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“It is the eve of St. George’s Day. Do you not know that to-night, when the clock strikes midnight, all the evil things in the world will have full sway? Do you know where you are going, and what you are going to?”
I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul. God keep me, if only for the sake of those dear to me!
boyar;
When the Count saw my face, his eyes blazed with a sort of demoniac fury, and he suddenly made a grab at my throat. I drew away, and his hand touched the string of beads which held the crucifix. It made an instant change in him, for the fury passed so quickly that I could hardly believe that it was ever there.
In no place save from the windows in the castle walls is there an available exit. The castle is a veritable prison, and I am a prisoner!
my only doubt was as to whether any dream could be more terrible than the unnatural, horrible net of gloom and mystery which seemed closing around me.
I know now the span of my life. God help me!
No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and how dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.
Can it be that he sleeps when others wake, that he may be awake whilst they sleep?
away from this cursed spot, from this cursed land, where the Devil and his children still walk with earthly feet!
There is a method in his madness,
Oh, Lucy, Lucy, I cannot be angry with you, nor can I be angry with my friend whose happiness is yours; but I must only wait on hopeless and work. Work! work!
“men like trees walking.”
“As idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocean.”
for, though sympathy can’t alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.
Last night I found her leaning out when I woke up, and when I tried to wake her I could not; she was in a faint. When I managed to restore her she was as weak as water, and cried silently between long, painful struggles for breath.
My dear, please Almighty God, your life may be all it promises: a long day of sunshine, with no harsh wind, no forgetting duty, no distrust.
“I cannot tell you how I loathe talking about myself.”

