(_Still darker night. Graves spring their rattles and watchmen open.
Fate is seen sitting in the background in the shape of a policeman. A
glow-worm roars, and the side-scenes shake perceptibly. The moon,
which has been slowly rising, falls suddenly down._)
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ULPHO. Unfortunate moon!
EMMA. Will you never cease to despond?
ULPHO. Nothing on earth shall ever induce me.
(_He takes his cap from his head, and hangs it carefully on a
hat-stand. In a fit of desperation he begins to tear his hair from his
head. Emma sinks into a swoon, and leaving Ulpho in the centre of the
stage, she goes off at both wings._)