The door of her chamber, which was fast, was broken open." "Yes, yes--" "Ah," cried Jack.
"You may imagine the horror and the consternation of those who entered the room to find her in the grasp of a fiend-like figure, whose teeth were fastened on her neck, and who was actually draining her veins of blood." "The devil!" "Before any one could lay hands sufficiently upon the figure to detain it, it had fled precipitately from its dreadful repast.

Shots were fired after it in vain." "And they let it go ?" "They followed it, I understand, as well as they were able, and saw it scale the garden wall of the premises; there it escaped, leaving, as you may well imagine, on all their minds, a sensation of horror difficult to describe." "Well, I never did hear anything the equal of that.

Jack, what do you think of it ?" "I haven't begun to think, yet," said Jack.
"But what about my nephew, Charles ?" added the admiral.
"Of him I know nothing." "Nothing ?" "Not a word, admiral.

I was not aware you had a nephew, or that any gentleman bearing that, or any other relationship to you, had any sort of connexion with these mysterious and most unaccountable circumstances.
I tell you all I have gathered from common report about this vampyre business.

Further I know not, I assure you." "Well, a man can't tell what he don't know.