_ The pathos of this picture is
intensified by its
suggestions
of the wife- and mother-hood which Isabel
can now never know.
Keats
_elf_, man. The word is used in this sense by Spenser in _The
Faerie Queene_.
PAGE 78. l. 467. _chapel-shrift_, confession. Cf. l. 64.
ll. 469-72. _And when . . . hair.
_ The pathos of this picture is
intensified by its
suggestions
of the wife- and mother-hood which Isabel
can now never know.
Cf. st. xlvii, where the idea is still more
beautifully suggested.
PAGE 79. l. 475. _vile . . . spot._ The one touch of descriptive
horror--powerful in its reticence.
