That I should hate, should take revenge by guilt,
Upon the hand whose mischief or whose mirth
Sent me thus maimed and monstrous upon earth ...
Here--judge if hell, with all its power to damn,
Can add one curse to the foul thing I am!”
He raised the veil; the maid turned slowly round,
Looked at him, shrieked, and sunk upon the ground.
The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan.
Velasquez, the Spanish governor of Portugal in 1640, when the people, led by Don Juan, duke of Braganza, rose in rebellion, shook off the Spanish yoke, and established the duke on the throne, under the name and title of Juan or John IV. The same dynasty still continues. Velasquez was torn to pieces by the mob. The duchess calls him a
Discerning villain,