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PIETRO.

We shall be discovered.

[Exeunt, shutting the door softly, while Ludoviquo and Gauvino come forward from behind the screen.]

GAUVINO (looking earnestly at Ludoviquo, before he speaks).

What thinkest thou of it?

LUDOVIQUO.

It is very strange.

GAUVINO.

'Tis but the fever'd ravings of disease:

Hast thou more serious thoughts?

LUDOVIQUO.

I would our good confessor were arrived,

Whate'er my thoughts may be.

GAUVINO.

Ay; then I can divine them. To my judgment,

He speaks like one more forced to utterance
By agony of mind than the brain's sickness.
The circumstances of the horrid deed;
The wond'rous fleetness of his gallant steed
Which bore Count Garcio through the forest paths——

LUDOVIQUO.

Cease, cease! I would the father were arrived.