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contradict thyself ? And yet I am wrong to be thus harsh . Poor sufferer ! '' she added , tenderly , as she vainly tried to raise Marie from the ground ; `` thou hast all enough to bear ; and if , indeed , the base wretch who has dared thus to trample on the laws alike of God and man , and stain his own soul with the foul blot of midnight assassination , be him whom we have secured , thou couldst not know him as thy husband 's foe . It is all mystery -- thine own words not least ; but his murder shall be avenged . Ay , had my own kinsman 's been the hand to do the dastard deed . '' `` Murder !