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Yolanda of Cyprus

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[She starts back from the bier.

Yolanda!

Renier. Girl, what rends you?

Yolanda. Saw you not?

[Rushes to bier and shakes it.

Mother! you hear me? mother!

Renier. Girl!

Yolanda. She breathes!

[Consternation. Some fall to their knees.

Vittia. What? what?

Yolanda. Mother! Her breast! Mother! She moves!

Amaury. God! God!

Yolanda. Stand off from her… Mother!

Camarin. Her eyes!..

They open! open!

Yolanda. Mother!..

Amaury. See; her lips!

They strive to speak! O faintly. O so faint!

Can you not hear?

Berengere. Yolanda!

Yolanda. Mother!

Berengere. Renier!

Renier. Yes, yes?

Berengere. Yolanda —

Renier. Speak!

Berengere. Christ, save me … Christ!

Yolanda's innocent, and I … 'twas I.

Amaury. What? what is it she says?

Berengere. Camarin! Ah!

[She shudders and dies, amid low uttered awe. Renier bends, lays his hand a moment on her breast, then, with a cry of rage, springs from her and draws, and rushes on Camarin, who awaits him, desperate.

Amaury (confused, as they engage).

Yolanda; what is this?

Yolanda. Amaury, in!

Compel lord Renier back! he cannot live,

You only could against Camarin now!

Wait not to question, but obey me! if —

You ever – ! (as he rushes in) Holy Magdalen, defend him!

[Renier falls back.

Now, now defend him, if to chastity

Thou'rt vowed in heaven.

Vittia. Fool!.. Camarin, strike!

Yolanda. He's wounded!

Camarin. Oh!.. Berengere! … treachery!

[He staggers and sinks back heavily toward the pillar. There is breathless, strained suspense. Then the image above, unsettled and shaken by his fall, sways, totters and crushes upon him. A cry, "The Magdalen!" goes up around.

Hassan (hurrying to him; after awe and silence).

He's dead.

Alessa. The Magdalen!

Hassan. No breath in him.

[A pause.

Renier (low, harshly).
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