ABSTRACT
It will now be necessary to go back a few steps of this history, and return to Oriana, whose vengeful rage, and unabated malice has been in a former period alluded to, and stated to have remained long abortive. But though such was in reality the case, and although upwards of two years had elapsed in fruitless machinations and vain attempts, Oriana was not to be thus baffled; obstacles which long since must have discouraged a less vindictive mind, seemed but to add fuel to the hate which burned in her; she still continued to watch every movement of the objects of her long-desired vengeance; the desire of vengeance was the predominent sensation of her soul, and for that she seemed to abandon every other consideration.
