Gallus.
The murderer in the purple robe; my father’s murderer, my step-mother’s, my eldest brother’s——
Julian.
Oh, you are calling down destruction upon us!
Gallus.
Eleven heads in one single night; eleven bodies; our whole house.—Ah, but be sure conscience is torturing him; it shivers through the marrow of his bones like a swarm of serpents.
Julian.
Do not listen to him! Away, away!
Gallus.
[Seizes Julian by the shoulder.] Stay;—you look pale and disordered; is it you that have betrayed me?