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"Frohted servant

"From the bailiff himself"

"From his own lips?"

"Yes, e and coolness,

I think I er desire than myself to die by

the hand of the executioner"

Julio put his hand to his throat and said, dejectedly: "The affair looks serious I see; I feel the rope around

nor Why did you murder your best

friend? Did I not warn you that so frightful a criht?"

"Call it crieance is satisfied,

and now neither complaints nor recrier"

"But, signor, what can we do to escape punishment?"

"There is a means, easy and certain There is a ood will and resolution May I rely upon you for this last

effort?"

"What would not one be willing to do in order to escape this gallows or

the wheel?"