Richelieu: . Go to the door, and listen ! — Now for escape! DE MAUPRAT. None— none ! Their blades shall passThis heart to thine. RICHELIEU {drily). An honourable outwork,But much too near the citadel. I think 128 Richelieu: That I can trust you now (slowly, and gazing 071 him) — yes; I can trust many of my troop league with you? All! — DE MAUPRAT. We are your troop ! RICHELIEU. And Huguet? DE MAUPRAT, Is our captain. RICHELIEU. A retributive Power ! —This comes of spies ! All? then the lions skins too short to-night,— Now for the foxs ! — JULIE. A hoarse, gathering murmur! - Hurrying a
Richelieu: . Go to the door, and listen ! — Now for escape! DE MAUPRAT. None— none ! Their blades shall passThis heart to thine. RICHELIEU {drily). An honourable outwork,But much too near the citadel. I think 128 Richelieu: That I can trust you now (slowly, and gazing 071 him) — yes; I can trust many of my troop league with you? All! — DE MAUPRAT. We are your troop ! RICHELIEU. And Huguet? DE MAUPRAT, Is our captain. RICHELIEU. A retributive Power ! —This comes of spies ! All? then the lions skins too short to-night,— Now for the foxs ! — JULIE. A hoarse, gathering murmur! - Hurrying and heavy footsteps ! RICHELIEU. Ha ! — the posterns? DE egress where no sentry! RICHELIEU. Follow me —I have it! — to my chamber — quick ! Come, Julie !Hush ! Mauprat, come ! {Murmur at a distance) — Death to the Cardinal! or, The Conspiracy. 129 RICHELIEU. Bloodhounds, I laugh at ye ! — ha! ha ! — we willBaffle them yet. — Ha ! ha ! [Exeunt JULIE, MAUPRAT, HUGUET {without). This way — this way! 130 Richelieu: SCENE III. Enter HUGUET and the Conspirators. HUGUET. De Mauprats hand is never slow in battle; —Strange, if it falter now ! Ha ! gone ! FIRST CONSPIRATOR. PerchanceThe fox had crept to rest; and to his lairDeath, the dark hunter, tracks him. [Enter MAUPRAT, throwing open the doors of therecess, in which a bed, whereon Richelieu liesextended. Richelieu is dead! DE MAUPRAT. Live the King! HUGUET {advancing towards the recess; MAUPRATfollowirig, his hand on his dagger).Are his eyes open? DE MAUPRAT. Ay, As if in life ! HUGUET {turning back).I will not look on have been long. or, The Conspiracy, 131 DE MAUPRAT. I watched him till he me. — No trace of blood reveals the deed; —Strangled in sleep. His health hath long been broken —
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