These events were coeval with Carwin's introduction.

I am unable to explain their origin and mutual dependance; but I do not, on that account, believe them to have a supernatural origin.

Is not this man the agent?
Some of them seem to be propitious; but what should I think of those threats of assassination with which you were lately alarmed?
Bloodshed is the trade, and horror is the element of this man.
The process by which the sympathies of nature are extinguished in our hearts, by which evil is made our good, and by which we are made susceptible of no activity but in the infliction, and no joy but in the spectacle of woes, is an obvious process.

As to an alliance with evil geniuses, the power and the malice of daemons have been a thousand times exemplified in human beings.

There are no devils but those which are begotten upon selfishness, and reared by cunning.
"Now, indeed, the scene was changed.