I thought it was her
face,--her voice.
LEAH.--(_coldly_.) Did you think so?
RUD.--Leah! Is it you?
LEAH.--Yes.
RUD.--(_tenderly_.) Leah--
LEAH.--Silence, perjured one! Can the tongue that lied, still speak? The
breath that called me wife, now swear faith to another! Does it dare to mix
with the pure air of heaven? Is this the man I worshipped? whose features I
so fondly gazed upon! Ah! [_shuddering_] No--no! The hand of heaven
has crushed, beaten and defaced them! The stamp of divinity no longer rests
there! [_Walks away_.]
RUD.--Leah! hear me!
LEAH.--[turning fiercely.] Ha! You call me back? I am pitiless now.
RUD.--You broke faith first. You took the money.
LEAH.--Money! What money?
RUD.--The money my father sent you.
LEAH.--Sent me money? For what?
RUD.--[_hesitating_.] To induce you to release me--to----
LEAH.--That I might release you? And you knew it? You permitted it?
RUD.--I staked my life that you would not take it.
LEAH.--And you believed I had taken it?
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