Excerpt from The Ring and the Veil, Vol. 3 of 3: A Novel

At length, towards evening, she prevailed upon the unhappy man to take a cup of strong coffee, which somewhat revived him. When she could spare time from her work, she went into the back parlour and spoke to him, and tried, in a harmless, cheerful way, to divert his mind from the subject on which it was brooding.

She even thought it better he should go up and sit in old Mr. Elliot's bed-room, than remain entirely where he was; but Coronelli felt a sort of instinctive horror at approaching his magnanimous host. It was impossible he should forget, that if he had not killed his son, which he knew to be very uncertain, he had undoubtedly meant to do so; and, therefore, in his own mind, he could not but believe, that the old man must regard him with yet greater horror.

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