She struggled to
disengage herself, calling on your father by the most
endearing epithets to free her from my embrace. He
attempted it, and I struck him senseless to the floor at
a single blow with the flat of my sabre, which in my
extreme fury I had unsheathed. Instead, however, of
profiting by the opportunity thus afforded to execute my
threat, a feeling of disgust and contempt came over me,
for the woman, whose inconstancy had been the cause of
my committing myself in this ungentlemanly manner; and
bestowing deep but silent curses on her head, I rushed
from the house in a state of frenzy. How often since have
I regretted that I had not pursued my first impulse, and
borne her to some wild, where, forgetting one by whose
beauty of person her eye alone had been seduced, her
heart might have returned to its allegiance to him who
had first awakened the sympathies of her soul, and would
have loved her with a love blending the fiercest fires
of the eagle with the gentlest devotedness of the dove.
But destiny had differently ordained.
"Did my injuries end here?" pursued the dark warrior, as
his eye kindled with rage.
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