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the Castle and Lordship of Otranto should pass from the present family, whenever the real owner should be grown too large to inhabit it.
proportionable quantity of black feathers.
that the miraculous helmet was exactly like that on the figure in black marble of Alfonso the Good, one of their former princes, in the church of St. Nicholas.
helmet was missing from Alfonso’s statue.
“will he not permit me to blend my tears with his, and shed a mother’s sorrows in the bosom of her Lord? or do you deceive me, Matilda? I know how Manfred doted on his son:
since I cannot give you my son, I offer you myself.”—“Heavens!”
three drops of blood fell from the nose of Alfonso’s statue.
fleshless jaws and
empty sockets of a skeleton,
she expired.
