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The General Ah! son of a traitor! What could you bring to my home but death and treachery! Defend yourself!
Ferdinand Would you fight, General, with the dead?
(Ferdinand falls.)
Gertrude (rushes to Ferdinand with a cry) Oh! (She recoils before the General, and approaches his daughter, then draws forth a phial, but immediately flings it away.) I will condemn myself to live for this old man! (The General kneels beside his dying daughter.) Doctor, what will become of him? Is he likely to lose his reason?
The General (stammering like a man who has lost his speech) I--I--I--
Vernon General, what is it?
The General I--I am trying--to pray--for my daughter!
Final curtain.
