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(To Octavio.)

You'll not forget, that yet ere noon we meet

The noble envoy at the General's palace.
Exeunt all but Questenberg and Octavio.

 

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SCENE III.

Questenberg and Octavio.

QUESTENBERG (with signs of aversion and astonishment).

What have I not been forc'd to hear, Octavio!

What sentiments! what fierce, uncurb'd defiance!
And were this spirit universal—

OCTAVIO.

Hm!

You are now acquainted with three fourths of the army.

QUESTENBERG.

Where must we seek then for a second host

To have the custody of this? That Illo
Thinks worse, I fear me, than he speaks. And then
This Butler too—he cannot even conceal
The passionate workings of his ill intentions.

OCTAVIO.

Quickness of temper—irritated pride;

'Twas nothing more. I cannot give up Butler.
I know a spell that will soon dispossess
The evil spirit in him.