The Robbers

Friedrich Schiller

24 chapters · about 4 h

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The opening

SCENE I.

Franconia. Apartment in the Castle of COUNT MOOR.

FRANCIS, OLD MOOR.

FRANCIS. But are you really well, father? You look so pale.

OLD MOOR. Quite well, my son—what have you to tell me?

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