_ The blood-hounds employed for tracking
down a
murderer
will find him under any concealment, and never rest till
he is found.
Keats
_Ah . . . loneliness._ We perpetually come upon this old
belief--that the souls of the murdered cannot rest in peace. Cf.
_Hamlet_, I. v. 8, &c.
l. 221. _break-covert . . . sin.
_ The blood-hounds employed for tracking
down a
murderer
will find him under any concealment, and never rest till
he is found.
So restless is the soul of the victim.
l. 222. _They . . . water._ That water which had reflected the three
faces as they went across.
_tease_, torment.
l. 223. _convulsed spur_, they spurred their horses violently and
uncertainly, scarce knowing what they did.