. Thackerayana;. 24 him that I will smother my own anguish rather than add tohis. As it was now evening, the servant, who conducted Isabella,bore a torch before her. When they came to Manfred, who was walking impatiently about thegallery, he started, and saidhastily, Take away that light,and begone. Then, shuttingthe door impetuously, he flunghimself upon a bench againstthe wall, and bade Isabella sitby him. She obeyed trem-bling. The iniquitous Manfredthen proposed, that as his sonwas dead, Isabella should espouse him instead, and he woulddivorce the virtuous Hippolita. Manfred
. Thackerayana;. 24 him that I will smother my own anguish rather than add tohis. As it was now evening, the servant, who conducted Isabella,bore a torch before her. When they came to Manfred, who was walking impatiently about thegallery, he started, and saidhastily, Take away that light,and begone. Then, shuttingthe door impetuously, he flunghimself upon a bench againstthe wall, and bade Isabella sitby him. She obeyed trem-bling. The iniquitous Manfredthen proposed, that as his sonwas dead, Isabella should espouse him instead, and he woulddivorce the virtuous Hippolita. Manfred, on her refusal, resortedto violence, when the plumes of thefatal helmet suddenly waved to andfro tempestuously in the , disregarding the portent,cried — Heaven nor hell shall im-pede my designs, and advanced toseize the princess. At that instantthe portrait of his grandfather, whichhung over the bench where they had &been sitting, uttered a deep sigh,and heaved its breast. Manfred was distracted between hi
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