Isabel

A child-love, whose image is recalled by the old man in his wayside musing— “Poor, unknown, By the wayside, on a mo y stone.” Ralph Hoyt, Old (1859). Isabel. A refined girl, with lofty ideals and aspirations, who marries a widower with one child. She believes him a true man who will uplift her, and finds him a refined voluptuary, coldly calculating upon the advantages to be gained from her fortune. Still faithful to herself, Isabel repels the love of a man who thoroughly appreciates her, and flies from him and temptation.—Henry James, Jr., Portrait of a Lady (1881). Isabel , called the “She-wolf of France,” the adulterous queen of Edward II., was daughter of Philippe IV. ( le bel ), of France. According to one tradition, Isabel murdered her royal husband by thrusting a hot iron into his bowels, and tearing them from his body.