. Thackerayana;. helmet ! Shocked with these lamentable sounds, and dreadinghe knew not what, he advanced hastily,—but what a sight for afathers eyes ! He beheld his child dashed to pieces, and almostburied under an enormous helmet, a hundred times larger thanany casque ever made for human being, and shaded with a pro-portionable quantity of black feathers. THE CASTLE OF OTRANTO. 23. The consternation produced by this murderous apparition didnot diminish. Isabella was, however, relieved at her escape froman ill-assorted union. Manfred continued togaze at the terrible casque. No one could ex-pl
. Thackerayana;. helmet ! Shocked with these lamentable sounds, and dreadinghe knew not what, he advanced hastily,—but what a sight for afathers eyes ! He beheld his child dashed to pieces, and almostburied under an enormous helmet, a hundred times larger thanany casque ever made for human being, and shaded with a pro-portionable quantity of black feathers. THE CASTLE OF OTRANTO. 23. The consternation produced by this murderous apparition didnot diminish. Isabella was, however, relieved at her escape froman ill-assorted union. Manfred continued togaze at the terrible casque. No one could ex-plain its presence. In the midst of their sense-less guesses, a young peasant, whom rumour haddrawn thither from a neighbouring village, ob-served that the miraculous helmet was like thaton the figure in black marble, in the churchof St. Nicholas, of Alonzo the Good (the originalPrince of Otranto. who having died without leaving an ascertainedheir, his steward, Manfreds grandfather, had illegally contrived toobtain possession of the castle, estates, and title). Villain !What sayest thou ? cried Manfred, starting fromhis trance in a tempest of rage, and seizing theyoung man by the collar. How darest thouutter such treason ? Thy life shall pay for it ! The peasant was secured, and confined, as anecromancer, under the gigantic helmet, thereto be starved to death. Manfred retired t
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