It--it was too dreadful, I suppose, to find a home in my heart.

Oh! Flora, Flora, if this horrible idea should once occur to you, reason cannot, I am quite sure, uphold you against it." "Let no one presume to insinuate it to her, Henry.

I would not have it mentioned to her for worlds." "Nor I--nor I.Good God! I shudder at the very thought--the mere possibility; but there is no possibility, there can be none.

I will not believe it." "Nor I." "No; by Heaven's justice, goodness, grace, and mercy, I will not believe it." "Tis well sworn, Henry; and now, discarding the supposition that Flora has been visited by a vampyre, let us seriously set about endeavouring, if we can, to account for what has happened in this house." "I--I cannot now." "Nay, let us examine the matter; if we can find any natural explanation, let us cling to it, Henry, as the sheet-anchor of our very souls." "Do you think.

You are fertile in expedients.