You stand self-condemned! Inasmuch as Hans Matthis, on the
morning of the 25th of December, 1853, between the hours of midnight and
one o'clock, committed the crime of murder and highway robbery upon the
person of Baruch Koweski, with malice prepense, we condemn him to be
hanged by the neck till death shall ensue. And may Heaven have mercy on
his soul! Usher, let the executioner appear and take charge of the
condemned. [_Curtain._
THE LADY OF LYONS
ROBERT BULWER LYTTON
ACT II, SCENE I
CHARACTERS: Pauline Deschappelles, the beautiful daughter and
heiress of an aspiring merchant of Lyons, France; Claude Melnotte,
the gardener's son, madly in love with Pauline.
Pauline aspires to an alliance with some prince or nobleman.
Melnotte in the hope of winning her uses his small inheritance in
educating himself and becomes an accomplished scholar, a skillful
musician, a poet, and an artist. He pours forth his worship in a
poem, but his suit is rejected and he is subjected to violent
insult.
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