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THE SPAGNOLETTO.
Thou shalt find there a sin no prayer may shrive —
The murder of thy father. To all dreams
That haunt thee of past anguish, shall be added
The vision of this horror !
[He draws from his girdle a dagger and stabs himself to the heart; he falls and dies, and Maria flings herself, stoooning, upon his body.
THE END.