There is a method in his madness, and the rudimentary idea in my mind is growing. It will be a whole idea soon, and then, oh, unconscious cerebration.

Enter freely and of your own free will!

And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere 'modernity' cannot kill.

Once again...welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring.

There are such beings as vampires, some of us have evidence that they exist. Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples.

Because if a woman's heart was free a man might have hope.

The only beautiful thing in the world whose beauty lasts for ever is a pure, fair soul.