Slowly and doubtfully her
vigour at length returned to her, and with it strengthened and increased
the fierce ambition of vengeance that absorbed her lightest thoughts and
governed her most careless actions.
Report informed her of the new position, on the line of blockade, on
which Hermanric was posted, and only enumerated as the companions of his
sojourn the warriors sent thither under his command. But, though thus
persuaded of the separation of Antonina and the Goth, her ignorance of
the girl's fate rankled unintermittingly in her savage heart. Doubtful
whether she had permanently reclaimed Hermanric to the interests of
vengeance and bloodshed; vaguely suspecting that he might have informed
himself in her absence of Antonina's place of refuge or direction of
flight; still resolutely bent on securing the death of her victim,
wherever she might have strayed, she awaited with trembling eagerness
that day of restoration to available activity and strength which would
enable her to resume her influence over the Goth, and her machinations
against the safety of the fugitive girl.
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