Tales Of A Traveller, By Washington Irving

















































































































 -  She faintly murmured forth her exculpation. I will not
dwell upon it. I saw in it more than she meant - Page 102
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She Faintly Murmured Forth Her Exculpation.

I will not dwell upon it.

I saw in it more than she meant to reveal. I saw with a glance how both of us had been betrayed. "'Tis well!" muttered I to myself in smothered accents of concentrated fury. "He shall account to me for this!"

Bianca overhead me. New terror flashed in her countenance. "For mercy's sake do not meet him - say nothing of what has passed - for my sake say nothing to him - I only shall be the sufferer!"

A new suspicion darted across my mind - "What!" exclaimed I - "do you then fear him - is he unkind to you - tell me," reiterated I, grasping her hand and looking her eagerly in the face - "tell me - dares he to use you harshly!"

"No! no! no!" cried she faltering and embarrassed; but the glance at her face had told me volumes. I saw in her pallid and wasted features; in the prompt terror and subdued agony of her eye a whole history of a mind broken down by tyranny. Great God! and was this beauteous flower snatched from me to be thus trampled upon? The idea roused me to madness. I clinched my teeth and my hands; I foamed at the mouth; every passion seemed to have resolved itself into the fury that like a lava boiled within my heart. Bianca shrunk from me in speechless affright. As I strode by the window my eye darted down the alley. Fatal moment! I beheld Filippo at a distance!

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