![]() ![]() His tenants and subjects were less cautious in their discourses. Hippolita, his wife, an amiable lady, did sometimes venture to represent the danger of marrying their only son so early, considering his great youth, and greater infirmities but she never received any other answer than reflections on her own sterility, who had given him but one heir. The former, indeed, apprehending the severity of their Prince’s disposition, did not dare to utter their surmises on this precipitation. ![]() Manfred’s impatience for this ceremonial was remarked by his family and neighbours. Manfred had contracted a marriage for his son with the Marquis of Vicenza’s daughter, Isabella and she had already been delivered by her guardians into the hands of Manfred, that he might celebrate the wedding as soon as Conrad’s infirm state of health would permit. Conrad, the son, was three years younger, a homely youth, sickly, and of no promising disposition yet he was the darling of his father, who never showed any symptoms of affection to Matilda. Manfred, Prince of Otranto, had one son and one daughter: the latter, a most beautiful virgin, aged eighteen, was called Matilda. ![]()
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