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The Female Gamester - A Tragedy by Gorges Edmond Howard
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ANDREWS. Reward your goodness heav'n! [WILSON goes off.]

Re-enter THOMAS.

Oh what a fatal change in my affairs!
Have you observ'd it, Thomas, yet been silent?

THOMAS. I almost wish I knew not how to answer:
But since it is his will I must obey. [Aside.]
Dare then your faithful servant speak some truths,
With which his heart is full?

ANDREWS. What prevents you?

THOMAS. I dare not--yet--[aside] suppose 'twere of a wife,
So lov'd, so doted on?--

ANDREWS. Prithee, proceed.

THOMAS. Then know, last night, that as I lay awake,
And hearing near the compting-house a noise,
I rose, and in the dark mov'd softly towards it;
When I (unseen by her) beheld her passing
Quickly from thence, and in her hands a light,
And key, with which she op'd the iron chest.

ANDREWS. [After some pause] Good heav'n! that she could injure
me so deeply------
My credit------but I cannot bear to expose her!
Means have been us'd to stop all further mischief,
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