" I love, and am in despair—yes—despair. How can I gaze upon you, and know, that it is, perhaps, for the last time, without suffering all the phrensy of despair? But it shall not be so; you shall be mine, in spite of Montoni and all of his villainy.”
“In spite of Montoni!” cried Emily eagerly: “what is it I hear?”
“You hear, that Montoni is a villain,” exclaimed Morano with vehemence,—“a villain who would have sold you to my love!—Who——”
“And is he less, who would have bought me?” said Emily, fixing on the Count an eye of calm content. "

― Ann Radcliffe , The Mysteries of Udolpho