The Castle Spectre Quotes

“When I said I should die in your service with pleasure, I intended to live in it many long years; since, to tell you the truth, from a child I had always a particular dislike to dying, and I think that with every hour the prejudice grows stronger.”
― Matthew Gregory Lewis, The Castle Spectre

“One of them, Colonel EM House, took it upon himself to lobby his old friend in the Oval Office. Virginia, he told President Roosevelt, was a gentlewoman of great intelligence and a credit to our country, who was a victim of an injustice. Despite her injury she lived an active life including rowing, swimming, and riding, and had kept up her work but had been told that she could never progress to the diplomatic corps.”
― Sonia Purnell, The Castle Spectre