I quarrelled with him, and slew him in a duel.

After a long and urgent suit, for the successful issue of which I was mainly indebted to my rank and wealth, which gave great influence with her parents, Isabella became mine.

But I soon found out she did not love me.

In consequence of this discovery, I became madly jealous, and embittered her life and my own by constant, and, now I know too well, groundless suspicions.

She had borne me a son, and in the excess of my jealous fury, fancying the child was not my own, I threatened to put it to death.