In this first chapter, I would be reading along and suddenly come across a comment that would just tickle me. On the very last page of the chapter, Manfred has this hysterical thought process:

"Presuming on the unshaken submission of Hippolita, he flattered himself that she would not only acquiese with patience to a divorce, but would obey, if it was his pleasure, in endeavouring to persuade Isabella to give him her hand--But ere he could indulge this horrid hope, he reflected that Isabella was not to be found."