Beatrice certainly
loves Giovanni more than he has ever loved her. When he realizes that he has become imbued with
the same poison as her, he actually wishes that his breath would "slay" her, though he
knows it will not. Though he cannot rage at her initially, he treats her with a "sullen
insensibility" that inspires her with the sense of a "gulf of blackness" having
opened up between them. She confesses that she had been so "lonely" prior to his
arrival, and then his rage does "[break] forth from his sullen gloom" and he speaks to
her with "venomous scorn and anger." He cruelly calls her a "poisonous
thing" and accuses her of "blast[ing]" him with poison, calling her hateful,
ugly, "loathsome and deadly." He tells her that her very prayers "'taint thewith
death.'"
She responds to him with a "grief [that] was
beyond...
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