Love will sooner visit the regions of eternal doom

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Good afternoon all,

"

Wretched woman!" exclaimed Cedric. "thou hast lived to merit our hate and execration---lived to unite thyself with the vile tyrant who murdered thy nearest and dearest---with him hast thou lived to unite thyself−, and in the hands of lawless love!"
"In lawless hands, indeed, but not in those of love!" answered the hag; "love will sooner visit the regions of eternal doom, than those unhallowed vaults.---No, with that at least I cannot reproach myself--- (Ivanhoe)

What is the hag trying to say in the bold sentence above? I think the future tense is confusing me there.

Many thanks,

 

[Beryl from Northallerton]

She's saying that there's no chance of her loving her tyrant.

 

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She's saying that there's no chance of her loving her tyrant.

Thank you Beryl, I get the overall meaning that she does not love the tyrant but she was forced to have a foul union with him from the part "in lawless hands indeed, but not in those of love!" but I still do not get what she specificallyis saying by "love will sooner visit the regions of eternal doom"

 

[Beryl from Northallerton]

Love (personified) would prefer to be in hell than ...

 

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Ok, now I can see what she means, thanks!