"I am distracted, and scarcely know what I say.

Marchdale, I know you are my sincere friend--but, as I tell you, I am nearly mad." "My dear Henry, be calmer.

Consider upon what is to be said concerning this interview at home." "Ay; that is a consideration." "I should not think it advisable to mention the disagreeable fact, that in your neighbour you think you have found out the nocturnal disturber of your family." "No--no." "I would say nothing of it.

It is not at all probable that, after what you have said to him this Sir Francis Varney, or whatever his real name may be will obtrude himself upon you." "If he should he die." "He will, perhaps, consider that such a step would be dangerous to him." "It would be fatal, so help me.

However, and then would I take especial care that no power of resuscitation should ever enable that man again to walk the earth." "They say that only way of destroying a vampyre is to fix him to the earth with a stake, so that he cannot move, and then, of course, decomposition will take its course, as in ordinary cases." "Fire would consume him, and be a quicker process," said Henry.