Chapter 32

"Only hear this before I go," he said passionately; "there is one thing thy faint-heartedness shall not touch, one thing I will achieve without thy aid, though thy meanness leaves me, and that is, at any cost, the freedom"--his voice trembled--"of Isotta, my wife. I will free her," he continued sternly. "Before you all I mean it; she shall be saved, even if mine honor goes to do it." And he turned away, but Count Conrad rose, roused out of himself by the excitement Mastino had inspired. "I will follow thee," he cri…