There was a general outcry against it; and he fought it down, and gained his point.

By sheer boldness and perseverance, he turned the public from his wife, and to himself, in the face of their very groans and protests.

His 'Manfred' and his 'Cain' were parts of the same game.

But the involuntary cry of remorse and despair pierced even through his own artifices, in a manner that produced a conviction of reality.
His evident fear and hatred of his wife were other symptoms of crime.
There was no apparent occasion for him to hate her.

He admitted that she had been bright, amiable, good, agreeable; that her marriage had been a very uncomfortable one; and he said to Madame de Stael, that he did not doubt she thought him deranged.