Conrad. Behold!
(Throws off his masque and takes him by the throat.)
Look in my face, and call my name!
Alonzo. Conrad!—Conrad! do not kill me, have mercy!
Conrad. Where is my wife? Now, villain! die!—die!—die!
(Stabs him.)
Now, pray! if thou canst pray, now pray—now die!
Now, drink the wormwood which Eudora drank.
(Stamps him. Alonzo dies.)
(Conrad rushes out and is seen no more. Angeline, Alonzo's
wife, runs in the room, screams, and falls upon his breast.)
Angeline. 'Tis he—'tis he—Conrad has kill'd Alonzo!
Oh! my husband! my husband! thou art dead!
'Tis he—'tis he—the wretch has kill'd Alonzo!
(The doctor, Alonzo's brother, rushes in, crying "Murder!—murder!"
Watchmen and citizens rush in, crying
"Murder! murder! Alonzo's dead! Alonzo's dead!")
Citizens. Who, under God's heaven, could have done this deed?
Angeline. 'Tis he—'tis he! Conrad has kill'd Alonzo!
Watchmen. Who did it? Speak! speak! Conrad kill'd Alonzo?
Angeline. Conrad—'twas Conrad, kill'd my husband! Dead!
Oh! death—death—death! What will become of me?
Doctor. Did you see his face? My God! I know 'twas he!
Angeline. I saw his face—I heard his voice—he's gone!
(Angeline feels his pulse, while the rest look round.)
Oh! my husband!—my husband!—death, death!
Speak, Alonzo! speak to Angeline—death!
Oh! speak one word, and tell me who it was!
(Kisses him.)
No pulse—my husband's dead! He's gone!—he's gone!
(Faints away on his breast. The watchmen and citizens take her
into an adjoining room, bearing her husband with her—asking,
"Who could have kill'd him? Speak, Angeline—speak!")
Curtain falls. End of Act III.