Valdez. What seek you now?

Teresa. A better, surer light
To guide me——

Both Valdez and Ordonio. Whither?

Teresa. To the only place
Where life yet dwells for me, and ease of heart.
These walls seem threatening to fall in upon me! 160
Detain me not! a dim power drives me hence,
And that will be my guide.

Valdez. To find a lover!
Suits that a high-born maiden's modesty?
O folly and shame! Tempt not my rage, Teresa!

Teresa. Hopeless, I fear no human being's rage. [165]
And am I hastening to the arms——O Heaven!
I haste but to the grave of my belov'd!
[Exit, Valdez following after her.

Ordonio. This, then, is my reward! and I must love her?
Scorn'd! shudder'd at! yet love her still? yes! yes!
[[858]] By the deep feelings of revenge and hate [170]
I will still love her—woo her—win her too! [A pause.
Isidore safe and silent, and the portrait
Found on the wizard—he, belike, self-poison'd
To escape the crueller flames——My soul shouts triumph!
The mine is undermined! blood! blood! blood! [175]
They thirst for thy blood! thy blood, Ordonio! [A pause.
The hunt is up! and in the midnight wood
With lights to dazzle and with nets they seek
A timid prey: and lo! the tiger's eye
Glares in the red flame of his hunter's torch! 180

To Isidore I will dispatch a message,
And lure him to the cavern! aye, that cavern!
He cannot fail to find it. Thither I'll lure him,
Whence he shall never, never more return!
[Looks through the side window.
A rim of the sun lies yet upon the sea, [185]
And now 'tis gone! All shall be done to-night. [Exit.

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