber? and----
[ULRIC _pauses_.
_Wer. _ Proceed.
_Ulr. _ _Died_ he not by your hand?
_Wer. _ Great God! 40
_Ulr. _ You are innocent, then! my father's innocent!
Embrace me! Yes,--your tone--your look--yes, yes,--
Yet _say_ so.
_Wer. _ If I e'er, in heart or mind,
Conceived deliberately such a thought,
But rather strove to trample back to hell
Such thoughts--if e'er they glared a moment through
The irritation of my oppressed spirit--
May Heaven be shut for ever from my hopes,
As from mine eyes!
_Ulr. _ An assassin?
_Wer. _ Insane or insolent!
_Ulr. _ Reply, sir, as
You prize your life, or mine!
_Wer. _ To what must I
Answer?
_Ulr. _ Are you or are you not the assassin
Of Stralenheim?
_Wer. _ I never was as yet
The murderer of any man. What mean you?
_Ulr.
_ Did not you _this_ night (as the night before)
Retrace the secret passage? Did you not
_Again_ revisit Stralenheim's chamber? and----
[ULRIC _pauses_.
_Wer. _ Proceed.
_Ulr. _ _Died_ he not by your hand?
_Wer. _ Great God! 40
_Ulr. _ You are innocent, then! my father's innocent!
Embrace me! Yes,--your tone--your look--yes, yes,--
Yet _say_ so.
_Wer. _ If I e'er, in heart or mind,
Conceived deliberately such a thought,
But rather strove to trample back to hell
Such thoughts--if e'er they glared a moment through
The irritation of my oppressed spirit--
May Heaven be shut for ever from my hopes,
As from mine eyes!
