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Excerpt from The Minor Drama, Vol. 3: Containing, the Secret, White Horse of the Peppers, the Jacobite, Box and Cox, Bamboozling, the Widow's Victim, Robert Macaire, and a Portrait and Memoir of Mr. F. S. Chanfrau
Val. Hist! Hist! Dupuis [comes down] So! All is safe, all is safe, and I ma new venture forth to enjoy the air of this apartment. Eavens! With what anxiety do I wait my friend's return! Each minute seems an hour; while the dread of being discovered by the prying mis tress of the house, renders my confinement here painful in the extreme. Ah Angelica! What do I not suffer on your account! But for thee, that fatal duel which now exposes me to the punishment of the law, would never have taken place, and Valare might still be in the full en joyment of his liberty. My friend Dupuis, too! What constant uneasiness he experiences on my account! His secret visits to me have so much the air of mystery, that his wife, naturally jealous, and unconscious of the true cause, conceives his love for her abated, and that another female, possessing superior charms, has gained his heart, and rendered her company odious to him. Poor Cecile, what pains dost thou take to render thyself miserable! [noise Hark! Surely. I heard some one. Yes quick, Valare, quick, to your hiding place. [takes his candle, goes into the panel, and clean it after him.
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