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An officer now enters and asks for Ulamar, and on learning that 
he stills holds out against the proposal of the governor, he sternly orders 
him to prepare for death at once. Miramont begs the officer to stay 
for a moment, but the officer says he dare not delay. Ulamar utters 
a last farewell to absent Irene. He entreats Miramont to protect her 
when he shall be gone and the charge is solemnly accepted. 
The mother of Ulamar now enters. She had hardly expected to 
see her son alive. On seeing him so helpless in the hands of his enemies, 
she laments the part she has had in bringing upon him such dire mis- 
fortunes. The officers are inclined to put an end brusquely to the 
clamour she makes: but Miramont begs them be patient. With him 
delay means everything. One of the officers goes to inform the Governor 
that they are being hindered in the execution of his orders. In this 
interview Sakia meets with Miramont but there is no recognition. 
She and this Miramont have never met before. In answer to her ques- 
tioning he admits that it was he who had fought with her son in the 
morning. From him also she learns that there had been another 
Miramont, a kinsman, in Canada. He had returned to France to assume 
the family title on the death of his elder brother, but he was no longer 
in France, he had gone to a better world. Sakia breaks into passionate 
weeping at the thought of her husband’s death, so that Miramont cannot 
finish his story. Frontenac now enters, frowning. He has found no 
enemy at the southern gate and he has been told that his orders con- 
cerning Ulamar are not being obeyed. 
Sakia is appalled on seeing him enter. She thinks it is the spirit 
of her dead husband as she has often seen him in dreams, and she believes 
he is displeased because she has not joined him in the other world. 
She calls to him that she will come, she throws herself upon the ground 
and draws a dagger to take her own life. Frontenac recognizes her as 
his long lost wife, calls her by her Huron name, raises her and in loving 
terms bids her live. Frontenac is further surprised to find in the 
general of the Angians, condemned to death, his own son. Ulamar 
offers to submit to the death sentence to save his father from disgrace 
with the French king, but Frontenac lost in admiration of his son’s 
noble character is so inspired with the spirit of liberty that he exclaims, 
“Perish all tyrants and their black commands.” He so delights his 
son by his utterances on behalf of liberty that Ulamar exclaims: 
“QO, that some angel with his golden trump 
Would make that voice through the wide world resound 
That the celestial sound might rouse mankind to liberty.” 
Irene now enters and is warmly welcomed by Ulamar. He reminds 
his father that he has asked nothing for himself, but he now prays 
him to look with favour on Irene. 
