“ ‘You villain,’ said I, ‘I found you out: I discovered your hellish plots against me; I know her heart was fixed on someone else before you compelled her to marry me. I know it⁠—I know it.’

“He jumped suddenly from his chair, brandished it aloft, and bid me stand back⁠—for I took care to be getting closer to him all the time I spoke.

“I screamed rather than talked, for I felt tumultuous passions eddying through my veins, and the old spirits whispering and taunting me to tear his heart out.

“ ‘Damn you,’ said I, starting up, and rushing upon him; ‘I killed her. I am a madman. Down with you. Blood, blood! I will have it!’

“I turned aside with one blow the chair he hurled at me in his terror, and closed with him; and with a heavy crash we rolled upon the floor together.