SCENE VII

Charlotte has been reading and meditating ail night in her room. In ail her favourite books she finds tyrannicide praised, She reads the story cf Judith, and a pcusage from Montesquieu, and appecUs to her ancestor Corneille, whose portrait hangs in her room, to approve her.

1. 1017. Vitoile du berger, * the nioming star.' 1. 1061. Seigneur, ce sera &*c, This is not in the original texts of the Book of Judith or the English version, but is an interpolation in the Vulgate, Judith ix. 15.

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1. 1004. a des foyers divins, * has divine sourœs,' literally hearths,