[Varney the Vampire by Thomas Preskett Prest]@TWC D-Link bookVarney the Vampire CHAPTER IV 9/25
He is of a highly susceptible nature, and the very idea of such a thing would kill him." "I will; be mute.
Remove your sister to some other chamber, let me beg of you, Henry; the one she now inhabits will always be suggestive of horrible thoughts." "I will; and that dreadful-looking portrait, with its perfect likeness to him who came last night." "Perfect indeed.
Do you intend to remove it ?" "I do not.
I thought of doing so; but it is actually on the panel in the wall, and I would not willingly destroy it, and it may as well remain where it is in that chamber, which I can readily now believe will become henceforward a deserted one in this house." "It may well become such." "Who comes here? I hear a step." There was a tip at the door at this moment, and George made his appearance in answer to the summons to come in.
He looked pale and ill; his face betrayed how much he had mentally suffered during that night, and almost directly he got into the bed-chamber he said,-- "I shall, I am sure, be censured by you both for what I am going to say; but I cannot help saying it, nevertheless, for to keep it to myself would destroy me." "Good God, George! what is it ?" said Mr.Marchdale. "Speak it out!" said Henry. "I have been thinking of what has occurred here, and the result of that thought has been one of the wildest suppositions that ever I thought I should have to entertain.
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