I began by keenly regretting that my journey in this country was arrested by the winter weather and that I was forced to remain here.

But during the last two months chains have been forged and riveted which bind me irrevocably to Jarvis, till now I fear to end my days here.

You know how I first met Seraphita, what impression her look and voice made upon me, and how at last I was admitted to her home where she receives no one.

From the very first day I have longed to ask you the history of this mysterious being.

On that day began, for me, a series of enchantments." "Enchantments!" cried the pastor shaking the ashes of his pipe into an earthen-ware dish full of sand, "are there enchantments in these days ?" "You, who are carefully studying at this moment that volume of the 'Incantations' of Jean Wier, will surely understand the explanation of my sensations if I try to give it to you," replied Wilfrid.