It is something like the way dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitive tissue which can protect from evil that which it would otherwise harm by contact. If this be an ordered selfishness, then we should pause before we condemn any one for the vice of egoism, for there may be deeper root for its causes than we have knowledge of.

I want to cut off her head and take out her heart.

My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.

Souls and memories can do strange things during trance.

She has man's brain--a brain that a man should have were he much gifted--and woman's heart. The good God fashioned her for a purpose, believe me when He made that so good combination.

But we are strong, each in our purpose, and we are all more strong together.

Before I left the castle I so fixed its entrances that never more can the Count enter there Undead.