Excerpt from Jacqueline of Holland, Vol. 2 of 3: A Historical Tale
To that wild spot, we must go back a little from the regular progress of our story, to trace one anterior passage in the life, and a few variations in the feelings of a personage who, though a while out of sight, has not, we hope, yet escaped the reader’s mind - their sometime acquaintance Humphrey, the good Duke of Glocester. We have not now to treat of him in his capacity as the champion of a princess, the rival of a sove reign, or the ruler of a realm; but simply in that character from the pains of which pride, valour, or ambition cannot give impunity - as the slave and Victim of that fatal passion which swallows in its vortex all the rest, and which forms the staple not only of romantic fiction but of real life. We have not yet seen Duke Hum phrey in the light of a lover. It is as such that we have now to paint him.
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