SCENE X.
An Interior View of the Convent.
Noise of clanking of chains is heard without—
Clifford rushes into the Convent, but is astonished
to find it lonely and deserted!—Traverses the place
distracted, 'till perceiving an entrance door to the sepulchre,
he bursts it open, but is disappointed still in
the object of his search, 'till a groan evinces that
some human being is near; after considerable search,
under a noisome sack, he discovers the object of
his choice, pale, emaciated, almost expiring, and
for a time bereft of reason; on the return of which
she gratefully thanks heaven and her deliverer—several
Nuns and her
Brother entering, the whole form
an interesting group—and the scene is closed to slow
music.
N. B. In general the piece concludes here.
