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Varney the Vampire

CHAPTER I
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Intense fear paralysed the limbs of that beautiful girl.

That one shriek is all she can utter--with hands clasped, a face of marble, a heart beating so wildly in her bosom, that each moment it seems as if it would break its confines, eyes distended and fixed upon the window, she waits, froze with horror.

The pattering and clattering of the nails continue.

No word is spoken, and now she fancies she can trace the darker form of that figure against the window, and she can see the long arms moving to and fro, feeling for some mode of entrance.

What strange light is that which now gradually creeps up into the air?
red and terrible--brighter and brighter it grows.


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