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"Seeing all the household in confusion, I ventured to coardless

whether I were seen or not, and determined, if I were, to do sohteous indignation

of my breast in the punishment of the treacherous Don Fernando, and even

in that of the fickle fainting traitress But reater sorrows, if such there be, so ordered it that

just then I had enough and to spare of that reason which has since been

wanting to reatest

eneht of me was so

far from their minds), I resolved to take it upon myself, and on myself

to inflict the pain they deserved, perhaps with even greater severity

than I should have dealt out to them had I then slain them; for sudden

pain is soon over, but that which is protracted by tortures is ever

slaying without ending life In a word, I quitted the house and reached

that of the man hom I had left myhim farewell, and rode out of the city, like

another Lot, not daring to turn my head to look back upon it; and when I

found myself alone in the open country, screened by the darkness of the

night, and terief without

apprehension or fear of being heard or seen, then I broke silence and

lifted up my voice in maledictions upon Luscinda and Don Fernando, as if