ABSTRACT
GABRIELLE saw, and lamented, the degradation of Angelo: ‘Alas,’ thought she, ‘me, who loved him, he voluntarily abandoned; – and her, who would destroy him, he cannot resign.’ He still persisted in visiting Oriana, and since he would so persist, Gabrielle would still accompany him. Though she disdained the infatuation by which he was swayed, she determined to be his guardian angel, and save him from further mischief that might be meditating against him, for the sake of his child, – for his own sake, – and for the love she had once borne him, perhaps bore him still.
