Stu. You are ignorant then! I thought I heard the murderer at confession.
Char. What murderer? And who is murdered? Not Lewson? Say he lives, and I'll kneel down and worship you.
Stu. In pity, so I would; but that the tongues of all cry murder. I came in pity, not in malice; to save the brother, not kill the sister. Your Lewson's dead.
Char. O horrible! Why, who has killed him?—And yet it cannot be. What crime had He committed that he should die? Villain! he lives! he lives! and shall revenge these pangs.
Mrs. Bev. Patience, sweet Charlotte!
Char. O, 'tis too much for patience!
Mrs. Bev. He comes in pity, he says. O! execrable villain! The friend is killed then, and this the murderer?
Bev. Silence, I charge you. Proceed, Sir.
Stu. No. Justice may stop the tale—and here's an evidence.
SCENE IX.