The love of Flora shall enable me to vanquish them.

Think you it will come again to-morrow ?" [Illustration] "I can have no thought the one way or the other." "It may.

We must arrange among us all, Henry, some plan of watching which, without completely prostrating our health and strength, will always provide that one shall be up all night and on the alert." "It must be done." "Flora ought to sleep with the consciousness now that she has ever at hand some intrepid and well-armed protector, who is not only himself prepared to defend her, but who can in a moment give an alarm to us all, in case of necessity requiring it." "It would be a dreadful capture to make to seize a vampyre," said Henry.
"Not at all; it would be a very desirable one.

Being a corpse revivified, it is capable of complete destruction, so as to render it no longer a scourge to any one." "Charles, Charles, are you jesting with me, or do you really give any credence to the story ?" "My dear friend, I always make it a rule to take things at their worst, and then I cannot be disappointed.

I am content to reason upon this matter as if the fact of the existence of a vampyre were thoroughly established, and then to think upon what is best to be done about it." "You are right." "If it should turn out then that there is an error in the fact, well and good--we are all the better off; but if otherwise, we are prepared, and armed at all points." "Let it be so, then.