Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

The precautions of nervous people are infectious, and persons of a like temperament are pretty sure, after a time, to imitate them.

If you were less pretty I think I should be very much afraid of you

Why you must die--everyone must die; and all are happier when they do.

All things proceed from Nature--don't they

But to die as lovers may--to die together, so that they may live together.

Girls are caterpillars while they live in the world, to be finally butterflies when the summer comes; but in the meantime there are grubs and larvae, don't you see--each with their peculiar propensities, necessities and structure. So says Monsieur Buffon, in his big book, in the next room."

"I have been in love with no one, and never shall," she whispered, "unless it should be with you."

," she murmured, "I live in you; and you would die for me, I love you so

My companion shook me a little roughly, and I turned surprised.

She said brusquely, "Don't you perceive how discordant that is?"

Nothing can be more picturesque or solitary. It stands on a slight eminence in a forest. The road, very old and narrow, passes in front of its drawbridge, never raised in my time, and its moat, stocked with perch, and sailed over by many swans, and floating on its surface white fleets of water lilies.

Over all this the schloss shows its many-windowed front; its towers, and its Gothic chapel.

The forest opens in an irregular and very picturesque glade before its gate, and at the right a steep Gothic bridge carries the road over a stream that winds in deep shadow through the wood. I have said that this is a very lonely place. Judge whether I say truth. Looking from the hall door towards the road, the forest in which our castle stands extends fifteen miles to the right, and twelve to the left. The nearest inhabited village is about seven of

"You are mine, you shall be mine, you and I are one for ever."