"Vengeance flashed from his inflamed eye-balls: he drew a poniard from his bosom, and stabbed me to the heart; then, with a horrid shout of exultation, that made the vaulted roof resound, he hurled me headlong down the yawning chasm " Set in 15th-century Spain during the reign of Ferdinand and Isabella, the novel opens on a stormy night, when a traveller, Carlos, finds an abandoned infant on the side of the road.
Seeking refuge for himself and the child, he takes shelter at. "Vengeance flashed from his inflamed eye-balls: he drew a poniard from his bosom, and stabbed me to the heart; then, with a horrid shout of exultation, that made the vaulted roof resound, he hurled me headlong down the yawning chasm " Set in 15th-century Spain during the reign of Ferdinand and Isabella, the novel opens on a stormy night, when a traveller, Carlos, finds an abandoned infant on the side of the road
