The Castle of Otranto
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"will he not permit me to blend my tears with his, and shed a mother's sorrows in the bosom of her Lord?
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she determined to make herself the first sacrifice, if fate had marked the present hour for their destruction.
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he curbed the yearnings of his heart, and did not dare to lean even towards pity. The next transition of his soul was to exquisite villainy.
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"A bystander often sees more of the game than those that play,"