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After these words, there was a moment of expectation -- almost of hesitation. A leaden silence seemed to brood over the forest.
Don Stefano was the first to overcome the feeling of terror which involuntarily pervaded him. "Well! " he said, with a contemptuous tone, and a clear, cutting voice; "if it be not you, where is this accuser? Will he hide himself, now that the hour has arrived? Will he recoil before the responsibility he has assumed? Let him appear -- I am ready for him!"