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- sweeps into the room and hastens to Snow White's body.
The Queen. [Kneeling beside Snow White.] No breath! No heart! Quite dead at last! This time, my lady, white as snow, red as blood and black as ebony the Dwarfs cannot wake you. But I must hide that. [She picks up the apple.] They musn't trace me. [Then rising she strides to the door and cries:] Now, you wretched little dwarfs, you miserable little gnomes, you moles, you earth-worms, bring her to life this time if you can. I defy you! Queen Brangomar defies you! [She rushes off into the wood crying as she goes:] Dead at last! At last! At last!
- [Hardly has the Queen's voice died away, when the stone over the underground passage is lifted, and Blick appears.]
Blick. [Anxiously.] Did you call, Snow White? I was standing guard, and I thought I heard . . . [He sees Snow White's prostrate body. He goes
