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ACT III.
pure as my own mother. You have insulted the woman I love most in the world with my own mother. As there is a God in Heaven, I will kill you!
MRS. ARBUTHNOT
[Rushing across and catching hold of him.] No! no!
GERALD
[Thrusting her back.] Don't hold me, mother. Don't hold me!—I'll kill him!
MRS. ARBUTHNOT
Gerald!
GERALD
Let me go, I say!
MRS. ARBUTHNOT
Stop, Gerald, stop! He is your own father!
[GERALD clutches his mothers hands and looks into her face. She sinks slowly on the ground in shame. HESTER steals towards
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